I've had 2 journalists today asking if Miliband as Chancellor would be a "Liz Truss moment" and find it difficult not to just respond "are you on crack?".

Well, that was rather sad

One of the most miserable columns I’ve ever read - and, shock, the writer professes to have never even read or engaged with the material she’s complaining about. It seems exhausting to be this bitter about something that innocently brings millions of people joy www.ft.com/content/8d7a...

This is excellent news. YouTube Kids is an absolute menace - mindless scrolling aside, why the hell are 4 year olds being served adverts?! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Very grim picture painted here. The UK can’t cope with extreme heatwaves, but it needs to start preparing to right now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last week, I revealed in The Sun that the government was investigating extra childcare fees for funded hours following complaints and would announce a wider review of the childcare sector this week: www.thesun.co.uk/money/391866... The government has confirmed this today: www.gov.uk/government/n...

time to get on with some work and stop posting my intrusive thoughts on the internet

Lobby journalists exist in such a Westminster lobby bubble it makes it impossible for them to actually serve their readers properly. They ask strange political gotcha questions instead of pushing the government on meaningful policy change and holding them to account over regional failures

I like Pippa but “do you think Britain is ungovernable?” Seriously? I am begging the lobby to leave London sometimes other than on a plane and get a sense of what’s actually going on out there, and then ask some meaningful questions that might warrant somewhat meaningful answers. Christ

It literally doesn’t matter what words you draft for someone who is naturally not a charismatic speaker. It all sounded inauthentic and that’s what voters take away. It doesn’t matter that he’s from a working class family - he’s not working class any more and it is evident he’s out of touch now

“The hope of European solidarity” lol

Not Keir saying university graduates are on a pedestal when most young people will pay his party £50k in student loan interest over the next 40 years while being unable to afford a house

“When you come from a working class background like me” ✅ Keir Starmer bingo card

God… you can tell he’s really trying to sound sympathetic and sad, but he just doesn’t sound genuine or authentic at all

The death of cheap and cheerful family chains feels like a microcosm of the general enshittification of life in the UK www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Voters without ID have just one day left to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate to use at the upcoming local elections in England. To vote at a polling station, voters must present an accepted form of photo ID. A Voter Authority Cert. is a free form of ID for those who lack any.

This is the most nothingy attempt to address this they could possibly have made. It will quite literally do nothing to improve the issue. 6% is still obscene and this doesn’t even touch on actual repayments. Why is there any interest on student loans at all? *screams* www.gov.uk/government/n...

oh that’s weird, our incessant “cost cutting” drive where we sacked all our journalists and now produce unreadable AI slop hasn’t worked…. Don’t worry though we’ll just cut costs further. What’s that sorry? Produce half-decent output that adds value? Nah www.ajbell.co.uk/news/article...

me, a serious journalist, standing in my kitchen in my dressing gown cutting myself slices of double Gloucester cheese at midday while Whatsapping economists

not me writing 50 articles about the upcoming self assessment filing deadline and then personally missing the self assessment filing deadline

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

ABC reporting a “period of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela” Venezuela hasn’t done anything. There is no rising tension, it’s just Trump.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

And this is why I do not listen to podcasts

Sorry but what on earth is going on - £35k a year to be the *senior editor* of a respected trade magazine, based three days a week in central London? And companies complain about a lack of strong candidates - you’ll only get juniors applying if you advertise junior-level salaries 🤯

I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.

Obviously Cherwell Valley Greggs has run out of everything, because we can’t have nice things

Driving in the UK is a joyless and thankless experience

Driving home from family Christmas and frankly I give up, the M40 has defeated me. Might spend the night crying in my car at Cherwell Valley services

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Merry Christmas 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

pretty sure I’ve never seen this once in 10 years living in London 🌈😵

“[Brexit] choked business investment, shattered economic resilience, strangled trade, shrunk the economy and left every single one of us poorer” 💯 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This budget could have been a pdf

What a shitshow obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

lost a grand on my investments this week, so I’ll be retracting everything I’ve ever said about getting involved in investing etc. this sucks

I am so over this bloody Budget and it’s still yonks away in lobby gossip years www.ft.com/content/6cbb...

"Supportive employment practices are vital, but so too is personal responsibility: frustration with work, still less ‘I hate my boss’ syndrome, are not health conditions" Bad bosses lead to health conditions! Shit bosses drain people's energy and kill their productivity www.gov.uk/government/p...

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