This is the NYT headline of video game advertising.

Four suspended UK Labour MPs have had the whip restored today: Neil Duncan-Jordan, Chris Hinchliff, Brian Leishman, and Rachael Maskell. (Mirror)

Thought the mention of the reshuffle was interesting here. For all the stream of sugary political content, how many outlets have actually done a deeply reported piece on the reshuffle, explaining what it means for policy, or for the ideological and geographical mix of the front bench?

something very Scottish Labour about proposing to take candidate selection away from members but to base it on voter contact numbers instead of just saying the leadership will choose

Amazing

Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with Bonnie Tyler but I’m not sure that was a top three snatch game performance…? #DragRaceUK

“this is more of an observation than a question—“ a single shot rings out

not to be a Debbie downer but the rest is entertainment traitors finale episode is not operating at a high level of sophisticated strategy discussion

Lucy Powell’s intervention here may be unhelpful and unserious, but at least we have to respect that it’s based on a strong mandate from Labour members. Haha just kidding, she barely beat the wildly unpopular leader’s preferred candidate and her manifesto was “we need to do a bit better guys!”

only just watched #CelebrityTraitors. think we’ve got a new GOAT

This is so obviously right to me that every time I check the quotes or replies or someone saying it, I’m freshly amazed at the ostensible leftists incoherently objecting to it.

So many lovely lines and phrases in this - I think “fractal cowardice”, to describe the interplay between leftwing thinktanks and the government at the moment, is my favourite:

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Can Woke 2.0 speed up a bit, this stuff is so boring now.

This felt like the low point of a pretty poor argument about income tax.

It would be very this government to threaten income taxes for a month and then do ten stupid increases, and expect that the nation will collapse in gratitude at them not increasing income tax

The presentation here of the country’s fiscal problems as being something the chancellor ought to solve personally without bothering anyone else is so odd as to make me question why these people want to cover politics for a living.

In addition to everything Dylan says in this thread, it’s just a bit tragic for *a government four years from an election* to be saying “they hate him more than us“. That just shouldn’t be your focus four years out!

sorry I can’t read this, I’m just going to assume it says Nick: 100%

In other “please, we only need so many metaphors for the overly-padded excess of the streaming era” news, I see they have cast a multi-Cesar winning actor in the role of Nicholas Flamel, a character who never appears in person in the books:

I know it’s because the Scottish party is completely separate but there’s something quite sad about the stirring rhetoric here being applied to “England and Wales” rather than Britain or the UK.

the American weak party system is insane. what do you mean one of your top two legislative leaders won’t confirm whether he voted for or against the party’s candidate

If an ex-chancellor pumps crypto and no one notices, does it make a noise? on.ft.com/43SCETD

just got to Mikey’s nonna being a puppet

Inevitably, Kemi Badenoch has now sided with Donald Trump’s team against the BBC. Has she bothered to watch the speech or read the transcript? Because the BBC didn’t get this wrong.

I thought this was a very unserious reply from a chancellor who significantly raised the cost of businesses employing people last year

Holy mixed metaphors Chris Mason!

Your regular reminder also that, for good and for ill, Rachel Reeves is planning measures on the wage floor and employment rights that will make it harder for NEETs to get into work!

“only a few of the businesses signing the letter are major commercial concerns” hmmm I wonder why smaller businesses are the ones most worried about an unclear set of regulations that leave them open to expensive legal action. A real headscratcher.

As @stephenkb.bsky.social has said, once you tune into this sort of non-argument formulation, it’s everywhere in this government’s comms.

Kemi Badenoch expressed her frustration at Robert Jenrick going off message and off policy & also at Katie Lam going off 'core messages' for talking what the Opposition's policy had been for 5 months on their headline theme of borders, where the party had proposed to remove ILR residence status

Last week’s FT politics podcast: their pol ed said of Labour’s tax pledges “who can blame them? we’ve covered plenty of elections where the Labour’s been killed in the campaign on the question of tax.” I’m not saying it’s not a risk but has it actually happened that much recently?

I've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape – and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Please don’t put in the newspaper that I’m a vibes politician. I promise I’ve got a serious plan! Step 1: raise all the money we need from a huge wealth tax which will certainly work.

This from @lewisgoodall.com

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

posting liberal provocations on X

Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.

I think its now got to be the case that respectable people should just refuse to appear on panels with Goodwin, even if that means cancelling on the BBC at short notice.

Christian Calgie called for Zarah Sultana to be deported and faced absolutely no professional consequences for it. The norms are gone.

Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.

Moros Flames absolutely rip, just deleted the Mourning Fields boss in about ten seconds

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would be a big change from the UK’s current two-year qualifying period. The Government should keep but *reduce* ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection ⤵️ buff.ly/WepH7zY

The tone here makes it sound like they were scammed, when in fact they were just incompetent. *They* made contact with the guy, and simply failed to realise that he was not who *they* thought he was when *they* reached out to him.

Surely, surely No 10 did not give Bridget Phillipson permission to oppose the two child cap during the election, only to call her up and say “sorry, you’re going to have to U-turn”?

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

The whole thing is written up as though “nature-connectedness” is an objectively measurable quality rather than presumably given a subjective definition by the study. Very odd!

I love not anticipating plot twists. Watched The Others and remained blissfully ignorant until it was completely explicit.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...