Every briefing from No.10 has the same subtext: the people who make decisions here think they are incredibly smart but actually are not nearly as smart as they think they are

This evening’s news has me like:

Andrew Cuomo in the final weeks of the NYC mayoral campaign:

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

If the Prescott memo is true, and there is a secret cabal of LGBTQ+ journalists stopping any negative stories about trans people being published or aired at BBC News, then, I have to say, they’re doing a really fucking shit job of that.

One thing I noticed about the briefings last night was that No.10 (and Labour more generally) have clearly been overthinking why the Tories were so unpopular by the end of their time in office and have forgotten the fundamental reason: because they were rubbish at everything

Hey who remembers Operation Big Dog?

genuinely didn't know he could do that

God I really hope this story becomes a cautionary tale about how Robbie Gibb and his mates drastically overplayed their hand and were brought down by their own hubris

If not friend then why friend shaped?

“Somehow, James Bond returned”

can't think of a headline that better sums up the BBC at present www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Robbie Gibb issue is just one case where Labour has left in place people appointed by the Tories : Arif Ahmed at OfS, Kishwer and Reindorf at EHRC. Real self-sabotage.

It would be fitting if Robbie’s legacy ends up being ‘Gibbery’ entering the lexicon as a term for organisations engaging in actively self-destructive behaviour

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Quisling

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Lord Patten speaks a lot of sense here, but I’m always struck by how much his speaking style is eerily similar to Peter Mannion’s in the thick of it. People always say he’s based on Ken Clarke, but I think Roger Allam is basically doing a Chris Patten impression

Hang on, this Panorama episode that everyone is upset about is from October *2024*??

I’m reminded of that time a transphobic UN official included in a UN report a website that claimed to track all the sporting medals “stolen” by trans women. It included a hot dog eating competition won by a cis woman they misidentified. About a third of the rest was a trans woman good at frisbee.

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?

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

This. Tesla is a mid-sized car company with a valuation build on hype and lies, an ageing range of models, facing tough competition from multiple places and with a CEO a large proportion of potential customers actively hate.

The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.

it’s almost impressive how they’ve not just gutted the equality act, but actively perverted it so it does the opposite of what parliament intended

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men. This will be used to abuse.

*wet fart noise*

A goal from Pedro Neto and two assists from Garnacho. Total repudiation of @leftback.bsky.social and everything he stands for

Throwing the win away feels like a loss, but Arsenal needed the win more than us. I’d have taken the draw before kickoff. Unbeaten run continues

Oof that’s a let off, we really need to get that second goal

I know she got caught out by Foord a few minutes ago, but Lucy Bronze is such an obviously class player. Clearly got a great footballing brain on her. Like a female Maldini

Even if poor Americans are starving, they should at least take some comfort from the fact that the Supreme Court justices who are allowing them to starve have very impressive, academic credentials.

Oh hell yeah, that’s what I’m fucking talking about #TheFootball

Oh god please don’t be one of *those* days 😫

We're putting Bill Kristol in a key position in Woke HUAC, more and more are saying it

::movie trailer voice:: They said he was retired, but Bill Kristol has one more regime to change...

The annoying thing is you just know certain baby-brained politicos will see this, declare that support for bringing back capital punishment is overwhelming and that it would be smart politics for parties to support it

The faithfuls not noticing Alan Carr was obviously a traitor #CelebrityTraitors

Stop saying Alan played a blinder! He was the most obvious traitor ever! Fgs #CelebrityTraitors

Alan carr

The Alan Carr outsmarting all those Oxbridge fucks just by being gay and funny. This is my destiny.

Kinda want Alan to win now, to teach Nick and David a lesson #CelebrityTraitors

Joe's face when he saw Nick had voted for him. #CelebrityTraitors

Nick, you are a fool

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.