We’ve all picked the photo where we look good and someone else is blinking, who can blame the prime minister for doing it too

It’s interesting that (some) people are talking about the UK investing in our military in existential terms, but don’t seem interested in doing the same for restoring the foreign aid budget.

Quite a few people in the Cabinet have IMV disgraced themselves in a way that should make Andy Burnham go 'nope, sacking you' and Reeves is very high up that list. Present at the scene of the crime almost as frequently as Starmer himself!

The UK’s adversaries are using economic inequality and discontent to drive unrest, cutting welfare spending is harmful to our national security interests and if you can’t draw the connection then maybe you shouldn’t be a defence expert

Labour really demonstrating how they are the cruelest, most anti-asylum, government in decades. That isn't to say Conservatives weren't hideous, but Labour are significantly worse on every measure. This is a policy rooted purely in cruelty over anything else. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's somethign about private school VAT that makes Tories lose their minds. I've been accused of hating children for defending it. By people who backed the two-child limit! I guess that wasn't their kids.

My MSc dissertation was on North Ayrshire’s economic policies and could only conclude that, with very few exceptions, councils currently act essentially as vehicles of managed decline

I remember the summer of 2022 when everyone knew energy prices were about to sky rocket while Truss and Sunak had debates with no policies where they couldn’t tell us how but absolutely promised they had a plan to sort it

Does Kemi Badenoch actually understand how anything works, at all?

Considering 10 people could comfortably live here, it has an extra bonus cottage on the grounds and it has its own Wikipedia page, I’d say this is a bargain

One of the key factors in how much HS2 is costing, is our decision to keep reviewing, rescoping and recosting it every five minutes in response to costs.

Wow I don’t know what to make of this

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

How depressingly predictable. The First Minister should acknowledge how wrong he was to give someone like this one of the highest posts in Government.

I didn’t realise the Lib Dem’s believed so strongly in Scotland’s 0.07% chance

Cutting stuff like this to increase funding for traditional arms when a land invasion by Russia is exceedingly unlikely just plays into their hands.

None of her views were secret when John Swinney appointed her Deputy FM

Ghana beat Croatia 3-0, Algeria beat Austria 4-0, DRC don’t beat Uzbekistan, Scotland get through and my team stays in the sweepstake

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

The only goose I subscribe to

Jonathan Hinder made a snappily edited video about how Labour lost its way post 1980 by embracing identity politics. When faced with the most basic scrutiny of this position, Hinder immediately deploys identity politics as a defence

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

I see it

Centrists can never say why they don’t like their party’s left wing. Are we causing factional fights or not really part of the party. The real reason is our ideas are popular and we can win.

He begged the Tories to let him stand, then switched to Labour to get a peerage under Starmer, hardly committed to the cause

There’s a really chance that Andy Burnham is the first PM since Macmillan to not have any Doctor Who air during his premiership - even Liz Truss got an episode!

I always feel sorry for people in tenements in weather like this and today that is me. It’s so much worse inside than out

I don’t think this was the moment where it became inevitable that Starmer would flame out after two years, but I do think it was the clearest illustration that he was terminally prone to panic and unable to grasp “the mayor is doing a difficult thing years before his re-election is due”.

Campaigning to retain fossil fuels is also not helping members; they will lose their jobs if unions don’t push for a just transition, something I reckon Miliband is probably quite sympathetic too

I've always been a big fan of VAR me

I’m a big fan of the Starmer minister desperately trying to keep their jobs, the project is collapsing and it’s so satisfying

I keep seeing people posting their car’s temperature, what are you doing driving in weather like this? There’s no way I’m stepping in mine for at least a week

Utterly ridiculous, everyone knows the second city of the UK has been Glasgow for the past 200 years

easy to forget that this government was elected on a manifesto commitment to (limited, well short of self-ID) pro-trans GRA reform. the way it has acted is completely out of line with its mandate.

Kez Dugdale’s Labour has the policy of a Senate in Glasgow and honestly it was a good shout

obviously, the actual nature of the jobs will be different, but according to the ONS in the UK in 2023 there were less than 200,000 people employed in the oil and gas sector, compared to over 700,000 in the green energy sector

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

Nadia, without a single exaggeration: you should run.

The facade of Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls has finally started emerging from behind the scaffolding after nearly 20 years. Follower Robert Leckie shared this cracking image, taken from the ScotRail bothy across the street. 📷 Robert Leckie #Glasgow

I would have put money on it being Anneliese Dodds, kinda surprised no one is talking about her

Bad for economic growth, bad for the environment, terrible for public health but popular with the right wing media, in case you’re wondering where Streeting gets his support

10 year anniversary is the perfect time for me to bring out all my hottest takes (most left wing platforms wouldn’t be possible while members of the EU)

Goodbye and good riddance to the most anti LGBTQ PM of my lifetime. Lives were ruined for absolutely no benefit, and now an entire marginalised group is going to suffer a generation desperately trying to claw back their hard won rights thanks so him.

Let's remember one thing before Starmer goes: this is the man who thought it would be a good idea to risk thousands upon thousands of deaths in poor countries by cutting aid to own the libs. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, mate. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...

Rachel Reeves’ positioning in this photo is just so funny to me. Honestly far and away the stupidest subplot of the last few months has been her attempting to detach herself from Keir.

Ending the two child cap pivoting from being something you suspend the whip for to something you claim as a major part of your legacy. Being very proud of taking two years to pass Michael Gove's rental bill only to still have nothing to do about leaseholds.

It’s very clear that everyone who’s ever spent time with Wes Streeting clearly cannot stand him and he doesn’t have the numbers to run (because of the higher threshold he pushed for to block the left)