Joe won an actual award for this so now you have to read it, I don't make the rules.

Andy Burnham effectively launching a leadership campaign against Keir Starmer in the Daily Telegraph shows very clearly he is entirely unfit to do the job. Abysmal political judgement. And as for the cut and paste populist policies, good luck with those in the real world, Andy. Grow the fuck up.

ohooooo @discopogo.bsky.social have lowered the paywall temporarily so you can read my ***AWARD-WINNING*** article about Sade's relationship to the dancefloor and deep cultural flows.... go go go

I hope it's Mads Mikkelsen, with a cheeky grin.

The perennial myth about migrants eating swans stretches back to at least 2003 when the Sun printed it as a front page story. It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence. Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

RIP Danny Thompson. I don't go much for ranking lists but if you said "Best Bass Player Ever" his is absolutely one of the first names that'd spring to mind. What a fucking dude. Also: any excuse to post this clip.

As a book cover designer I agree.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

I still can't quite believe that the very first attacks from Labour on Farage's bonkers idea to kick millions of people with INDEFINITE right to remain out of the UK were to argue that it's infeasible and wouldn't save anything like the amount he claimed. How about: - It's WRONG - It's IMMORAL ?

Ex-Gurkha Dhan Gurung on hunger strike in London, trying to get a fair pension after risking his life fighting for this country. The policy on removing Indefinite Leave to Remain which Farage has just announced would result in veteran Gurkhas all being deported. Reform is an appalling party.

The simple fact is that if you want to stop Reform deporting your family, friends and neighbours, while sending Afghan women into slavery, selling off the NHS and dismantling democracy, in most constituencies you will need to vote Labour.

The Conservative Party chair is saying the 60,000 people in hotels would have been deported to Rwanda. The capacity of the scheme was 300 in year one

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Still sounds fresh!

The bit where you give people a reason to reelect you? They just seem to have skipped it.

It’s been driving me mad for some time. I literally do not understand why Labour went into full election mode on day one after a landslide (yes, McSweeney’s influence etc, but it’s still deranged.)

Labour walk past an open undefended goal again. Instead of attacking Farage's Trumpian craziness on the grounds of morality and sanity, all they can think of doing is claim he's got his sums wrong and can't make something work that should NEVER even have been considered in the first place.

Could Labour just give Sunder a job on the comms team please?

Complain! Ask for a reply. The BBC are obliged to supply one!

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The answer is, as always, 💰

As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed). migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

There needs to be a big pushback against what's essentially propaganda masquerading as news. Also, Labour should say they're going to give citizenship to everyone with Settled Status. Use that majority!

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💯. Progressives have to stop franchising out their consciences to the courts. Politics is about moral choices. The problem with Reform's proposal isn't that "the courts won't allow it". It's that it's grotesque and inhuman. If we're democrats, we must believe that this argument can be won.

People need to wake up to these dangerous clowns.

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

It helps to understand modern politics if you understand that parts of the new right are as dedicated to overthrowing modern democratic societies as much as the communist left of old. They believe society has become corrupted. What is different is their media and business support.

"We all like Starmer - I'm not sure he's being advised to the best extent." Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, would like to see Keir Starmer cut ties with his Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

Streeting has got £100k+ from healthcare companies. He says he will hold the door open for them to the NHS. Good pay for a doorman. He is handing out contracts worth millions to these companies. How can this not be a conflict of interest? #nhs #savethenhs

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Hmmm.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

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This should basically be the anti-Reform attack line now - from Labour, LDs, Greens, Plaid, SNP, whoever. If you vote Reform, you're basically voting for the people who fucked everything in the first place. Don't be such a mug.

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Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Could someone please ask Elon Musk to stop calling in to fascist gatherings in Europe and suggesting they be more violent?

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13