www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Good article, that labour has seemingly no solution for this kind of thing is highly depressing

www.instagram.com/pearbatterse... If you're into food, highly recommend checking out this new small plates restaurant that is about to launch in SW london

A total, total humiliation for the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Its a non-apology from Ratcliffe but it does show that if you use the bully pulpit of the Premiership, it gets noticed and you can start to control the agenda!

What I earn in a week as Highwayman in my mid 30's

How I make three shillings a DAY as a cotton mill labourer

The viral boiled mutton and cabbage stew

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Reading through this, and thinking, he actually has good political instincts?

At Downing Street there is a British Airways flight simulator parked up. Please write related metaphors into your scripts accordingly

quite funny that the entire Labour party has been spending months saying "let's wait for our Welsh and Scottish colleagues to be massacred before doing anything hasty" without really thinking through if anyone outside of England could hear them

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down; Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards Ministers saying it's the end game...

Ice cream taste so good when you don't have Jonathan Nunn in your ear telling you its orientalist.

The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it

'British Macron' - an utterly terrible idea that might finally be possible.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... how spot on was this analysis by @dmk1793.bsky.social from almost 3 years ago

He's leaving this week. Calling it now.

Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide. He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

Hard week so I'm getting a bag in, from toogoodtogo of course

Since the Burnham pills didn't work, I'm dropping some E (ed miliband)

Coming round to Nadine Dorries thought - she was so real for this

Hearing that Fianna Fáil has a new head of strategy

AI is useless

learning lessons from HS2. The government will cancel your project half way through, so add extra stupid bits on it. When they cancel the bangor-dublin leg we pretend to be angry but we still get HS3.

Do it do it do it www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/t...

Spanish PM Sanchez: "Social media has become a failed state, and when democracies start to impose order, their owners get nervous. We will move forward despite their threats."

Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.

Move parliament to Mecca Bingo Bolton. Iconic building, north south divide solved, even comes with seating

My fellow urbanist BF's will forgive Keith for everything if he announces that he's doing HS2 to Leeds in full.

Rebase council tax, create the blair era regional assemblies, join the Euro, announce a huge rail electrification project, announce 2.

Is the 2024 intake really so bad that there are no real leadership or even 'I'll stand for the leadership to raise my profile' candidates or is the management of the PLP so terrible that no-one wants to be the tall poppy for fear of consequences.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

There are (very few) exceptions, but my first thought when reading most substack emails is "this could have used an editor".

I do think the media environment nowadays is more or less so cooked that the only person who'd maybe manage a +1 net positive rating is KSI with Zoella as deputy PM but the huge unpopularity of Starmer is all of his own making.

Cheer up, only 3 years until the first reform government.

It's genuinely fascinating how despite Starmer's hatred of Boris Johnson, Boris is easily the PM he's most wound up resembling

Badenoch was... forensic

"Mystery over Jeffrey Epstein’s meeting with a Labour minister". Hmm wonder who this was? (Story from 2011, speculates that it was Lord Digby Jones) share.google/WJwh51FgPHyh...

EXCLUSIVE: Lord Peter Mandelson lobbied the US government on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein and Jes Staley in 2010 when he was business secretary, using their talking points in conversations with an American official about financial-crisis reforms www.ft.com/content/e50f...

Ohhh yeah

Bourne identity remake where the safety deposit box contains only the login credentials for his now dormant left twitter alt account.

if james bond was an urban young professional his gadgets would probably be a lost mary thats actually a gun, invisibilty birkenstocks and a jar of kimchi that irreversibly damages your gut microbiome .....

"Mystery over Jeffrey Epstein’s meeting with a Labour minister". Hmm wonder who this was? (Story from 2011, speculates that it was Lord Digby Jones) share.google/WJwh51FgPHyh...

The Browne review which set up the current system of tuition fees in the UK was commissioned by... Peter Mandelson