LOL they did it, they finally silenced Steve Bray

Amazed at how candid some of the quotes in this are about the challenges of trying to get eight hours of TV out of such a young cast.

“Poverty stricken disaster”. 😂🤣🤣😂

In truly incredible timing for CPAC GB and for Liz Truss herself, the Tate brothers have just been arrested.

Going to double down on my view that the Harbourne stuff is bad, but the Cottrell stuff does end up with someone in front of a judge. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

That's a sell signal if ever there was one.

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

not a big fan of how every summer i see that thing i said on X - The Everything App everywhere with wildfires and then in autumn i see it with flooding and then in winter with vanishing glaciers

Laughing at this now

This is the worst possible sign for what is to come.

I wish this one didn’t have a paywall. Here’s the opening:

regret to say this might have been my finest work on this project, upsetting as it is you really can hear it in his voice bsky.app/profile/desi...

Feels like I may as well post this long-read again just to remind the incoming government that their support base, and indeed the population, are that most horrible and cringe of things - middle class. Actually, even worse, the Professional Managerial Class. benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

65 per cent of Britons are owner-occupiers. General elections are won in the Midlands. Most people have a middle class occupation. The United Kingdom's comparative advantage is in services. These aren't facts that Philip Gould invented in order to make Labour feel sad.

This is like a Stewart Lee routine where constantly repeating the joke has gone beyond being tedious to causing gales of laughter again.

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

the EyyyyyK-47.

in retrospect, just quite a weird politician www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Some absolutely classic transparent bootlicking to work a useful source for the foreseeable future going on here

One thing is like a out this from the mirror is how many are duplicates

Theres no getting round the fact that Burnham and Mahmoud *are* going to have to do something on the tax side — both in terms of rationalisation and in terms of increased overall revenue. One question is how aligned their instincts are on how to do this and who will ultimately make the big calls.

Remember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.

Guardian: Nigel Farage told senior figures in Reform UK he would need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings if he stood for parliament in the 2024 general election, sources have told the Guardian, raising further questions about why he was given £5m by a crypto billionaire.

No-one seems to know or care who votes for them anymore.

Bluesky moment

Guy Violently Coughing On Bus Better Just Have Throat Cancer https://theonion.com/guy-violently-coughing-on-bus-better-just-have-throat-cancer/

Manchester is currently suffering from massive air quality issues, due to wildfires caused in part due to climate change.

I’m hoping these are just early teething problems and Andy has at least had some good ideas for short term policies or for his big ideas on council housing or devolution. But I just have a horrible feeling. Surely you know who your chancellor will be before you become leader?

Number of higher and additional UK taxpayers rises 35% in 3 years ft.trib.al/nxnmUVQ

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps I just dreamed the New Labour period, given that every day on here some pro-Starmer clown seems perplexed by the existence of economic liberalism and visibly no-one in the Labour leadership wants to recreate it.

Labour's days of being unserious about power are definitely coming to a middle.

FUNDAMENTALLY UNSERIOUS CLAXON

If I had £1 for every time a Labour PM came to power with no real plan for governing despite having months or years to think it over, I'd have £2, but it's weird it happened twice

Feel we are dangerously close to Ed Miliband explicitly being called a slur by a Senior Labour Source

This sounds like a man who should be arrested for rape

If this case progresses, it will be an interesting reckoning for Reform’s position on online speech It relates to a post on X, but Lucy Connolly was celebrated as a "political prisoner" and given a speaking slot at Reform conference after being jailed for an X post

Seems *anyone* is the running for Chancellor: 🤷

"Unfortunately to the exam question: how do we win a second full term of government, the one answer which seems ruled out, is learning from the only time in the party’s 120-year history it has ever done so."

A woman dreams about a child she doesn’t know.

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

Two ways to read this imo: 1. He’s too weak to get rid of her, so he’s shuffling her as they have alignment on the economy. A concerning approach for both sides of the coin. 2. He was concerned about the impact of Ed Milliband as CX on markets or wider labour movement, both bad judgements imo.

The argument that this is a way of getting her out of the Home Office so they can moderate on immigration feels like bargaining, but also, like, if he can’t demote someone who’s been waging a one-woman war against her own government for the last month, he’s just straight-up weak

Contrary to whst the 20 remaining ultras on here think: no, history will not remember Keir Starmer's premiership kindly. The best he can hope for – and the likeliest outcome by far – is that history will barely remember his premiership at all.

Seeing a lot of this type of post. It's not like she tripped and fell at the Home Office into implementing draconian policies, so from a 'could she do the job of Chancellor?' perspective it makes sense. It's just being a decadent globalist I don't think we need 'Reevesism 2.0'.

You can't call someone racist burning ethnic minorities out of their houses racist or someone trying to ban trans people from public spaces transphobic, but you can call a lad in a pub in Livingston anti-English for not supporting England at the football. Tedious, tedious, tedious party

I don’t ever remember members of UK governments being like this about Scots and ABE before. It’s not offensive, it’s just really, really weird. It’s like your mum trying to get you to play with her friend’s kid who you don’t like.

It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

I don’t think this is true but if it is….I’m terribly pessimistic.

Malcolm Tucker to Ben Swain, “We've fucking time travelled, yes? We're in a weird and wonderful world where everything is different!”. Great when anyone seems unable to grasp the linearity of time and events.