Let's not lose sight of who the real victim is here - the wounded, bewildered, bleeding heart www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

wot speling eh

The stunted, shrivelled heart of the government's vision: "up to" (in standard English, less than) a thousand million before the next election (i.e. over three years) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not only are Serco nearly as humane as Robert Jenrick, they are also nearly as efficient www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...

"And now that his days are numbered and the Labour right have suffered an historic embarrassment, he remains the tool of others, a meat shield whose sole purpose is to take the electoral beating coming the government's way."

Britain's liberation from the Strasbrussels yoke continues to throw up all manner of surprises thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/it-s...

You’re polling under 20%, lads

This is from Bloomberg/Alex Wickham's 'read out' of Starmer's weak position: The whole point of the Starmer "project" was to do stuff like cutting disabled people's benefits, without putting it in the manifesto: cuts + lying was the plan , now its crashed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"If McSweeney has a genuine talent, it's as a con man."

Morgan McSweeney resigns as prime minister; appointment as Ambassador to USA expected by Tuesday

We are all aware by now that nobody who worked closely with Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring had the slightest idea that anything might possibly be amiss about him thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/even...

Mamdani causes non-melting snow with his pagan Muslim limbo dancing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Audiences will simply assume that what they don't like has been deepfaked and what they do like has slipped through the conspiracy mesh www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Nobody directed Sid and Nancy www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Given that he was sacked for lying to his employer, it seems jolly Blairite that he received a payoff at all www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"reading his story in the context of the past decade of Tory rule illustrates how his party exploited the narratives of children like him while entrenching policies that brutalised people who look like his parents" www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Certainly is a relief that Team Starmer aren't the kind of nasty extremists who object to all forms of racism www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

As is well known in moderate circles, one of the more sensible and sustainable ways of helping a national economy is to cut back on fripperies like public health thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/lead...

"given the situation Trump has created, what the UK most needs is a close, predictable relationship with a major geo-political entity with which it is closely aligned in terms of trade, interests, and values. Thus it is more obvious than ever that Brexit was supremely stupid"

The fiends www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Massive savings made by Farage Falange council not spending money that wasn't there www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

With bluff British practicality very much to the fore, His Majesty's Government has extended the political establishment's brain drain to the less fiscally sustainable industry of scientific research thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/dont...

We take full responsibility, but it's someone else's fault www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour should appoint Wideboy Wesley as interim leader, let him carry the can for the May apocalypse, and elect a proper leader after that. Pragmatic *and* poetic.

Let's have a war! Or at least deport some people

It's all very well, or at least not entirely unacceptable, to be a migrant-basher, a left-baiter, a genocide-enabler and a taker of sweeteners from the private sector - but this must surely be the Ultimate Sin www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Given that His Majesty's Government has previously pledged more help for poorer countries in dealing with the climate catastrophe, it will come as no surprise that Team Starmer is once more rowing back on the green crap thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/econ...

Church authorities in Rome have ordered the decapitation of an angel in a fresco after an amateur restorer made it look like Giorgia Meloni thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/frat...

Starmer knew who he was appointing as ambassador to the United States. And for that decision, he should go.

Important to understand that 1) Burgon was absolutely correct 2) it didn’t work, they got no support from Tories 3) this idiotic behaviour has now created a Johnson-level party political disaster and national legitimacy crisis, and 4) John still thinks it’s Burgon that is the dumbass here.

Thanks again, @libdems.org.uk www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"The weight of evidence, and now his disowning by Keir Starmer, media incredulity, and the likely popular anger will surely mean this won't be a partygate-style whitewash. Then again, this is Britain"

A shocking business, this: Who ever would have thought, With previous like his, That Mandy could be bought? thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/oh-m...

If you didn't know better, you might almost think the far right had no creative intellects of their own www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

What can one say but tee hee hee www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Presumably Wes Streeting would say she was over-diagnosed www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

He was not, you will observe, expelled www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Regardless of the unfortunate events in Minnesota, shootings at the other end of the Kingdom of the Trumpster seem to be proceeding much as usual thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/02/life...

True patriots must forsake the politics of division and unite against asylum seekers, benefits claimants and the Greens www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Potato potato potato youtube.com/watch?v=CoaH... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Whatever the word intifada may mean, it is surely asking for trouble to provoke the Met by advocating non-violent resistance www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Despite being one of the smallest countries in Europe, Slovenia has somehow managed to produce both Slavoj Zizek and - this. Come back, Yugoslavia, all is forgiven www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Criminals get to decide when they should stop paying compensation to their victims. Sounds British enough www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

RIP Catherine O'Hara - "I’m always drawn to characters who have no idea of the impression they’re making on other people" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Team Starmer is once more empurpled with righteous indignation; this time because the Farage Falange candidate in the approaching Manchester by-election has received the endorsement of the Reverend Tommyrot Yaxleyson thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/01/not-...

Presumably the endorsement was excessively fulsome compared to the one he gave Shabana Mahmood

"Democrats are pushing for a variety of reform measures, including banning agents from wearing masks and having ICE obtain warrants to make arrests" because that'll help matters no end www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Liars enlist liar's ally as ally to generate lies www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another man of the people, then www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...