If Labour really believed Mandelson "conned everyone", they'd be deselecting the Labour MPs that were hand-picked by him. They'd be reversing every decision his lobbying company had ever been anywhere near. They'd be returning every donation from any of his contacts. They are not doing those things

The ONLY reason Starmer got to be PM is that he was prepared to throw the left under the bus at every opportunity. And when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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The defining trait of conspiracism is not the suspicion that the rich and powerful are up to something nefarious (they are, of course); it's the implicit belief that their secret activity perverts a world that would otherwise be fine.

Allowing him to resign from the Lords is NOT an option

Why isn't this happening to McSweeney, Mandelson and Starmer? Operation Branchform - Wikipedia share.google/0jDabYte3Q8w...

Blue Tents ?…… Anyone seen any Blue Tents ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Or are Blue Tents ‘reserved’ for Scottish independence politicians ? 🤔

This is a brilliant, thorough and truthful bit of writing, as you’d expect from @littlemaddles.bsky.social. Someone is making a penny, as they say, and the arts needs to have a hard look at itself, 25 years into a lunatic experiment in impoverishing creators. open.substack.com/pub/madelein...

Don't believe media lies peddled by newspapers & TV owned by billionaires only interested in increasing their obscene wealth & power #SocialistSunday

Obviously you can't take high office if you won't go high in the sky #nationalisesausages

I chose Pcloud for my own cloud storage. It has all the features I want and is based in Switzerland.

To be fair, she's not wrong about Jenrick.

Every post gets worse as Elizabeth describes it. They all knew. Stacks of evidence & witness testimony completely ignored.

bill clinton is a shithead in every respect but jesus the guy was impeached for having an affair with an adult woman

The democratic principle they are defending is the right of Britain’s ruling class to always impose their will on the public, as if the country being like this is in some way separate to these people getting just about everything their way, again and again and again for my entire life.

The key feature of this argument is the failure to engage with the reasons why OMOV was introduced (beyond "madness"), notably the popular sense of a democratic deficit. Sodha is too dim to appreciate that the rise of Reform, & now the Greens, is a direct consequence of this.

All I’ll say about this is that if the cops can raid Nicola Sturgeon’s house over dubious use of party funds, then they should probably have taken a look at this also.

"Well Mr Bond, as you'll be dead in a minute I'll explain the whole thing."

There's always a parking spot just where you need it

“.. People will think: When you guys post images of Venezuelan drug boats, why should we believe you? In fact, why should we believe anything you say?” Farid said. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Is Z only a cheap smutty joke in the UK?

Why is Thangam Debbonaire on #bbcnewsnight? She is a losing candidate at the last election. Why is she relevant?

"St Paul. Shit, I'm still in St Paul." These people genuinely view themselves as soldiers, marooned "up country" where the hostile population justifies any atrocity. Colonel Kurtz's all.

It's weird that I've had to say this more than zero times, but if your position is that a political party is entitled to votes and refusing to deliver those votes is equivalent to a criminal act, you don't actually believe in democracy at all.

Liberals don’t want to dismantle the systems that oppress us- they want to control them

The Greens mustn't fall into the same trap and usher in Labour MPs who see their meal ticket disappearing as Labour's polls keep failing to improve.

How about no and learn how to curate your following to build your own feed. The reason why Bsky works well for people is because it doesn't have an algorithm. That's why people need to do their part instead of wanting another site to do the same algo BS..

A British politician saying the UK should "reclaim our power" is immensely troubling www.bbc.com/news/article...

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

The labour party is probably unsalvageable. It would need to be gutted completely for any chance anyway. A lot of people don't seem to grasp quite how deep the rot goes, probably because those people don't see what the machine did against the left is bad because it was directed at their "enemies".

Andy Burnham is not the Messiah. Andy Burnham is not the route back to "normalcy". There's no way back, and there shouldn't be: if you'd been paying attention you'd not want to go back.

I don't understand the motivations of opposition politicians voting to continue funding lawless bully boys. If even this can pass then pursuing an electoral route to change seems pointless right now.

It mighta helped if they'd tried though

I'd rather Britain had wind farms than depend on the US, Russia and Saudi Arabia for oil

"Hey Mike, are you interested in politics? Ever talk to anyone about it? Ever watch TV?"

Notable that Labour's losses to the right (11%) are dwarfed by their losses within bloc (27%) and Don't Knows / WNVs (21%). Collectively 4.5 times as large. The argument that ONLY losses to the right matter in the constituencies Labour have to defend seems increasingly tenuous to me.

Tilting at windmills as per usual

Watching this speech is like sitting through Christmas dinner with an elderly relative. The rambling, the obvious errors, the unpleasantness.

I'm not convinced the general public will be enthralled by the domestic minutiae of the lives of Billy Meredith and Matt Busby

T(rump)800

That's why I'm a one-man band

Tom Baker is 92 today

Wow. What a superb resource

Apropos of nothing I went to watch Speed at the cinema on Sunday, it was a blast.

Is this some kind of Brewster's Millions deal? The Labour leadership only get to keep a huge inheritance if they get less than 50 seats at the next general election? Because everything they do and say seems to me like it'll be wildly unpopular, and it's been like this for a while now.

This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.

If (and it is an if) UK were never able to fire our independent nuclear weapons without US say-so then why were we paying them billions for the privilege? Apart from the massive hard-on it gave successive prime ministers to strut about with them in their back pocket, obviously.