You'd think that the Royal Navy would have a more immediate need for the modern sense of this term.

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

Can't even be a 17 year old free spirit anymore smh

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

If one assumes Starmer will be gone after May, then the more they try to appeal to the right now, the more that leadership election is going to be about tacking back. (Especially if the Greens do well in London and other cities).

Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.

need the thing to burn down under a Reform government for maximum symbolism

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

There's the constituency of 'I just don't like visible and audible difference' which Labour can't appeal to. And there's the 'I don't like that this has measurably made my area worse by introducing an insecure, economically detached class of people', which this policy makes worse.

Labour's fear of Reform, 'the election is tomorrow' attitude means that they are completely incapable of going 'okay, but what are *actually* the consequences of refugee and asylum policy that people don't like?'

It's the language of opposition to justify a policy because it polls well (and frankly it's not the language of good opposition either!). Your policy proposals need to be justified in light of what they will actually *do*. See, for instance:

My more serious thoughts in Ricky's reply, but given the political situation, another reason this is a strange message to the PLP is that it really invites the joke 'why, who on earth is Shabana planning to appoint as Home Secretary when she becomes prime minister?'

In Hamleys on Regent Street on a Saturday afternoon. Don't retrieve my body, just hold a memorial service

walking down oxford street... remembering why i never walk down oxford street...

walking down oxford street... remembering why i never walk down oxford street...

Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time

defeating isis

rachel reeves funko pops now selling at discount...

Regional Christmas market season has started

More evidence for my theory that everywhere is becoming France, a country where the voters hate everyone

For the basic reason that: 1) a lot of people fear Farage 2) most people understand how our electoral system works 3) turnout will be up, both by people inspired by Farage and by people who fear him 4) Labour will benefit from that a bit.

Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.

Which is where Farage’s danger lies. Everyone else hates him.

Part of David Cameron’s success in 2010 was in winning over Labour and Liberal Democrat voters directly, but it was *also* making sure neither group feared him enough to vote as tactically as they did in 2005.

This last part in particular is so poorly understood. Part of winning an election is “appealing to your lot”, part is “not upsetting or terrifying the other lot”.

LOOOOOOL www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Surely the intrinsic reward of getting to produce such high-quality journalism, the thrill of inteprid original reporting, is reward enough?

Also, so 51% of your marginal income goes to pay for a load of services you use and benefit from, and 49% of your income goes into your bank account

Truly beautiful insane tweet

Dunno mate, if you're earning that much I feel like you're probably enjoying life a lot more for getting up in the morning than someone who isn't paying that rate of tax.

Nobody: The Literal Pope:

"The Pope's favourite film is Ordinary People" goes hard as a sentence

Ailbhe compares to Boris multiple times in the piece but one way in which the comparison stacks up is that Conservative MPs basically always had their doubts about him as a leader but backed him cos they thought he could win. As soon as he was no longer winning the knives came out

This is in the New Statesman today by Ailbhe Rea is well worth a read on the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Excellent news - keep up the good work everybody

going to be an extremely usable phrase, i fear

Yelping at 'DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT'

Absolutely delightful interview with Joe Marler, this: www.thetimes.com/article/7778...

Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

Counterpoint: the guy's a reactionary cunt who doesn't give a fuck about freedom, or the fruits of it that are all over our society today. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

So unbelievably cursed. The way they built the tool to stop a MOSQUE www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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