I know you know this but under FPTP we’re gonna have limited choices depending on where we live. The key will be to punish the safe seats and be tactical in the marginal ones. Need to start getting this out there asap

It's all just so muddled. It like they are giving messages to different audiences, but seem to forget that we all see all of it. So absolutely none of it comes across as remotely sincere, so none of it will land at all. They are making an almighty fuck up of government.

As soon as Bluesky rolls out a feature to block an entire country, it'll make an absolute killing.

Pretty wild that Peter Thiel is obsessed with the Antichrist yet hasn’t realised it’s actually him www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Refugees granted asylum in the UK will no longer be automatically given settlement and family reunion rights, Keir Starmer will announce news.sky.com/story/no-gol...

Whilst the majority of the public are sound on climate change, we now have two major parties peddling paranoid disinformation on it. Recent Tory leaders understood the economic and environmental imperative of the Climate Change Act - they are obvious. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a question for the Conservative Party

Will be interesting to see which groups are sponsoring events at this week's Conservative conference. Unfortunately I won't be able to tell you about it because her press team have banned me from covering it! bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Who was the Tory Cabinet Office Minister responsible for Covid contracts? He won’t be laughing soon, hopefully.

""The Treasury consistently warned this is a downside risk,” To his Labour critics, this “risk” begs the question of why Hunt slashed 4 pence off employee national insurance contributions in his final two Budgets, cutting tax revenue by upwards of £20bn." on.ft.com/48LBblp  Well, exactly...

Morning.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Some info on the founder of Blue Labour. 💥2011: called for a dialogue with supporters of the English Defence League (EDL). 💥2011: called for some immigration to be halted and for EU freedom of movement to be abolished. 💥2016: campaigned to leave the EU. 💥2024: celebrated the victory of Donald Trump.

In the WTAF department: Labour peer Lord Glasman has personally apologised to Farage for Starmer’s statement that Farage is a racist. “I’m ashamed. It’s a disgrace.” He went on Farage’s own GB News show. Glasman is the architect of Blue Labour, the ultra-conservative Labour pressure group.

Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

91 years. All of them Good.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

(1) The prime minister should call out racism whether or not it’s politically convenient to do so. (2) I absolutely do not believe this is a vote loser for Labour, especially if done right and with conviction

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed.

Are we great yet?

NEW: London has achieved the historic milestone of meeting the legal limits for nitrogen dioxide for the first time in 2024 - 184 years earlier than experts predicted.

Hasn’t this “unmasking” story been done pretty much every year since the 1980s Scarman Report? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

🚨 New YouGov poll: In a head-to-head, Brits pick Starmer over Farage for PM by 45% to 33%. Despite Reform’s rise in vote shares, far more voters still prefer a Starmer premiership. #ukpolitics 🔗 labourlist.org/2025/09/excl...

They didn’t have MedBeds in Starfleet until well after warp drive was discovered.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI. Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

Praise for Matthew Goodwin, declaring Shabana Mahmood can't be English, from Britain First leader Paul Golding

For a movie that’s 35 years old, Dick Tracy’s make up & prosthetic artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains that still holds up.

They should call it The Great British Identity Card. Everyone would love it then. Every week, the British Public™️ could vote someone off the Card. Mel & Sue could host the weekly programme, maybe with cheeky asides from Michael McIntyre.

I'm old enough to remember despising Thatcher the first time around, when she was still alive, and it’s bad enough when assorted Tory creeps try to channel her dismal spirit, but when a Labour Home Secretary names Thatcher as her hero, we’re seeing unashamed political necrophilia.

I may be missing something here, but “Peace or else, but we’ll kill you anyway, monetise your extinction, and Tony Blair will oversee the logistics,” doesn’t sound like much of an offer to me.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

People like Mone are surrounded by a coterie of fluffers whose living depends on "yes". Any "no" is an outrage. Criticism filtered. Facts blended and extruded as potato smileys. Similar to The Dictator's Dilemma, soon, they lose touch with reality. The bunker is always last to know the war is lost.

The smell of autumn is in the air, like a pencil being sharpened in a damp church by someone who has recently smoked a pipe.

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Can't believe the man who said he would 'don khaki and pick up a rifle' for Brexit is shitting himself over hurty words from Keir Starmer.

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

Important piece by @sundersays.bsky.social explaining both why Reform's deportation plans (and I'd add the Conservatives' similar ones) are racist, why Starmer's welcome condemnation of them conflicts with Mahmood's speech, and what govt needs to clarify. www.easterneye.biz/keir-starmer...

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young. Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

We now have two v prominent advocates of Reform - both Matthew Goodwin and Isabel Oakeshott - arguing that Shabana Mahmood (so Rishi Sunak and Paul Ince) can't be English. That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Since 2021, billionaire Larry Ellison’s personal foundation has donated or pledged at least £257m to the Tony Blair Institute.

Matthew Goodwin continues to harden and radicalise his own views, year on year.