Hi so quick question what the actual fuck are the Welsh Tories implying

Tbf the Alex rider books to have a habit of randomly describing the make and model of any machine anyone’s using in a way I imagine is unreadable for an adult but very cool if you’re autistic and 11, so I imagine Horowitz pays exceptional attention to details like this

For the record I’m 100% sure this is actually his playlist because it’s be less way less radio 6 dad if it was focus grouped, he’s insist he was in to both Chappell Roan and Beethoven

23 years ago leftie protestors were objectively, provably, right and he was wrong and he’s been losing his mind ever since. If Ken Clarke had become Tory leader and the Tories opposed the war he’d be a communist by now

People who still think “gender criticals” are all basically liberals with reasonable concerns really should notice the language that is now being used and the demands being made and ask how this differs from what the American religious right says

I am reminding everyone that Danny Kruger joined reform because he wanted to use it to bring religious conservative family values politics to the British mainstream

If 32 year old white Danish man Christian Norgaard has joined the Arsenal squad’s Very Very Christian Clique, that is… demographically and sociologically fascinating lol

Begging book publishers to consider how the covers of historical novels look when carried in public

There are ofc non *criminal* explanations for Nicola Sturgeon not noticing her direct report who was also her husband stealing 400 grand from the organisation she ran, representing an effective 33% increase to his salary while they were married, but I’m not sure any are particularly good

Do MI6 informations get paid on a per information basis? Otherwise honesty I’d be like “ah yes, I, Hollywood actor Riz Ahmed, will let you know if I ever encounter a terrorist cell in my daily life. Expense account please.”

Not everyone is Zohran Mamdani but everyone should be recording 1-2 sub 2 minute videos a week as the basis of your comms strategy

I’m watching the last day of the season in a city which doesn’t have a PL team. Obviously lots of Arsenal fans, few spurs, couple each of Liverpool, United, Chelsea and West Ham and one Bournemouth. No Man City. This is a) unprecedented for a team that wins things b) explains a lot about discourse

I still like Andy more than most people here and think he would be a major improvement, but I’m not sure about logging on to Bluesky for the first time since announcing your run for PM to make hard policy commitments in the canary’s replies because some guy named Tony @‘ed you

Still too strong a lineup. There’s someone on the bench called T. Setford. I don’t know who that is. He should start.

Can it really be true that: a) the Women's Institute has had trans members since the 1970s, b) the UK passed a law in 2010 requiring them to be expelled, c) nobody noticed this until 2026? it seems that we may have to consider the appalling vista that some lawyers are very bad at their job

I’m not saying he just started talking and hadn’t thought about what he was gonna say more than 4 words in advance but he, an MS whose constituency is not in Cardiff, ends up suggesting that the Welsh national parliament should fly the Cardiff county [sic] flag

I’ve always taken for granted than an absolute majority of British fans support one of Arsenal, Liverpool or United but you can actually tell Arsenal are a fairly recent thing by how completely uncontroversial Thierry Henry being our best ever player is. Nobody says “actually it was Liam Brady”

Going back to the 2015 and tilling everyone Christopher Nolan is making The Odyssey, and which side of gamergate has which opinion

In these globalised times fun to stumble across an (anglophone) political grievance where not only do you not have an opinion you genuinely don’t know what people are angry about

As an Arsenal supporting English person living in Wales I cannot tell you how desperate I am for us to win a World Cup this way. Let me tell you it is actively better than doing it by playing well. I hope we win the final via a wildly incorrect VAR decision

Still can’t understand the seemingly widespread mindset that a Supreme Court decision on the meaning of a particular word in a badly drafted section of the Equality Act 2010 would mean nobody ever hears from a trans person or believes trans people are real again

I am again thinking of the Labour/LD Scottish Government of 2000, the vicious public attacks on Wendy Alexander and Sam Galbraith as they led the effort to repeal Section 28, the overwhelming public opposition to repeal, and the fact that they did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

For the record I still don’t think any Labour government could actually get this through but… yeah not good

The Israeli government’s external PR has been insulting for a while but “the actions of a minister in my cabinet, who works for me, and continues to do so, are not in line with Israel’s values” is a new level of fuck you

I can’t tell if Declan Rice badly photoshopped it in or they actually had a life size cardboard cutout of the trophy on them 😭

THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY PEOPLE IN THEIR FORTIES WHO REFUSE TO ADMIT THAT SIX OUT OF OASIS’ EIGHT ALBUMS ARE TERRIBLE ANDY BURNHAM WHO I ACTUALLY QUITE LIKE YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

Brb writing a reminder to name my firstborn child Set Piece Routine

I am… genuinely curious about this

Quite funny that in a by-election where you know precisely which career politician you’re running against to bring up career politicians who went to private school and worked at think tanks, the two (2) bits of standard new Labour spad pipeline new Labour spad Andy Burnham has not done

Also on a much less intense level suggestions the greens should stand down for Burnham… don’t campaign sure but actually endorsing the leader of another party in an election is signing up to a level of co operation and friendly relations neither the greens nor frankly Andy Burnham want

Folks Andy Burnham is functionally indistinguishable from A.N. Other Labour MP yet unbelievably popular and you can be consumed by baffled rage about that fact or you can use the weapons in front of us to stop fascism

Folks, with respect: 1) This doesn't mean what you think it means. 2) This is literally what a British social democratic government has to do because of the Truss/Socialist premium.

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This still image is just paused on the wall of this specsavers

I suppose it’s inevitable l, it’s very specialised work, but it’s a bit of a shame that one architecture firm designs every big stadium built in the world since 2000 lol. Stadiums should be weirder

They are aware that Israel has come second twice in a row and if they come first Eurovision ends right? Might want to consider a different voting system lol

Clearly City imo, before 2022 was a different matter but while Todd Boehly is exceptionally annoying, he is yet to fund a genocidal militia in Sudan

Good to have it confirmed under no circumstances, ever, will anything interesting ever happen in the Scottish league

Thing is you can’t really complain about this if you’re still saying you’re going to cause most of the delay by actually contesting a leadership election in which Burnham will blow you out by 50 points, out of stubbornness and refusal to leave a firm not filled out

More evidence that Elon is still mentally a gamergate commentator from 2015 - he is convinced in the face of all evidence that Christopher Nolan is a) right wing b) his friend

I don’t doubt it but I’d assume this was *everyone* in Manchester’s reaction, and a manc colleague at the time of Gorton and Denton saying “he’s done so much for this city he deserves it”, was the moment I shrugged and had to accept the guy has something special. I don’t get it but 🤷🏽‍♂️

I have to admit, after everything, the fact it actually is going to be Andy after all is very very funny

If in 3 months Andy Burnham is Labour leader and prime minister, I am very interested by how the Bluesky starmtroopers will react lol.

Nailing my prediction to the mast if he does stand (I think the way it goes wrong is Starmer blocks him again but that would also instantly bring down Starmer in favour of Ed or Angela)

Yeah this why I was instinctively pro Andy, the way he’s gone about it is mad but if devolution works properly, when non-nationalist parties run Scotland and Wales, the first ministers should regularly be discussed as PM contenders. It having to be an MP is not a good system

It really, genuinely, is going to be Ed isn’t it. And people say Bluesky is irrelevant

Oh for the love of god

I’m gonna drop this bit since the leadership contest actually starts tomorrow lol, but this cheap, somewhat dumb but generous feeling kind of thing is what the government should be doing Very Pedro Sánchez

Clive Efford signed the keep Starmer letter??? Ok this coup is a Wes thing the Andy people are desperately trying to tamp down lol