ATP the only people less tired to be Prime Minister then Starmer are the people who are likely to challenge him

He better start packing

Starmer Leadership Crisis 🤝 Russian aggression in the 2010s Insufficient resolve from the West

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny's Child

This kind of crap from the BoD really undermines those of us who are trying to push against antisemitism across the political spectrum. Infuriating.

Not Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg electing 3 MSs named Sarah

I do firmly believe that this is one of the most important parts of democracy in These Isles and we should cherish it. A sitting Minister going down to third standing next to a person dressed as a gannet keeps our politicians from thinking too much of themselves.

The irony is that one of the clear reasons why Labour have behaved the way they have behaved in office is "so we don't end up getting tankrolled at local elections". I can't imagine that a "tear off the sticking plaster" Labour Party would have done worse this year than this one has.

Labour has apparently conceded defeat in Wales, an hour before the first results are due to be announced 💀

Not sure this helps the "Andy Burnham has a safe seat lined up and could easily return to Westminster" narrative. Especially as even if Burnham did win that by-election, Labour would then have to fight to hold the Manchester mayoralty in a *huge* by-election. Losing that would be a nightmare start.

Some of the bands are a bit derivative but that's still a harsh indictment of an entire genre

Are we getting an exit poll for the Senedd?

We’ve been to vote now xx

Now a SECOND such incident in the space of 24 hours. A bus passenger arrested in Hackney after alleged Hitler & gas chamber comments to Jews. The suspect reportedly also claimed to have a knife and threatened Jewish passengers on the 254 bus, including children. www.jewishnews.co.uk/bus-passenge...

took my mad aunt to the polling station, she's registered bindel

First time in my life I’m working on election day and I hate it. Just let me go vote already

Caricaturists and their editors must take care that their depictions of Jews in public life do not wade into centuries old anti-Jewish tropes. We have seen a number of examples of political cartoons published depicting Zack Polanski that are a cause for concern. 1/2

Reform UK are refusing to explain why Nigel Farage posed for a "Christmas drink" with far-right activists, some of whom took part in a violent attack at a church. One of the men pictured with Farage was convicted of assault by beating last month, after storming an anti-racism meeting at the church

Absolutely unacceptable vile antisemitism.

More generally, I think it's a cyncial view that there are no principles, only positions.

Elliot Rodger killed more men than women, but nobody doubts that he was motivated by misogyny. Equally, the fact that the London attacker stabbed a Muslim acquaintance first doesn't make his principle motivation not anti-Semitic, given that he was *actively looking for Jewish people to kill.*.

Anybody seen a government reaction to this?

Awful news.sky.com/story/man-in...

Well, that's certainly one way for the Green Party in one of the UK's largest cities to respond to a series of attacks against the Jewish community, of which Wednesday's stabbing attack was just the latest. Not even pretending it's about Israel now, are they?

Its important the Green Party, during + beyond this electoral cycle, set out much more clearly what they will exclude as antisemitic hatred + hostility, and to articulate how to criticise Israel's govt & support Palestinian rights without antisemitism vs Jews [or this type of hate vs Israelis+Jews]

🚨 NEW: Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting antisemitic comments online One of them posted a placard that read "ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge"

I have nothing particularly useful to contribute except this: this is the direct consequence of Polanski's uncritical embrace of the idea that the Labour antisemitism scandal was basically fake. He opened the door to those people and lo and behold

Any TV News interviewer who wants to ask Zack Polanski whether this is a "perception of unsafety or actual unsafety", be my fucking guest.

omg Taylor's been!!

New post up on Substack, a brief overview of the rise and surprisingly sudden fall of Orbán’s network of corruption

I honestly have nothing but withering contempt for people like this. They are consumed by No Bedtime Socialism. It's atomised hyper-individualism masquerading as something collectivist. The people who suffer the most here are staff and consumers due to the impact it has on inflation.

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

like this from @stephenkb.bsky.social. frustrating that the conversation has turned to who-saw-what-when, which distracts from Starmer's error of judgement

It appears I have a substack now. What do we think?

An Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for *all* the recent series of arson attacks against British synagogues and Jewish groups – including the ambulance attack. The story should be bigger full stop. But how is this aspect of it barely mentioned? It seems *bizarre*.

🚨 this is from last September

I am planning on appointing someone who has publicly resigned twice in scandal. They resign a third time in even bigger scandal. The fallout should, however, not include me, the person who made the big call in the first place. Totally untenable.

I’m in this 🫣

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

Ok some thoughts about Hungary. I think an underreported aspect of the outgoing Hungarian government is the sheer scale of corruption. I know it’s tempting to see this result as the beginning of a wave of European ideological realignment, but that doesn’t quite ring true imo. 1/n

Celebratory dance in Hungary

Viktor Orbán has apparently conceded the election. Two-thirds majority now increasingly likely for Tisza

This is what we’re looking at 14.72% of votes processed.

Pollsters now predicting a 2/3 majority for Tisza in the Hungarian elections. I remain sceptical of that, but cautiously optimistic

I voted!

you ever hear of something and can’t imagine a world without it in existence? lidl pub is exactly that