not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

Nice Park Run bro, she nominated me because I'm goofy.

al carns is just gender!

Has anyone posted this here yet? I love how shady they are.

The original "who won legsit."

That's why there's no crying in baseball.

Anecdotal observation about Kemi's tenure as LOTO but it is striking how little we discuss the actual opposition whenever a byelection happens.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Really good piece and I think the counterbalance to the "nobody can hedge the asteroid" remark I've been stealing to explain current buoyancy. There is going to be a moment in the next 6 months where it becomes clear what the dust settling looks like, and it will pop a few bubbles.

"Andy Burnham is doing a great job as mayor of Greater Manchester. We believe it is in the best interests of the party to avoid an unnecessary mayoral election which would use substantial amounts of taxpayers’ money and resources that are better spent tackling the cost of living crisis."

glucose, dextrose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose

"Matt Goodwin was widely understood to be a folk villain, modern historians are skeptical that he could run and lose in every seat in the UK but those who maintain records from before the Faragist Conflict of the 2030s confirm that they have ballot papers with other names ticked for c.580 of them."

If anyone is at a loss next week, I will be interviewing Franz Wild of @tbij.bsky.social on behalf of @tipsnetwork.bsky.social on their revent Voices for Transparency exhibition. It will be a really interesting discussion on some vital journalistic work. www.tipsnetwork.org/events/tips-...

Reminded of Mark Thomas's explanation of this exact phenomena and how he envies orthodox Jews their sense of style.

But, to add, it is good that the Greens are running because voters who want to vote for a Green should be allowed to do so!

He's running

I stayed on Brick Lane a decade ago for a gig not far from that store and I can promise you there were queues into the depth of the night.

Fun fact, if Andy Burnham does win he will be the first PM from Liverpool since Gladstone.

Genuinely a but incredulous at how much Luke seems to have unlearned about being in politics since he was elected.

Adults in the room latest

he seems to be some kind of prehistoric godhead that prophets have long predicted will one day return from the underworld and bring order and justice to the empire. many scholars insist he’s a syncretic figure, drawn from different mesopotamian oral traditions and myths refined over centuries.

And this is assuming that the £5m we know about is the only sum Farage received. Which is not a safe assumption.

God, the IDS comparison is an absolute killer.

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 What if an oak tree falls and nobody hears a sound? The Tories have been talking about recovery this week. But that seems based on an imaginary picture of last week's results. Delulu or just totally diminished? open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

Truly astonishing the degree to which even the "mainstream" right has radicalised. This would be a fireable position 10 years ago.

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?

The Chartists argued for annual elections and in Manchester we're hoping to go beyond even their wildest dreams.

It's amazing how these World Cup actually has worse vibes than Qatar

It's so hard seeing someone else live your dream

It's one of those things that sounds dramatic until you realise you've included the most expansive definition of welfare and the narrowest definition of tax.

Not to distract from the Burnham news, but the fact they can't seem to replace Streeting is...a bad sign?

Andy Burnham in 8 weeks:

Tapping this sign again.

That man is 29

Lisa Nandy finds the monkeys paw Starmer carelessly discarded "the next PM should be an MP for Wigan" she whispers, it curls gently, she smiles.

Hardly the major news story, but Labour managing to literally have a by election to elect a man so they can elect him leader instead of considering any of the 180 odd women already in office is going to become a great topic for a politics of gender seminar one day.

Youngest man to ever do a full Mandelson

I don't know why you're so confused? The disgraced former head of Morgan McSweeney's Labour Right think tank is stepping down to create a space for soft left Andy Burnham to run and remove the Prime Minister he closely supported. This is the Labour party, that's normal.

I...have some follow up questions

nice to see him being so inclusive but Wes, we call them women now

Looking around Labour leadership contenders and asking "so, which of you is the Vladimir, and which of you is the Estragon?"

Live footage

Scottish Parliament getting hot and heavy here

I generally agree with Dan, but I think this is probably a consequence of spending too much time in the industry that he reads "seek specialist advice" as, well, clear professional advice, and not "if you try to sue us, we will rely on this clause."

Genuinely impressive to have found two defences: personal security, reward for Brexit, that make it even more obvious it should have been declared.

Just as an observation, the government does not talk, on any of these issues, like it has delivered on its pledges. Bringing net migration down to its lowest level since Brexit was "a good start." Wes overshadowed his own success by resigning. Shabana Mahmood has not mentioned policing at all.

Trying to work out if blocking the words "Andy Burnham" for my own mental health is worth how incomprehensible it's going to make the discourse on this website.