Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."

Important point from @chrisgiles.ft.com. Not only has this largely been forgotten, it's been occluded by many of those same economists now defending Brexit by arguing that the actual damage is less than is now estimated, as if their case had been 'it won't be too bad' and not 'it will be positive'.

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

UK PM, England cricket captain, Scottish football manager resign over the last six days. Anyone else wanna quit? How about some really evil, shit leaders for a change? #BenStokes

To borrow a famously apocryphal remark attributed to Laurence Olivier, it's all about authenticity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Not that I don't trust Mr Banker but I had to check this was true and.... Christ on a bike, the brass neck on this fella share.google/UGToAwIdibgp...

A brilliant journalist and a lovely person too I got to know David a little bit when I first worked in Parliament in the early 2000s His journalism brought down Neil Hamilton, Mandelson (the 1st time), and in his latter years his campaigning journalism highlighted the case of the WASPI women RIP

Excellent news.

Good read from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on climate sceptics still existing in 2026 🥵 #BeyondParody #DontLookUp

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

If today's Daily Mail headline is anything to go by it's pretty clear how that newspaper will viciously attack anyone to the left of Nigel Farage

Four years ago Roe v Wade was overturned. Meanwhile, in London this week, Nigel Farage spoke at the 'Alliance for Responsible Citizenship' conference attended by well-funded anti-abortion campaigners. ARC is bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall. Since 2024 GB News has paid Farage £700k.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

It is only very large cities that will not be severely affected by university shrinkage or collapse. A loss of students and universities in mid-sized places like York, Coventry, Exeter, Southampton will change the area fundamentally. In many, universities are the second biggest employer, after NHS.

Maybe Burnham could get Starmer to represent him in court?

Democratic politics can't be sustained with this level of disinformation and misinformation. Action needs to be taken.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Possibly. But there must be others who meet the criteria outlined below? Or is the quality in the Labour Party as poor as the Tories? Surely not.

Again and again and again, a person losing their job at a Post-92 uni is every bit the equal of a person losing their job at a Russell Group uni. They might even be their collaborator. Or their editor. But hierarchy gets headlines.

Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, but he couldn’t even fix a pool.

Quite. Nick Macpherson puts it well. Burnham needs to get a grip on his team because his loose, freewheeling approach in GM isn’t going to work in No 10

You already got one, and you didn't like it.

Nigel Farage is running the bizarre line again on Today that he "wasn't in politics" when he stuffed £5 million down his trousers from a crypto-billionaire. He literally owned a political party.

Vox pop on Burnham: 'well, Starmer said he was for the working people. So it would be nice if there was a rise in the state pension' FFS - what can you say to this and secondly, how can the editor let this rubbish go out on the airwaves #ITVnews

FFS, Peston is a joke #ITVnews

I understand the logic of having wall to wall political coverage on the BBC news channel (it's a rolling 24 hours news channel) but why is it also on BBC1? Surely you're pissing off loads of viewers who are not interested.

This basically. Labour has relentlessly increased the salience of the issues Reform prioritises, whilst winning over basically no Reform voters, and simultaneously alienating their own base. It's just terrible politics.

Probably true, but there's no point being shackled to a corpse. I'm not persuaded voters give a monkey's about the manifesto, as long as you get the economy going and public services improving - and show some tangible progress on stopping the boats and closing the hotels.

That resignation statement! With Beethoven’s Ode to Joy being blasted out in the background for half of it and then silence. The Rest is Silence and then noise…

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

It really is noticeable that there are a lot fewer England flags up everywhere than there were in the last World Cup, presumably because nobody wants to be mistaken for those clowns who were putting them up everywhere for no good reason last year.

Haha. Goodwin, so-called polling 'expert' gets it wrong yet again. Why anyone rated him when he was an academic is beyond me.

Don’t be ridiculous.

If Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, he'll have been the first PM to have been to Cambridge since Stanley Baldwin, the first Andrew since Bonar Law, and the first guilty of crimes against hairdressing since Boris Johnson.

I see Stephen Kinnock is at Andy Burnham's victory event today. Has he taken a day off being a junior minister? Has he resigned? Is he hoping for a Cabinet post?

It is extremely important that Labour understands that the movement of voters between Lab and Ref was not the crucial factor, it was consolidation of the anti-Ref vote and Lab voters turning out in droves. Otherwise Burnham will make the same mistakes as Starmer in targeting only one set of voters.

Prepare for reindustrialisation #Burnham

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.

Prepare to be disappointed.

When the final analysis of the Government is written, doing things two years late and then only half heartedly will be a core theme. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Wow. Burnham beat Farage so badly he isn't even whining about postal votes.

If this happens and it’s all doomed anyway, please just make Ed Miliband PM and go on a glorious, two fingers up three year bender of nice things. You know deep down you want to. It might even help electorally.

Today’s note: on the cuts at the BBC. The problem has a simple cause - in 2010, the licence fee was £220 in today’s money. Now it is £180.

Orban's loss in Hungary has really hit the Spikedistas hard, but they're still doing their best to stand up for the real authentic extreme right, not those silly extreme extreme right people...

The idea that Trump and Putin are leaders of great powers, holding the fate of the world in their hands is central to their political identities. They've both just been publicly humiliated by states they thought they could crush. They and their countries are weaker as a result.

Paul McCartney, 84, amazing. Still writing and recording very good stuff. Happy Birthday.

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Is it ‘madness’, as one pundit suggests, to consider dropping Palantir from the NHS? Or is it bonkers to keep supporting Trump loving US tech bros?

Guy who is President saying elections are rigged lol

Croatia: 'these guys are warriors; they never give up'. Oh dear #ENGvsCRO