Just thinking back to when Labour got in and people were talking about how being in government lets you set the agenda, terms of debate etc and how this would change discourse on what is possible etc. Anyway they've had a year and none of that has happened because they're so abjectly useless. Bad.

I shouldn't be surprised at this stage, still less annoyed. And yet!

Reform UK: send 'em back Labour source: *them

The people who made this claim were projecting their dislike of seeing views that contradicted their own (and that they came from people who lacked visible credentials eg they weren't a journo, "polling commentator" etc). Well they have their wish now and I'm sure they're enjoying themselves.

Is it all paracetamol or specifically paracetamol sold under the brand name Tylenol.

If enacted in the terms suggested, this policy would leave children, disabled people, pensioners and anyone unfortunate enough to lose their job (including for being “foreign”, since Reform will also have torn up employment protections) destitute and on the streets

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

Lots of terrible stuff in this but "banning dual citizenship" a bit of a buried lede www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

"Minibreak with mates" 💀💀💀

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Hey, I wrote about the new Wednesday album. Good band! uproxx.com/indie/wednes...

Left of Labour person eyeing up another statement

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Reshuffle already looking even more (1) hubristic than it did at the time (2) like a relic of a failed strategy but now they're stuck with it. Funny. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

My view is they're trying to fix the wrong problem: They focussed on supply-side planning reforms that will be important over the longer-term but appear to not realise that what we are actually facing is a more immediate crisis in demand at current prices and rates. builtplace.com/market-comme...

MHCLG estimating that "196,500 net additional homes have been delivered in England between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025". The numbers are heading in the wrong direction for the government to get anywhere near their 1.5m target and they'll be lucky to hit 1m at this rate.

BBC 6 music is like that was Fun Boy 3 now we'll play a statement from an IDF general

They should stop putting news on the BBC music stations imo. Just as a matter of self interest as it probably reduces consent for the licence fee to hear that shit.

Gen X men realising there's a topical reason to post a Judean People's Front joke

Khan to deport all the lads with "northerner exiled in Hackney" in bio

You know a book is going to slap when there are maps like this in it

The Ovenden effect @lobstereo.bsky.social?

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

think they can come to an agreement where zara sultana takes the membership dues and the independent mp’s can simply raise the equivalent from their buy to let portfolios

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Andrew Sparrow sounding increasingly rattled nowadays

A Medway school is giving away a Reform football shirt as part of an essay writing contest on how the party has 'obliterated' the two-party system. They say this is all normal, and they do this for all parties. Students, parents, and other politicians disagree. Our exclusive story:

Led by Donkeys reign of terror at last at an end www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As other people are saying, D wins this so hard that it's shocking.

Great film twitter bit from the big man here. "He made seven or eight great movies... there was a period of time when he was the hottest"

I was curious about the “private message” release which Ovenden called “chilling”, and how a 3rd party could obtain such things legally. So I read 4 articles until I found one that was even slightly curious about that, which explained it was on an IM system provided by his employer for work purposes

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Woodward: whoa I just found a cache of incriminating emails! Bernstein (mildly surprised): you mean the ones from 8 years ago? Woodward: shut up and type, Carl

Even if we disregard the uncomfortable racially-charged and misogynistic aspect of the conversation itself, the balance of probabilities is that Ovenden is boasting about committing an act of sexual harassment, likely of a junior colleague. /END

I'm not, nor have I ever been, a young woman in the workplace, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that Ovenden's graphic conversation with a female colleague about her having sex with a Labour MP was NOT ENTIRELY consensual on her part. 1)

huge huge response already to our rally for paul ovenden next weekend. remember to bring your own resignation letters for the mass tearing up of them when we arrive outside parliament to show starmer what he should have done.

I'm sorry but I will not be gaslit by austerity-era spads into accepting the idea that trebling tuition fees was sensible grown-up politics (let alone all of the other austerity shit that he signed up to and which has fucked the country long term)

Why didn't his supposedly massive brain and brilliant instincts and intellect stop him from sending all those vile messages about a female black Labour MP?

4 b&w films that aren't boring

Sick, sick people!

"If we lose this guy you've never heard of the government will somehow be even more shit!" not the most convincing line tbh

Starmer project maybe falling apart a little too quickly for my liking now. I still have reserves of spite left from the Corbyn era and would ideally like it to be more drawn out and painful than this. Next May is fine.

The BBC cutting access to the archive, and now apparently cutting Genome, speaks volumes about the complete lack of PSB credentials among leadership there now. Like I said below, this is what happens when you let go your institutional memory and replace it with tech bros who used to run Just Eat.

There’s a very specific reason for this - stuffing the decks for people with authority over the BBC, internally and externally, with people who do not care about the public service bit of public service broadcasting.

"You can't just call people racists" is disingenuous strawmanning at the best of times. But invoked in reference to a *far right rally*? Farcical. What it amounts to now is "you can't identify racism when its staring you in the face". And well, we tried that approach didn't we? And here we are.

Not a lawyer but I feel like if public authorities intend to give rights to a group, that the authorities and the group perceive they have those rights, and they spend 15 years exercising those rights, then they do actually have those rights whether the supreme court thinks so or not.

boys with the time machine: wow. so this is kowloon walled city

He told me of my Jane’s cutting off a carpenter’s long mustacho, and how the fellow cried, and his wife would not come near him a great while, believing that he had been among some of his wenches. At which I was merry, though I perceive they discourse of it as a crime of hers.