Definitely worth a read after the exhausting rollercoaster of last week. Cathartic analysis from @iandunt.bsky.social #politics #burnham #labour open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Strange world where a Bulgarian Olivia Rodrigo lookalike singing nonsense saves us from literally weeks of discourse.

This from Marina Hyde just sums everything up perfectly 👌🏼🫠 #labour #burnham #politics #farage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

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Leeds United will play Premier League football next season. Like it was ever in doubt. #lufc

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No10’s account is incredible. I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Govt line today is that they can’t believe how bad their own vetting process is, a vetting process they themselves repeatedly pointed to during the Mandelson affair, a process they’re now saying they were ignorant about. That they didn’t understand it, nor sought to. Suboptimal

We arn't hungary yet.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start

Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism. For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.

Good news from Hungary this evening 😁

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New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

Further evidence of the neurodevelopmental consequences of Covid exposure on the developing brain. WTF are we doing to our future? #covid www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This statement, ironically, is closer to the truth for Farage's own constituency and own voters - where levels of economic inactivity are much higher than the national average.

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Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

My response to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Sky News interview 👇

When you begin a statement with "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people..." you are absolutely NOT apologising. You are trying to excuse yourself.

Bluesky asking me what's up...everything mate, everything...

The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

This man must surely be cognitively impaired?!

The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.

For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.

If Starmer had a sense of humour he'd immediately launch a pact with Ed Davey to allow 46 Labour MPs to join the Lib Dems

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

Are we honestly expected to believe that Jenrick wasn't going to join Reform today?

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1727... I watched this a little while ago. Starting to look like the US will be in this place before too long. Horrendous scene in Minneapolis today 💔🙏

“The reason other American presidents have exercised more restraint is they know long-term there is a cost” What is the price of Trump’s fear of looking weak on the world stage?

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.

In watching all the coverage yesterday this was the question in my mind and, as @chrischirp.bsky.social says in the following post to this one, we can't know!!

I'm somewhat suspicious that delay is to improve the chances of it being a three way contest for the final checkpoint... 🤨 #ratw #raceacrosstheworld

How me and the boys starting things this #Caturday 😸 #lazyday

BBC playing us for fools with this defensive line up proposal 😅 Bronze in the centre?!

It's #Caturday and also #Strictly. Albert is pretty nonchalant about both 😸

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

Just updated to Android 16. Jury is certainly going to be out for some time methinks... 😒