Snow at the Winter Olympics is a novelty huh.

Absolutely no surprise to me they've cancelled the #Eurovision live tour. Was a stupid idea in a difficult environment. Maybe in the future but they were mad ever thinking this would be a goer in 2026.

But of course it’s the left that apparently hates women.

It's a fascinating insight into how the strategy bros have rewritten history in their own minds. There absolutely *was* debate about the tax pledges, both inside and outside the party, they just want to ignore that they were on Team Brainless.

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

Furious female Labour MPs urge Starmer to make a woman his de facto deputy

If the left decided to spend days carping on social media about a change in a government logo in the UK and a Super Bowl half-time performance in the US they would be crucified as out of touch, mental and totally online. And yet, when it's the right....

Honestly I think the group who picked the Winter Olympics are living a better life than all the rest of us.

The Tories aren't really Labour's biggest problem right now...

A man killed his own daughter over an argument about Trump. She asked: “How would you feel if I had been sexually assaulted?” Her father replied that he had two other daughters so it would not upset him that much Then he shot her. There’s something deeply wrong with MAGA.

Indeed. All of this stuff is different than what friends and family do with people suspected of crimes or convicted of them within their close circles - both cases are about politics, connections, power and whether and what interests and influence they have over civic life etc.

Yes but some of it is just wrongs, and also hilarious he thinks centre is radicalised by Bluesky but X is somehow wonderful.

And they will then be first out the door when everyone starts resigning in May…

Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"... Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day. I mean come on...

New team, new plan and overcome all the obstacles of his and government’s ability to communicate both with his own MPs and the country - is a pretty tough, imo impossible, list. And exactly why it is over. If the real alternative was in SW1 he’d already be toast. Locking out Burnham saved him.

I’m not normally into the blow by blow podcasts that all say the same thing but Rest Is Politics where Alastair and Rory suddenly have an epiphany about how the world of politics works and privilege + Wes Streeting’s open discussion on Dysfunction worth your time.

If everyone apart from the person who appointed them all leaves then that will sort it.

EXCL: Chris Wormald, the most senior civil servant in Downing Street, is negotiating his exit as part of a wider shakeup of Keir Starmer’s operation after dramatic day - @kiranstacey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That’s why Burnham needs to get a seat; cos he’s the solution to both!

A perfect James Purnell there, as they say in the business.

True, but who should be PM.

You can push the can down the road, but it’s still gonna get crushed.

For once, I don’t think they have. This is just a trigger for what everyone has known for a long time: this is going nowhere and it’s not getting better. It is fundamental. The challenge is what comes next and if it can work either.

Wrote in January that Scottish Labour had broken with Starmer and would be putting “country before party” – Sarwar calling for him to go is the ultimate expression of that logic. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Completely get the argument that changing PM would be economically damaging to the country & politically damaging to Labour. But there’s a point when a wounded PM with no authority hugely increases economic uncertainty & is more politically damaging. That point has been crossed.

Because he knows without a change there is no hope of Labour winning Scotland in a few months time. So he wants change. Otherwise he’s toast. That is obvious surely?

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down; Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards Ministers saying it's the end game...

Different culture *and* a different way of communicating. Blows my mind nobody put a clock in the briefing room saying ‘Days since National Renewal began’ (vs Tory 14 years) or instigated daily briefings in mess & change - control and push the narrative, here to fix the mess etc. Essential.

This! Labour’s leadership is being talked about as if it’s some kind of poisoned chalice. In reality it’s a chance to take over the first term of a government with a huge majority. It’s the political opportunity of a lifetime.

feels like it's related to this idea

Ah I see Dominic Cummings is back to saying it’s all the fault of Ukraine again. Ever the victim. The man who achieved absolutely f’all and blames it all on everyone else.

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

Zayn writing a song that could win #Eurovision comes in at exactly 3:00 minutes is practically gay bating imo.

He is. Which is why it won’t be him.

The thing I will never understand is why Keir has so little self-respect. If one of my political correspondents had briefed that my leadership style was like someone sitting in the front of the DLR, thinking wrongly they were driving, I would have fired them.

So who has a European passport.

Some light in the darkness.

Everyone is totally sleeping on Clara Mae’s new (country inspired) album ‘My Roots’ - so good! She’s had some really great tracks in her time (including the total banger Lost)!and these are no exception and all very beautiful. Superb. #newmusicfriday 🇸🇪

There are just no words on the Epstein files. Or maybe too many words to say. And this is the stuff they *will* release. The totally deranged partisan responses though are almost as scary - this is how it happens. Blind eyes because of who people are. Scary, disgusting.

New Labrinth album is a triumph. There’s moments of Pink Floyd, touches of Bond. Flourishes of his previous albums. This is awesome. Not as ‘complete’ as say Lux. The story is not so linear - but the production alone is on a similar plane. ‘I Keep My Promises’ is really fantastic. #newmusicfriday

Must win election for Labour now. High stakes.

List of the most unserious people in Parliament just dropped.

OMG - Sepp Blatter is now occupying the moral high ground. Which says everything you need to know about how far the rest of the ground has fallen.

I urgently need a Sam Ryder and Cynthia Gethsemane duet because both renditions are absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD.

Tories down to 116 MPs now. Ed Davey 45 Reform defections from being Leader of the Opposition....

It's like watching a doctor remove all the infected organs and wondering if they'll be enough left to allow the uninfected patient to live.

Suella Braverman says she feels like she’s home. That says it all. Tories 🤝 Reform.

The beginning of the end of Starmer's leadership. He'll be gone by October. At the very latest.