A reminder that the UK is currently on its 6th Prime Minister in 10 years, testimony to how much the ill-conceived and unnecessary EU referendum and it's aftermath have permanently damaged British politics.

I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.

A reminder of when politicizing sports is okay

They bent over backwards to please this roaring crackpot. Hasn’t gone quite as planned.

They are not wrong. Quoted here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A Labour MP remarks: "Starmer will go down as the worst PM in Labour history ... He’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a moral gravity-well from which neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A genuine disaster for this country and the Labour movement.”

Lander for Congress.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

VC, founder, dumbass

The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

I never noticed this either.

Happy Sunday from The Boss. A week til he celebrates his 15 Year Anniversary in Downing St. He was meowing at me today, a rare but surefire sign that snacks must be provided as the before and after pics show.

STL artist Mary Engelbreit is not my cup of tea for art style, but she’s strongly anti-fascist and an activist so that’s awesome. You can order items on her website.

They have more just like him and that's what we'll be given.

Just beyond parody at this point

why is it normal that the president whine about random citizens being losers. how does this not just embarrass everyone. completely child-like behavior

May your Super Bowl be super

"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment

I will go to my grave saying Palin was the prototype.

This flying under the radar a bit with all the coverage of Morgan McUnemployed. Mandy not the only one being free and easy with state secrets. In return for what, one wonders? Andrew shared confidential information with Epstein as trade envoy, files suggest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why do I keep banging on about titles? Because these horrific situations arose because rich men abused their power & privilege. Our response? Remove the honours? No. Accountability doesn’t even stretch to taking their titles away, we pretend they don’t exist. What an absolute insult to victims.

mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Starmer is aggressively impervious to learning

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

When you wrote the note but forgot to kill him and have to try again tomorrow

A competent prime minister with any political nous whatsoever would’ve sacked McSweeney at the same moment Mandelson resigned from the party, which would’ve blunted both stories and got the whole thing over with much quicker. Instead both will now drag on for another week.

Now that McSweeney has resigned it is going to get even harder for Sensibles to avoid acknowledging that Starmer's Labour continuing to sign off on this kimd of self-defeating escalation of racisms comes from them & they do it cos they think it's shithot awesome politics

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

mcsweeney's gonna do a full exclusive interview with the times and make starmer look like an even bigger piece of shit, book it

Time for McSweeney to move to the phase of his career where he writes the same column monthly saying that the Govt’s woes are a consequence of them having failed to stay the course he charted for them.

Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.

The entire right wing relies on the British public not understanding: 1) Tax brackets 2) Inheritance tax 3) Inflation And it works. Every time.

It is getting very boring being told that "the youth love reform on tiktok" with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

You all may want to sign this one. Palantir and Thiel are terrible people.

Having an Olympian as a father-in-law is so fucking cool. Grenoble 1968, Luge

No cops at Pride includes Amanda from The Traitors S4.

day 2000-some (3000-some?) of everybody wondering why the fuck nobody has bothered to invoke that whole 25th amendment yet

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Oh boy.

no, they don’t. they also seem to think that mitch mcconnell ran the senate from 2009 to 2014 and could do whatever he wanted.

G11 in Glasgow had the perfect retort to Nigel Farage's divisive comments about Turkish barbershops... 😂

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

Damn i remember some big lawsuits of broadcasters over editing of events showing WH figures

I am HERE for my regular* Olympic national uniform watch at the flag parade, and it's the winter one so look out for superb coats. #WinterOlympics (*except for the ridiculous 2024 decision to put them on boats where TV cameras could barely see them. In the rain)

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