Think ultimately the problems come back to this. You can’t stand for election on a platform of change, including promising to fix public services, and then not deliver what people vote for

Nintendo 64. Featuring on of the greatest games of all time - Goldeneye

Big green energy news: The Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms DCO application has today been granted development consent by DESNZ At 3GW, it's one of the largest single consenting decisions in UK offshore wind history. If/when it's built, it will provide enough energy to power ~3 million homes.

I mean he’s not going to change the voting system if he wins. Come on now.

I mean he’s not going to change the voting system if he wins. Come on now.

Think you can buy the idea Andy Burnham will be good for Labour. But someone unwilling to engage in trade offs will face the same miserable fate other government who refused to do so have www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

What we need of course is someone to stand down for Andy Burnham, him stand, and then lose the election. Would be a great bit. And what you’d deserve for treating the electorate that way.

I’m enjoying the final series of The Boys more than others it seems. But it does seem like they’ve fallen into the trap of giving themselves an awful lot to do / tidy up in the final episode.

Oh my god the photo of Southampton's intern spying on Boro is incredible

Somehow, this is funnier than when Grandpa Simpson did it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The position of the Conservative leadership and its supporters is wholly absurd. There are no conceivable metrics on which they had a good result.

Tbh, think the most insane political story of the last week remains a major party just deciding a fiction was reality and not really receiving any pushback. Like, this time next year, it is highly likely Reform will have more councillors - and thus elected representatives - than the Tories.

Don’t agree this means it’s in favour of West Ham now. Yes Newcastle have nothing to play for, but they’ve had a poor season and will want to try and prove themselves vs West Ham www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Should probably be more talk in commentary about the LibDems, quietly holding on to the places taken from the Conservatives over the last 4 years and as a result potentially at a GE stopping a Reform/Con coalition being possible.

If this MP thinks they’re all useless, maybe they should stand for leader themselves rather than just being snarky being a veil of anonymity.

I didn’t put this in my piece and perhaps should have. Five games in 15 days, all of existential importance to Arsenal. Not always pretty (but maybe more often than expected) but four wins and a draw in Madrid is a seriously impressive return.

Very heartless opinion of me, but in politics you live by the sword and die by the sword. You’re (probably) only originally elected due to your party label. Should be prepared to accept you may lose your seat because of that party label too. The victor doesn’t sound great here though.

Shouldn’t underestimate the achievement by Arsenal there. West Ham haven’t lost at home for months and are fighting for their lives #WHUARS

Good to see the LibDems gradually rebuilding the Kingdom of Wessex one shire at a time under King Ædward of Davey. Just Hamtunscīr, Wiltunscir and the Vale of Teste to conquer before the kingdom is reunited to fight back the Reforme hordes of Mercia and Essex

Is Kemi Badenoch “respected and admired by many”?!

Among other things... With London's election results coming so close in places, I had a look at three random councils - in 82% of cases the candidate whose surname appeared highest on the ballot paper outperformed the party colleague who was alphabetically lowest. May have caused some split results.

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Kind of amazing how The Conservatives have just got off the pitch when competing for voters in places like this. They don’t seem to recognise this or have any ideas how to solve it.

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost historic major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win. But MPs seem to think it’s going well.

Winning a Mayoral election with 30% of the vote is ridiculous

Angus Robertson’s parliamentary career comes to an end next to a person dressed as a gannet.

I can relate to this, as I too like to engage in delusional optimism despite the very clear facts news.sky.com/video/kemi-b...

I hope they keep the green livery though. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please sir, my first past the post electoral system, it is very sick.

I need the worst analysis you have.

Labour MPs tweeting that Keir Starmer should stay

Nick Clegg going for some referendum on AV rather than insisting on PR for local government was a massive mistake www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

Yeah my hometown’s politics are very normal, just like anywhere else. All hail comrade Davey and his single party regime in the centrist Dad East Germany. Normal stuff

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films: Galaxy Quest Moon Solaris (1972) Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes Star Wars Aniara Dune (2021) Edge of Tomorrow District 9 Gattaca

Luke Skywalker’s appearance in the Series 2 Finale of The Mandalorian was one of the worst things to happen

On a scale of 0-1968, I wonder just how bad they’re expecting things to be

Ed Miliband is right. 'Spain's pivot to renewables has been a big win for household energy bills. In 2019, prior to its wind and solar revolution, it had some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Now it has some of the cheapest.' www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

So McSweeney just confirmed the two candidates offered for US Ambassador were Peter Mandelson and George Osbourne. Forget processes, vetting etc - you have to take a long, hard look at yourself to wonder how the fuck you end up with those two candidates at all.

I feel that increasing the powers of local councillors 3 or 4 fold would probably result in happier MPs with weaker links to their constituency simply through sorting effects.

Think I’d be more convinced by these arguments if senior politicians made arguments, and produced manifestos, which engaged with reality.

There is nothing finer in football than local commentators losing any semblance of objectivity

25 de Abril, Portugal day of independence—the Carnation Revolution In 1974 a group of junior army officers, sick of their colonial wars (think Vietnam), toppled the corrupt fascist Salazar regime and made a democracy It was bloodless and joyful. Citizens put carnations in soldiers’ guns

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Here’s the pitch invasion that added the time by the Rochdale fans.

OH MY GOD THE PREMATURE PITCH INVASION ADDED TIME GOAL! York City took the title and promotion to League Two from Rochdale with a 102nd-minute goal in the time added on after the home fans invaded the pitch thinking they’d won in the 95th minute!

Remarkable how accepted the double standard is when it comes to attacking voters. The right can have senior leaders call progressive voters every name under the sun. If some left wing Twitch streamer so much as hints the right aren't all economically anxious saints, we get 150 op-eds about it.

Would be good if we could find out what prospective PMs wanted to actually do in policy terms rather than just relying on vibes

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

What sank Johnson in the end was not so much what he'd done but that his MPs got sick of being sent out to defend it.