“Nobody has done more than me”

What is even the point 😑

Kemi Badenoch getting exasperated with Martin Lewis is illustrative of her whole character. Anyone serious & strategic would understand it’s much more useful to listen to & actually try to take advice from a trusted, public facing expert, as opposed to just make yourself look rude & unreasonable

first rule of politics don't fight with martin lewis, one of only three universally beloved national figures alongside a fictional bear and a nonagenarian wildlife presenter

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

Perfect example as to why top level football is becoming unwatchable for me. If Kolo Muani has fouled there as opposed to Gabriel just being inexplicably weak, as a sporting spectacle, this level of football is ruined for me

Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

Trump's comments here, as at Davos and on many other occasions, raise questions about the extent to which he has the capacity to understand, let alone be actively involved in, his own administration's policy. And if he isn't setting the course for US foreign policy, who is?

This looks like some great work

Hope Andrew had to put on some silly grey joggers like they wear on 24 Hours in Police Custody

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

He will always have been arrested on his birthday they can’t take that away from us

The ex-President of South Korea jailed for undermining democracy. Andrew arrested for his dealings with Epstein. The US should take note - this is how functioning, decent democracies who respect the rule of law, and apply it to all, operate

Andrew arrested on his birthday. Even more brutal than when Simon Jordan sacked Trevor Francis at Palace

Many have pointed this out, but when Reform’s top team is full of millionaire, privately educated, largely ex-Tories, what change or voice for the working class do they offer? They’re a voice largely for pensioners & those who have spent the last 20 yrs voting Tory, Brexit & making everything worse

The party of shit for brains, for shit for brains

These two things are inextricably linked

Robert Jenrick announces Reform UK will keep the OBR and Bank of England independence, with an emphasis on fiscal discipline, signified by restoring the two child benefit cap. The speech is essentially the same as every Tory chancellor's conference speech in the last 10 years.

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

So we’ll be a 50% building trades based economy by 2030? Idiot

Part of me is really looking forward to see how Farage and Reform actually cope during a gruelling election campaign. Allergic to scrutiny. Just basically rude. The British public, at large, don’t appreciate this sort of thing

Feel like Rupert Lowe & Restore Britain is the inevitable conclusion of anyone being drunk on deluded nostalgia - desperate for a country that never really existed and a way of life that is unrealistic & undeliverable, totally inconsistent with where Britain sits in the world in the 21st century

Shrive, Shraugh, Shrove ✌️✨💖

FWIW I think ultimately it’s good the local elections go ahead, but given the turnout is typically around 35% and id bet <10% actually know who they’re voting for beyond the colour of their party rosette, please spare us the outrage and lectures on democracy

With the news over the weekend on Brewdog, the “equity for punks” did cross my mind - they will no doubt get totally screwed over

!! … ah

“The bank also relied too heavily on consultants – spending £43m on advice” How unsurprising, the government wasting money on private consultants. A tale as old as time

Jon Stewart on MAGA: "These people... are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they needed to create their own safe-space alternative halftime show"

The UK population is 82% white, this group represents 77% of all universal credit claimants. Whilst its true that non-white groups, and so potentially immigrants *slightly* over index here, to just write this off as these people “colonising” or being a drain is both an exaggeration & over simplistic

I usually avoid watching the news, sometimes it’s a bit much. But my god, seeing Pam Bondi & Jim Ratcliffe on there tonight was depressing. There’s a lot in the world that can be explained by simple greed. For these two, wildly rich as it is I suspect, it’s hard to fathom what their motivations are

If I were a prominent football club owner who relies on foreign players and fans, and had cheered on Brexit only to then take my money to Monaco to avoid paying British taxes, I’d probably keep my views about Britain and immigration to myself

The WFH “debate” is nonsense. Plenty of companies mandate 4 or 5 days in the office. Others are 100% remote. Then there are plenty of workplaces in between. Some people want a WFH role, others chose to be in an office. The market really has sorted this one out already

Unfortunately the right thing. I think most people who voted for change desperately wanted Starmer to be the man to deliver it. It’s a huge shame he’s failed, but it’s on his head, and it’s right to think about what’s next for the rest of this parliament up to 2029

Sheez.

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Grim morning for the Labour Party but it is healthier to live in a country where decisions have consequences than one where an administration steeped in contact with Epstein sails happily on, even as the resignations pile up across Europe

Looks like a 10% Council Tax increase in Reform run Worcestershire. They’ll bemoan what they inherited which I might have had some sympathy with if they hadn’t spent years saying finding “DOGE” efficiencies, or cutting DEI/Net Zero spend was easy. No, governing & managing local govt finance is hard

Women who have and will continue to be let down by the American political and justice system. Doesn’t even feel like any serious attempts will be made to get to a fair and serious resolution. It’s just red meat to media orgs and the public now, no serious enquiry, outcome or repercussions incoming

Amazing how VAR, the officials and a stupid interpretation of the rules can just ruin football. Use some common sense FFS

British values

Well, we were probably second best on the day. Ipswich are a better team with a stronger squad, but how close Derby ran them is a huge indication of the progress under Eustace. On to the next one #dcfc #dcfcfans

Really struggle to watch any Premier League or Championship football with both how soft the game is now and the terrible standard of refereeing. Both make it distinctly less enjoyable

Honestly cant see any situation where a huge chunk of people don’t go through a redress process here. Borrowing money to study is one thing, but the huge interest & the endless payment terms here is just ludicrous. A whole generation let down by basically all political parties in one way or another

The level of media coverage of this vs the WASPI situation is interesting, given they are both situations where the rules changed, and in one case frequently with virtually no notice. (No amount of not buying avocado toast would have saved me as much money as simply being born 18m earlier.)

A lot of racists in UK media & politics are currently limbering up to hold Donald Trump to an infinitely lower moral standard than they did Gary Lineker. Starting with Farage, inevitably…

The US president just talking about voter fraud, that didn’t happen, and a dumb lion king parody social media video. JFC… the absolute state of him

I don’t want to depress you all but the entire media and political class will have moved on from this latest Trump racist outburst by tomorrow, Monday at the very latest. He gets away with it every time - because he is allowed to get away with it, and because he floods the zone.

Shouting "gamble" at a pair of Bullseye contestants, no matter what they've won already.

100% this. This country has exactly what it voted for.