The only man getting rich out of this sickness.

Why? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

‘Burnham declined to describe the catastrophe on the ground in Gaza as a genocide…’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform constantly doing a bad Donald Trump act. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Middle England believes in nothing if not law and order. The far right’s strenuous attempts to incite lawless behaviour out of a family’s tragedy — against that family’s explicit wishes — will not play well with them.

The politics of Farage is like alcohol. No problem isn’t made worse by turning to it.

Broadcasters considering screening Farage’s press conference should keep in mind the wishes of Henry’s father. ‘We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.’

The razor-sharp political insight it must have taken to discern this.

If a state’s argument for bombing, starving, machine-gunning, imprisoning, torturing and raping its neighbours is that it’s concerned they might one day do that to them, hasn’t that state lost the argument? Hasn’t it become the monster it feared?

A lot of people hate Zack because he asks awkward questions. I’m all for it.

A question that now demands an answer. thattimwalker.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Good grief.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

Mail on Sunday now a laughing stock for putting on its front page what a conman told it to put on its front page.

Trump’s comments have zero credibility now and are — to the extent there is any method at all to their madness — simply about market manipulation and profiting out of death and misery.

"Hey, Nigel, how does this work for those on zero hours contracts? Nigel, Nigel, don't run away...."

‘After managing to lose the 2015 General Election to David Cameron and saying he would step down as leader to give Labour a chance to “rebuild”, Ed Miliband apparently now sees himself as the “comeback kid.”’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/86/m...

Political and royal correspondents would be made constructively redundant overnight if they were banned from using phrases such as ‘a senior minister told me’ or ‘a senior courtier told me’

What would take guts would be a fair and proportionate tax raid on the billionaire classes.

It’s turned out Nazi again.

The bad guys win in the Netanyahu/Trump war of choice.

Why?

‘This House, and the people of this country, deserve better than yet another Mandelson cover-up.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For one, brief, shining moment, it looked like economic literacy, security and sanity were all coming back into fashion.

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

A lot of issues need to be debated in the Labour leadership contest. Among them — Rejoining the EU; Fair taxation for billionaires, even if they happen to own media empires; Israeli donations to government ministers, in addition to others who seek to influence government policy with cash.

I’ve not exactly been extolling Streeting’s virtues on here, but his offer of rejoining the EU might well give him real traction. Starmer idiotically left himself vulnerable on this issue: it’s bloody obvious to everyone now why we are so badly under-achieving economically.

‘Husseini rejected descriptions of the protests as “hate marches,” stating: “It’s actually the complete inverse: it’s a protest against the most hateful acts possible: war and genocide.”’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Wishful thinking.

Fair comment.

‘There is in theory, the possibility of Starmer reinventing himself and sending Labour back up the opinion polls. That maybe feels like the least likely outcome of all.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I suppose the strongest argument in favour of Burnham is that — unlike anyone in Starmer’s immediate unctuous, compromised and failed circle — the PM made a determined attempt to block his rise to power. This suggests Burnham represents a useful change in direction.

The Reform messaging on this is that a £5m gift is the bare minimum a man of 62 requires — over and above his current £1m a year incomings, of course — to see out the rest of his life in comfort. I’m not sure how that will play with ordinary working Reform supporters.

This is not a great idea.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Willing to hear from a lot of people tonight about Labour’s ‘devastating’ election results, but not Ed Miliband.

It’s convenient to say the press were to blame. Embarrassing to admit Starmer brought this upon himself.

In other news… www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2...

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. One of the most important natural history broadcasters, environmental educators and climate voices of our time. 💚

In politics, who should win has never been the same as who will win.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

If Starmer gave a damn about the Labour Party and Labour’s traditional base, he’d resign today.

The Greens and @ZackPolanski are going to have to find a way to win over middle-aged Middle England ahead of the general election. Idealism is not in itself enough.

As Leo Amery implored Neville Chamberlain — and later David Davis shouted at Boris Johnson — all that remains to be said now to Starmer is IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO!

The question vast swathes of the country aren’t interested in asking themselves — is Farage going to be a fit and proper person to run the country? They also weren’t interested in asking themselves whether Brexit was going to be in the best interests of the country?

Tomorrow will I predict mark the beginning of the end of the old two-party political system and in future we’ll see a succession of chaotic coalition governments. Another of the unintended consequences of Brexit.