Come for the great man's reflections on moving from defence to the treasury and stay for his story about Schumpeter

Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists

just remembered asking breadboy what he was up to at the weekend once "gotta help my grandad" "oh that's nice, doing what" "my garden"

i do think that whoever came up with the idea that cutting taxes on the poor without a 1-to-1 corresponding rise in income from elsewhere is somehow a socialist or progressive idea should be shot

labour has to finally again for 900th time start caring about the opinions of some old racist twats who will never ever vote labour or i won't be able to do it inside my wife

QUITE A LOT OF LABOUR VOTERS LIVE IN METROPOLISES YOU FUCKING PIG PEOPLE

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my incredibly sad duty to inform you that we can no longer hide from it, the scourge that is political poetry has returned

It's actually incredibly rude if I use a word and you ask me to spell it out loud. What, don't you trust me? All the letters are there, pal. I counted them myself.

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

A good day to listen to Mungo Jerry’s In The Summertime, and to share more than five decades’ anxiety at the class-based injustice of this couplet: If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel

Gaw, it’s like 2016 but for cunts isn’t it?

That noise? That's what the frantic repurposing of suddenly-shelved Ann Widdecombe bits into Ken Bates gags sounds like.

It is once again time to repost this classic.

Oh man, I need to appeal a parking ticket! Should I appeal to Harringay Council or...should the people of Clacton decide?

The positive of Balogun is it's the first time a Republican has intervened to reduce a black man's sentence.

"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

‘I asked Grok, I asked Chat GPT’ ok well I asked Michael Owen and he said ‘tremendous by the way’

There should be a better word than Edgy to describe people in the mainstream of culture pretending to not be, while parroting incredibly bogstandard, commonplace (but spiteful) attitudes to huge and appreciative audiences. Not “edgy.” “Middley.” “Middley comedians.” Middlelords.

this is actually good advice!

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

There's a certain kind of Labour politician, of which Starmer is definitely one, who is permanently embarrassed that what our country is actually good at is higher education, arts, culture, legal and financial services.

Oh no. Kemi thinks *she* forced him out, doesn't she?!

I'm sorry what

“Alright, but apart from telling Labour supporters to “leave”, calling them ”fleas”, endorsing Israeli war crimes live on TV, Enoch Powell-style speeches about immigration‘s “incalculable damage”, more extreme anti-trans laws than many Republican states, making a paedophile’s friend US ambassador…”

i presume that, as King of the North, on arrival in London Andy Burnham will immediately go to Leicester Square and moan about how busy it is. Then drink a pint in a giant wetherspoons and moan loydly about how unfriendly Londoners are.

If only someone had at any point mentioned that repeatedly attacking your own voters and their values might have a downside :(

One the one hand, we should be nicer to people. On the other, Keir Starmer's government has banned me from public toilets.

I will have your child smoking in THREE HOURS or you can have it back

British politics is so fucking stupid that we can be in the second extreme heatwave of the year, in the middle of the second major oil/gas crisis in 5 years, and one of the biggest union leaders will be briefing against ed milliband cause net zero bad and middle class

It's so infuriating that a 19 year old trans barista earning minimum wage as she studies for her marketing degree is the only voter in the entire country you're allowed to just relentlessly stereotype and denigrate in the pages of major publications.

Happy Father’s Day to the king of Father’s Day posts

Keir Starmer feels "betrayed"

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

I have legitimate concerns about how long it's taking Keir Starmer to fuck off. Where is my racist policy agenda?

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

Everyone who laughs at Count Binface thought Boaty McBoatface was the apogee of humour

The argument for more defence spending needs to defend itself When defence secretary John Healey resigned last week, he accused the government of putting the country’s security at risk with an inadequate defence investment plan. But do we really need more defence spending? 🧵

You couldn’t make The Office now, because almost everyone who worked on the original thinks Ricky Gervais is a cunt.

Basically my view as well bsky.app/profile/tpgr...

he's like if Adrian Chiles was kicked in the head by a horse

Bought a new thesaurus today. It is good.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

Al Carns and his ilk view folk like my grandpa - got a factory apprenticeship at 16 - as more important, more real voters than office workers like my mum and I. Problem with this approach is that my grandpa can't vote by virtue of being dead, whereas my mum and I have decades of voting left in us.

Every Episode Of Generic Animated Sitcom™

POLICE CHIEF: obviously this is every parent's worst nightmare. For non-parents, it's a bit like... well if you could all do your best to imagine some sort of unstoppable ghost dinosaur.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

I think it's more severe than this: the UK government has developed an addiction to legislating bans on things that bind specific classes of people that conspicuously do not include themselves, and that should be done with far greater care