www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Labour plans for throwing the next election gather pace ….

Yesterday’s terrorist attack was abhorrent. But when Starmer calls for a period of mourning can he also recognise and acknowledge the simultaneous mourning of the death of over 60,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their land? Deaths and destruction that he and his government are complicit in.

When Starmer came to power he faced 2 tasks: the governance of business and the business of governance. He's failed on the 1st, because the levers are weak, the problems immediate and solutions long term. He's failed on the 2nd because he doesn't seem interested, just tinkering at the edges.

Absolutely this. Leadership is about influencing public opinion, not following it.

This feels like it should be an important story; but so many stories feel like this these days. www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/09/29/u...

Niche content, but his story is SO interesting. Thinking of telling next season. A

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Already is chaos with Starmer, only have to look at his poll ratings to know that, with him in charge, going to get Farage in number 10

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@dag Worrying about ID cards is so pointless. This is how they do it.

They really are fucking useless.

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Absolutely this.

@rbmdm.bsky.social This is how an authoritarian govt does it. They don't give a shit about ID. They just go after the norms and institutions of civil society. If they want to fuck up the country they'll find a way, ID or no ID. This whole debate is pointless.

As ever, we’re far behind because our national debate seems incapable of moving on from a combination of the Blair neuroses of the mid-2000s and some absurd conceptions of unique English liberties from the mid 1640s.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

Viewed from the perspective of the constitutional order of states like Germany or Belgium, I've always found paranoia in UK politics over ID cards rather baffling. UK liberals who oppose it viscerally have never been quite able to explain why other functioning democracies seem to cope with them

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

The PFI disaster Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers. NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed. Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value. Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

@jimpowerecon1962.bsky.social @chrisbjohns.bsky.social An interesting podcast from McW. Is he right? Is AI going to be an exploding bubble? open.spotify.com/episode/4MvF...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

My latest piece for @theleaduk.bsky.social on why the government has got a massive John Lewis sized hole in its growth strategy

To be brutal about this, if people die because they take medical advice from Trump, I'd call that Darwinism in action.

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

I'm not sure what it is that Farage is banging on about. After all, there's one foreign national who came over here and worked so successfully that it appears she managed to save £850,000 which she used to buy a house for her boyfriend out of the goodness of her heart.

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

They really are unable to 'read the room'. Fucking useless!

"No Gov't can bind its successors" is the theory. In reality they can, by signing long-term contracts that easily be escaped. Any way to prevent this? @davidallengreen.bsky.social @publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social

Ditto

I know people won’t like this, but Corbyn had his time. In some ways it was a glorious time, and one that the Labour left never expected, but it failed, and that time has passed. Time to move on.

I'm more and more coming to the conclusion that our Peter is no more than a tailor's dummy voiced by AI.

This is so right! The UK has still got its tongue deeply embedded in Trump's arse, well aware that he could decide to take a dump at any moment. The special relationship is alive and well.

www.sciencefocus.com/news/hardwir... Interesting. Old Etonians explained. ( Not an 'attenuate' in sight. 🤪)

I don't think this little contribution is making the point he thinks he's making. He's pointing out that a much wider cull of useless and dodgy tuckers is needed, instead of padding it with more.

In the UK, thousands protested Trump and the masks were absolute perfection.

Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior... A story in three parts....

It already has. It's Trump's new unwritten amendment to the Constitution.

Nigel Farage is now threatening to sue people who talk about his Stamp Duty avoidance via his girlfriend suddenly finding £885,000 down the sofa to buy a house that definately isn't for him. So don't talk about it, you wouldn't want to make Nigel Farage mad, would you?

Beyond belief. Downing Street pandering to Trump by literally shutting down UK free speech. Shame on the government for its spinelessness. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

These images will never be erased from Windsor Castle. They're forever part of its history now. The government did this. The king did this. They brought shame on the UK and the monarchy by inviting one of the worst criminals in modern history for a second state visit. #TrumpVisit #EpsteinFiles

REPOST if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel!

And what plans do you have to tackle our massive tax avoidance industry, given that the main culprits are so embedded in your government? PwC KPMG EY Deloitte. They do more damage to this country than a dozen drug cartels. But at least the Aussies sussed PwC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax...

@premnsikka.bsky.social Disappointed you haven't replied to this. Am I right or wrong? Normally support the points you make, but in this case I think your idealism has outrun practicality. What I call the Corbyn disease.