"New rules are forcing people to sell homes they'd prefer to keep" Yes, that is what the new rules were introduced to do. System working as intended.

It is hard to overstate the extent to which “Dewey Cox has to think about his entire life before he plays” is the framing structure of MICHAEL

I miss Terry Pratchett. We used to live in a world where we regularly got new Terry Pratchett and it was a better world.

No to apps, no to the causes of apps. No to new accounts. No to intrusive questions. No, much against my instinct, to cookies.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

remember when they were big mad about obamacare death panels

I think, genuinely, Starmer does just believe that the “wrong outcome” must mean “the wrong process was followed”, and therefore Robbins needed to be sacked. It wasn’t a “cynical but dumb” move, it was a “this worldview is highly unsuited to running a government” move.

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You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

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This madness has no place in the NHS. The UK government should enact its break clause and get us out of contracts with Palantir.

If nothing else, the decision to sack Robbins, when he didn't need to, must rank as one of the most absurd acts of political self-harm any prime minister has yet committed. All of this eminently foreseeable.

As a control, we need to have PM who is actually capable.

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Totally random thing but... Trump blocking the Strait of Hormuz to spite everyone else & the leaders of the rest of the world not appearing to pressure him into stopping has made me think of a real story about idiots & their consequences on others. At Jam bookshop, there was a regular visitor...

I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.

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One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them. The graves of multiple children have been defaced. One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

Thinking about that time in Japan, when Nintendo was undergoing hard times, its CEO took a pay cut himself rather than layoff the companies' talented workers. That's some exceptionalism I can get behind.

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btw, in case you think those numbers are lower than the blockbuster grosses of today... that Godfather box office would've looked something like $660 million Deep Throat would've been over $150 million

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OK. Sure. But maybe we should give Peter Mandelson one more chance.

No defence of Starmer but I am BEGGING you to remember that Corbyn lost two elections, the latter of which he chose to fight despite having absolutely no need to and being able to read a poll.

What sank Johnson in the end was not so much what he'd done but that his MPs got sick of being sent out to defend it.

Robert Jenrick is probably about the best thing that happened to Keir Starmer this afternoon. Which says a lot about what kind of afternoon it's been.

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the Militime has come

The big bad signal for the PM is that no MPs are speaking up for him. No loyal backbenchers giving him a break, use up time and some cover. It's just a constant attack from every side of the house.

Reminded of Miliband's best line

Still waiting for ‘angry starmer’ to appear

I'm not following the timetable of who said what to who or the detail of what the process was or should have been, rather the big picture that this is no way to run a government and that minor changes in response doesn't fix that.

Coming very soon.

He thought Mandelson was worth a punt, especially because he owed him a favour, and decided to ignore 15 years of questionable lobbying candidates, his friendship with Epstein, and his relationship with the truth. Since he can't say that, he's having formulate bizarre rationales that never hold up.

The problem with Starmer's argument (well one of them) is that it depends on an assertion that he wouldn't have appointment Mandelson if he'd known he'd failed vetting. But he appointed him before vetting was complete.

God, this is painful

Some of these feel spectacularly badly judged. I also *really* hope they checked with the victim whose case they're using here that she was happy for her situation to be used in this way.

Put Parliament on for a bit, missed Starmer's statement, but feel like the final nail in the coffin for Starmer is giving Badenoch an opportunity to come across well

This is the government’s “line to take.” Number 3 is that no official in No. 10 knew until last week about Mandelson failing vetting. And this is a screenshot of the Independent’s political editor putting that to a No. 10 press official 7 months ago - and their response at the time.

"staggering" "unforgivable" etc This is an exercise in blame transference.

Watching the statement. I think Number Ten sources and I have a different definition of angry.

There are two absolute comedy geniuses in this line-up and I am not going to tell you which of the three they are, but they're not standing in the middle. In absolute awe going through their stuff today. Don't miss this one. At the very least you will see me humbled and probably humiliated.

Do we have an exact time on the angry Starmer performance? I don’t want to waste time waiting for it

that is - to use the technical term - aahhh, a spicy meat-a-ball

You wouldn’t like him… well just generally really.