After more than a decade, despite full backing from successive governments, ground has not yet been broken on a Holocaust Memorial planned next to Westminster Palace. If you think the Palace itself will ever get rebuilt, short of another fire (1834) or Blitz (1941), you are not living in reality.

I wrote about the antisemitism Superbowl ad produced by Robert Kraft's foundation, which regrettably is the equivalent of placing $15 million in a blender and pressing the "on" button.

There are a number of highly competent Labour MPs, with significant experience, who for whatever reason aren’t being considered. Hilary Benn. Diana Johnson. Dan Jarvis. Instead people are talking about Miliband. Again.

Oh no, The Guardian has moved on from Wild Swimming.

Brace yourselves, we're likely about 24 hours away from Downing Street unironically telling reporters that they're adopting a strategy of "Let Keir be Keir".

What no-one in Parliament appears to be saying is that there’s a good chance Mandelson was appointed Ambassador *because* he had a track record of very effectively toadying to a billionaire creep - given there’s another one in the White House.

It's been quite a ride for the government

Presumably now a matter of hours before Morgan McSweeney is summoned to a *special meeting* at Labour HQ...

One of them broke a policewoman’s spine with a sledgehammer.

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but Friday will mark a year to the day since the FT published this quote www.ft.com/content/085e...

Oh she’s going down *that* road. Wish I could say it was a surprise

Don't tell me - they're going to Nolanify it and the movies are going to have the exact same plotlines, but each one will be seen from the perspective of *that* particular Beatle

*We’re going to get to the bottom of why exactly the only Christmas present I got in 1992 was a pair of socks! There’s no telling how deep this conspiracy goes!*

*I must consult the tarantula*

Well, this is a first for me. God knows how many stories I've written over the years about posts on Twitter, but this is the very first time I've written a news piece about a post on BlueSky! Anyway, here it is. www.jewishnews.co.uk/united-refor...

As always, cannot resist posting my personal favourite, which was aired on Turkish TV more than a decade ago now

I just want to know which British person broke that Yglesias guy’s heart, because he has a focus like Cato the Elder when it comes to the UK.

I have to break it to you, lads, I don’t think there are in fact that many people inclined to vote Reform UK who will go “he says he’s the first person in his family to go to university but his Dad appears to have a degree?? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.”

Sometimes a headline doesn’t characterise an article properly. This is categorically not one of those times.

I can imagine this speech would have gone down fantastically well with the CBS Board. Far less so in an actual newsroom.

It turns out that Danny Kruger MP (Now Reform, formerly Tory) has embraced this way of thinking publicly. This is from his latest piece for the Spectator:

Wonderful to have a new addition to the genre!

Trump has control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal, but apparently nothing is going to bomb harder than his wife's film.

*You're right! From the video footage you've shown me, it does in fact look like your home was burgled. I can provide you with a list of nearby furniture shops in case you need to replace anything?*

Average Conservative MAGAslop poster: "These people are insanely coordinated. Everything prepared, sometimes hours before, sometimes days. Know exactly where they're going & when, sometimes down to the MINUTE. There's no WAY the average Mom can ensure 5 kids get to school on time. Soros?!?"

Responding to Suella Braverman’s resignation by mentioning her mental health is such an unbelievably stupid move by the Conservatives that I can only assume it was insisted on by Badenoch’s office despite the agonised pleading of the Party’s media unit.

Acerbic left-wing pal: “So many hard-right Conservatives are joining Reform UK that soon there will be no original members of Reform UK left (such as there were) and the party will be entirely made up of the whackier elements of the Tories. “A Shit of Theseus, if you will.”

So, Burnham won’t be standing for Labour in Gorton and Denton. A few thoughts about that, and what it means going forward. A 🧵

As expected

The very 1st episode of the 1st season of the Traitors UK quite literally featured a woman who was wrongly labelled a Traitor because she hadn't raised her glass to toast at a round table. The reason she hadn't was because she was one handed & didn't reach out awkwardly with her left hand to toast.

I challenge anyone to read this and not come away feeling absolutely horrified www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I mean, this is a) a complete lie, as you would expect from Trump, but b) also said by someone who quite literally bragged about dodging the Vietnam War draft

Genuinely surprised that Jay Kelly didn't get a single Oscar nomination, in any category.

"Wherever this strategy has been tried, most notably in the Soviet Union, it has resulted in backwardness and decay, not to speak of appalling environmental and health costs, mainly inflicted upon the working class in whose name these policies were pursued."

Since we're talking about Gorton, I ought to alert you to the existence of Olivia Frank, a trans woman from Gorton who went on to serve in both the IDF and Mossad and infiltrated the Abu Nidal organisation, a particularly virulent terror group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_...

Honestly better for Burnham's chances in the long run. Lets him go with "Westminster plotted to block me, an honest Manchester man of the people, from coming to the rescue (did I mention Manchester?)". Starmer then beats a challenge from someone else but is further weakened by doing so.

In response to one of Trump's legal flunkies claiming he's asked the US State Department to consider offering British Jews asylum... www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Current mood:

The last Mossad station chief in Tehran prior to the 1979 revolution passed away this weekend. This article is fascinating. www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-last-mos...

Maybe this has all been one big misunderstanding and Trump really just wants to buy a UK frozen food supermarket chain.

"Without us you'd be speaking German" is an interesting line to take in Switzerland

Trump has a longstanding loathing for windmills, which he's just brought up AGAIN in his latest speech. Donald Quixote.

I feel like I'm living in an alternate world when I see so many people raving about Carney's speech. It was insanely cynical! It basically means "we're going to get extremely pally with a bunch of dictatorships because that's just the way of the world", dressed up with nice quotes to make you clap!

Harari is about 6 months away from "what if AI reverse-engineers God", but also, put an AI model in the Mir yeshiva for one day and by second seder it will pull the plug on itself.

Politician from the country that saddled the rest of us with this mess: "I can't believe you aren't dealing with this mess better!"

Calling it now: "enigmatic and expansive" is the new "tired and emotional".

Wild Bill Payoff

The Musk/Ryanair battle seems unfair. In one corner you've got generational talent shitposters, while in the other corner you've got the guy who thought that literally turning up with a sink to Twitter HQ when he bought it (*let that sink in! Geddit?*) was cutting edge satire.