Driving 4 hours to drink 10 pints of tenants and listen to an acoustic rendition of this is currently sounding quite appealing to me… youtu.be/09Nan-uARF4?...

V cool that right wing blairite Adrian Burnham is too left wing for the guardian politics desk

This is true because the economy is like a household budget but it’s also funny because it’s a meme 😂😂😂

When I quit my job my boss told me I’d never survive without the company brand behind me, but here I am - CEO of a successful international defence conglom with a rippling six pack, a beautiful partner and 25 gorgeous chil…… Oh sorry, I thought. I was posting on LinkedIn, apologies…got confused.

Cool framing

(Geronimo the alpaca still dead)

Rejoice! Keir Starmer hath risen.

Keir Starmer hath resigned

The devil is in the details here. The article goes on to say that Burnham has been criticised by Northern MPs for claiming the brownfield site, located in leafy Muswell Hill, is on Manchester’s ‘extreme south edge’

Thing is, they’ve all got axis to grind 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Occasionally I pop over to see what’s happening on liberal Bluesky dot com and currently it’s just brutal chart on chart violence. Lads just throwing graphs out and yelling at each other about whether things are slightly better or slightly worse than they previously were.

This is a quote from a TES article (paywalled) about Ofsted in the heatwave. "Kids were vomiting left, right and centre, but I didn’t have anyone available to oversee these health and safety concerns because everyone was so wrapped up in the inspection. It’s very clear that this was not right." ⬇️

English-US tensions on here are often produced by US users who are convinced they live in a functional representative democracy where they have *individual power and responsibility* to change things, therefore the individual European is personally to blame for <insert structural problem here>

Anyone else heading to the Friends of LabourList gabba night later on?

No idea why everyone is talking about this as if it’s a positive proposal, I’m actually very concerned

Who remembers ‘Goon 4 Geoff Hoon’? #throwback #90s #blairbabes

It always amazes me attending meetings whereby parents, teachers, social workers, LACreps, EPs etc all point fingers at each other for not being able to solve a problem, yet there’s not a single word of frustration being directed at govt where the real blame lies.

Devolution whilst maintaining iron clad fiscal rules and a fragmented and privatised system, is just another way to displace blame onto local authorities whilst giving them neither the resources or authority to discharge their duties.

I see Outwood Academy here in Yorkshire is in the news again. No one can say they weren’t warned. I link to 2019 @theguardian.com articles in this 2022 text. That’s a whole generation through school since then. & still, their ex-CEO is chief OFSTED inspector. #EduSky

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜 We talked about this exact same social media ban two weeks ago with @justinhancock.bsky.social, it won't work in the US any more than here, it'll just be a tech nightmare that negatively impacts kids everywhere. Good jobs, dems. FREE: www.podbean.com/ea/pb-7a7cr-...

Idgaf how comfy his jacket is. I also don’t think your average liberal is buying this. In my professional circles I only hear distrust and his polling is plummeting. The Burnham buzz is being entirely manufactured by the media - Dunt, Ball etc. And they should be strongly condemned for it.

As an MP, Burnham voted in favour of the Iraq War and against investigations into its legality, and that tells you everything you need to know about his attitude towards people who were not born in the UK

Listening to "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan

17 hours…a new record!

Burnham even more racist than Starmer then, surprising no one given what he's said since he started ramping up his leadership claim

New essay from me. On psychology as a social apparatus that disguises the violence inherent in the system. Shoutout to @bloodwork.show for helping me to think in ways that emphasise violence a little more and ideology a little less… borrowed-language.ghost.io/on-friction-...

Graphic design is my passion etc

If you think I’m going to stop posting about air con in favour of sexy burnham stuff then…you are right, I probably will do that.

My post, she is very badly formatted… What’s the opposite of ‘click for a surprise’?

My mother in law tries to navigate the world offline because she doesn’t trust the internet stealing her data (fair enough) and it makes daily tasks nigh on impossible. Maybe we shouldn’t have made smartphones essential to life, and then banned them for a large section of the population?

He’s always been a nasty Blairite and he’s not going to give Labour loyalists any of the treats he’s promising them in exchange for tolerating this.

Nowadays there are only really two types of guy - guys who like to overcook their beans reducing them into a sort of bean jus, and then guys who barely cook them at all and keep them saucy. I’m a bean jus guy, I’m not ashamed.

Breaking 🚨: The antibiotics worked and I no longer have hot legs (just good pins, which is different). Burnham’s office called me this morning telling me I no longer have a mandate to hold this position and I responded with grace yelling ‘NEITHER DO YOU, I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE’ before hanging up.

This article deploys psychological theory to ‘support’ teachers to complete large and stressful work tasks in their contracted holiday period…and if anyone wanted a clear understanding of psychology’s function under capitalism… Well, that about sums it up!

What has changed is that schools were classically part of the ideological state apparatus, using soft power and normalisation to achieve conformity. But as liberalism spirals out towards fascism and can no longer rely on hegemony, all ideological state apparatus’ become more directly repressive.

At some point the ‘broken’ aspects of a system become so pronounced we have to accept that the system *is* functioning, just not by the logics it claims for itself. Schooling was always primarily about conformity and incarceration, not learning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The education sector has to accept that this 'zero tolerance' approach (which some people still claim doesn't exist) is harmful and not a 'solution' especially to low level behaviours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Show me a picture that captures your essence

Can’t wait for them to do this to Wes Streeting one day…

The bit where he said that his entire plan was going to be backed by our ‘current fiscal rules’ was 👌

Breaking 🚨: Burnham to appoint Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown as ‘Northern PM’, to lead operations on his behalf from No 10 North.

Srsly tho, if we can just be serious for *one moment* - if Coventry isn’t in Birmingham, explain this…

I don’t really care about the guardian bigging up yet another blairite overlord… But I do want to know why the top half of Darren Grimes’ head is emerging from the bottom of that picture. What does it all mean?

Seriously though. Coventry is the Catholic district of Birmingham. The clue is in the name. Coventry is Irish for ‘Air Conditioning People’

No 10 North is a rubbish name. He should have called it The Houses of Parmo-ment