God SNL UK is so so good

It is genuinely good to see the PM be so robust in messaging ahead of what will be a horrible day in London tomorrow. now why couldn't he do that last year after a *whole summer* of racist thugs terrorising the streets!!

This is absolutely right. Win, and he should be given the leadership without contest. Lose…. uh oh

Absolutely brilliant speech from @nazshahbfd.bsky.social to open this year’s sitting of Parliament. A really good reminder of what matters amidst the drama.

Tony Vaughan for PM

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Fundamentally, a lot of the problems in British politics comes from a political generation being forced to do something they think is a bad idea, to appease voters they think are wrong with beliefs they don't really understand.

"everything is fine" - the tories, for some reason

1. Labour needs a second term to renew this country after years of Tory failure. On the current trajectory, we won’t get there because we will lose, and Farage will win. That should be nobody’s legacy.

Drive around Surrey for 40 mins and the only conclusion you’ll come to is “if these people are not voting conservative then who the hell is!”

Watching with horror the cast of Polanski, Farage, Jenrick and nonsense populists across the uk and thinking… is this really the best we can do? 🫠

Absolutely scenes here. Hubbub of anticipation from the street.

I remember Jeremy Hunt telling TRIP that he thought political leaders should learn more from Trump in doing their own comms, scrolling to see what people are saying etc... how's that going

(warning on antisemitism) When I was at Uni David Miller made it his life goal to threaten and sue student journalists who dared to cover and question his deeply awful views. The fact he taught at Bristol for so long is a scandal. Utterly awful man.

I'm very happy to make the arguement. The proposals are economically disasterous and will destroy our fiscal headroom. They are politically wrongheaded and are actively alienating the social liberals who vote for Labour. And they are morally wrong and undercut people who came here in good faith

New NIMBY final boss just dropped. No daffodils on village green because of road traffic

Joel’s right and it’s part of how parochial the British political class has become that hardly anyone says this, and that hardly anyone points out that Labour’s ODA cuts have literally killed people.

Subsidising energy consumption in the face of both a short-term supply shock and the long-term need to decarbonise. Bad for the economy, bad for the planet, bad for the world's poor. And *if* you favour a wealth tax (I am sceptical but there's a case) spending it on *this" is just idiotic.

The 27th April is the National Day of both my other countries of heritage - Freedom Day in 🇿🇦 and Koningsdag (King's Day) in 🇳🇱. Happy Freedom Day and King's Day!

YES. We've oversaturated the sports Drive to Survive spin-offs. We need another Inside the Commons but longer, with more access and more honesty. Could even run it long term and air after an election to get people to be more open.

I’d love to see a re-run of what happened in 🇿🇦 where campus anarchists and communists who burned down buildings in 2015 almost universally went into banks, corporates and accounting firms after uni 😂

There is no amount of hell hot enough for those responsible for this. And no amount of anger that matches the pointless cruelty of it all.

Again, the media should be hitting him hard on this. It is not supported by the evidence, and is just a way of deligitimating both opposition to Reform, and the participation of non-white people in politics. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

"We Must Remain A Sovereign Nation! Under One Flag, The Union Flag!" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/765136

I do keep thinking why if the UKSV report was so sensitive so that even the FCDO Perm Sec & PM didn't see them, how did it leak?

This is such an interesting insight into how work culture at the top of the civil service is so alien to those at the top of politics and the tensions that causes

We should be unequivocal: attempts to downplay or excuse these attacks by connecting British Jews to the actions of the Israeli government are antisemitic and unacceptable.

Recent attacks on the Jewish community in the UK are abhorrent. It is deeply concerning that British Jews are feeling fear in their own neighbourhoods, having to hide religious symbols and increase security at events and synagogues.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

This "merry go round of buck passing" could have been lifted from the Grenfell inquiry. What is wrong with British work culture that there is such reticence to take action and responsibility? So common in public bodies, councils etc.

Why being an mp is the worst job in the world exhibit 35013

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Amazing time to be alive, given we both get to live through the below Onion headline *again* and we get to do our own parochial version with Green supporters “this policy will completely tank the economy, send inflation rampant and kill thousands of people in the developing world vs No it won’t”

OK, let me explain this really simply for those struggling with reading comprehension. Just because MPs do things that you dislike (and maybe I dislike too!), does not automatically make them out-of-touch. Politics is fundamentally about trade-offs, external pressures and wicked problems.

This sort of facile populism is really damaging to trust in politics. Most British MPs are highly attuned to the cost of living crisis and challenges faced by their constituents.

With this and Polanski's rubbish today the Greens really are leaning into the easy populism stuff arent they. It's rubbish that corrodes our politics, but they don't care. Its just a game for them

Kemi Badenoch: “I have made it very clear that the Conservative party stands behind America taking this necessary action”. 2nd March 2026

Am enjoying Criterion corporate comms getting ever more insolent in their comment responses that they can’t just… get away with it

“Show me the most British policy” “NHS for dogs” “No that’s too British”

Not enough people are talking about Facebook. Political people all follow the twitter / X drama, but Facebook is quietly radicalising so many more. This is the mildest thing I see and it is blatant racism (of course a "coincidence" that the presenter is black)

this immediately joins that article expressing horror about how much it costs to re-cover the Commons green benches (which means they are falling apart) as the Most Stupid Story

A very good (and depressing) watch from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social. Lots of good questions asked. And a chicken. Only thing I took exception to was the legitimising of attacks health sec's office. What that did was intimidate his staff, not further the cause. But worth a watch:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

An arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service isn’t about Israel. It isn’t about Zionism, or American imperialism, or capitalism, or war in the Middle East. It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes. Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.

At what point does Restore cross the boundary into proscription as a neo-Nazi organisation? As long as it doesn’t call for violence or attacks it’s fine? What about forced deportations of legal immigrants or second-gen citizens? Sooooo grim.

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

Remembering Tapp's absolutely tone-deaf response in the Commons when this was raised as a UQ... :/

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 There's a through-line from trolling culture to the manosphere and government rejoicing in its own cruelty. The common thread is the weaponisation of irony, making it cringe to care, risible to object. The radical response: reclaim sincerity. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

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