It struck me at the end of yesterday that no one raised the new PM as a topic of conversation. It's just so regular an occurrence now it doesn't need comment. And ofc, if Burnham isn't prepared to deal with a room full of elephants he'll be gone soon enough too. Let's hope otherwise...

Brexit hungry. Brexit want eat Prime Minister. Brexit still hungry. Brexit want eat another Prime Minister. Brexit still hungry! Brexit want to eat…is Burnham going to serve himself up too? Let’s hope not. Larry deserves stability.

Andy Burnham is suggesting "honesty" in UK politics. OK, I'll start.... -Brexit has made us much weaker -Well-organised immigration is a boon and not a bane -big money in politics and our media is destroying the UK

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not only 5.6. 5.4 deleted an archive of months a couple of weeks ago, but at least when queried it was honest, “That’s on me. You gave me explicit instructions which I ignored…”…

We aren’t a serious country.

I would like to publicly state that I think it is a terrible decision by President Zelensky to fire Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. The reforms implemented by Fedorov have been revolutionary in this war. His dismissal and the halting of his reforms will only weaken the Ukrainian military.

2/3 I have worked closely with the Fair Visa Campaign for some time. It's clear the proposals to extend the ILR route from 5 to 15 years are unfair and should be rejected. It's not just me - more and more people can see that this is wrong and unfair. I hope Ministers are listening.

Hosepipe ban map: Where restrictions are in place as UK heatwave continues. Hosepipe bans as water companies lose trillion litres of water to leaks. No new reservoir since 1989. No national water grid. Yet govts talk about resilient infrastructure and persist with water privatisation.

Was a stay at home dad for over a decade. Then kids old enough, my CV so ancient I thought what to do to return to work? I’ll go and be a postman. That’ll fit family life. So I did. Had to stop due to sciatica caused by being middle aged and a postie. Love these pension age rises. One size fits all…

File under : If true FFS will none of them show a fucking spine on this issue?

Amusing to think a wise Western think tank has written to Kristaps to advise a more academic style…I don’t know which think tank it is but presumably it is one of those that a couple of years ago were earnestly declaring Ukraine had to throw its 18 year olds into the meat grinder to survive…

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

I don’t know if Reeves is doing understated self-satire or bestowing the learnings of her experience? I do remember spending months after she and Starmer took office being confused and concerned that they clearly did have a fucking plan. And here we are. Bravo. Goodbye.

Made me think of these sketches :)

Pet prescriptions could be capped at £21 under proposed vet sector reforms. Private equity controls 60% of the vet market. PE will find new ways of exploiting - unnecessary appointments, surgeries. Don't let PE build local monopolies. Apply "fit and proper person" test. PE won't pass it.

My cult classic Brexit novel was written with the thought of what would a Boris Johnson return to power lead to? :) www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Britis...

Ukraine maybe a little faster given Russian ballistics are killing its citizens almost daily?

Boosting national happiness is on the list too. Watching Farage squirm is currently making millions of people happier than they were yesterday. That's an achievement that may not fully compensate for the cost of living increases of Brexit, but it's not nothing.

The grim irony in all this, if Trump had actually pressured Putin to stop the war, rather than trying to force Ukraine to give in, Russia (and one suspects Trump) would have emerged in much better shape? Now when it ends Russia will likely have no oil economy and a civil war. Trump. What an asset.

Love how the interviewer did the interview with a straight face too :) Which is fair, given our politics since 2010, Binface is one of the most rational actors about.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

If he wins after all the um, constituency work he’s done for Clacton, we maybe advised to declare the region an Independent Republic and build a wall. Half suspect he will slither off and not even stand though?

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

I would rather see the Tories pick a viable unifying candidate (stop laughing at the back) but I accept that this would be the funnier outcome.

This is the correct take on the situation, yes.

Here is Trump so good at degrading any rules based system he touches that he's managed to make FIFA more corrupt? He should get a prize!

This is our kitchen daily. Altho our cat does this then sits on a counter and looks down in contempt while our border collie loses her mind. We remove cat. Dog regains sanity. Cat opens kitchen door (he knows how lever handles work) and…rinse repeat.

Good. Now the rest of them.

What infuriates me is that a) anyone who looked into Harborne knew this but only a big media house like Times can risk saying it b) UK govt won't investigate. They never do c) Our party funding system is wide open for this stuff d) There are loads of other ?s about Harborne that remain unanswered

Can anyone explain to me why our government still has any comms on X? Is it fear of Musk having a tantrum at them? Is it a desire to reach a wild and varied audience of bots daily? is it because a billionaire can be as horrific as they like, but hey, it's a billionaire, free pass? Ffs.

Before this Lab gov was elected I was writing a dark satire about the murder of an MP who wouldn't vote with the gov to install machine gun nests on the beaches at Dover. Then the gov changed and I thought...well it doesn't feel relevant now, thankfully. Such an error on my part, to stop. Sigh.

What on earth is the point of all the praise for AB's social media game when the first reply that comes up on X to the whizzy tweet showing him about to give his speech turns out to be this poisonous crap. Show some guts, Andy, and get off X.

So, @andyburnham.bsky.social what do you think of this? Does taxing asylum seekers put “hope in every heart”? Is this what Labour is now? Until you answer that question, the jury remains out. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Anyone asked Mahmood what political party she believes she’s a member of?

Jesus wept. Can we not be governed by cruel idiots for a while. More Tory than Tory…

I've migrated to YouTube channels over podcasts recently and due to that the app recommends lots of related channels to the ones I play. Holy Cow! There's a whole universe of AI avatars fronting channels doing their best to be humans and offering open source info as great revelations.

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Be interesting to know the internal decision making. Russia...a good quarter or more of its oil industry now offline and that worsening each day, printing money...likely to "mobilise" the population's savings/pensions, sending disabled people into combat...Fico...I'm sticking with the Kremlin. Why?

Feels a bit ambulance-chasey posting this, but if the events of the past few days have left you thinking about what our future climate-changed world looks like, there’s, well, a book about just that by, er, me! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/arthu...

2.41 All Hail Hypnotoad theeasternborder.lv/podcast/2-41... youtu.be/W5qS9-ZTZ_w Glory to Hypnotoad. Donate to Ukraine: car4ukraine.com/campaigns/su...

I hope (ah...that desperate feeling these days) that Labour, having organised itself impressively to politically decapitate a useless leadership, do offer serious change this time while they still have time to enact it. Starmer fell because we all keep getting poorer, except the rich...so, what now?

Agreed. Starmer didn’t use power and now power has left him.

In our household and households of our friends…continued to see the costs of living rise. Thames Water being allowed to batter us with more increases a prime e.g. Starmer didn’t use his power (and it was considerable) and now it’s gone. Imagine what a Tory PM would have done with 170 seat majority?

What *is* the point of public funding if it's not to subsidise things we need but commercial broadcasters won't do?

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

I watch The Telegraph's YouTube channel on the war in Ukraine (and Trump's idiocy in Iran) and it's very good...as a result YouTube suggests other Telegraph channels...which seem to be the same old toxic shite. Shocked I tell you. Shocked.