The FT says Labour's "saviours" went for "expulsion" on "flimsiest of pretexts" a "macho instinct to break Labour taboos" that "alienated"  Labour's "base", inc picking Mandelson and an "overtly pro-Israel line", "leaking support on the left". Maybe they weren't saviours at all.

I would simply ask: if the party was on fire in a ditch within five years of the rescue, then it what sense was it “saved”?

yeah i dunno if "its pretty good at coding now" is gonna cover that

Frame rate is a false god.

I'm not even anti AI, I'm just pro quality and if that makes you see me as the adversary, perhaps you should start looking at the work you do

[extremely SpongeBob narrator voice] two months later

We are nearly halfway to the next general election and they are *still* doing this. Tick tock tick tock.

I for one am extremely enjoying the Press trying to explain something that the Left has been completely correct about the whole time without admitting that the Left was completely correct about it the whole time.

This isn't 4D chess, these people are venal and think you are stupid. To be honest, if you cannot see that this was an obvious quid pro quo situation wherein Mandy was given a plum job for services rendered, you are, in fact, a bit of a rube.

Entirely consistent with e.g. “this was Peter’s project”, “Sir Keir has only ever been a bonnet ornament on a car driven by McSweeney, with Peter shouting directions” and “this has never been explained to the public”. As well as “Peter approved himself for the job because what he wants, he gets”.

Then, without asking, we might get an answer to the real question: “how necessary was Starmer to the Mandelson project?”

I say just hold on a minute, I’ve been assured that he could chair a meeting and draft a memo! Do you mean to tell me that the people who insisted upon this were not being entirely honest?

Look at the charts: the slide starts the moment the election is called - that is, they have been cratering from the very second that the public started paying attention to what they were saying and doing.

kinda says it all that this gets more scrutiny than killing tens of thousands of brown children

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

“Starmer assumed Gray had a super-secret plan for governing but she didn’t so they did nothing” is such a wild line, and the hacks seem so uninterested in learning more about this astonishing, farcical setup

Just a whole series of leaders here who don’t appear to have any plans except for “I’ll be in charge, I’ll announce the crackdowns and do the belligerent war speeches, our friends will get the plum contracts”. We should be in charge because we are smartest and best www.politico.eu/article/keir...

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Stop calling them Data Centers - they house no data. They house an algorithm that lies to you. Call them what they are: Bullshit Barns

Painted as by what publication, you smirking prat?

Well kids there used to be these things called Websites. But AI started summarising them & they earned no ad revenue so AI had nothing to summarise, and it stores no data. Now go to sleep, you’re on the dawn shift at the Algae Farm tomorrow.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Oh are we having another Noticing Things week? At this rate we’re going to need a bigger rug, and a bigger broom…

They thought they wouldn't get caught. And given that not a whisper of any of it reached the British public until the Americans decided to fling a whole barrel of incriminating material out for other reasons, were they unreasonable in thinking that?

The two professional photography instructors who trained Artemis II astronauts to take pictures of the moon and Earth during their historic lunar flyby said they were as impressed as the public by the stunning celestial imagery caught on camera. reut.rs/4csHPNC

They’ve never had to before, why start now.

The United Nations rapporteur can’t have a bank card because she calls a genocide what it is. Most of our government ministers are paid and owned by those who ensure this.

I am also weak on crime, because it is not my job either.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

I’m gonna be honest, I don’t really get this whole real wages adjusted for inflation stuff, but I do get graphs like this

I cannot think of any other country today which so openly commits war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide for months on end, and yet for whom the debate continuously reorients not on how it should be stopped, but rather how global audiences should be re-acclimated to its conduct.

you absolutely do not gotta hand it to Tucker but the British liberal state has given such an easy lay up for antisemites to launder themselves and it’s going to get really ugly

It's not just that this is peculiarly British incompetence, it's that the self-harming policy of "Try to trip the bastards up because the sinister foreigns are all trying to steal from us" is driven by MPs who we are loudly assured are "well-meaning" & "not out of touch" but that's clearly not true.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

Even in a world where this government thought its appeal against the high court ruling stood any chance of success, the dogged pursuit of optics like these is utterly baffling. https://join.greenparty.org.uk

TV Producer Make A Program About Anything British Without Calling It “The Great British [Thing]” Challenge: Impossible

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

Not rare at all but actually mundanely common Estonian W

We’ve spent almost fifty years burning state capacity like it was chopped up furniture

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I accidentally scheduled an appointment with an ontologist instead of an oncologist & bad news: I failed my metaphysical

moon mission got me feeling some such way

“America provides unlimited weaponry and total impunity for relentless rampages of death and destruction; European leaders make sad faces and say boo-hoo” was already the automatic, every-time situation in the early 2010s, back when Europeans still bothered pretending to be shocked and outraged.

Keir Starmer is under scrutiny after an RAF spy plane was tracked flying over Lebanon at the same time Israel killed over 250 people in a barrage of air strikes 🇱🇧

🙌🔺🤥🎸🙆🥸🥁 Got tickets for Angine de Poitrine

“Just read another story about me being locked in attick, completely false.”

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/