Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. We are sorry your current leader is a monster.

Would have made sense to make Wes Streeting Home Secretary instead. But Streeting has a record of being mildly more liberal on migration than Mahmood, so obviously that couldn't be allowed to happen

Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018

I bet that by 6pm a slightly bigger majority of people will know that Kevin Keegan has died, than that Andy Burnham is PM.

There is a more positive spin on this, which is that she will be constrained by No.10's approach. Starmer's administration wanted to punch liberals in the face each day. That's not Burnham's sensibility at all. But no two ways around it. It's a terrible, terrible decision.

And she seems to be, at present, the only person kept in Cabinet. It's not a good sign.

I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role

I don’t care. The Greens will not be government in their own.

Mahmood remains. Why????? Her whole attitude is antithetical to Labour values as we used to understand them. Abandon hope.

Damn it.

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He blew it. Green Party, here we come.

Damn British politics; ruined my imagination.

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

If anyone would like to see a short video of a dog using their tail as a rotar blade, this is your lucky day.

This would turn me from a Burnosceptic to a Burnophile in the blink of an eye. And I'd suddenly notice all the good stuff he's saying.

No need to add any comment to this story which illustrates our age so neatly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The *first item* on bbc radio 4 news right now is that ‘Nigel Farage has agreed to meet the head of the independent body that organises security for MPs’ How is this news worthy of this level of amplification?

This is so good.

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It’s exactly the same as with the word ‘asylum’. He thinks asylum seekers come from mental health institutions. Now this.

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How is he breathing on his own?

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This is the party currently demanding that I apologise for comparing Nigel Farage to a poo…

Go on my son.

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Beautiful tunnel at King’s Cross/St. Pancras tube station, I gather from my offspring it’s much enjoyed by cosplayers.

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Very good info that folks may need!

I would also question the wisdom of putting someone who does not really share your politics but is really quite aggressive in the most powerful department. That is a much bigger risk than simply getting rid of her.

It would be v.depressing though. Almost impossible to put together an argument on experience or expertise which would justify her presence there. Her behaviour at the Home Office has been short sighted and temperamental at best, which are not exactly the qualities you look for.

The optimistic take on this is that it gets her out the Home Office without pissing off the right. The pessimistic take is that you're putting someone with no economic expertise in charge of the Treasury. Both can be true at the same time.