A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

Morally indefensible Politically insane Economically harmful The government's immigration policy is a catastrophe for the Labour party, a gift to its opponents on left and right, and really bad for the country. Starmer owns it entirely.

It's time.

Meanwhile, on X:

This is going to happen, isn't it?

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

The weird phylum has been at it again

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

Starmer had an opportunity to be strategic with the EU in 2024 with his landslide majority. He had another opportunity this year, given the total geopolitical madness of the Trump Administration. He's squandered both. Let's hope his successor will be braver and go further

prosecutor: and so now we turn to exhibit d. do you recognise it, mr morrish? me: exhibit DEEZ NUTS prosecutor: objection, your honour! judge: no he got you with that one, case dismissed

The new natural party of government

Slightly increase a band Uranium Zeppelin

"My big tent social democratic party has found itself with a massive base of support amongst the professional middle class, this is bad somehow"

[I am not defending Polanski/Greens here - their response to well-publicised antisemitic statements by Green candidates has been lacking in several respects. But it is just disgusting to suggest that Farage/Reform are allies to Jews/against antisemitism and that the Greens are not]

Makes you wonder how many fake things are in law reviews. phys.org/news/2026-05...

As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors

A lot of the scepticism about the idea that someone in Labour should turn the next few years into a debate about the EU again forgets that this strategy really just amounts to 'telling the truth to voters about Brexit and suggesting that we act on it'. It's not some 4D Chess move.

Of the Green results in London, Waltham Forest has most got my attention. We knew they were a significant force in Hackney, Lewisham, Lambeth but WF was a sudden and very dramatic flip. Labour had seemed organisationally strong in Walthamstow in particular and it was rated as a good council.

Something that amuses me about how American culture dominates post-apocalyptic fiction is that nobody cycles. The petrol has run out so everyone trudges around.

Another one where a split vote let Reform through. Stockbridge (Knowsley) Council Election Result: RFM: 39.1% (+39.1) GRN: 29.1% (+12.2) LAB: 28.0% (-55.1) CON: 3.8% (+3.8) Reform gain from Labour.

I think we now have the answer

Just seen at ticket stub from the 1966 World Cup final on ebay. A standing enclosure ticket was 10s (50p) the equivalent of about £25 or $34 today.

Reform UK expels London election candidates on eve of poll after London Centric uncovers them as ex-BNP members. www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-lon...

Trump will post about peace today, annihilation tomorrow and back again, yet IRGC still blockade the Strait while firing at a few ships while the Americans still blockade Iran while firing at a few boats. Trump's posts are an idiot distraction from dynamics on the ground

There was a time when the ultra-wealthy in this country at least pretended to acknowledge their privilege and their luck. It helped fuel a sense of civil obligation. These days, however: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

SHAFT

This/similar responses are just bizarre - assume that (as @stephenkb.bsky.social says) government/PM have no agency. Do they really think if PM posted "I/my govt won't post on platform that deliberately promotes Nazis, antisemitism & CSE" Westminster bubble wouldnt follow? bsky.app/profile/0jaz...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Earses

lettuce romaine calm

Feels like I’ve watched this show for the Epsteinth time.

Published on tumblr a few days ago.

If you're being pursued by an assailant on a space hopper, a tack is the best form of defence.

“Much of the ideology peddled by the far right in the 1970s – then seen as way beyond the political pale – is now seeping into the mainstream.” @kenanmalik.bsky.social on today's threat from the far-right - not the NF/BNP, but the likes of Hannan, Yusuf and Jenrick observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

New distraction just dropped

@mattleys.bsky.social I see you’ve taken some light reading with you on your holiday.

It's a while since I missed being a teenager, but this really does it for me

Buy the t-shirt, it's ace. Not got me into any fights yet, but

Good piece. Especially the point that three quarters of degrees are already “vocational”

"If a woman says, “I feel unsafe with men in this space,” and that still isn’t enough to keep men out, why does a man saying, “I feel uncomfortable being excluded,” suddenly become a “civil rights” emergency?" by Wildfirewhispers

In other news, King Charles goes on a State visit to the US tomorrow, which will probably mean lots of banquets in large Ballrooms, so I'm sure nobody in security on both sides is panicking about that at all.

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

Starting a war to distract from problems at home really worked well for Trump!

London 2012 Paralympics teaser trailer. Still one of the greatest Olympic adverts of all time, I think. Sound up!

NEW: People with the greatest housing needs are waiting months or even years *in the highest priority bands* of social housing registers In some areas, people in the highest priority band get social housing after average waits of more than two years By me: www.politicshome.com/news/article...