I disagree with the vast majority of this thread, but this is true. So many non-fiction books on current topics contain huge amounts of padding

Also, no ‘best Traitor ever’ discussion should take place without the first Australian series being mentioned

I’m sure it’ll be fine if we just announce Trump as the winner of The Traitors

The thing about the Grid is that it’s not just meant to be just a comms tool. The idea really is that it also gives Downing St oversight of what departments are doing and more central grip. If you’re just letting gaps in the Grid dictate the No10 agenda then the whole thing is working backwards.

Badenoch has missed a trick not doing her sacking Jenrick video like his fare dodging one. Chasing him through Portcullis House saying 'you're bang to rights'.

If the government genuinely believes this stat then boy am I confused about what they think the next election is going to look like for them

this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.

Five RTs. Six Likes. It would be more cost effective for Defra comms officials to dial random phone numbers and launch into a spiel about otters or whatever.

Not saying there's unconscious racial bias in this country but... #TheTraitors

These are all boring dad choices?

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

My gut instinct on this is that so much of the Reform surge is down to the power of Farage's personality that there are maybe three or four Tories where this is actually a risk. For the rest I just think it adds to their sense of momentum

As this great thread is doing the rounds again, for me it will always be this

Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

This, from the FT, is almost the perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening about this government. ‘If a convenient thing had happened we wouldn’t have had to agree to do something which we actually think is stupid.’

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Your boyfriend tells Susie Dent that she absolutely nailed her word of the day

Introduce a tax on parliamentary speeches that have a call and response bit

Definitely gives me more confidence in the OBR’s numbers to know they can’t tell the time

OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'

Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

I have had to pop over to X to stop you posting that bloody Guardian screenshot about Starmer

Not sure if there’s ever been a list of ‘worst political briefings of all time’ but what has come out of No10 this evening is a high new entry

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Man, this person in No10 really wants to get something off their chest about a career bureaucrat who takes ages to make decisions for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on

If you’re going to post a supposedly unhinged literary opinion. Please make it unhinged, I’m just getting quote tweets with stuff like ‘EM Forster was a bit overrated’.

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

Have had it up to here with people who think telling you off for pointing out racist things are racist makes them the modern day equivalent of Philip Gould.

We have another “Let Keir Be Keir” quote by a cabinet member doing the rounds. As any student of politics knows, the moment this appears the politician in question is doomed

If Labour MPs really are approvingly sharing the essay here then maybe the problem isn’t Starmer

There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.

Lib Dem MPs having literally no idea how hard it is to get ‘cut through’. Part of an endless series that has been going on since the party was founded.

I am not convinced that getting Keir Starmer to say the same thing about Angela Rayner six times is the open goal some people seem to think it is

“Fancy working in Downing Street? The hours are brutal and it’s high stress.” “Is there much job security?” “Most people last a year before being sacked.” “And will I get a reference?” “Oh yes. After you get kicked out we’ll tell the newspapers you were shit.”

Sometimes when dealing with the comms around a bad story you put down the blunt reasoning for a decision to help begin the process of turning it into something palatable. Here they just… used that as the statement?

it's time for the most fiendish literary quiz of the year. "Who said it - John Wycliffe or Wyclef Jean"

Terrific times. Trying to convey a message of ‘don’t panic, but also make sure you aren’t at risk of running out of petrol’. What could possibly go wrong?

This is a wonderful piece about all the times that people hit him (and includes an incredible Stanley Holloway line that I won’t spoil in advance): www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

Seeing the original Naked Gun as a sullen teenager with my father and both of us ending up helpless with laughter will always be one of my favourite memories.

scientists have been working for years on formulating the text of a social media promo post that would be impossible to ever convert into a single click and they are finally ready to share their findings

Anthony Seldon writing a piece of analysis that should never have been published? Colour me shocked!

The next few years are going to be an enjoyable drumbeat of Conservatives discovering what it means when you're not one of the big two in a two-party system. Wait until they work out what being the third (or even fourth) party is like in Parliament! conservativehome.com/2025/07/15/n...

Strongly agree with this. No10 aside - where they get a lot of spads- we are still basically marooning inexperienced people in massive departments

Live Aid was shit, though. Sorry.

New Bluesky slogan just dropped.

Anthony Seldon weirdly just seems to regularly say things that imply he doesn’t know that much about the history of Prime Ministers or politics. Despite it having been his career