I can't believe people on this website tried to tell me that Andy Burnham might benefit from not being the Gorton and Denton candidate. At this rate, the MP for Gorton and Denton might not be seated in time to take part in the leadership nominations.

Bad enough to wound, not enough to kill.

Yes. People love to paint Corbyn and Starmer as opposites but there are throughlines over their tenures atop the Labour Party: corrosive, faux macho bullying, horrible appointments made for loyalty rather than competence, a sneering indifference to racism & gaslighting of its victims

"Is 53 greater or less than 47" quickly becoming the defining political question of our time

"While the intention was to be authentic in order to respect the art form, in retrospect we accept the prime minister's use of the N word ed a mistake."

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"When my leadership was in trouble I brought in Peter Mandelson to steady the ship. Understandably, that may not be an option this time."

To be fair if he hasn't finished the operation in the time it took the patient to complain about it and the strike off to be implemented it really does suggest he shouldn't be practising

Ironic that a Labour team whose entire operation in opposition was focused on "shrinking the attack surface" has now presented a target so massive even Kemi Badenoch can regularly bullseye it.

Still going thru the archive, this may be my favorite ending to a comic www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-li...

Pleasantly surprised that Trump's latest outburst of obvious racism is actually being treated as an outburst of obvious racism.

Also a feature of an FPTP electoral system that encourages absolute fantasy land politics and venomous competition rather than policy development and discussion.

I guarantee you that virtually all of that 81% would include a caveat that local objections in their particular locality should continue to be considered a veto.

Seems notable that Trump posting straightforwardly and outrageously racist content on his personal website in the middle of the night is not something any of America's major media outlets seem worthy of coverage.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Can't wait to see American media bend over backwards to avoid calling this out as the straightforward racism that it is.

I reckon a bicycle pump with the right fitting will fix it up.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

A snapshot of US diplomacy in the Trump era: how @USAmbPoland (aka @TomRoseIndy) wins friends and influences people

I think this is also reflective of the broader structural failings of the US press in that it cannot identify a massive personal failing of a Republican president or leader without "balancing" it somehow. It's allowed Trump to adopt absolute gutter racism too

The term “nightmare blunt rotation” gets thrown around a lot. However,,,,

Is McArdle still employed?

I am totally shocked that a party which have elected a charlatan as a leader is comfortable with lying and misrepresenting people like this. Culture starts at the top.

Hell of a Grauniad typo here -

It's Elmo's birthday

No brief for Rowling but it would be very funny if after stumbling into money laundering Shah managed to get herself sued for libel.

I wish this was true but sadly I'm not sure it is.

Yes and no - obviously this would be a catastrophic outcome on a human level. On the other hand it may be the only way that America's political class will finally realise a) the current constitutional order has utterly failed and b) Republican party delenda est.

All Republicans are bad people who hate democracy and the rule of law, and in a healthy society we would be debating it's proscription.

Epstein was actually Mandelson in a rubber mask.

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Difficult to overstate how profoundly worthless Kuennsberg is.

once spoke at some poncy private conference at Soho Farmhouse with Matt Goodwin and can confirm he looked pleased as punch to be there, so I think he can spare us all the theatrics

It would be extremely funny if Reform lost a winnable by election solely due to nominating a man who is incapable of hiding that he's an insufferable twat.

Your regular reminder that Molly Shah is an idiot.

It's also possible that Musk is so genuinely delusional (and extremely drug addled) that he convinced himself that he's not in the files.

You'd think DOJ apparently removing accidentally released Epstein files that directly implicated Trump would be a big story.

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

A necessary aspect of post-Trump reform will be identifying, publicly exposing and ruthlessly persecuting the various bureaucrats and officers engaged in this behaviour. They are abusing state power to pursue petty vendettas and there needs to be massive social consequences for doing so.

My American colleagues and friends dislike it when I liken the course their country is on to what happened in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s a comparison that’s getting harder and harder to avoid…

I have no idea about Kevin Warsh's background or reputation but anyone who would be considered by Donald Trump and who would accept an appointment from Donald Trump should be considered to be incompetent, corrupt and morally degenerate a priori.

Just fine? Minoritariant Senate with 3/5 voting requirement for legislation. President can be elected by minority. Life appointees, confirmed by minoritarian senate and minority president, invent law and throw out majority-supported laws. Gerrymandering legal, allowing minority control of House

No, you're in a constitutional crisis because your constitution is ridiculously unsuited to a modern democratic polity, creates terrible institutional incentives for political actors and is virtually impossible to amend.

On the one hand this is a deeply hostile gesture. On the other I'm tickled pink by the prospect of CIA pissing money away to curry favour with a bunch of idiot yokels who will dutifully tell them Edmonton is yearning for Trump.

Corbynism from the right - brilliant idea Kemi.