This is obviously bollocks from Jenrick but that won't matter unless Labour and other parties call it out as bollocks, instead of paying lip service to it

74 children including 58 babies have died in temporary accommodation in the last five years - often because there is nowhere safe for babies to sleep with no cots and the whole family in one room.

And I don't care how basic I sound, because without hope, we have despair. Despair becomes nihilism. And nihilism breeds fascism.

Guess which group of voters Labour is putting all of its efforts into attracting

OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

Always "a friend"

Don’t get me started on seatbelts. Imagine the reaction today.

Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works

Stop accepting opposition framing of issues. Improve the services rather than telling people they don't need them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Why is anti-semitism tolerated in the UK?" asks Suella Braverman, shortly before defending man accused of saying "Hitler was right" and telling Jewish people they should be sent to the gas chamber

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

Accidentally bought a Ladvent Calendar this year. So far, behind the doors, there’s been a cheeky Nando’s, 12 pints of lager, some Lynx Africa, and a message telling me I’ve got nice tits for an old bird.

And we've been spared Hayden's hog

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.

Yes. Whether someone wants to sleep with you on a first date almost entirely comes down to whether they like you as a person! If you suck it doesn't matter if you pay and if you're cool it doesn't matter if you split the bill. You can't lifehack your way out of forming chemistry.

There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain

They were 8 and 11 years old

I thought Labour would struggle for their first year in office because of the gap between “what they’d promised to do” and “the tools they’d given themselves to do it”, I just hadn’t anticipated that they would be well into the second year having essentially decided to learn nothing.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Typical of successive governments' approach to disintegrating public services. Streets covered in leaves? Don't hire street sweepers, cut down the trees

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

This is a betrayal of NHS patients. Big pharma & Donald Trump have got what they want. In caving to these demand, the UK government has sacrificed the lives of thousands of patients in order to inflate pharma profits. Disgraceful.

[john cena voice] are you sure about that?

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

yeah i'm a cam girl (the cam is short for "camembert")

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

My much repeated story - around 2013 when I worked in local government, the BBC reported on a survey that found most people hadn’t noticed any effect of austerity. A colleague said, “people are going to get up one day, look around and say this place is a shit hole, what happened?”

Famously 'the Labour Party' is 450,000 hungry children in a trenchcoat.

Why is people leaving this country and no longer wanting to come to this country a good thing?? Cos it sounds like the kind of thing the happens to a shithole country, not a good one

Americans have freezers big enough for an entire turkey?

Funny to think a year ago, most Tory MPs thought Starmer had a clever but cynical plan to bank the changes Sunak made on immigration and declare victory, rather than to keep holing himself under the waterline.

I see the most important thing about the budget is what it means for Rachel Reeves’ career prospects and not… what it means for the economy.

Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.

I'm sure the fact that every person named bar the PM is either black, a woman or both is just one of those massive, mysterious coincidences.

and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric

Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for" Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇 *We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...

Good thing this government never u-turns at the first sign of opposition to trailed tax rises. I’m sure this one will never stick, motorists being a famously quiescent lobby of no interest to the tabloids who obsess Downing Street

Excited to see lots of op eds in the broadsheets saying it's not fair, actually, bc the author has a £2m house but is actually very poor & it turns out they're a minor aristocrat due to inherit 1/2 of Cheshire & the clothes in their 'poor me' photoshoot cost more than my car

[mutes "first day at the OBR"]

While this is US-specific, lots is applicable to the UK

So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025

There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work. If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.