The Edge of Midnight (2020-)

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

Labour Together counterattacks at Arras; demonstrates unusual competence. It is, however, unexploitable.

In terms of the question "how normalised is antisemitism in the current environment?" an article implying that Nimoy replaced Horner with Rosenman because of a Jewish Cabal is basically a Five Alarm Fire

The Onion ass headline

Oh no, he's created a new crop of non-executive advisory posts! Reform and the Greens are going to be sorry now! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Just exercised by democratic rights, always a thrilling feeling. Made me miss Stoke Newington, where my polling place was in the estate and I could cast a ballot without even having to bother to get properly dressed.

NEWS! Nation's brightest minds to vote for local official in charge of potholes based on whether they promise to “Stop The Boats”

TFW a Roman Catholic realizes meeting THE POPE will be bad for his political future.

This is what is striking about Keir Starmer’s “whole society” approach: it really just is the parts of society he is intellectually comfortable talking about. Nothing on online hate, nothing really on hatred driven by religious differences in the UK.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Edward VIII had such an amazingly evil looking personal cypher. You can see this perfectly fitting on Postboxes and the helmets of the National Yeomanry after he gets restored on the throne in a universe where Operation Sealion succeeded.

Like, a lot less stuff. “Private jets” absolutely should be first on the list for demand destruction (and if I were advising anyone with a private jet I would be going “things are gonna get quite bad, ostentatiously do this voluntarily first”), but it’s not going to save v many people’s holidays.

This policy, the replies to this, Keir Starmer’s ‘the petrol retailers are being naughty’ statement, Ed Davey’s fuel duty tax cut, Kemi Badenoch’s fuel duty tax cut, John Swinney’s price controls…is there anyone in British politics who understands “the Iran war means we have less stuff”?

Climate change is too important to be left to the Greens!

The core understanding of freedom for many Americans is the freedom to act anti-socially. This transcends partisan boundaries. Freedom in America is sports gambling, leashless dogs, and blasting music on the subway. Imposing even the most minor pro-social constraint on behavior is intolerable.

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

Morgan McSweeney confirms that Mandelson and George Osborne were the two choices for ambassador to the US, suggesting that everyone in No10 must have been smoking crack.

One reason I couldn't be a journalist is I would just ask politicians how many African children need to suffer for them to win an election and when they equivocate I'd just start calling out numbers

Joel’s right and it’s part of how parochial the British political class has become that hardly anyone says this, and that hardly anyone points out that Labour’s ODA cuts have literally killed people.

I used to think thw German Greens transitioning Germany away from nuclear and renewables and back toward coal was the most anti-green Green Party policy I'd see in Europe, but subsidising fossil fuel usage during the best transition opportunity of our lifetimes gives it a run for its money

We have strayed so far from god’s light

(Trying to explain participatory democracy to an American) imagine a gun

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.

This photo.

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

Wow, it's almost like he's rebuking... somebody in particular. 😏

Please Bill, they're not the HOA. They're Rhodesians, much worse

'No Kings' is the answer to the question 'Is UCL the best university in London?'

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

there will be no jobs on an uninhabitable planet, sharon

I'll be honest - like any Star Trek series I would of course go in with an open mind and a lot of hope for great stories. For me, I feel like that era should conclude with SNW. Let's look forward, not backwards, and chart new territories. I want to explore the unknown :) #StarTrek

The British constitution is fundamentally based heavily in the implied threat of beheading.

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

Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband

'And we're delighted to have, as our guest, the former No.10 Director of Communications...'

Ed Milliband is doing good work and the Government hates to talk about it.

Someone just ran into the pub I was in and shouted "The war on the Soft Left is over!" and everyone started cheering and crying and making toasts to Ed Miliband and a state driven green energy transition. Never seen anything quite like it

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

well, champagne Sunday it is

In keeping with Keir Starmer Thought, this comes three days too late to be of any political value or appease anyone

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

"But if it's 1000 years from now, why do they talk like people today? Why are there disabled people, and fat people, and why do they still listen to our music, and—" Stop. It's not a documentary about the future. It's a sci-fi/fantasy show about the present. It always has been.

"take the weekend off"