Yes. Yes they do.

This is... quite the position to take for the leader of the opposition

I appreciate not much should surprise me, especially regarding hypocrisy on the right, but I am genuinely shocked at how quickly the apparent accepted wisdom of 'interventionalism is obviously bad, we've learned and shouldn't do it again' has entirely evaporated literally overnight in some quarters.

I believe this may be the first instance of a government Minister resigning in disgrace who is YOUNGER THAN ME This is not acceptable

"And that's just in important meetings"

This is exactly how everyone should treat Reform when they talk about abolishing the Equality Act. It's an easy line to show ankle to bigots who see equality as an attack on their freedom to discriminate, but when challenged on the detail they have nothing. They've got away with it far too long.

Let's all laugh at Australia 🤭🤭🤭🤭 #T20WC

This is insanely chaotic. Unacceptable that local democracy has been messed around in this way. Those who made the original decision should be considering their positions.

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Um, this is quite mad. Who is it even supposed to appeal to? Not sure anybody wants another election right now, outside of the far-right.

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Very obvious case of trying to get any potential controversy out there *before* challenging the leadership, seeing how it lands. Wes will do anything for power.

Just to be completely clear, Sarwar is also absolutely awful

There's literally like 10 weird young guys in the pictures, always the same ones

Wes Streeting sitting vibrating like an excited child waiting for Christmas after that PMQs

To be fair, I also dont want to inadvertently find myself with 15 minutes of Sharron Davies

Weren't we supposed to have a prominent defector from Labour to Reform yesterday? 👀

Honestly think Matt Goodwin as the Reform candidate, plus no big name Green candidate, means Gorton and Denton will be a fairly comfortable Labour hold in the end

I actually don't think Trump seems particularly aware of whats going on in Minnesota, and whenever he comments on the deaths he seems uncomfortable that they're happening The whole approach screams of Miller, a genuine psychopath, having basically taken over the running of it all behind the scenes

Always edifying to see another recruit to the 'deport my own parents' wing of Reform Zahawi still excelling by being in the 'deport people exactly like me' camp

Always nice to see Labour continuing their proud tradition of 'hating each other more than they hate anybody else' depending on what faction they represent

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Difficult to have the words on what is happening in Minneapolis. It looks as if the guy who got shot was initially trying to diffuse the situation. A frame in one video then shows a masked thug shooting him from behind, whilst he was on the ground, execution style. Surely ICE must be withdrawn.

If Burnham uses this to be a big voice for Proportional Representation in Westminster then he could be a fantastic voice, one that goes down in history If he just goes in being another Labour MP, it will be a monumental waste of all of our time

Rachel has clung on by her fingertips for so many episodes. Stephen giving up 50k for their promise is spectacular TV #TheTraitors

There is presumably a limit at which this gets less funny every time you watch it I am yet to reach that limit

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Well this Trump Press Conference is already insane I haven't actually seen him speak for a while but this is even more incoherent and rambling than he used to be. Just an absolute mess

Well this is obviously insane

The UK public love banning stuff for *other people* to fix *their* bad behaviour, so I worry that this may end up going further People are obsessed with young people on social media, but the impact of social media on adults goes is just as damaging Regulation & actual enforcement. Not blanket bans

Wait, Daniel Hannan was... wrong about something?! Well, I never

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm sure as hell glad we've got politicians who have spent the last decade pissing off the EU in an attempt to cosy up to the US... Oh

I am so fascinated to know what these people think 'conservatism' is

Watching the Jenrick Press Conference: Really hoping a journalist asks him in the manner of Mrs Merton: "What was it about losing the Tory leadership contest that helped you realise that the Tories had broken Britain?"

I feel very similarly about Jenrick as I do about Truss. Get widely reported for years as if they're a normal and competent human beings and then... you actually hear them speak and it's just 'no, this person is a lunatic with a single very lonely brain cell'

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Iraqi-born child refugee Zahawi, with tax avoiding history, joins party that hates immigrants, wants to deport former refugees and castigates politicians for their tax affairs. Obviously.

Gotta be honest guys, this seems... less than ideal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stephen Miller is just straightforwardly, cartoonishly evil. A caricature of a villain in a kids show. It's insane that such an open, obvious psychopath is effectively running the US government and nobody in any official capacity seems bothered with trying to stop him. I wonder what broke him.

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A good job the Tories aren't led by a dual national who has previously admitted to committing a criminal offence or anything then, I guess That sort of thing could really get awkward, politically

Went to an Isthmian league football match today for the first time, to a ground in an area that isnt traditionally the most progressive On a couple of occasions the fans spontaneously burst into renditions of 'homophobia, we say no... racism, we say no... sexism, we say no' Was oddly touched by it

This is absolutely fucking outrageous. Labour literally just cancelling elections after candidates have already been announced and campaigning started, because they know they're going to lose them.

This is... pretty staggering? Firstly, how on earth does an actual call like this get leaked? But then, the content?! The US's starting point is that Russia take Donetsk and some other land? And then Witkoff himself, not Russia, proposes the call before Zelensky's meeting in order to head him off?

I dont feel great about it, but increasingly starting to feel this. Successive governments have lazily leaned far too hard on the 'look, we increased minimum wage, we dont hate poorer people' lever to excuse inaction on rising cost of housing & living, and cutting the welfare bill, without investing

This feels very typical of Labour's wider attitude towards centralisation. An overwhelming feeling that putting decision-making into the hands of an individual or small number of people is more efficient and accurate. It never is, only compounds errors and in-built biases.

Whisper it quietly, but Australia look a bit rubbish at cricket... there for the taking

Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.

The EHRC guidance, as described by the Times here, reads as being *insane*. Cruel for the sake of being cruel, ridiculously exclusionary and explicitly discriminatory.

"Its taken us 18 months to remember we have morals" is quite the flex