Apparently, we are going to get "angry Starmer" in the Commons. But politically, constitutionally, logically and administratively all this flows from his - his! - appointment of Mandelson. All else is the putting into effect of that decsion. But: anger at others, blaming others, sacking others.

Implausible as it sounds, this would explain why they’ve done practically nothing in 21 months.

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

Fwiw. The Prime Minister should have resigned when House of Commons voted that he (and his cabinet) could not be trusted with "national security" decisions on the release of the Mandelson papers. If House of Commons has no confidence in a PM to do that, they have no real confidence in PM at all.

“Wes Streeting” is only the answer if the question is “Which stroppy child would be even worse as Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?”

The first step to saving the BBC is up to the BBC: demonstrating that it is worth saving. This piece is the product of [People disike Kendall + Slag off Kendall = Clicks]. It is a very stupid story, even by Chorley's Mariana-Trench-ean standards - and sadly part of a recent clickbait pattern.

First though get rid of the Tasks. Also don’t film it.

I’m not sure if it’s worse if he’s lying or telling the truth. Either dangerously dishonest or dangerously incompetent.

The vetting report would certainly have been helpful to Starmer in judging Peter Mandelson's character, but the blood running down the halls, the holy books bursting into flames and the birds falling dead from the skies whenever he was present were also fairly reliable clues.

How dare a Civil Servant exploit the Prime Minister’s chronic lack of curiosity in this way! For shame!

Suspect blaming Olly Robbins and the Foreign Office will not end well for Starmer.

This government's anti-immigration agenda will starve Britain of skilled labour and global talent for decades to come inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...

With regards to how well Bluesky is working today: We can tell. 🙃

Thank god we’ve got Chris Mason to state the fucking obvious for us.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

There is a direct line from Andrea Leadsom lecturing Pascal Lamy (former director-general of the WTO) on the scope & purpose of the WTO to JD Vance lecturing the Pope on theology. Brexit married weapons grade ignorance to epic entitlement in ways that hadn’t been seen for ages. And on it goes…

but no, better make everyone fear the queers and the asylum seekers, eh lads

imagine if the BBC had decided to conduct an investigation into - just throwing an idea out here completely at random - the suspiciously well-funded “grassroots” “gender critical” organisations who seem to have limitless influence within the media and lawmaking class

never say "Okay", say "OK" instead, gives you more time to deadlift

This was the top story on Radio 2 at 4pm. The most important thing happening in the world, apparently. And of course that worthless ghoul Shabana Mahmood has leapt all over this. I hope everyone who had a hand in this article never knows peace again.

This reporting from BBC stokes division, racism and homophobia, and fails to engage with that reality faced by most LGBTQIA+ individuals. I will be making a formal complaint and hope many others will as well www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.

Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.

But the risk was coming from inside the Streeting. https://join.greenparty.org.uk

The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

They say that Artemis II is the furthest a human has ever travelled, but I’ve changed lines at Bank and think that’s slightly further.

i’m politically homeless, and by that i mean that i agree with every policy from one party except the one about me paying taxes, and i agree with zero policies from the other party except the one about me paying zero taxes.

Yeah, well *I'm* fed up with politicians who took until 2026 to realize an energy system which relies on constant extraction of resources sets you up for this very thing to happen one day. Alternatives are here! We've been talking about them for decades now! It's not that complicated!

It‘s like he wakes up and thinks “What’s the most short-termist, self-defeating thing we could do?”

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

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Remember to fully sluice and oil your Easter ovipositor before packing it away for the year.

21 months into this govt and I've seen no inkling of an understanding of the state of the country. Easy wins to actually improve lives have been ignored in pursuit of looking tough on minorities. And now an opposition MP pointing this out is somehow a “slur”. Hannah Spencer is not why trust is dead.

Atheist Prime Minister suggests we all turn to religion before expecting anything from his government. How is he so bad at this?

Disingenuous prick. He has embedded transphobia as policy. He has denied young trans people access to medication and support. His government has brought back a version of Section 28 against trans young people. He is actively denying trans and non-binary individuals safety and respect.

Your regular reminder that this time last month Kemi Badenoch told her party's spring conference that Keir Starmer should back Trump's actions in Iran "immediately and unequivocally"

The Greens have now overtaken both the Conservatives and Labour, according to the latest polling average

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“It must have got damaged in transit” said the postman, somehow imagining I hadn’t heard him throw the parcel against the doorstep three seconds before he rang the bell.

Two issues with this ‘EU pivot’: 1) Using war as a sudden justification for the very thing you’d dismissed as unthinkable for the past three years shows a fatal lack of foresight and imagination. 2) What Starmer says his government will do and what it actually does are often opposites.

It would be so refreshing for the UK government to stop talking about a reset with the EU and ACTUALLY DO IT …. “PM says Iran war means UK needs 'closer co-operation' with EU - Sky News”

Folklore geek here: if the Home Secretary thinks fairy tales were comforting, she has not read many fairy tales. Pre-Disneyification, they were usually *not* comforting. And as for law, rather than lore: this is the Home Secretary's usual hogwash.

This is only rational if the Prime Minister believes that the NHS exists for the benefit of doctors, not for the benefit of society and the economy. He's a strange man.

Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Sick of seeing all this Attie slander from people who aren’t in a deep emotional relationship with Attie and planning to marry her

This is how we got our first inkling that the Trump story will end with the phrase “before turning the weapon on himself”.

So Kemi Badenoch today continued her “fuel Britainnia” campaign to extract “every last drop” of oil and gas from the North Sea, by visiting a company whose oil executive owner has so far donated more than £250,000 to the Conservatives since she became its leader bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...

Good. Like many Of* regulators, it holds everyone accountable except the politicians. Labelling a school as ‘failing’ scapegoats the staff with a snapshot verdict that Ministers can hide behind, completely sidestepping responsibility for their own systemic failures.