You have to wonder how exactly it was possible for the Labour Together lads to pull off “One of the greatest deceptions in the history of British politics” undetected, when they were in close and constant contact with the country’s foremost, best remunerated political journalists. A real enigma here

"Everyone was gonna stay home with video tapes, but guess what!? No! They wanna go out! No one was gonna watch network except you give it zing, and they do. You make your own reality. And once you've done it, apparently, everyone's of the opinion it was all so fucking obvious."

I’ve read many books on this subject and often been left with the feeling that I’d been cornered in a pub by a lunatic. I wanted to write something that made the reader feel they were in the company of a friend. I think I’ve done that. I hope you buy it; and enjoy it.

Pogrund himself speaking, here: Nobody wanted unsparing scrutiny, as you’ll remember well. That’s how it was, and what everyone thought.

When the shenanigans are directed against the scum left / When the shenanigans misfire and hit a member of the (powerless) [legitimate] journalist class

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Absolutely HORRIFIC.

When I was younger, I believed in winning people over with debates and smart fact-based arguments, West Wing style. That’s democracy, I thought. I think the last ten years have shown beyond doubt that there are no facts, there is no debate. There’s just these shitheads saying: Fuck you, we decide.

I've just ordered this and you should too. Not because I say so but because it will be ace.

Some pretty detailed Noticing Things here

It would be good to know when else Labour Together and their fellow travellers have sent dossiers of information to Britain's Intelligence Agencies and on whom.

A good point here: is it only journos that Labour Together were vexatiously reporting to the spies for bullshit - for being inconvenient and getting in their way - and if it wasn’t, what did the spooks do with the info they were sent?

The Times knows this is what Labour Together is about, because Times staff collaborated closely with Labour Together to do exactly the kind of smeary hate campaigns they’re now bleating about.

It would be really great to read an article about young boys that didn't have Adolescence and "crisis" as its reference points. There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls. Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.

Who's ready for the biggest event of the year, The Liverpool Pancake Race 🥞

14 Chefs 3 Laps 2 Heats 1 Churchyard

I talk a big game on here but I got a pancake race on Good Morning Britain today

"It is a very good time to stop applying the terms “high skilled” and “low skilled” to entire occupations". Great point by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/0409... As I said here, "skill" is an ideological construct, not a technical one: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/skill-as-i...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Huge day.

You'll be pleased to learn the Charli XCX Wuthering Heights soundtrack is marvellous. Far, far better than it has any need to be. Which is always my favourite type of work.

Can anyone read this in any other way than that Epstein was using cryptocurrency to fund Bannon's antics with Farage, Johnson, Salvini and Le Pen?

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

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It is absolutely a choice.

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

TAW column About the people who bring the game into disrepute more than most others. www.theanfieldwrap.com/2026/02/foot...

NEW: One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments. They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics." We are going to teach it anyway. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

"can we count on your vote in this election?"

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

NB Not everything that is shit is necessarily generated by AI. Worth reminding ourselves that bored humans in meeting rooms are still eminently capable of making dreadful creative decisions without the involvement of computers

I know 'trying to make Kemi Badenoch's views make any consistent sense' is how I will end up going insane, but that she went from 'sneering at legal but harmful, and weirdly opposed to Adolescence' to 'arguably the single biggest reason the UK is moving towards a u-16 ban from social media': !!

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

And it is for threads like this that you too should be following @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social

Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.

Zero confusion about what Europeans should do. Acquire capabilities necessary for defense of Europe. Smartly reduce vulnerabilities to coercion & blackmail by China & US. Invest in revival of European industry & technology. Work together where interests are aligned. It‘s quite simple.

This is indeed a very good piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social. The 'western' model of growth is obviously broken, in need of taking on forces of inertia. My hypothesis is the interaction of ageing population and globalisation has delivered risk averse institutions perfect for incumbent capture.

New substack: politics is not about cosy debates or soundbites on silly TV shows. It’s about conflicts of interest. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/economic-g...

Deep down they are terrified of women seeing how small they are katemanne.substack.com/p/the-id-of-...

Go and see Martin if you can. He's without a doubt the most interesting and engaging voice on all things JFK and I could have done 256 hours with him on it. This will be truly fascinating and fun.

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

Matt was absolutely delighted to repeat the smears that Gabriel and Labour Together produced in partnership. He had the time of his life repeating and embellishing them for his audience. What he’s saying here is an insult to the public’s intelligence, a giant roaring Fuck You to the country.

One of my favourite things is when journalists attack people for never running a proper company, having a real job etc.

Good to see Richard Nixon getting work at the heart of the Labour Party.

Just not stopping Rushie are you. Strong argument him and Alan Shearer are the two most underrated English top flight footballers of my lifetime.

Josh Simons is the minister holding the brief on Labour's flagship tech programme, digital ID. Wonder what impact this will have/is having on the programme, which is already running some months behind the ambitious timeline set out last year.

Lots of govt tech policy has been somewhat inexplicable this last year. The role of TBI is well known and something we all took for granted, and while ofc Palantir's relationship with the UK public services pre-dates this administration, there are some big Qs to be answered about Global Counsel

This will be marvellous.