Potter is available.

The West Ham manager go round keeps spinning. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Bit techy this morning. Better slow up on the coffee.

Couple of things. More people have smart phones than you think. If you can pay by card in a shop you can manage a digital ID. The issue is not the existence of an ID, it’s who has the right to ask to see it and when. Personally I’d value a single digital ID. Would make my life easier.

“Children are disengaging. Let’s make them do more of the things that cause them to disengage.” Blackadder fans will recognise the “…and a course of leeches…” approach.

I’ve seen quite a few silly arguments against Digital IDs this evening. Having an ID of some sort if you want to opt in to some form of state regulated activity is not an affront to an individuals civil rights, as passport holders, driving licence holders, NHS users and taxpayers will attest.

I see this is relevant again.

The VAT people are going to be all over this.

The real story about the US is not that so many of the great institutions of state have bowed to the will of an authoritarian president. The real story is how quickly & willingly they did so. That’s the lesson we have to learn and ensure we can somehow prevent our own state from falling so easily.

Who’s going to tell him? trib.al/AmnLtLc

Trump washing his hands of any involvement in the Ukraine war.

“Children are behaving badly because their parents weren’t caned” says some fuckwit. Only of course he’s too gutless to say it directly. schoolsweek.co.uk/trust-ceo-bl...

Look, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. All Kenvue has to do is make a substantial donation to the Republican Party and the link between Tylenol and Autism goes away.

What did they expect to happen when the put Paracetamol in the chemtrails?

I wonder how far down the Paracetamol rabbit hole the British far right will follow?

I get there’s probably a little bit more to it than this but at heart this project is about laying a strip of concrete 12 m wide by 3300m long. I’d like to understand why that should cost over £2bn. Extra skips maybe? www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think the only people who really argue this are those that have never taught a class of kids. It’s how you can differentiate those who understand the difficulties inherent in tech use in education from salesmen. Even when you have human-approximate androids they still won’t be teachers.

100%, no notes.

Has Potter gone yet?

The view from here.

ONLY NIXON CAN GO TO CHINA!!!

Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs. So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.

Someone has £1m they shouldn’t have.

I know there are benefits for the U.K. but Jenson Huang, the CEO of Nvidia is basically coming here to tell us he’s going to raise a lot of capital to buy lots of chips from…<<checks notes>>….Nvidia.

Not a great marketing point if you’re trying to sell F-35s, “Can’t fly in light drizzle”.

Has anyone done a constituency by constituency mapping of GDP per capita against Reform polling percentage? Might be interesting.

Young people becoming more confident the future is electric. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

She can’t be saying it in the hope of getting any sort of backing from Musk, everyone can see that boat has sailed. She can only be doing it to try and encourage her MPs to defect to the LibDems.

Sir Mark Rowley at the next Home Office committee hearing.

An underestimated talent.

Burgon desperate to have the whip withdrawn so he can go and play with his mates.

Tell me you’ve never watched Eurovision without telling me you’ve never watched Eurovision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British politics suffers from having a PR electorate and a FPTP electoral system. That’s why it’s going to be crazy for a while until one of those things changes.

Anyone seeing this as anything other than Kruger trying to do what he thinks is the best way for him to achieve power either doesn’t understand politics or has a bridge of their own to sell. Its nothing more complicated than that www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you wear a red nose and a curly wig people are going to assume you want to be treated like a clown. Same way if you attend a meeting organised by a right-wing thug and paid for by a billionaire calling for violence on the streets people are going to make assumptions about you.

I know he’s at the far end of he range but Musk is only doing what other Billionaires have been doing for years, throwing their weight around, demanding politicians do what they pay them to do. We should thank him for bringing it out into the light. Best disinfectant and all that.

Sesko is an anagram of Højlund.

The biggest problem any government will face is the level of inequality in the country. When inequality is so high it is very unlikely that a policy aimed to please one group will be harmless to another, either socially, economically or geographically. Especially when there are limited funds.

“We believe in free speech. Unless it’s other people speaking.”

Two hands. Pushed the player to the floor. Why are people so surprised a foul is given?

The more you see the more you realise just exactly what the salute was.

This could be a good move, giving the apprenticeships responsibility to a department closer to the needs of the workforce. I would worry that it becomes slightly harder to get the positive message to students about apprenticeships and we end up with another “Baker rule” like we have for colleges.

The 1 in 3 may or may not be correct but there’s something else to consider. It’s not 1 in 3 of people, it’s 1 in 3 of the subset of people who posted about Charlie Kirk. So this tells us little about the whole population. It’s tells us what we already know, social media is a sewer not a stream.

From the moment he was appointed there was a grim inevitability that he would have to resign or be sacked. That does speak to Starmers lack of political judgement.

If everything we know now about the Mandelson-Epstein relationship was known when he was appointed ambassador that brings into question Starmers judgement and consequently his position.

Mandelson resigning is difficult for the U.K. government because it would be a direct attack on Trump. It would draw more attention (that the IS media couldn’t ignore) to the Epstein birthday book, proving it was real and that at least one of the letters were written by who the book says.

Thinking this more and more.

Quickly and quietly Mandelson needs to resign. Sudden health issues, spend more time with the family, too old, don’t care what the reason is, he needs to resign.

Preach.

The 4D chess reasoning on the labour deputy leadership contest is that Phillipson is only running to ensure that Powell wins a two horse race.