Ten days out, so may very well not materialise, but those are record-breaking numbers for May if it happens. 🥵

Kudos to whoever made this.

It's not just that they still use Musk's far right propaganda platform, it's that they *don't* use either of its main competitors. They have a completely unused official Threads account, and no official account here at all. Keir Starmer once posted a 👋🏼 emoji on his official Threads account. 🫩

Not only leadership, it would be treating people like grown-ups. We traded sometimes-patronising experts for cynical snake-oil salesmen peddling soothing lies. And as for how it's gone, <looks around>. I genuinely thought Starmer would change the record, and don't know why that didn't happen.

Has anyone actually tried to win this sort of area by being honest? Wouldn't that be real leadership? To say: "I know why you voted for this, but it's turned out badly and I think you know that. You now have a choice. Trust the next easy solution the same conmen offer you, or fix the damage." 4/

This is of course one of the signs of the weakness of HMG - other countries saying use less oil by reducing speed limits, WFH, public transport, #ActiveTravel or sharing lifts; UK DfT: carry on as normal. #OilShock

This is bad economic policy, because it will cost the government billions in lost tax income.. ..bad progressive policy, because the richest 10% of households will benefit three times as much from the freeze as the poorest 10%.. ..and terrible climate policy: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fue...

*Clapton*? Build it twice as tall just to spite him. Built his career on a pastiche of Black blues music, and then went full National Front. Prick.

overused point at this stage but this really is one of those things that would make someone from like 2015 fully go "oh fuck so we're about to go full dystopia then" if you mentioned that this would happen in 2026

So I think I've figured this out, and why so many anti-cycling folk sound like the far right (there's some direct overlap, but by no means total). Disadvantaged / normal vs disadvantaged / deviant. And the absolute refusal of the former to give a single millimetre of ground to the latter.

I've cleaned things out of wheelie bins that are less rancid than Susan Hall.

Agree, original post is baffling. The McSweeney/Starmer project was based on "you can get away with economically left wing policies if you're fashy enough on culture"; the actual outcome was that nobody on the left noticed the economic policy, and nobody on the right believed the fashiness

Lisa Nandy is not brave enough to tell her constituents they were sold a false dream about Brexit and they bought it. It is beyond weak. It is cowardly. And it will not save her seat, it will just deliver a far-right government.

Sad to see Rayner say this, or feel she can gain advantage by saying it, implying that Brexit is just a 'challenge' to be addressed.

Looking at their families might be tricky without breaking the restraining order.

There is a lot of chat about the danger posed by the introduction of cycle lanes and floating bus stops on Leith Walk from 2021 onward. Pedestrian casualties, Leith Walk, by year: 2015: 15 2016: 13 2017: 9 2018: 10 2019: 12 (including two fatalities) 2020: 3 2021: 0 2022: 2 2023: 0 2024: 2

In all seriousness though - how can he claim to be "in the fight for the soul of the country", and do nothing whatsoever about the tabloid press, the increasingly radicalised Times / Tele, or the never-ending slop funnels on Meta, TikTok and X? That just.. doesn't look or sound very fight-y to me?

"We will block those coming into the UK to incite hatred and violence." Good. Fully expect to see the Murdoch family clapped in irons and packed off to Yarl's Wood should any of them grace our shores, and Oakeshitt too next time she pops back from Dubai.

Violent flag-shagging racists deliberately run someone over. Fixed that headline for you, Guardian.

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

How much would it cost to run the premiership 52 weeks a year - keep these cretins off the streets, and give their local pubs a much-needed extra 20% or so of trade.

We need a bit of Popperism here - don’t tolerate the intolerant, because they sure as hell won’t tolerate you!

"people vote reform because they're sick of how corrupt regular politicians are" bsky.app/profile/polp...

So I know Police Intel are doing their thing with facial recognition and picking up a fair few of these nazi shitheels after the fact. But at some point surely it'd be good for the national mood for the cops to go give them an Orgreave-level public kicking. An order I'd respect Starmer for giving.

@opiumia.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you - friend of a friend can't ride it anymore and is looking to find it a good home. One for you and/or your tweed-y friends maybe - not sure how much they're looking for. Hope life's treating you well!

#KingsSpeech Rather than chasing the unattainable "holy grail" of GDP growth, we need policies that give all a decent life

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Did I say clock? I meant Nazi.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

There is absolutely no reason to not pedestrianise Soho It seems completely weird that a vibrant night life quarter that generates £100ks per week still has cars driving through it with people crammed onto pavements The economic boost, the safety aspects, the aesthetic aspects @willnorman.co.uk ?

Just a couple of beers at an event this evening so it's not the beer talking. For goodness sake pedestrianise Soho. #London

Greens literally the only party trying to get you Proportional Representation before the next general election so we can finally be done with FPTP.

"My palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There’s vomit on my lapels already, Vic’s tagliatelle Streeting's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs I keep chokin’, how, everybody’s jokin’ now The clock's run out, time's up, over, snap back to reality..."

The increasing orange wedge is the amount of added CO2 staying in the atmosphere because of the land and ocean struggling to keep up. As they get warmer and more degraded they capture less of the extra CO2. The rise in CO2 is already curving up as emissions accumulate, but this adds to that.

Sir Sadiq Khan should turn his third term as mayor of London into the anti-motorist demon that the car-brained like to pretend he is. Start seizing these vehicles. Tow them away. 5% value of the car to release it. Fail to pay in 90days. Sell the car and invest the proceeds into more enforcement.

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Ethical parties are always held to higher standards than selfish parties or scumbag parties. Them's the rules unfortunately.

Right wingers doing mock outrage at Zack Polanski underpaying his tax will never not be funny, especially since the life goal of every right winger is to avoid paying as much tax as possible.

As an act of mayoral solidarity, perhaps Sadiq could post one of these to Andy.

The major down-side of the Greens' proposal for decriminalising personal drug use is that we'll get a lot more of, well.. ⬇️

"Just one more. I swear it bro, it'll make the line go up..." The monkey's paw curls, and the line obliges.

A clear critique of this decidedly thin King's Speech from Hannah Spencer. I note that the government is seeking new powers to facilitate further airport expansion (hardly stellar for climate targets). Oh & the King's Speech contains Labour's immoral asylum & immigration bill.

ROU "Just call me Consequences" drops out of FTL into a high Earth orbit.

People regularly attempt to murder people with a dangerous weapon and because it's a car it's framed as impatience or annoyance, instead of the deeply dangerous, violent behavior that it is.

I don't generally workpost, but this AI tech support portal from Behringer / Music Tribe is really something.. special 🤢 support.empowertribe.com

Anyone well familiar with a policy area will know the government has been timid. Even house building, their headline policy, is going to fail on its own terms. Transport, which should be a transformation tool to fight climate change, is without proper investment and rudderless.

Labour's Immigration Bill is the most immoral and repugnant thing this Government has done. It would mean a care worker who came to this country looking after our elderly, working night shifts on low pay, would wait 10 years to apply for citizenship But an investment banker could apply in 3 years

At the top of every ballot paper, they should print in big letters: R T F M

And a commendably wise appointment by, I assume, the Mayor @london.gov.uk , there being multiple new Green-led councils, some of them with relatively inexperienced leadership, who need to pick up the baton on delivering safer, healthier streets. Chapeau!

A woman with a searingly clever mind, a truly kind and caring heart, and real power in her speeches. Caroline cares so much and works so hard. She’s perfect for this role. A great result for London 🙌🏻🙌🏻

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions