interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet.... and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues.... this is the pivot that scares Labour the most

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social Jeez! Did I really reply to you with this 18 months ago? You didn't have to be fucking Nostradamus....

Is there a BAFTA for satire?

Beautifully put.

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social Snap!

Man, you hit on the right phrase - maybe by accident. Labour were inundated with 'policy leaver(s)' last night.

My only regret about the defenestration of McSweeney is that he's not around to carry the can for this Labour debacle.

Labour policy on Brexit now pro-cake and eating it.

Is Lowe referring to Trump's state visit?

It gets worse bsky.app/profile/dunc...

"Presidementia". I like that one. Very nice 👍

When it comes to misconduct in public office, we have investigations into a former trade minister, Lord Mandelson, a former/prince trade envoy, Andrew, but saliently missing for both his Bannon and Lebedev connections is the former Foreign Secretary bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

But rationalise and adopt common, best in class, standards first.

Classic Brexiter.

This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social Good God! Have you read this? There should be heads on spikes on London Bridge for this.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

Band of immoral rich murkyily funded dishonest right wing self serving cunts (Sorry for language)... they could not give a fuck about this country. If they get into power we are in BIG trouble. Vote tactically and ignore the Reform bots

Brilliant stuff.

it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

@amias.net Yep. Always get source code and IPR.

And Alastair Campbell despite all his protestations.

To paraphrase Sir Thomas Beecham, I've never met Farage, but I did step in some once.

As a son and a father of a son, this wonderful song has haunted me for over 50 years. youtu.be/etundhQa724?...

@robespierre1794.bsky.social I too am shaken to the core watching this 😞 Just because someone persuasive and erudite made some transformative changes yrs ago, it doesn’t mean that they’ll always have a higher purpose. It seems that wealth + privilege can corrupt anyone. youtu.be/_jcDDSiQUeo?...

Full of admiration for what Emma does in threads like this one. Read it, it’s interesting.

Only those who don't read Private Eye are shocked by Epstein/Andrew or Epstein/Mandelson.

We’re awash with headline-grabbing scandals these days, but this is the one that seems to have been quietly advancing on a Watergate-style trajectory.

The only way to kill the illegal drugs trade is to take the profit out of it. The gangs don't fear the police, courts or jail. They fear legalisation. And addicts benefit from quality control.

Would you let school children mark their own homework? This is the equivalent of what the Cabinet Office is doing.

It's funny how reality trumps PR. Had a friend who hosted Andrew on trade trip to Oman - despised him. Had another friend, MD of upmarket hotel in Czechia where Prince Edward stayed - absolute gentleman. Kind and gracious with all the staff, who loved him. Public images fostered, eh.

The intense ambition of Cabinet Minister Josh Simons has come up against the rather tricky problem of smearing journalists to MI5 [this is from Rivkah Brown's 2024 profile)

Football fans please take note. Please do a full and thorough risk analysis before deciding to go to America for 2026 World Cup matches.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @zackpolanski.bsky.social the likely new Cabinet Secretary very matey with Palantir 👆

It's time the political system in the UK was seriously overhauled. As it is, it's not fit for purpose!

Great way to win them over for next time.

Now ordering his new Bentley.

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

Mandy Rice Davies is waving at him!

What boils my piss tonight? Why are all the anchors for the evening news programmes stood outside Buckingham Palace? There is fuck all happening there!!!

He’s the antithesis of a decent Englishman. He’s sly, he’s divisive, he has, at best, a tenuous relationship with the truth. His avarice for wealth and power knows no bounds. Many of his acquaintances have friends who wish this country ill. Yet, the ignorant fawn over him.