I got a scam calling as I was debating whether it would be committing to the bit too much to go see Jane McDonald live in HMV, he’s trying to insist he’s from EE but I tell him what I’m thinking and ask his opinion, he says “in my opinion” and then hangs up, rude if you ask me

Challenge for those who are very confident that my secondary school maths calculator isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

It may be cold but it’s so sunny I can only conclude that spring is still on, winter is dead

Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything

I don’t fully understand LLMs but they’re just single user ouija boards, right?

Some of the responses to this are quite odd. Yes, the word choice isn’t great but it comes from an interview where she talks about politicians don’t always manage to use the right words. Yes, the Labour Party is The Problem, but Thornberry says that! Thornberry has been a fairly consistent ally

This was already being briefed out by Labour MPs re EHRC guidance in October. I’m sure this MP is not feeling any more relaxed now. We need to keep this pressure up. The fact, is heaps of Labour MPs come back to Parliament with their local councils a sea of Green, it’s only going to help us.

AND INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE WAR QUEER

I can't take credit for these words, by the way. They were first uttered by the sitting Home Secretary.

What happened to thunder and lightning? I swear it was always happening as a kid and I think the last time I saw lightning was during Covid

The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.

Lib Dem campaign for fossil fuels

Slightly ironic that Labour would end up being the kingmakers in this parliament

The result of Iranian actions, yes, actions in reaction to a war launched against them by the US and Israel. I hate the Iranian regime as much as the next guy, but skyrocketing energy prices was an obvious and inevitable consequence of the United States' actions in starting this war.

Remember when your energy bills spike because of a foreign war, it’s because Ed Davey introduced a law in 2013 to ensure green energy could never be sold for less than fossil fuels

Everything about Badenoch can be understood through the fact she sees the world through the lens of her “ethnic enemies”: a totalising worldview that will always, always, make the people who hold it say and do stupid things.

It would be great if Britain didn't operate an electricity price mechanism which leaves our energy bills dependent on the price of gas. Even as gas is being replaced by renewables, it still dominates the price we pay for electricity.

It’s IMO one of the most remarkable marketing achievements the way that the UAE successfully marketed itself to “economically successful enough to be an attractive proposition to UAE, intellectually incurious enough not to have noticed that his dog *is* in the middle of a warzone” people.

It's telling that the three dead in the UAE thus far are all from South Asia

Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK. Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

And the primary school that was destroyed in a “precision strike” on a nearby military base? Or it only British soldiers we should care about?

British people moving back from Dubai should be taxed at 100% until we’ve made up the difference

Weird that Reform is OK with Irish citizens voting but not commonwealth ones. Wonder what the difference could be?

Looks as if “Free Palestine” has just been bleeped at the Brit Awards.

Classic stuff

I genuinely think introducing the right to politics in Northern Ireland, or even Glasgow, could give them an aneurism

one 28-year-old deputy comms staffer now responsible for dozens of officials worldwide—across governments, major companies, international organizations—being removed from their positions due to their connections with jeffrey epstein

Several canvassers say the *settlement* reforms (make over a million voters wait 10-15 years for settlement, not 5, is a top of mind concern for those affected & friends, family A basic fallacy in Home Office citing more in common polling on asylum reform - a different issue - and net migration

Reading all this unhinged ranting about sectarian politics in Glasgow like

No lessons learned. Every day Starmer stays in office will make it harder for Labour to begin to recover the left of centre voters without whom it can't win and will struggle to survive, and I struggle to see any reason to wait around for an electoral bloodbath in May to confirm that.

I find it hard to believe Starmer would be talking about a Reform win in this way. He'd say they were divisive but he'd also say something about why people find that division appealing right now, and the need for Labour to appeal to those concerns.

Sectarian. The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word. Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy

It’s also interesting to me that Hannah Spencer is the white working class that the right idolise, she didn’t go to uni and learnt a trade. Of course they won’t like Spencer because “white working class” has always meant “i don’t like ethnic minorities”

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

The message from Gorton and Denton is clear: Labour needs a fundamental reset.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Matt "Good win"? More like Matt Cunt

I have to say, I am genuinely so happy. And most of all not for me. My daughter will turn 3 months on Sunday. She is my whole world. Raluca is an immigrant. According to Matt, this makes my daughter potentially not British. To be notionally represented by that man I would consider a genuine outrage

The Party Chair was boasting she was “proud” of their campaign, that it stood for “unity over division”, the whole leadership of the party needs cleared out to have a hope of winning again

Of course Labour had a result EXACTLY LIKE THIS in Caerphilly nearly six months ago but because Wales doesn't exist that prompted absolutely no soul searching and in fact they doubled down on McSweeney-ism.

It's amazing how British political journalism must live in a permanent state of Blue balls with their MASSIVE REFORM BYELECTION BREAKTHROUGH BRITAINS REJECT ISLAM articles all ready to go and no reason to publish them.

the people of manchester have spoken: britain demands trans rights and drug liberalisation

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

After the US National Security Strategy it’s difficult to see X as anything other than a weapon to be used against European democracies, and boy is it working its magic in that regard tonight

Would also add to this, as I just had a brief convo with a pal about it, that "Electoral Commission Accredited" is not actually anything other than "the EC allow anybody to apply to be an election observer, you could do it if you asked them", so senior journos using that term should... behave?

Going to say this now: it's really important journalists reporting on this election are clear that allegations that the election isn't free and fair are completely false.

I strongly encourage any and all believers in "Sectarian voting never existed in Britain until those Muslims came over" visit a few villages in Lanarkshire

I’m calling it, it’s spring

Call me old fashioned but I’d prefer if our human rights lawyer PM wasn’t posing for photos with far right leaders with a penchant for ethnic cleansing