yeah but other than that www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🚨 BREAKING: The due diligence provided to Keir Starmer before Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US Ambassador warned it would be a "general reputational risk"

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms "I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

I'm sorry but do you even know what Methodism is

While Labour continues its anti-trans agenda by denying medical assistance to trans young people, it will never be enough for certain "gender critical" ideologues. They won't be satisfied until no trans individuals can transition at all. archive.today/2026.03.09-0...

'Starmerism' is being unbothered by such trivial concerns as 'is that even true, though?' or even follow-up questions like 'is this lie even a useful one for us to tell?'

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

"There is an alternative way forward: being True – not Blue – Labour. True Labour doesn’t fear those who are different. Instead, it demands everyone contribute their abilities to society – and works to unlock such skills." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tony Vaughan has a settlement rebellion in backbench signatures, double the welfare one. Neil Duncan-Jordan is another leading public advocate. Mahmood says 'transitional arrangements' are a consultation issue, where 200k responses were received, so decisions are "later this year" + "in due course"

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

Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist

At this point, Blue Labour are going to destroy the party. They’d probably be fine with destroying it just to own the woke left. You’d think that a by-election defeat would cause the govt to rethink its strategy but they’re just going full-steam ahead on the Blue Labour nonsense.

Exceptional meme template though: ❌ SOUTHCOM says they are the new hotness with lame junk about a Donroe Doctrine and Hemisphere and Homeland. LIE. ✅ CENTCOM has always been and will always be the True Warrior CCMD, and the fav son of both POTUS and CJCS.

JUST IN: Josh Simons quits government. Starmer: "to avoid any ongoing distraction from delivering the Government’s mission, you have taken the difficult decision to step aside." Laurie Magnus probe found no breach of the ministerial code. Story to follow

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency. His Dad is a banker Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

I think essentially, even now enough of Labour’s lost voters say they are open to a return. Do I think a fresh leader who disavows the blunders and goes “we need to seize our European destiny” can repair enough of the damage for Labour to survive as bloc leader? Yeah, absolutely.

controversial starmer letter to labour mps revealed

I am once again saying that they need to go now not May

Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny.

He's just an intellectually lazy person lashing out because everything's going wrong and deep, deep down he's knows its all his fault

"We can't respond to this defeat by retreating to *your* comfort zone, we need to stay here in *my* comfort zone"

I realise it's 10.27am and he might be gone by tea time but this position where Starmer doesn't face any challenge because everyone in his cabinet thinks being Prime Minister would be too difficult has got to end

UK party leaders ranked by Most to Least Online: Most Polanski - Name searcher, 3am poster Badenoch - one of the few posters banned from more forums than she's read. Farage - New entrant, didn't like Twitter until it got racist. Davey - Watches instagram reels for new campaign ideas. Starmer

hate this in general but also what is Labour doing to reopen women's shelters? what is Labour doing to make sure conviction rates for rapes start going up again? what is Labour doing to make sure women feel they can trust the police? what is Labour doing to stop sexual harassers?

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

There is a reason why other countries are going a different direction to us on this

donald trump informs the nation that he "wants to be a good boy"

'we can actually do much worse tariffs that will be much more harmful' very good sir!

The UK has suddenly pulled funding for two international physics projects: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and construction of a new particle accelerator in the US. UK will no longer be seen as a reliable partner in fundamental physics. 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

“Performance review by osmosis”!

Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures www.ft.com/content/ad52...

This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons. Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

I retract my previous statement that Labour Together were scammed out of £36k for a report that said: 'You have a leak'. They were actually scammed out of £36k for a report that fabricated a series of damaging claims about journalists, in order to justify itself. www.thetimes.com/article/e5ef...

"I can tell you one thing, a kangaroo from the inside doesn't smell very nice" - Christopher Mies, with a quote that I was categorically not expecting to hear today when I woke up

I'd missed that the government last week ordered the deletion of the site Courtsdesk. It's hard to describe how impossible it is for journalists to find court listings in UK. There's countless hearings I'd send a reporter to... if I knew they were happening. www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/mini...

I don’t ever want to hear a single word from a Labour MP (who hasn’t spoken out against this issue) about Brianna Ghey again. Trans children deserve dignity and equality in life, not just death. If you wouldn’t accord them the former don’t try and engage on the latter

This is so infuriating I really don’t have the words. Morally indefensible. I actually think this is even more poisonous than section 28. S28 was deeply insidious, but this is quite literally state sanctioned discrimination and harassment. It’s making the lives of trans children unliveable

This is an extraordinary interview in which the former FCDO perm sec basically tells No 10 not to appoint Antonia Romeo to be cab sec, and that they should talk to him about her record.

I'm always hesitant to post this take because it pleases no one, but my Eastern European side can't help but interpret Starmer as 'what if Brezhnev had focus groups'

NEW Three reasons why the Mandelson disclosure exercise will be a shock for the government Ministers and officials usually are in control of disclosure exercises - but here they will not be - and why that matters A detailed post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/three-reas...

in some ways, jfk's entire notion of the Best and Brightest contains within it the seeds that would allow Trumpism to bloom but it is hard not to feel a certain kind of sadness and wistfulness. the country lost its mind watching a man die and, 60 years later, we have nothing to show for it.

Keir Starmer is the most unpopular British prime minister since records began: the sick man who cannot afford to catch a cold. That's why the Mandelson scandal has been so destabilising www.economist.com/britain/2026...

shoutout to mandelson for somehow having a government-ending epstein scandal where the fact that epstein was a pedophile child trafficker isnt even at the heart of the issue

In a competitive field, “hiring Chris Wormald and then being surprised that he is a civil service mandarin of the old school” is the most embarrassing thing Keir Starmer has done.

Ah we're at the "cabinet ministers tweeting the same message of support" stage of the endgame.

arguably the biggest news of the week that Lisa Nandy is currently doing something related to her brief

LFG

Every comment from one of his defenders reads like either the set-up or punchline for one of those old political jokes from the Soviet Union

It really embodies the very specific ways that some people in politics are a) bad at their jobs and b) too online that you can be supportive of 'the Labour government 2024 to 2026, and McSweeney's role in it' and use these words *at all*, not least in many ways: that's what they're doing!