Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM" "We need a radical reset, fundamental change" "The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you" "Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop Reform UK"

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Dear Keir Starmer. Clive Lewis has a degree in Economics. How about sacking Rachel and appointing Clive to take her place?

Are there any Labour MPs with Economics training who could step into Rachel Reeves's shoes if and when she is sacked? Or is the absence of economic expertise Labour's achilles heel? If so, they're doomed. Doomed, I tell ya

Maybe the unholy couple of Starmer and Reeves should both go. Both seem to lack any political intelligence

I expect Labour to lose bigly (:-) in Birmingham in the May elections. They shouldn't expect an electorate which has gone without a reliable, regular waste collection and disposal service for 2 years to vote them back in.

Equating the Greens with Reform is the dumbest response possible. The hypocrisy and stupidity is staggering.

Let's hope Starmer's response to the result is to dismiss his useless chancellor

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

Can't get a posh job - blame the "woke" establishment. Can't get a shag - blame the "unregulated sexual economy". Lose a by-election - blame cheating. Anything else - blame immigrants. Reform really is the party of excuses for mediocre white men.

As with juries, it is a hazardous task to predict how voters will vote

In terms of using the phrase "In terms of" to substitute in terms of literate sentence construction who, in terms of offenders, is the worst in terms of people?

Truly horrifying. A very difficult read. [& the BBC at its best] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The student loans system is scandalous. Labour have made it worse and allowed the Tories (who built it) an opening because it's the same old story: Lab forgets who its voters are. It doesn't like the coalition it has and hankers for another. New substack from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Boris and Carrie

Well worth reading for the Chris Mason story..., 😉

Russian embassy, Washington DC. To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion

The break even point for electricity usage given the unit price reduction and standing charge increase is 298 units over the year. Only when usage is above 298 units will usage savings pay for the increased standing charge

Strewth

The Ofgem Price Cap for the three months starting 1 April is to FALL by 6.7% with the biggest reduction on electricity unit rates. Here’s how that change will manifest in terms of average rates on Direct Debit (from 1 April)…

BBC reporter: "Keir Starmer's political future depends on winning tomorrow's bye-election" Fact or prediction? Get back in your lane, reporter. Just report facts. Leave predictions out of it

What could possibly have attracted this racist Holocaust denier to Matt Goodwin? Truly, it is a mystery.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump loves tariffs but the economy doesn't paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...

Always worth reading Paul Krugman on Trump and tariffs. An excellent choice of music to accompany his piece too!

Dear journalists and broadcasters: please confine yourselves to reporting facts, not your opinions or your predictions. Facts and nothing but the facts, please

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Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As of February 2026, the average tariff charged by the European Union on imports from the United States is approximately 1% to 1.35%. This rate reflects the "Most Favoured Nation" (MFN) status that applies to trade between the two powers in the absence of a comprehensive free trade agreement. Wiki

What is a balance-of-payments deficit? I should know, but I don't. Nobody does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6d...

I turned on The Children’s Hour to watch while puzzling but the movie was so good that I never touched a piece 🤯🧩🎬 #FilmSky #CriterionChannel m.imdb.com/title/tt0054...

This is the policy of the National Front and BNP

An update: We're now starting to see how much Trump lost with the tariff ruling www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0K...

Superb.

Great stuff.

I was always a very big fan of Gordon Brown. Considered him a very decent human being unlike Blair and his dubious and devious Blairite team!

Myth: Offshore wind isn’t a game-changer. Reality: The UK is stepping up with 15MW turbines from Vestas! These beasts are boosting efficiency and cutting emissions in a big way. Denmark is showing us that bigger blades lead to lower costs and quicker climate gains. Wind power is here to stay! 🌬️⚡

Immensely shitty behaviour!

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

Idea for tax reform: Replace income tax on earned income with increased National Insurance contributions which entitle workers and claimants to social social benefits from a larger, more generous NI fund. Levy income tax on unearned income with higher marginal rates and no access to SS benefits

Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies. Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied. Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains. Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Re-Watching The Orphanage (2007)! I suppose that you could open up an orphanage for ghost children. I imagine that there are people that wouldn't be able to handle the ones haunting their homes & would give them up in hopes they could find a place that could give them the attention they need.

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Laura Trott. A Trot, she's not. #IfOnlyNominativeDeterminismWorked

Hey, Donald! When we said no taxation without representation, we meant it. That's what SCOTUS is saying with this opinion.

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Trump has met his Waterloo

Listening to a podcast about tariff rebates: What's really fun is how the whole process will make it incredibly bloody obvious who has been paying these stupid taxes. It isn't the Chinese who are about to sue the US Federal Government, it's US citizens.