@craiggrannell.bsky.social The problems with Apple's interfaces aren't always visual. A good example: the alert that warns you're playing music too loud is often far louder than the music being played and is almost deafening in it's own right. I can't believe it does my hearing any good.

Can't bring himself to point out that the vote was as much against Reform as for the Greens, and that this bodes ill for Reform's general hope to win seats by splitting the left vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Columbia University student was arrested on Thursday by federal immigration officers who apparently misrepresented themselves by posing as New York police officers.

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre. Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

Just spotted that the openly racist candidate for Tommy Robinson's "Advance UK" was beaten by the Monster Raving Looney Party.

Well, colour me shocked.

Elon Musk sent a pre-recorded video message to Tesla’s 10,700 workers at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide, warning that the planned expansion of the plant will not happen if IG Metall gains influence in the upcoming works council election. /1

Keir Starmer tries to explain the Greens winning by using very similar arguments to Kemi Badenoch. While Badenoch says the Greens courted the Muslim vote, using a Labour tactic against Labour, Starmer uses a euphemism instead: Galloway.

Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right" "They just get worse and they drag the government with them" "I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"

Hard to imagine at this point maybe, but Anthropic are more depraved than Trump. Trump disrespects most humans, certainly complete groups of us; but Anthropic are the company throwing money at Oxbridge and "philosophers" to tell us we should respect AI systems' feelings - disrespecting *all* humans.

I think the words you were looking for were "Congratulations to the winning candidate on their victory, we will obviously reflect on the result and what we can do to increase our support in the future"

Manages to get in a dig against the Lib Dems as well. Presumably because they are in most cases now more progressive than Labour too.

Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform

This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

@wulfheart.bsky.social meanwhile in Wulferhampton...

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

#ReformUK has 8 MPs. Only 3 were were elected as Reform UK MPs. The other 5 defected to Reform - no one voted for them as Reform MPs, no one voted for their politics of hate. Hate lost in Gorton&Denton @thegreenparty.bsky.social has 5 MPs all voted in as Green MPs. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I thought Starmer's statement this morning was a disaster. Pretending that the Greens are as bad as Reform, jUsT oN tHe LeFt, is an idiotic strategy for attracting back voters that clearly like what GPEW has to say.

Warner Bros Discovery has agreed to a $110 billion takeover by Paramount Skydance after Netflix declined to match its higher bid, Reuters reports. Piece coming tomorrow on how the deal to create one of Hollywood’s largest studios is a big win for Trump - and how he fixed it.

After not completely alienating every single Labour voter, Keir Starmer starts to wonder what will it take?

Labour had a, small, chance of potentially turning their downward spiral around today by doing a massive mea culpa, and announcing a scrapping of their hostile policies. Starmer's unhinged rant doubling down though makes it even more likely they will lose more seats. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.

Hillary Clinton: “You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions. You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files.“

Starmer telling Labour MPs today that the Greens are "divisive," "sectarian," and "not the kind environmentalists they pretend" is not going to go down well with the millions who now back Greens. It'll simply tell them Labour doesn't hear us. More tin-eared stupidity.

It’s hard to imagine a worse reaction to losing the by-election than Starmer has done. Every possible opportunity missed. No lessons learned.

Not to mention fundamentally dishonest.

'Poundshop Reform'...

That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

Didn't look like the voters were gagging to scrap renters rights, workers rights, or the Equality Act, or to deport people with indefinite leave to remain either.

Labour MP Andy McDonald: "The party has to come to terms with the reality that factionalism fails the party and more importantly fails the country... "It is the political approach of the Prime Minister, his former chief of staff, and of Labour Together, which has cost Labour this safe seat".

I say this with much love, because I like Rayner very much, but she was in a great position throughout most of the last two years, to ensure gov't was not asleep in the first place. Could she have fought harder? I don't have the full behind-the-scenes picture, but my gut says: probably.

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Hannah Spencer victory speech youtu.be/Tf7wVpDEvho?... "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other"

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

I suspect this by-election will further entrench Labour leadership against PR. It’ll would rather go down in flames than share power with the Greens and Libs.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has emailed staff urging those wishing to leave the country to depart "today”. He warns of likely high demand for flights from Ben Gurion Airport and stresses the importance of a rapid exit. NYT has seen the email.

🙂

May 2025: A saving grace, some ministers believe, is that the Greens are underperforming. “I think we are extraordinarily fortunate that the Green party are shit,” one minister said. “If they had any kind of charismatic or populist leadership we’d be eight to 10 points further down the polls."

9 days to go. Would love to make four figures. Can you help???

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

Reform, which spent its by-election campaign warning about the UK's "Christian heritage" being under threat, while proposing a ban on visas from predominantly Muslim countries, now accuses their opponents of engaging in "sectarian politics"

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

Matt there looking like the villain at the end of every Scooby Doo episode. "and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling voters"

It's Green Menace _MP_ now, Daily Mail. Great job Hannah Spencer MP and the whole Green team.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Reform U.K. gets MPs by abysmal Tories defecting. Greens get MPs by winning by-elections.

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats. To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?