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If Starmer does resign, then his last significant act as PM will have been blocking Burnham from running for parliament. That would be an apt end to Starmer’s tenure as Labour leader which has been defined by a self-indulgent and reckless campaign to defeat internal opponents.

jonathan pryce's timon is so so good

i am from the pre 2012 cohort and mine is stuck at about 30k. sometimes dips a bit below, then comes back up. i genuinely think the govt will need to address this at some point because it is a significant, formative interaction with the state that *feels like a scam*. i feel this has implications

i think sm is bad for kids - but i think the answer isn't to ban but to make owners actually accountable for the content their platforms promote/regulate algorithms and punish those that are compulsive. bad for everyone, not just kids

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

What's helpful about this is that it is fundamentally a known problem and one that has been clear since, say, 2021. MPs and grandees from the left of the party held to a wildly different standard to the right.

saw the trailer for the cinema stream of othello, a production i have seen got quite mid reviews, and toby jones' iago looks absolutely terrific.

i feel like the only good outcome from all this is if, as part of labour demandelson-ing itself, that glare gets extended to the media. just time for leveson on steroids

cool thinking how one day in my lifetime probably there'll be a good Prime Minister. like not one i like or agree with but someone who, like, is good at it. i'd be really interested in seeing it

so we thinking starmer resigns on Monday then?

Feel like I'm going mad.

will be very funny if waspi compensation becomes a dividing line in the leadership contest. honestly dont understand the PLP's lvl of interest in it

You're telling me that Morgan McSweeney might lose his job and Wes Streeting might never be prime minister, because they were too close to Peter Mandelson? oh no that's terrible

My scorching hot take is that anybody who values London as a great city for pedestrians should stop using all these companies.

I’m not reposting Trump’s latest obscene racism, because it’s widely posted. If you don’t know what it is, look. It’s not news in terms of telling us who he is—if you didn’t know this by now, you’re not going to—but the blunt openness of it is a rhetorically violent escalation, & that is news.

you notice this with spotify - they've basically hidden the 'new releases' tab for albums that should be the obvious way to browse. makes you go, oh THEY want to pick FOR me

Playing that Animorphs game with the absolutely insane soundtrack

an aaron bastani article in unherd is probably not typically going to be a hit on bluesky but i think he’s basically right that on the evidence of atleast the last ten years we need primaries or we need voting system reform unherd.com/2026/02/the-...

my take on moltbook is it gives a sense as to what AI art should actually look like. When it replicates art for humans, it is shit. But it can make art that is creepy and disturbing because that's what the tech already is! its basically good for ARGs that you can only glimpse a fragment of

is this decent PM in the room with us right now?

what i find so stark about PM's case is the way the media were already rehabbing him after September - he looked entirely comfortable

im at suede and have to say that brett anderson is like keir starmer's luigi

the Labour Party genuinely needs a proper reckoning in my view. a full de-mandelsonification of its personnel, its culture and its structures. i think if it doesn’t, it is done.

i can see why starmer is stayed for now, given the lack of consensus on replacements, but mcsweeney not being out already is genuinely, like, I can't process it. It is embarrassing for everyone in the PLP taking it.

This is what Harvey Weinstein did, when he hired Black Cube to investigate Ronan Farrow. It is catastrophically bad for anyone involved in politics to be doing the same thing. It is also: very fucking stupid indeed.

had to look this up because i was pretty sure there was no Shakespeare play of this name and there isn't: instead today i learned that Shakespeare did a guest verse in a play by some hacks in the early 1590s. you love to see it

Saw a student/youth theatre (I can’t recall: it was £2.50 to see a play in London) version of Merchant of Venice that used this at the end, which I think is still the best attempt to make that play “work” I’ve seen.

howling into the void here but it is insane mcsweeney is still there. even if starmer can't fire him, is is nuts he wouldn't resign

a qu i wish someone had asked him is whether he would have called on boris to resign over it if he'd been the one to make it. because he absolutely would

i dont understand how a lawyer can be so bad at wiggling out of things. his answers only make any sense if you dont look at what was already public domain

bro resign please bro

Starmer’s responses are really frustrating- it is simply not credible that he took mandelson at his word, too much info was already public

Like that Starmer directly called out Godwin but this speech i, overall, quite poor. Absolutely nothing left in the tank.

That‘s the spirit.

what i dont understand about starmer and the 'mandelson wasn't his pick' briefing is, at what point does he realise he has been severely misled?

record store day should release more stuff as CDs because theyre better

i actually have no idea who the next leader will be, and truly have no hopes in the remaining labour left - but if i have a single realistic hope for what's next it is that they ditch this govt's authoritarianism

will be if he runs

anyway, if you like me are the sort of freak who is in the market for an 85 minute exegesis of the origins and beliefs of Glasman and Blue Labour then this is outstanding

The thing I will never understand is why Keir has so little self-respect. If one of my political correspondents had briefed that my leadership style was like someone sitting in the front of the DLR, thinking wrongly they were driving, I would have fired them.

I feel like the path to Rayner as viable PM exists but the primary, non-negotiable step it requires is 'successfully holding a brief in an actually reasonably popular labour administration'

Gets worse and worse

i am going to write a letter to my MP tomorrow

Man I'm on to something lmao

al pacino's 90s outfits in Looking for Richard are astonishing. no one has ever looked cooler

I genuinely felt so happy seeing a film archivist I respect (Rarefilmm) post the Goosebumps TV show as a treat for Halloween Not for nostalgia reasons, but cos imo kids need fiction that challenges their expecations - whether its scares or deeper emotional themes - and that fosters a love for art

another reason KS has to go (appreciating i said id stop posting) - emails are still coming out. How can MPs bear weeks of this? or days? would genuinely think it terminal