A side point but so much of British politics is just about advert representation really. Maybe England for the English does really just mean putting more white families in ads for debt collection or gambling sites

From a Daily Express journalist calling for my deportation to a Reform MP saying it “drives her mad to see adverts full of black and Asian people”, the mask has truly slipped. This poisonous politics fuels far-right violence against minorities and migrants. We all must unite against it.

totally ineffective as a leader of men. maybe an effective barrister, a fairly solitary profession, but clearly not the type whose love of football led to good man management. which, er, isn't good in politics

I also feel like the destruction of Xbox is a genuine shame cos I have so many good memories of the 360 era, I think the Series X is an incredible piece of kit - beautifully engineered, holds its own against the PS5 Pro and PC despite its age, a genuinely Good Machine. Could have been great.

Everything you read about Starmer is best described as "the most pathetic middle manager you've ever worked with" which explains why so much of the country hates him perfectly.

Broad church latest: Powell is one of the eight MPs who were at the centre of Labour Together during the McSweeney years. Phillipson was one of the other seven.

As British progressives, it's rare that we get to vote with any real sense of enthusiasm. But the final defenestration of Vichy Labour is in our hands next May, and I'm struggling to think of a more wholesome, joyful motivation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer can’t even win a rigged election at this point.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

This is what happens when you rig your selection process so that nobody interesting can be chosen

yeah I think this is pretty telling there are a lot of people whose politics are basically "fuck annoying internet leftists" and genuinely do not care much about the views of the people they endorse as long as those people piss off the right folks (us)

It's telling that Hakeem Jeffries' endorsement of Zohran Mamdani sounds more like a concession speech

pretty funny that he waited just long enough for it to not matter anymore and also for it to damage the house minority leader completely forever

sometimes when the process of what most of all to play out, of which is important. and what i'd all which to do, is take at the entire thing and in due time when it's the situation of what's ahead. after all of together i have many times said, let's just going on

The China row is literally “Kemi Badenoch did not understand the China policy of Rishi Sunak, whose government she was the business secretary of”.

if the new playstation handheld is just another one of those ugly PC slabs with analogue sticks on it I'll be so fucken sad

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

It sure is a good thing that everybody in the country trusts Keir Starmer and takes him at his word isn't it

In the list of ways that this government is *completely* unsuited to the current moment, their craven attitude to big tech is high up there. Completely corrosive to society, politics, and their reward is going to be social media helping Nigel Farage to waltz into Downing Street

This is exactly like when Victoria Derbyshire asked why digital ID cards would stop people smugglers from smuggling people. Landlords and real estate companies don't care about your digital ID. They'll just come up with a new spurious admin fee like they do every year

The way Dems treat Mamdani versus Platner... hm

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

I heartily recommend that everyone now leaps to Jess’s defence with the same level of solidarity, honesty and intellectual charity that she has shown them, over the years.

Important moves happening in the Great Game of British politics.

this is some real Streisand Effect stuff, because only about 3 people will have seen the reboot Spitting Image sketch in question

Sorry but imagine publicly admitting you're getting your feelings hurt by the softest PM in living memory and his briefcase loser brigade?

"yes let's use the more expensive energy sources that rely on finite fuel indefinitely" cool, how's that going to make anything cheaper?

Too busy trying to instigate a pogrom in Birmingham and tie its necessity to Jewish identity.

Fuck this. If “Nazi tattoo” doesn’t cross the line, you have no line.

What can you even say to these people

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour. Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

I have written to Lisa Nandy, following her grossly misleading comments over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban. This is about a group of fans with a history of racism and violence. It is not about banning Jewish people - and any attempt to conflate the two is shameful.

Was it a culture of transphobia killed this girl? No it must be them phones Esther Ghey please stop im begging you

Polanski: I think there should be boycott of Israel Peston: A boycott of a democracy? How dare you Polanski: Well actually Israel just tortured a load of international civilians which is a war crime Peston: Wow would you look at the time

Good - like, I am pleased these hooligans and the fash don't have a match to go to (might not stop them coming any way fwiw). Either way this is a complete embarrassment for Labour. Fought tooth and nail for Maccabi only for them to mug them off any way

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

there’s three outcomes here: 1. the fans aren’t allowed to travel and Starmer looks weak 2. the fans are allowed to travel and there’s no major trouble but the cost of the police Starmer insisted on is ridiculous 3. the fans are allowed to travel and there is major trouble and it’s Starmer’s fault

“football hooligans banned from away game” is the biggest shrug of a story imaginable, and yet!!!

Even if you didn't know that the game was staged elsewhere, surely the idea of any kind of football match being played in Istanbul, let alone one with an Israeli team, passing without incident would make you call bullshit?

this particular rake wasn’t even in the path of the government until they decided to march straight towards it for some reason

It is insane how much stuff MPs seem to be saying about Maccabi that's simply untrue

Bloomberg calling Zack Polanski ‘the British Zohran Mamdani’

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game" Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

I'm old enough to remember "misleading the house" being a grave and career ending crime

The funniest part of it was when he went to the telegraph, a notoriously right wing paper, and wrote an op ed in said right wing paper, behind a paywall, telling people who like corbynism to leave. It's the equivalent of standing at a crowded gig whispering "fuck off" into your warm beer.

The difficult truth for No 10 is that what unites governments that get a lot done is they find ways to find space for as much of the party within the government's walls, and the task they are failing at here is 'a politician who resigned under Corbyn and has broadly the same politics as the PM'.