Stunningly stupid That Mahmood believes she has a chance of being the next Labour leader, while at the same time pushing through policy that is anathema to both members and the PLP, shows a total disconnect from reality

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Really glad to hear this is happening. The Covid Wall is both a beautiful and haunting reminder of just how devastating the pandemic was. It would have been a terrible shame to have lost it

A key facet – hell, perhaps *the* key facet – of politics is a willingness to do what's necessary, even if it's unpopular with voters Nobody on here thinks the public wants tax rises, but most recognise it's probably the only viable option out of an economic doom-loop long term

I enjoy the implication here that Ken Livingstone, by association, is also dead Perhaps it's the vengeful ghost of his morals?

You have to laugh at this point

I think if someone described me as a "drawer of dividing lines" I'd assume they were just calling me a bit of a c*nt www.ft.com/content/bbe8...

Ultimately it comes down to what you're going to say at the next election. Would you rather say "we broke our pledge but at least things are better" or "everything's still shit but at least we kept our pledge"?

One of the factors that I think has broken US politics over the long run is this constant need to govern for the next election in 18 months - two years The UK is *supposed* to be insulated against that, to some degree, by 5-year gaps and some flexibly on election dates Labour's approach is madness

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Finally finished Ghost of Yōtei, and I have to agree with @blessingjr.bsky.social’s take that the title suffers for being too ‘gamey’ Despite its polish and aesthetic beauty, it feels quite dated in terms of design, and much closer to a Ubisoft title than any other Sony game

Perversely, I think this increases the likelihood that Starmer is replaced, because it almost guarantees we remain stuck in this economic doom-loop

The news product idea that’ll never die I’m glad a publication of decent scale is giving it a go at least – it’ll be good to get some real data after so many years of speculation over whether it’s viable

I'm genuinely intrigued to see what happens if McSweeney goes Starmer seems so incredibly dependent on him, even on a psychological level, that his departure would surely trigger some kind of shift in No.10 (for better *or* worse)

I need to know what Harry Cole is doing to himself, so I can avoid it like the plague Carlson is *16 years* older than Cole

Thiel believes he fears the Antichrist. But what he actually fears is Christ, and the moral reckoning such a figure would deliver unto him

Peter Thiel: “I’m terrified of the Antichrist” Peter Thiel, to the actual Antichrist: “That was fun, see you in 3 weeks”

Yeah, the main question here hasn't ever been "did Trump know?", but rather "was he, himself, involved?" This new release stands out because it raises questions about the latter

London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.

I think ultimately no, given past precedent with Trump (and the entanglements of his own allies) But it is an excellent cudgel to beat both him and his allies with, and creates issues for him among a part of his voter base that's otherwise inoculated against his scandals

I was intrigued by Rea's decision to return to the New Statesman, given some of the more structural issues that have plagued the outlet over the years This piece makes it clear how much of a catch she is for them: well-sourced, erudite, and lethal in its insight

I appreciate we probably won’t get this while he’s still in office, but I would earnestly love to get some sort of insight into who, exactly, keeps engaging in all this mad, self-defeating strategy and briefing It’s fascinatingly stupid, and yet they’re still there when many aren’t

Funny that millions of passengers, many of whom don’t speak English, manage this every year without issue Perhaps Smith is just an idiot

What some of the No.10 advisors quoted in this piece seem to miss is that: a) Many MPs want them gone as much as they do Starmer B) Their bunker strategy is making a leadership challenge more, not less, likely

"Hello, I'm mental"

Softbank's gonna Softbank

They are massively overthinking this. There's no canon anyway! You can quite literally just make a new film that never, beyond a few winks and nods, acknowledges the Craig films - as they've done with literally every other iteration

Okay guys. First of all, this isn’t a chatbot If we’re going to do reporting like this, we need to at least be vaguely accurate in what we’re describing I’m as much an AI skeptic as anyone, but these tools are good at synthesising large data sets – this is a sensible use of it

Props to AdHoc Studio for taking a bit of a gamble and being willing to experiment with their release structure - it seems to have paid off here

"a group has suggested, albeit without evidence" What are we doing here man?

I think it is worth contrasting these two examples, particularly because the more egregious of the two got a reporter sacked vs. two heads of the organisation resigning in disgrace We should hold the BBC to higher standards, but the gulf here makes it clear it isn't really a standards issue

I’m *begging* British columnists to understand that not everything is about trans people

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Absolutely blatant copyright infringement (in this case of Animal Crossing) among the slop dumped onto the PlayStation Store Sony really needs to get a handle on its vetting process

Yeah, people literally said as much on the doorstep

I'm not even sure I buy the article's initial framing. Everyone I spoke to at the time – and this included a lot of 'normie' voters –thought Labour were lying when they said "no tax increases on working people"!

A distinction to make here is that you don't need those networks if the politician is charismatic enough, and their media operation sophisticated enough - both of which apply to the Zohran campaign Most politicians lack both, so influencer/podcast networks act as a way to fill those voids

Glasman really does seem like a total loon. Why anyone within Labour takes him seriously is beyond me Lawson, of course, has been a known idiot for years

One of the great villains of the 21st century

These disgusting bigots now see fit to crawl out from under their rocks and show their true faces. Showing you just how bad things have got.

You have to laugh at this point

From what I can understand from this piece, these employees were fired for, in essence, talking back to the Head of HR Pretty remarkable stuff

the tell here is that Americans once again elected a rapist

"Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? I, a conservative commentator, ask two conservative writers why liberals ruin everything"

The UK Labour Party defines itself as a "democratic socialist" part in the first sentence of Clause IV. And has since the 1990s. That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.

It really was quite a remarkable moment to hear now-Baroness Chapman say, quite explicitly, during an interview with Politico a few years back, "Yeah, we lied about those pledges to get Keir elected." A real indictment of both her and her allies, which I don't think she realised at the time

I fear for @stephenkb.bsky.social's wellbeing once the internet discovers his recent Letterboxd reviews

Nothing screams "we're not scammers" like shifting your entire business model so you can dodge scrutiny from regulators www.londoncentric.media/p/we-r-bligh...

I said a similar thing about Taylor Swift, who was outspoken about politics in the past but now isn’t: You don’t really get to ‘step back’ from taking a political stand – particularly as things get worse – without being branded cowardly or performative

This is really quite a remarkable piece, in that many of the people quoted within it are trying to blame the state for what is essentially a market failure