“This is a People Vs The Establishment Election” says millionaire and career politician.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

OMG 😱 did you hear how bad socialism is? It’s so bad that it feeds the poor, takes care of the sick, makes our streets safer, life less stressful +more affordable and costs the majority little and the Uber wealthy only their fair share in taxes that they have gotten away with not paying for decades!

Right ok I’m out you broke me Donald you broke me

Every religion has a food rule that sounds like somebody got diarrhea once and made it everyone’s problem.

Just listen to this. This is the "good ol days" culture Farage & Tommy have fought so hard to get back to - 🧵 1/3

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

I was in South Africa. Looked everywhere for white genocide. Went from the Cape to Hodespruit to Johannesburg. Shockingly, I couldn't find any evidence. In fact, compared to Black Africans, the white South Africans are doing very well. Who would've thought? It's as if racists have been...lying!

Also don't forget that Starmer was PM longer than Ncuti Gatwah.

All these people mad that Socialists are winning are ignoring that adhering to Centrism is what got us where we are People want change and they're sick of watching Congresspeople turn into millionaires while they struggle to care for their families

Which of us is really the villain here, sir? You, refusing to help a stranger in need, or me sipping from the straw in your iced latte? I guess now that I’ve been asked to leave this train we will never know.

Arteta will be loving this

LOADS OF PEOPLE DIED IN YOUR PRECIOUS SUMMER OF 1976 YOU DIDN'T JUST "get on with it" AT ALL, YOU NEVER STFU ABOUT IT FOR STARTERS.

Top tip for the day: if you wear scleral contact lenses, try not to fall asleep in them on the hottest night of the year. Prising spot-welded RPG moulds from your eyeballs isn’t a fun way to start any day.

It’s time for the British people to accept that all their attempts at self-government in the past 1600 years have failed, and resubmit to Roman rule

Cometh the hour

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

My 14yo daughter is doing her work experience in an MP’s office this week of all weeks. She’ll working in place I’ve wanted to work in since I was her age and during what could be a pivotal week in British politics. Not jealous. Not at all.

Hugs to those who find Father's Day a struggle. Whether you don't get on, he's no longer here, you can't be with him or whatever your story, I'm sending love xxx

Emma Hayes: "this is a victory for immigration" (because the team are all disaspora). I thought I couldn't like her any more.

What would Mumsnet know about social media radicalisation?

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'

'The government shouldn't come off X because that's where a lot of people get their information' - David Lammy

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Race riots on British streets, incited by a man currently in Moscow and amplified by a South African paedophile. But your engagement.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

The brands in June

When did Sting become Joss Ackland in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey?

While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...

I see Tony Blair has landed again to tell us his visions for the future.

Happy 85th Birthday, Mister Bob! Thanks for all the music & all the inspiration.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

did that political ideology test and it just said “correct”

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?

This is an incredibly weird and in a way quite polite leadership coup isn’t it? “Look, if you don’t mind letting us know that you’d like to resign and telling us when that would be lovely please.”

Oh God please let his grandad keep turning up with sacks of cash at inopportune moments and we've got a hit show.

Andy Burnham as 2026’s Patrick Gordon Walker would be very funny.

Because I love Nigel Farage and want him to be prime minister. Or, because I didn’t have anything to add other than retweeting my colleagues’ reporting on the issue. One or the other. Who can say, really?

I am so sorry, ma’am, but we lost your son. Surgery was going fine but we decided to let RFK Jr. futz around a little on his insides with a robot. He was eating squash at the time.

Roy Jenkins: “I vacillated about going against Harold Wilson as a cautionary tale.” Wes Streeting: “At last, we will recreate the legendary Roy Jenkins leadership tilt from the iconic book ‘For the love of god do not recreate the first Wilson government’”

God save us from Wes Streeting. Same ideas, different clothes.

The Labour leadership contest should be a big, meaningful debate about ideas, not a madcap knife fight followed by a coronation inews.co.uk/opinion/wes-...

Christ allfuckinmighty ... what the hell's going on with Sunderland... jeezus 😱😖🤬

Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

Happy Pynchon in Public Day to all who celebrate. As my eyes are too bad to read at the moment, I’ve got the audiobook of Vineland up at an annoyingly loud level on my headphones.

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was: 1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee 2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was