The trick with polls is the questions you ask

If *any* dependent receives *any* form of social protection at any point, you lose your legal status, as drafted. It is sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme all at once

He can't let it happen again that he's forced out of office by losing an election

Kier Starmer reading the morning papers

3rd goal leapfrogs #nufc above Real Madrid and Barcelona in the UCL table

Far too belatedly, days after the initial hysteria, Sky News are forced to clarify that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans do indeed have a track record of violent behaviour

“If you don’t know the detail and have not read the intelligence, you could conclude it was because the traveling fans were Jewish. That is just not the case.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is this AI or something? No one willingly appears this stupid in public without advisors tipping them off

This is the sound of someone trying not to upset racists. No mention of "cultural coherence" which is a way of saying Australians are fine but black people are not.

no time to explain get in the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

This is the best thing that could possibly happen for the govt. They can maintain their position, nothing bad will happen to make them look foolish and they can all tell themselves they were right all along www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Holy shit. But also, holy shit. Be aware that inbound firewall rules are ineffective against connections being initiated from inside the house. codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "New?"

GROWTH! GROWTH! GROWTH! I chant, looking at my utility bills.

Lean mince is over a fiver for store brand, it was £3.80 18 months ago, I have not had a pay rise in that time 👍

The way Labour are polling, I'd not be so keen to keep vomiting out that argument mate. Looks just as likely it'll be you who needs to stand down to make way for the Greens. And, of course, you won't do that, will you? Because that has never been an honest argument.

Looking forward to reading the guardians sports pages later.

Well I never. How embarrassing for every public figure who's commented on this so far. I imagine they'll be eating a lot of humble pie in their statements and interviews tomorrow. Either that or it'll just never be mentioned again by anyone.

A little-mentioned aspect of the Trump shit video is he's wearing a crown. Clearly this is just a man-baby trolling, but if he wanted to confirm the suspicions of everyone lining up against him he couldn't have come up with a better way.

Has anyone considered that stealing the Mona Lisa might be the plot of this 1979 Tom Baker Dr Who story coming true? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...

The official line of the British government is that not wanting Black and Asian British people hurt by Israelis is antisemitism.

The fact I've never heard of this Tory before, after the laughable incompetence they've been showing for years, suggests they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is all they have left.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

When this goes very badly, and the police end up beating fuck out of Villa fans and Brummies while protecting Maccabi fans, will there be any introspection? No. It'll be a whole fanbase and city declared antisemitic.

The UK Football Policing Unit have issued a pretty damning statement about the Starmer government’s sudden efforts to insert itself into policing football matches

My issue with Corbyn now is related. If Labour offered him the whip back (they won't) he'd take it

As long as she, Burgon and Lewis remain in this toxic autocracy, their words are worthless

When a complicated, modern software system has a beating heart of a 40-year-old mainframe running millions of lines of COBOL, that's what you call a V'ger system architecture.

The fact that this is Tommy Robinson is neither here nor there. It seems like yet another instance of abuse of powers given to Police for "counter-terrorism". Was he credibly suspected of terrorist activities? Or were they just trawling for information? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Line of Booty

This is just plain wrong. Jaw-dropping.

Still not *quite* sure I see the difference between Militant (terrifying, insidious insurgents, few in number, who attempted to capture a major political party) and say, Labour Together, except that the Trotsykites were characteristically useless, and failed

You can argue that Militant didn’t believe in basic democracy (possibly true), but the party of organised labour being recaptured by corporate interests is no less dodgy as fuck, just because those doing it dress smartly and are allowed on the breakfast shows

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Subheading says "Communication must be freed from clickbait", someone didn't get the message

I mean encouraging the bombing of Venezuelans for having the temerity to go out to sea in a boat isn't as much of a blocker on winning the Nobel Peace Prize as bombing multiple countries simultaneously like Obama when he won it, but surely it's still a blocker isn't it?

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

It’s not as fancy, but I got the ceiling painted a lot quicker than Michaelangelo

Whoever books guests for #Newsnight needs their arse kicking

In what kind of country do political journalists withhold very consequential key facts that they all know about politicians, without having to be told they should keep them quiet, only occasionally alluding to things everyone has always known? A very transparent, democratic one, I’m sure.

It's the behind the scenes spats that worry me. All the same old Labour faces doing the same old Labour back room stitch ups. These people love the Labour party and they're trying to recreate one that they happen to be in charge of.

🎶No, rien de rien 🎶

Dawn of the Deadline

This is obviously the death of the rule of law, a key aspect of any democracy. It’s also the final death of the Tories as an ostensibly constitutional party and comfirmation of its move, like the MAGA Republicans, into the unconstitutional far right. 11/