The dirty tricks against journalists, the runaway borrowing, the choice of welfare over defence, the education crisis, the lies about NHS waiting lists, paying off pervs with peerages. What a legacy!

This should be the end of career for a lot of the commentariat who cheered this lying charlatan on when they should have seen in Opposition how incompetent Starmer is. Never thought there would be a worse PM than Anthony Eden

Look forward to the general election which will follow this, in accordance with Labour Party social media 2016-22

Jamie Varley should have the death penalty. If MPs are going to grant the NHS the power to kill people they can damn well bring back capital justice too.

I think Starmer's Dartmoor pony cull U-turn is number 15 or 16. If he abolishes Natural England I might even vote for him myself.

Elsewhere in Labour politics, Burnham promises the WASPI campaigners £11bn on Wednesday but by Thursday lunchtime it's become vouchers for discounted train tickets. He makes Liz Truss look like a master of strategy

If the government wasn't already up to its neck in chaos John Healey's resignation would be politically significant. As it is, it's merely personally significant because he is a decent bloke who is respected across politics - almost uniquely in this Cabinet

Dangerous sign of how Westminster-centric news media are that a guy can be nearly beheaded in Belfast and it makes no ripples on news bulletins.

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England, said he loves Hasan Piker's "work". Let's take a look at some of the work he was talking about.

As is traditional for ST renewal season, Pompey's ticketing website can't process card payments at the moment

People say print journalism is dying but The News nostalgia section is nailing it with photos of happy times in the past. Who can forget the delights of Gosport in 93?

America, land of the fat

Number crunching: Green candidate in Makerfield by-election, Chris Kennedy From the new Private Eye, out now.

Bizarre new variant of Green Party racism www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

It's quite funny that a Labour right-winger such as Blair succumbs to such emotional spasms. "You cannot do it now. It is not in your hands to do it. All you can do is write a 5000-word essay!"

Defeated Democrat candidate in Texas wanted to create "a prison for American Zionists". The Dems could do with a dumping ground for their more extreme antisemites in the way the Green Party became one for Labour here www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Labour's "Nationalise Morrisons" thing because they are shutting 100 convenience shops should be contrasted with the "Labour ignoring the 100s of pubs shutting every month" thing

I have got past the point where I feel sorry for the "Old Greens" who like trees. A vote for the Greens anywhere is a vote for this slop and you all deserve to be nailed for it

This is hilarious. Sally Rooney is no longer sufficiently antisemitic for the rest of the nutters unherd.com/newsroom/pro...

As a #pompey fan, I’ve enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude over #spygate but as the dust settles, in the spirit of solidarity with the innocent fans, which counts for most, I commend this piece to you by a #saintsfc fan on how the sorry situation unfolded. everyopeneye.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

The Reeves bus gimmick ignores the real bus crisis, which is that many older people who have free bus passes have stopped using them since Covid, because they aren't leaving their homes. There is an isolation crisis and free buses are clearly a hopeless social policy tool.

This is one of the problems with having a political class who never had real jobs in sectors like retailing. It's a batshit crazy idea and the "need" for it is driven by Labour's own idiotic tax policy www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

MOULTON: I'm not asking you to talk about the Iran nuclear program. I'm asking you to talk about the English language. What's the difference between 'obliterated' and 'significantly degraded'? Are they the same? ADM COOPER ... MOULTON: Why did we start this war? Was President Trump lying to us?

The people pointing out the horrendous anti-Semitism are the problem. OK, got it

May's reforms to social care funding were rejected in 2017 and her paltry majority prevented her getting a much better deal with the EU through. Calling the election was poor judgement and voting for Opposition parties were both poor calls by all involved.

Israeli man brutally beaten up by group of men in Golders Green after speaking Hebrew www.thejc.com/news/uk/isra...

It's hard to square Greens opposing Burnham in Manchester when they prop up Labour in local government in many places, eg Havant. The real "uniparty" is on the left.

Congratulations to Wes Streeting for managing to out-Jess Phillips Jess Phillips in his resignation letter. A masterpiece

Streeting's interminable resignation reminds me of David Mitchell pointing at a football yelling "Watch it, watch it, it's gonna move!" It's been absolutely ridiculous

If your King's Speech is going to promise legislation to ban new UK oil and gas in the middle of a global energy and cost of living crisis, you'd probably have been better off postponing while you have your civil war

Note to editors: Streeting believes in shoving people under tube trains, not buses

There are 400 Lab MPs and fewer than 100 committed against Starmer. If the whips got a round robin letter signed by 250 MPs, this rebellion would be dead. Starmer's passivity in the face of this tells you everything about him.

Rather than just say "I believe you should resign" it is "Set a timetable for your departure" like Starmer's the ferry to the Isle of Wight. Absolute waste of oxygen every one of them

It's just the comms, then. Not the Truss-plus borrowing costs. Not the crashing investment. Not the job-destroying taxes. Not the dogma pushing living costs to unsustainable levels. Not the moral vacuum in No 10.

I think the King would be quite entitled to say "You work out who is leading my Government first, and then I will come and give you a speech". Having a King's Speech tomorrow is completely pointless.

Jas Athwal, the biggest landlord in the House of Commons (over a dozen properties) calling for Starmer to go. Keeping up Michael Meacher's legacy of Labour rentier landlords opposing their own leadership

If you've got an invite spare Harriet, I quite fancy a go

We will have doormat Labour MPs like Stephen Morgan and Amanda Martin parroting that Starmer got "the big decisions right" as he put it in his speech in the way we had millions of Twitter bots parroting that Johnson got "the big calls right" during Partygate

Zack Polanski liking posts that call female journalists “a smug, sanctimonious cunt”, a “total twat” and a “smearing dickhead” for mildly holding him to account should be more of a scandal imo… www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Imagine thinking the driver of antisemitism in this country is Twitter rather than people driving round North London calling for the rape and murder of Jews and then not getting jail time for it

Well this is quite something. Over on X @harryeccles.bsky.social, a Green candidate on the Isle of Wight, rewrites the famous poem by Martin Niemoller about Nazi erasure. But does so to leave out the Jews.

Another Green crackpot. This guy needs to make his mind up whether Hamas or HCC are more important to his electors www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/2606949...

Nearly forgot the anniversary of this classic. We were shocked to find out Nigel had arrived in Pompey in a Bentley rather than on the bus. He wandered around the fountain in Commercial Rd for five minutes and disappeared. Then this happened!

Green candidates Sabine Mairey and Saiqa Ali have both now been arrested www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

In today's Telegraph. My view of tumble dryers has always been that they burn money, and if I want to do that I can buy cigars. But I know that is a metropolitan liberal elite POV and hard-working families will suffer because of Miliband's latest nonsense

They’re choosing this. They try to insist it’s inescapable, but it’s not. They want to see these atrocities because it makes them feel like they’re doing something.

Believe it or not, these Zack Polanski followers are reacting to the stabbing of two Jewish men in North London.

Somebody told me once that Starmer had been a lawyer. Can't see it myself. www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/gov...

Q: "Was it discussed with the PM that Mandelson's risks were manageable?" A: "Yes" McSweeney confirms what Robbins said happened Starmer stood up the next day after Robbins' testimony in the Commons and denied it