"It would open up every hour with Father Time on a bicycle and mythical characters such as goblins coming out of the top, playing Bill Haley's famous song Rock Around the Clock on musical instruments"

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every suggestion about who this might be is pure projection about the labour MPs who are the most dislikable, but that shouldn’t stop us from speculating and having fun, everyone! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and is this 'growth in UK living standards' in the room with us now?

a sad decline for Rachel, who I guess must also now be in favour of free heroin for toddlers and allowing Muslim people to vote :/

great news and makes me think about shopping centres as heritage. Who wants to bet on the next to be listed, because the Trafford Centre is only 2 years away from elligibility....

Companies after Pride Month is over

The Catholic canon judicial system is very active, particularly around marriage annulment.

I have returned from a week away and the hornbeams in my street are suddenly in bud, so definitely Spring imo. The equinox can make its claim, but not this year

Starmer usually a less brazen liar, though an experienced one. Attempting to go nuclear because it’s all they have left. I hope he ends his days in complete ignominy

at a bare minimum we should expect the Wales' children to form a close harmony/dance troupe, sent out to tour the seaside theatres of Britain in a punishing summer PR schedule

I believe it's when someone entirely indulged in their freewheeling corruption suddenly finds that their face no longer fits www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

‘Marauding Greens’ is the new ‘Momentum Thugs’ I simply love it

AKA the slightest whisper of a chance of improving society somewhat (with a very rainbow coalition and the political will to end FPTP)

the dumbass zombies of British retail and private equity really dumbass-zombied this up huh

of course Labour fascism lacks style, elan, attention to detail

Remember when Sir Keir Starmer said this to get elected? He doesn't.

Bridges across the Tyne, photo by Sally Ann Norman.

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

you just love, love, love to see it. Let them descend further into ignominy and beyond.

plenty of racists licking their wounds today, and not just Reform

Good Evening, "Sir Keir Starmer KC" was a 6 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

@lucympowell.bsky.social do you need picking up in the morning pal?

Real things are real, in news that will genuinely shock the Labour Party

Pasokification, but for the far right. Goodwinication. Put his face on the PolSci course unit handouts

There's actually a serious point in this, which is that the Greens have yet to be electorally successful enough to attract the hordes of Oxbridge/Russell Group PP&E grads. Which means they at least have a chance of selecting candidates that feel more authentic on the doorstep.

its actually very simple

hope Lucy Powell in particular is having a shit morning

unforced in a strategic sense but encouraged by the personally-held racism of many key figures

it was actually a secret third thing - Starmeroid journalist doing a terrible job

good news, but 399 tequila shots on one night would kill many people so spare a thought for them

they can never take the L, believing they’re right via the brute exercise of power is all they have

Correct! Important to remember this.

and that’s why Liverpool has the world’s second oldest underground railway, baby!

apropos of not much, remember when Mandelson okayed the sale of Cadbury? That was the start of various slippery slopes weren’t it

been flying this morning. Some good Alps!

Please, nobody tell the capitalists that physical media is both needed and increasingly chic, because we can currently get CDs for well under £5 and in the 90s when they had us over a barrel, they were 15 quid which by my reckoning was about 30 quid in 2026 money

fun to get these occasional photographs of Bridget Phillipson where the wind has lifted her helmet bob in such a way that she more closely resembles a venomous Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park

slimy, bigoted shitehawk

mandelson was arrested this morning but it was only reported after this visit

*eventually **with a favourable wind ***if the power brokers at a given point in time permit it ****if there's a leak of incriminating information from a foreign source that nobody in the establishment has the power to stop or influence/blackmail it away

The average employee receives many memos and letters a day – and spends at least half their time replying. Now this much maligned form of communication is becoming a test bed for the productivity-boosting power of email. Will it liberate us from the tyranny of memos and letters?

meh, I don’t think it’s a strategy really, I think it’s all their tiny minds and shrunken souls can come up with. Sympathetic journalists trying to give the labour party advice should try to better understand that this is simply who they are, and they think they’re shit hot

announcing that you’re working with ‘big tech’ upfront just shows how management-brained these weirdos are, as though anybody prefixing any industry with ‘big’ has ever meant it in a complimentary or even neutral way

Does anybody know what’s happening with satellite dishes on domestic properties? Are Sky even installing new ones anymore, with the streaming options they have?

Because of the sweetest word in the English language bayyybeee: Consultants.

a theory. Having no written constution has obviated much of the consistency that Britain lacks (and, in pockets of geekery, craves) in matters of geography. Everyone is liberated to create their own mental maps like landed elites thinking in Saxon counties and technocrats in population clusters

just saw a spaniel riding a backpack behind his cycling owner with a look of such nobility, wind in his beautiful flappy ears, that he easily outclassed every member of the aristocracy

other than never having to use Outlook, Teams and Authenticator, my favourite thing about leaving salaried employment is dodging online training that always felt so viscerally like a waste of time

it’s implausible that Sadiq Khan isn’t completely aware of the reputation of and allegations against this scumbag. Why would he share a stage with him?