Match abandoned due to players having to squint 😂😂😂

To celebrate #ValentinesDay I have invented a new type of graph: the heartbreak chart. It is a proportional representation showing inequality between two variables - here is an example showing women vs men CEOs of UK FTSE350 companies (2025). What do you think?

So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’

I’m not an expert but this seems suggestive of either an anxiety disorder or internalised prejudice/expectation bias …what it definitely isn’t is evidence of London being unsafe

Good news…but it’s still illegal to show support for Palestine Action despite the ruling because the government plans to appeal…so be careful everyone.

Dear BBC sports commentators: your misogyny is showing in your repeated references to Bruce Mouat ‘being happy to be back with his boys’ & playing better now he’s ’with the lads.’ The implication being that a man playing his professional sport professionally with a *woman* is distracting.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 🔭 🟰 I have taken the first 100 Fellows recently announced by the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and considered them by pronouns. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

The Times, eh

But will we get to the point where any of the following get noticed: 1) the forde report 2) ‘the labour files’ documentary 3) the book ‘the fraud’* *some of 3) is getting a little bit of noticing but not too much…

I always find that when someone tells me that I am strong and united it is definitely a straightforward statement of fact and not, for example, a sign of someone desperately trying to hold everything together while being totally out of their depth…

He’s such a weasel 😂 Probably Prime Minister Weasel come May when the press work to get their chosen one in to replace Starmer after the local elections

A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn

How access journalism works. Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops. Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop. Rinse and repeat. Ad nauseam

Given the content of these messages its feels like Starmer hasn’t really been left with a choice but to reshuffle Streeting to the backbenches…he’s voluntarily put in the public domain evidence of him chatting with the famous paedo’s mate about how shit the govt he is part of is…baffling stuff!

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

Work life balance is a nonsense says wealthy man who can pick and choose exactly what he want to do and also has his trips funded by wealthy donors and crypto-scammers

Because she can’t run for leadership until HMRC finish checking her tax affairs and give her a clean bill of health… best case for Rayner is the Starmer clings on until May

Breaking…steve reed was part of the McSweeney led Labour Together crew who picked Starmer in the first place…so of course he backs him…

So much noticing happening, so little time! It is deeply depressing watching the media continuously go through cycles of ignoring massive malfeasance and corruption to put their guy in charge &then, when the narrative changes manically start reporting things that were in the public domain all along

I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.

Keir Starmer's spokesman won't say why his Comms Director Tim Allan resigned, when Starmer first knew he was resigning, or whether he asked him to step down. Also won't say whether evidence has been found suggesting an ongoing relationship between Allan and Mandelson

Continuity Mandleson at that too…

And always twirling…

Another important story about corrupt and antidemocratic practices in Starmer & McSweeney’s operation. Losing McSweeney changes nothing, the whole corrupt anti-left cartel in the top echelons of labour need sweeping aside if it is ever to be a progressive party rather than a tool of corporate power

We’ve tried bitter cynics, economic liberals, and self-interested fraudsters and it keeps not working The choice is now between perhaps naive idealists or divisive racist grifters… I’m gonna suggest the former and vote @greenparty.org.uk

The only question now is whether Starmer manages to hang on long enough to elevate McSweeney to his place for life in the House of Lords…

A defeat that McSweeney himself in coordination with Mandelson was significantly responsible for bringing about…

😂😂😂

The cynic in me says this is to take himself out of the firing line but he’ll still be there in the background like a cancerous polyp on the body politic…

How consent is manufactured 101…

i think it sucks that online spaces really dont have safe spaces for kids. BUT we need more public spaces for children, especially ones that dont cost money children deserve offline spaces and community parks arent enough, give them a government mandated laser tag pit or smth

Why are people assuming “his boss” means Starmer?

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Who knew that withdrawing healthcare and support for some of the most vulnerable teenagers while simultaneously demonising everyone like them as a threat or an aberration would in fact contribute to harming rather than protecting teenagers!

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

…but fundamentally he’s a decent man… 🤷‍♂️

This would be pretty much the best possible outcome of the current Labour chaos. Of everyone in labour right now who could win the leadership he’s probably the most progressive and has explored a broader range of heterodox ideas, but he wouldn’t get a needed honeymoon period as leader.

Good that people like Gordon Brown who’d turned a blind eye to malversation problems within Labour plus past Tory corruption now acknowledge need for reform. But Brown touting Margaret Hodge as an anti-corruption lead after controversies on child abuse cover ups & malversation for Israel is naive

While I hope this is true, the problem is that it relies on the media class to not want Streeting to take over…&the problem is they are desperate for him to take over. It may ruin him eventually, but probably not until the same media have helped him into the top job &let him have at it for a while

It is somewhat concerning that someone standing for parliament cannot count beyond 5… 1,2,3,4,5…erm…countless… 😂

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This should be like football, if you break campaigning rules you ge a points deduction -perhaps 10% of your vote on the day? The fines are so trivial that it’s worth taking the hit and breaking the law if it helps you win the election

It’s not stopped being highly entertaining yet… I hope he is having a horrible time after what he’s inflicted on others over the years. I know this is very uncharitable and not a good look…🤷‍♂️

Lots of great lines in this furious piece but this, on McSweeney asking if PM could be US ambo part time, replacing Karen Pierce, is 👌 “This gives you a good indication of Westminster’s relative assessment of value: One full-time experienced woman is worth less than a part-time inexperienced man.”

How many have left over the same period for the opposite reason? Also, how many people are signing up now because they sense a leadership contest is coming and want to be a member before the NEC try to stitch up who can vote…which seems a way more plausible reason for joining right now!

Let’s see how well this ages. I would put a notional fiver on Starmer resigning on Monday after spending the weekend mulling things over with his family while his MPs get increasingly riled as their constituents pass on their thoughts about all this… if McSweeney lets him of course…

I am sick of reading commentators describing Starmer as ‘fundamentally decent’…he lied to win the labour leadership, he had no issue throwing dedicated labour members and MPs under a bus because it was politically convenient, and he has provided political cover and military support for genocide.

This! And the big problem is that literally everyone in the media and in politics who are treated as “sensible grownups with credible ideas” believe that principles are at best a crutch and at worst a hindrance to the pragmatic business of gaining and exercising power

He’s almost like a real human…it’s so rare and joyful…

It’s interesting who gets private investigators put on them and who just gets appointed ambassador