Labour doing better than expected in London so far? Must say was presuming the Conservatives would regain Wandsworth, which they nearly but not quite did.

The opposition on the right is now Reform and we need to be as different from them as possible to attract all those who are centre ground/left and want a home for their vote thst is not Reform. Job no 1 sack the home secretary.

Mayor Mamdani Is Proving That It's The Corruption, And The Backroom Deals That Politicians Make Behind Closed Doors,That Dooms Our Politics,Which In Turn, Dooms Our Progress......

Welcome to York. It’s that time of the year when the light at this time of the morning (11:00) can even make an Azuma look good! 801226 ‘Together’ awaits departure for Edinburgh Waverley. #Azuma #LNER #York #Hitachi

#TrumpIsAMonster #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #GOPCoverUp #BelieveTheWomen #38000Times

Shima Enaga, also known as the Japanese Snow Fairy, which is a subspecies of the long-tailed tit

Has Electoral Commission finished ‘weighing’ Farage’s undisclosed 5 million pound gift Reform claims was ‘private’? And if it was an undisclosed ‘private’ donation why wasn’t it declared in member’s interests and has the millions of tax been paid on the gift? INVESTIGATE REFORM’S FINANCES NOW.

The Supreme Court blatantly exceeds its constitutional authority and undermines its legitimacy when it acts like a super legislature rewriting laws it doesn’t like.

I love St Pancras station. I'm 40 minutes early for my train do am enjoia wander round and loving the departure board which intersperses Corby and Luton with Amsterdam and Brussels ♥️.

So, Trump has withdrawn 5000 troops from Germany, who were there to protect US interests. Putin will be pleased he’s advised Trump to yet again, harm the USA and advance Russian interests. When are the yanks going to realise Trump is a Russian asset?

1/6 Ukrainian drones have targeted key installations in Russia, shocking military bloggers. Source: Кавказ. Реалии. This year, Ukrainian drones have also reached deep into Russia, targeting airfields and causing alarm in cities once thought safe.

Because Trump lies, and everyone knows it.

If he could only harness and promote that collective decision making in a coherent message….

I know because he is a delegator and manager and no I e helped him out really on politics or he did not seek it but this is more than redeemable for the party if not h as the kings speech is the big reset

He tried to ask the guy upstairs for what to do next and then realized he is terrified of god and has spent the rest of his term catatonic under his desk mumbling transphobic gibberish

It was pretty obvious post the Truss/Kwarteng "budget not budget " cluster fuck (or Trusster fuck) in Sept 22 that Labour were going to win the next GE. They had nearly 2 years to prepare for government, it appears that they did nothing.

It’s been 2 years. 2 years in any job is enough to get a grasp on things.

I’d love to see a forensic, unbiased analysis of Starmer’s ‘ character flaws ‘. The guy is reasonably new at a massive job which many don’t grasp the magnitude of. He is following 14 yrs worth of imbeciles full of spite & having to contend with fallout from Brexit, hostile media & a lunatic in USA.

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I mean, maybe a multiracial, Obama/Farrell/Biden-era US had a chance, cut it’s Stephen Miller’s and Chris Wright’s America now. 🔌💡 (24/n)

2/ For decades, Western powers controlled the global internet. Now, the tide has turned. China is building the literal foundation of the digital world in developing nations. They are not just selling phones. They are installing the fiber, the towers, and the clouds. www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

lol. I hope it’s an incredible failure in the USA.

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

Well, they've got me beat: "Cuttlefish, squid and octopuses have excellent memories, use tools and are adept problem-solvers; they have a concept of time and are capable of delayed gratification."

This is a very ugly choice of a day for the UK to embrace fascism quite so enthusiastically. Across Europe we are celebrating liberation from fascist oppression. I don’t think the UK has ever seen the point of celebrating that specifically ... and here we are.

Thank you Robert! Much looking forward to it.

A record number of Russians now believe that Russia is on the "wrong track", according to polls. The share of citizens who believe the country is moving in the "wrong direction" has reached its highest level since February 2022, according to a survey by the Levada Center:

If I had to summarize the general sentiment of those I know who are, at best, deeply skeptical of AI, it's that the world has been optimized for five billionaires, and all the rest of us - our labor, our data, our land, our electricity - are the help. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire (Mid Scotland and Fife) Constituency Vote (vs 2021): SNP: 14707 (40.4%, -5.3) CON: 9646 (26.5%, -14.7) RUK: 5128 (14.1%, New) LD: 4329 (11.9%, +5.5) LAB: 2599 (7.1%, +0.4) Valid Turnout: 58.9% SNP HOLD - EM

tbf Welsh Labour have been disastrous. NHS Wales, the north in particular is poor to dreadful. Ysbyty Gwynedd, which covers huge swathes has been in special measures for over a decade. That is borderline criminal !

The irony is regeneration has really picked up in Sunderland recently and the city had finally turned a corner. All that will be dead now.

No, they don't, any more than US farmers understand that Trump is screwing the ag economy.

Urgh. Doesn’t Sunderland get why they’re losing their jobs?! I despair honestly.

Reform would be a disaster

Yeah I've had a few activists say that.

Nigel Farage refuses to take a question about his £5m donation from a crypto billionaire.

someone just demanded to know who should replace Starmer, in a "aha can't answer that, can you!" kind of way, but at this point the honest answer is: literally anyone. he is so bad at this that literally anyone would be better.

Anyone who thinks this is going well for the Tories is lying or needs their head tested.

Because he'd just lie & say it didn't maximise all the supposed opportunies because it wasn't done correctly. And then he'd just point into The Channel & say something about "stopping the boats" & his fans would clap & cheer & the media would carry on not challenging him.

Exactly

The Greens win the Hackney mayoralty, famously a bellwether for England as a whole.

Blocker not builder!

I spent nearly thirty years of my life burying it as deeply as possible and I would take it as a personal affront if he found it.

I hope lots of our present ministers do the IfG’s ‘ministers reflect’ interview, because I would love to know what they think the job is.

in some case they wont let it deliver. See for example Thames Water. It’s obvious it should be put into administration but none of the politicians want to make the decision and so it continues in this bizarre purgatory.

As an aside, I just don't understand how you can enter Government without a theory of the modern state and then complain when it doesn't deliver. It's OK - some deregulation, KPIs and AI will sort it.