The "jokey" MP speeches at the start of the king's speech debate can be excruciating, but fair play to Naz Shah for taking the piss out of Nick Timothy by reassuring the Commons that her making such a speech, as a Muslim, is not "an act of domination".

I wouldn't ban these. I would just require every man who buys a pair to have to wear a hat saying "PERVERT!" and ring a bell when out in public while shouting "Creep! Unclean!"

I get it, you hate the guy who shit all over the bed, now get over it and start shitting the bed yourselves

the Streeting offer seems to be: I'm equally as uncharismatic as Starmer but instead of his impressive legal career I've been a politics weirdo since university

Teenage mutant ninja fiat

Me and my smol boat excluding that we really don't want to distract from the ceremony as we blast past at thirty odd knots

I wonder who/what they're talking about

THE ADULT BABY TAKEOVER IS BACK ON

Something very striking in the fact the markets - and I know they're different markets - are freaking out about the idea of Andy Burnham as PM, but entirely blase about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and the fact we're about to run out of oil.

You can make money at the momeny just by buying bonds when there's a brief freak out about Burnham becoming PM and then selling them a day or two later.

🚨 🚨🚨CHAOS WITH ED MILIBAND🚨🚨🚨

political analysts: Al Carns might be preparing a leadership bid! Al Carns:

There's only one man for the job.

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

The entire second world war, the Troubles and Covid have entered the chat

predisposition in Westminster to presume coups *always* succeed eg Thatcher & May & Johnson, but: 1995: John Major saw off right wing rebels 2009: Gordon Brown survived multiple cabinet minister resignations 2016: Jeremy Corbyn saw off 64 resignations and 80% of PLP begging him to quit (172:40)

Ok. The rate is now 1 every 30 hours

If Labour get a move on, the 10th anniversary of Brexit can be marked by the sixth PM to hold office since the 2016 vote.

just checking in online after dinner and delighted to see that we are once again, for the 17th time in my adult life, back into "Bobson Dugnutt has resigned" territory

Wes Streeting suddenly regretting his choices of making transition as difficult as possible

She *does* love telling white liberals to fuck off

The difference being ofc that was the madder Corbyn supporters claiming it for him whereas this will absolutely be her claiming that scalp even though she had nothing to do with it.

Looking forward to Kemi Badenoch claiming to have “seen off” Starmer, like the madder Corbyn supporters claimed for Cameron and May.

bicarb. does everything

YANG GANG ASSEMBLE

Slightly increase a band: Bismuth Zeppelin

WOMAN, THANK GOD YOUR GRANDSON HAS A MORE SUBSTANTIAL GRASP OF ETHICS AND MORALITY

oh boy i love it when a descendant of foul people gets all "oh hell no" about the family's past, good on him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

when u tax the rich

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

it's been 18 years since the financial crisis, the entirety of my adult life. in that time i've gone through university, got engaged and started a long-running podcast, and these fuckers have abjectly refused to come up with any ideas that reckon with the reality we now inhabit. thoughts and prayers

This is one of those great sentences where you can put the stress on any word and enjoy it differently

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

I've got an even more controversial take about my former MP than all the valid criticism raised in comments on this. Here it goes: an easier way to avoid having terrible decisions you made in the late '70s come up time and again in your career is to retire. It's been nearly 50 years. Go away!

Really do think something quite profound occurred when Gordon Brown was hot mic’d back in 2010 ; at that point, everything certain kinds of voters said were irrefutable truths regardless of how exaggerated or simply untrue it was. But also, it made for great entertainment for tv news channels

Sadiq Khan says Labour faces an "existential" threat and "London has been taken for granted for too long". Wants "bold assertion" of progressive values to take on the Greens.

Even before this….let’s accept for a moment that Labour do have more to fear from Reform. Labour have done essentially everything that Luke and Morgan wanted and it hasn’t worked. It’s like saying the fact you have to win football matches validates Igor Tudor!

Morgan's plan worked, just turns out it was more narrowly focused than everybody assumed

Yup. This worked perfectly.

As we see results of the local elections across England continue to come in, it’s clear that First Past the Post is failing voters – with some councils bearing little resemblance to how people actually voted. It doesn’t need to be this way. It’s time to scrap First Past the Post in England.

Presumably its good that the most popular party in England's flagship policy is "building concentration camps"

Evergreen headline.

Ryan Cohen who is the current CEO of Gamestop and allegedly attempting a leveraged buyout of eBay has been suspended from eBay. I mean you just have to love it.

Victory for Ed Miliband

ANALYSIS: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began 😎 Record-high wind+solar output 🔥 Record-low gas generation ❄️ First ever winter with wind+solar out-performing fossil fuels 🏆 Wind+solar beating gas for 15 straight months 1/5

RIP Pythagoras you would have loved whatever this is