Keir Starmer is once more locked in a death battle with his mortal enemy, Keir Starmer.

It’s so refreshing to hear someone telling the truth about the LA establishment, which has no higher goal than giving the appearance of doing something while doing nothing. A change from people who want to do as little as possible to people who want to see how much is possible.

State aid explains only a fraction of BYD’s cost gap with Tesla; the real advantage is scale, lower overheads, and tighter control of the supply chain https://restofworld.org/2026/why-are-chinese-evs-cheaper-than-tesla/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

the broader onslaught of conspiracism and ethnonationalism driven by internet culture feels like it's sharpening into one very specific point

If the answer is "Toby Young" you're asking a question that should get you sectioned.

What's happening in Dubai bolsters the argument taxes should be based on people's nationality, not just their country of residence (ie the US model). If Brits living abroad can expect to be airlifted out by virtue of being British, they should pay some tax towards that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

It would be great if Britain didn't operate an electricity price mechanism which leaves our energy bills dependent on the price of gas. Even as gas is being replaced by renewables, it still dominates the price we pay for electricity.

It's not just that she says almost bafflingly stupid things, it's that she does so with an air that she thinks she's patronising you, a complete idiot.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

As a man who sent death squads after the elected President of Ukraine, I assume this was said with a sense of bittersweet admiration and jealousy...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now achieved the impressive accolade of becoming the first ever presenter of Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message to have been taken out by an Israeli airstrike.

Thread. Whatever you think about Danish immigration policy the claims made about its impact on politics are just wrong.

Zac Goldsmith pivoted from bit-right-greeny-centrist to dog-whistle anti-immigration racist to try and beat Sadiq. Got himself smashed in the London Mayorals as a result. As every Tory has since. Crazy to think the lesson Labour HQ keep taking from that nationally is 'be more like Zac"

This is important - Ref got almost exactly what you'd expect a Conservative replacement party to get, in a seat they would never need or expect to win.

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

one 28-year-old deputy comms staffer now responsible for dozens of officials worldwide—across governments, major companies, international organizations—being removed from their positions due to their connections with jeffrey epstein

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy

I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.

One of the weirdest things about British politics at the moment is the consensus view that Badenoch is now doing quite well on the basis of no discernable electoral or polling evidence whatsoever.

I think something that is poorly understood if you don't interact with those circles, is how the cliquey top of the British right sees "criticism of Israel post Oct 7" as a weird and extreme position, not something that a lot of the country feels.

No lessons learned. Every day Starmer stays in office will make it harder for Labour to begin to recover the left of centre voters without whom it can't win and will struggle to survive, and I struggle to see any reason to wait around for an electoral bloodbath in May to confirm that.

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“It was George Galloway wot won it" is a truly FASCINATING position for Keir Starmer to take, especially when his other options included...not doing that.

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

Sectarian. The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word. Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news

Quite the shocking video of Milan's tram accident. It was going too fast and derailed over a switch.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Going to say this now: it's really important journalists reporting on this election are clear that allegations that the election isn't free and fair are completely false.

After the US National Security Strategy it’s difficult to see X as anything other than a weapon to be used against European democracies, and boy is it working its magic in that regard tonight

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

"Puis attendez jusqu'à 18 minutes" On a total travel time of 39 minutes. 46% of travel times. 🫠 Using the bus in Montréal has became an ordeal, and really nobody f***ing cares. Not the STM, not the ARTM, not the city councilors, not a single provincial politician. Nobody. Appalling.

Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

why are they not knocking on doors!!! it's noon on polling day!!!!!!

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

No reputable media outlet should engage with Restore, any more than they would with Combat 18.

“Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That transforms privacy into a commodity? A society where a techno-oligarch can interfere, as one of them did yesterday, in the…phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies? The answer must be a clear no, and we will not give in.”

anyway, why are politicians on the fringes such weird, creepy, authoritarian shits? If it's not Kruger and his talking about undoing the sexual revolution, it's Hypnotits and wanting to "reduce the number of medical interventions in childbirth".

115 km of tunnels is like if the approaches into Milan were tunnelled from Vercelli to almost Piacenza, or those into Rome from Orte to Anagni. This is just unbelievably long.

This is an absolutely fantastic quote. It’s one rule for us [i.e. the people who didn’t apply for planning permission and just built anyway] and another for everyone else [i.e. the people who applied for planning permission].

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

If labour aren't blasting that on every form of social advertising available in Gorton and Denton by 8am tomorrow they're *mad*.

If you ever want to know why looking at betting odds on by-elections is pointless, look no further than the fact that by the odds the current 4th place in Gorton & Denton is the Worker's Party, which isn't even standing in the by-election.

This is how I discovered Polanski’s position on ‘natural birth’ and god, fuck this so so much

“I just don’t get the kind of engagement on Bluesky that I get on X” the engagement:

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater... Manchester WI has shut itself down over being forced to exclude trans women