Apparently, it wasn't Starmer's fault, it was his Ministers. Who he picked. And managed.

🚨 BREAKING: Irresponsible parents can damage under-two's development. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I get the impression that a lot of hard left-wingers would only be happy with a government that confirmed perfectly to their individual and very particular criteria. That would have to be a dictatorship, so it isn't really a very practical approach in a democracy.

🧵 This begs a bigger question for me: our damaging obsession with making things 'accessible' to audiences who either aren't interested in something or won't appreciate it anyway. #R4Today www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Desperately stupid decision, and hugely damaging for political accountability in the UK. BBC bosses over the last couple of decades have consistently failed to understand that people grow into Radio 4. Chasing younger listeners is a fool's errand. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Keir Starmer supporters on Bluesky are gearing up to be the British equivalent of Kamala Harris supporters: desperately out of touch floggers of a dead political horse.

The number of accounts on here still fighting the corner for Keir Starmer is astonishing. I mean, smell the coffee.

Our future under a Reform 'government' - the country being run by a private company, a complete lack of democratic accountability, parliament utterly irrelevant. You'd elect an MP but they'd have no influence, no chance of becoming a minister. Basically a dictatorship.

🚨 BREAKING: Spanish man notices that capitalism isn't fair. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

That the billionaire US ambassador to Italy is planning a tour around Italy in his superyacht, tells you all you need to know about America under Trump. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Looks like Andy Burnham's having a positive impact already. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

But. . . but. . . it's worked SO well!

What have the Looney Tunes characters done to deserve this fascist AI slop?

True for America, would be just as true if Farage or Badenoch got their way over here.

Iran and Egypt playing in the 'pride' derby in a country that's obsessed by being anti-woke. Yeah this makes sense. . .

Sounds like a plan. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cartoonist: Daniel Goris

Sorry? We paid £369m to renovate their house and they're not even going to fucking live there? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

AI is being driven so hard because a few people can get very rich out of it, not because we need it.

This is a very odd little story. BBC News - Starmer and home secretary in row over minister's future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#5 Melancholia, Anselm Kiefer, 1990-1991

Americans don't understand political words, do they? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Used to be my MP. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I apologise personally to Nigel Farage for having accused him of hypocrisy. I now realise that accepting a £5m bung and keeping quiet about it is entirely consistent with his ethical beliefs.

Really contemptible and dangerous behaviour from Badenoch. This isn't the kind of language we need to be using in politics when faced with the incitement and division that's being fomented on social media and by the likes of Reform and Restore. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That no one seems willing to stand against Burnham says a lot about both the state of the Labour party and the powerlessness of UK governments in the modern age.

“The last lot had years to prepare and still fucked it up. We’ll just have to do it in three weeks,” one senior source said. “The length of the transition will focus minds.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"...there is deep resentment within his inner circle towards Burnham for ousting Starmer." If that's the case, they are frighteningly lacking in self-awareness. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Spoilt by awful production and costume design.

Why do you think? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

It'll all be about him, won't it. They'll have to pry it out of his tiny hands (which should be easy as they're so tiny), and he'll hang around for the celebration like your nerdy ex at a party. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Starmer's "10 pledges" that he won the Labour leadership with, and which were rapidly ditched. He was fond of lists, just not fond of doing. Fundamentally, he didn't really believe in anything. #Starmer

'“A core philosophy is the thing that holds you together when it’s falling apart,” Runciman said. “Margaret Thatcher was the exemplar of this. But with Starmer, I couldn’t see it, and it never emerged.' #Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

“After the win we expected some sort of blitz of major policies. Instead, we just had the PM going round meeting mayors on a UK tour. There were a lot of people saying: ‘This can’t be it. This isn’t how you do politics.’” #Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

“Firstly, he never worked out what the job was – what does the prime minister do? Secondly, he never knew what he wanted to do, above all not on economic policy. And thirdly, he didn’t know who to appoint." #Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

"No modern prime minister has looked so well-suited to the job on paper and been so fundamentally inept in practice." #Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

#5 in my occasional series of great modern artworks. Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, Mark Wallinger, 2001 #Art

Nigel Farage calls for a general election. I call for Nigel Farage to have his head flushed in the bog; we don't always get what we want Nige, live with it.

If Starmer had applied the same urgency, energy and ruthlessness to solving the country's problems as he did to eradicating socialism in the Labour party, he wouldn't have had to resign. #Starmer #Burnham

#4 'Tree Tunnel', David Hockney, 2005.

"My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine: You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those." - Shakespeare, King Richard II (Richard II, Act 4, Scene 1)

It's been very Shakespearean today, hasn't it. Extraordinary stuff. #Burnham #Starmer #Labour

I think one of the things that disappointed and astonished me the most about Starmer's government was how apparently unprepared they seemed for power. They had 14 years to plan and seemed to have no idea what to do when they were elected. They should have hit the ground like a whirlwind.

The worst thing about a day like this is the vox pops.

I notice that Streeting is pushing the 'nobosy thought we could win' line about Starmer. This is as untrue as it was about Blair in 1997. In both cases you could see the landslide coming a mile off because the voters were pissed with the Tories. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I'm all for freedom of speech, but blasting out music from a massive speaker system during major political moments is just disturbing the peace.

And he's gone. I do feel a bit sorry for him, but he just wasn't up to the job.

The lectern is out. . .

A lot of people are asking why the UK is about to have its 6th PM in only 5 years. I think the answer is fairly simple: politics is living in a fantasy in which no one will acknowledge that Brexit and our 40-odd year neoliberal experiment have failed. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63...

10.00am I reckon.