Classic Starmer in that he thinks a response to a real problem is "make someone else publish a thing" and also in that you can be 100% sure he will never mention this again after today (like the dozens of other big announcements that he 'really believes in' etc that he then never mentions again)

He don't not miss

The police (and the Met in particular) are broadly the only public service who think it's appropriate to behave like an autonomous political actor and they've done it before in various forms, eg www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...

Bluesky

W. Stankes very relatable imo

These are so good 👍

Will 100s of UK profs that signed statements supporting Stock due to the falsely claimed suppression of her speech by Sussex express outrage over being lied to in order to (1) further the career of Stock and (2) force unis to remove statements protecting trans faculty/students from harassment?

This is absolutely insane ha ha

The conference stuff didn't "backfire" at all imo. It established him as a legit contender who wanted the job (previously both of these weren't clear) and has stalled a contest ever since because if he's not part of it the next leader will be perceived as illegitimate/a caretaker.

fascinating piece on the politics of housing in Singapore, Mecca of the YIMBYS and world's biggest council estate www.global-developments.org/p/trouble-in...

High on the list when Starmer finally goes is to defenestrate, and ideally abolish, the ridiculous Tory "office for students" org that has somehow been allowed to operate uninhibited for the last 2 years.

Liberal and progressive voters have simply had enough of subsidising - politically and indeed financially - the fantasies of Bance and the tendency she represents here, and that is not going to change.

V annoying when someone who was given her seat as a last minute stitch up having had no association with it at all before in her life gets to call it "my ends"

I'm sure lots of MPs can do their jobs perfectly fine after a few drinks but the real question is ... Should they? Is it necessary? No. I don't buy the idea that drinking on the job is "normal British behaviour", sorry. It wouldn't be accepted in the vast majority of workplaces

It absolutely blew my mind seeing how casually MPs and staffers would go between a drinks reception/one of the bars and then into voting or a crucial meeting. I'm no puritan about alcohol but you're making such important decisions! On taxpayer subsidised booze, no less

🧵Labour MPs' reaction to Hannah Spencer pointing out Westminster's awful drinking culture is so utterly ridiculous Hannah is 100% right. The first time I went to Westminster as a journalist, this was my main takeaway www.thenational.scot/news/2605470...

Now confirmed by @neso-energy.bsky.social – Great Britain set a new record for minimum gas/fossil fuel generation yesterday afternoon

This is Borat Subsequent Movifilm erasure

Enjoyed this very quiet bit out loud quote

Justin Trudeau é filho do Fidel Castro

Quite funny but the premise (that bluesky doesn't like this guy because it's the last bastion of woke 1.0) is wrong imo. Well the bit about consensus being aggressively policed is right, but the point is the consensus position itself is somewhat random.

Next time just @ me

"McSweeney actually really good and successful but [details redacted]... sadly had to resign 18 months later" funny precis

If it was running to deliver a doordash burrito they'd be all over it

V funny how mad bluesky is about this

Me to my civil service colleagues: i will notte be seen Deade with Mandelson now the vetting hath done a Numbre on him me when Sir Keir asks me if the Mandelson appointment will be finalised soon: Most certinly Sir. Vetting gets bettre every Week Sir

peter mandelson failed his vetting? wow. i didn’t know that - you’re telling me now for the very first time. what can you say? the permanent secretary did a terrible job. a terrible man doing a terrible job. i’m actually absolutely furious to hear that. i am furious.

This is, with more context, such a great paragraph. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

This is less dignified than that BBC reporter who just stands on the beach in Dover every day counting how many small boats land

Today v much ‘Al Capone Tax Evasion’ day for the Sir Beer Korma truthers amongst us

Mandelson surely the most "ah! nevertheless," story of all time. A rolling series of "ah! nevertheless," events, each one superseding the last, until everyone involved is dead.

This second one here is so aggravating ffs lol

When someone tells you they'll base the country's future energy security off of North Sea gas, they're not being honest with you. 14 years & a policy of 'maxing out' the basin produced only 36 days worth of gas to date www.theguardian.com/business/202...

At last the targeted ads getting my interests right

This is a very good article, and provides useful confirmation of the always likely presumption that the people behind the campaign are only partially committed racists, but are also partially low-level criminal scum of the common or garden variety.

It's very funny the quality of stuff Guardian pundits get paid (apparently a lot) for. You have to laugh don't you.

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

"LLMs are NFTs" is the surest sign of a brain completely pickled by bluesky

BBC must surely get thousands of these submitted so it's great they choose to publish amazing insight like "the bucket hat is packed away for another campaign"

Labour fine tuning their offer to appeal to absolutely no one, really impressive!

Straight groovin’ Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - Tackoo youtu.be/HdXP7Ew4IZM?... #musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

If you’re local to Tower Hamlets (or even if you’re not) please consider signing this petition against the council granting more rights to cars than people c.org/YxZ2y8k9Jk

This week's #itfc blog - on something unforgivable bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/p/speechless

Got the BBC to make a correction on one of its transphobic articles 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/...

Feels like there is a lot of revisionism about this (including on here). Truss didn't want to do the energy price guarantee, she was forced to do it because essentially everyone else across the political spectrum thought it was essential because otherwise the price cap would have trebled.

Again the contrast between these women and Shabana Mahmood - who has chosen to waste her life making the lives of others worse for the sake of a brief period in office - is stark. Mahmood’s story should be taught to girls as an example of what not to aspire to. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Always wondered what happened to this lad Sixsmith. Back in the early 10s he co edited the great "Boris Watch" site which was firmly on the left, now he's fulminating about "mass migration" in the classic Powellite style. Maybe got kicked in the head by a horse at some point.

To summarise today: – Brent oil finished $100, up 43% on February – European pipeline gas finished €56/MWh, up 80% on February Get those solar panels, wind turbines, grid upgrades, grid batteries, EVs, and heat pumps installed. No investment in oil and gas.