Apropos of nothing but I think all major parties should commit to leadership elections that happen while they're in government being restricted to MPs only, not a vote of the party membership.

Voters *already* think Labour have broken their tax promises

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I'm genuinely astonished that at some point David didn't vote for Claudia

Every time you think they've got it they just keep running face first into a wall #celebritytraitors

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a GIF.

The Economist is such a double edged sword as a subscription. Lots of brilliant journalists that are always worth reading but then really dumb trolling like this

Just a sign of how badly the faithfuls have done that the traitors can just routinely have open conversations with each other

Reported the account that first shared this video and if any of you still have Twitter accounts i encourage you to do so too

But the seven highest value items are just a distraction from their real objective: the innocuous scroll that reveals the location of the holy grail when viewed in the right light

When the cat stops chasing the laser pointer and looks directly at you

Shocked, SHOCKED that this person is doing this thing again

That "people exist who can explode you with a thought" is not a good analogy for the civil rights movement

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"Young men in London"

Back in May, @adamdrummond.bsky.social and I talked about how there was a centre-right critique of the government’s economic policies *right there* waiting to be made - but the Tories seemed to have no interest in making it youtu.be/A5XiXIwhzCU?...

It falls apart in its last episode (spoilers I guess) but this was thoroughly enjoyable trash

What's the record for the highest proportion of cast members in a TV show not doing their real accents? Because Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue has, shall we say, a selection

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I feel like "astronaut" is doing more of the heavy lift in this person's work/life balance than "millennial"

As someone who has spent their career working with public opinion I can confirm that the British public are, in fact, completely unreasonable

This is as good as Ben always is (i.e. Very)

A repeated feedback we get on the podcast is ‘wow, you guys have actually read the plans/document/whatever’ and we’re like, sure, a bit, between having day jobs and freelance careers, but honestly it’s more of a testament to the fact that most political journalists seem to read nothing ever.

According to my exclusive new MRP poll, the number of general elections in the next three years is zero

This is a broadly good thing but a personal bugbear of mine is how everything is framed as "to take on Reform". There are other reasons to do good things! news.sky.com/story/pm-to-...

When your cat spots the laser pointer

Yea speaking as person who does polling: the Lib Dems should absolutely ignore this. Hard to think of a question with more social desirability bias than "should the leader spend more or less time bungee jumping"

Adding James to the "people who have also read Neil Postman recently" list. Magnificent and deeply troubling piece.

Cillian Murphy plays a guy who keeps getting mistaken for JD Vance but is too stubborn to change his look

I'm a history and international relations graduate and I think not enough young people study history or international relations

This shouldn't annoy me as much as it does but a) although he has a private plane, the plane he's arriving on isn't private b) maybe I'm overestimating it but I feel like people probably know what Air Force One looks like (they've seen films) and know it doesn't look like that

Reaction to Rayner on Gogglebox is interesting

I love this chart, just the needless drive-by on It Ends With Us. It's very "chart showing the comet destroying Springfield, specifically Moe's bar"

On some issues yes. On others Labour voters are closer, public opinion is complex and there are plenty of issues where both are way off from the median voter.

Kind of disappointed not to be in any of the "look how many cyclists there are" pictures in stories about the strike given that they all seem to be taken on my commute route

Mandelson gets sacked and an hour later there's a thunderstorm over Downing Street...

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion. Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

I can't resist a good "actually they're more like guidelines"

Look, I know lots of people are dunking on this headline but you have to understand that it's because it's a really silly headline

20 minutes into Thursday Murder Club and I'm 100% on David Tennant's side

Always important when preparing slides to think about whether they're meant to be read or presented, and in what kind of room you'll be in when you show them

Three tricks I've learnt: 1. "See if you can survive on the free food" is a young man's game. Unless you can't afford it, take periodic breaks and go out into the actual city to get food from where normal people get it.

Strong agree, I actually like the Lord Cameron /Douglas Home precedent of treating it as a retirement gig for former PMs

Every single time I go to look at Twitter there's about 20 notifications and it's mostly Tommy Robinson. I don't follow him, I don't follow any of his admirers, and yet that's who it wants me to see. Astonishing that the UK government's position on this platform remains "it's fine"

Monbiot is right to point out how “the centre” has been redefined. This isn’t just political drift, it’s what happens when discourse is shaped by systems that reward outrage and performance over verification.

I think there's a direct link between how unpalatable something is and how much attention is paid to how popular it is even if it is objectively quite unpopular.

My version of this: every time I see the Britannia International I think that even asylum seekers who have escaped war torn countries probably think it's a bit shabby

Sunder is again performing an important public service in providing an evidence-based record of attendance at protests and counter protests across the country.