It's not just inflammatory, it also undermines the one successful line of attack that Badenoch has deployed against Starmer (u-turns). Starmer can be Ditherer-in-Chief or he can be in the pocket of Big Muslim... but he can't be both!

Kemi Badenoch was never meant to be LOTO. She was meant to be the unwitting star of "Jury Duty (evil version)" — a reality TV show where we see how a mendacious narcissist responds to zany scenarios played out by actors.

Mahmood: "I do care about integration, but I also want to change the calculus of people that are about to pay money to people smugglers" ... the people smugglers provide complimentary copies of the Guardian in the small boats departure lounge, right? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Strike: when we bomb someone Attack: when someone else bombs us

2024: Labour Together briefs that donations were not reported to protect the "safety" of Trevor Chinn due to antisemitism. 2026: Josh Simons justifies investigating journalists who reported on the donations because one also wrote a book that "diminishes" Labour antisemitism. Grotesquely cynical.

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

1.9%

Might surprise people to know that in the latest British Election Study, Muslims are more politically fragmented than CofE Christians (measured by effective number of parties)

how it started / how it’s going

4) Don’t say only Labour can beat Reform if - thanks to the leadership's own self-sabotage - it’s not true. Because it will be true in many other seats, and now voters won’t believe us.

3) Don't play dirty. The bizarre claims about the Greens in relation to drugs and sex workers were desperate, embarrassing, and harmful. It is no wonder they did not work and instead reflected badly on our party.

I love fine art.

The Labour party has been outflanked on drug policy by institutions as various and reactionary as the Metropolitan Police and the fucking state of MISSOURI (legal recreational weed since 2022). Gutless, gormless little cowards.

40% very impressive in a "three horse race", but let's not forget it's ALSO the same vote share that Corbyn's Labour got in 2017, resulting in Matt Goodwin eating his book on Sky News ahahhaaaaahahaHAHAH

BREAKING NEWS: Green MP Hannah Spencer expands her property empire by owning Matt Goodwin

turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right

*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe

The theory of issue ownership says parties should raise the salience of issues they are perceived to be "good at". The theory of issue pwnership says parties should act as if they have been hacked by their rivals – repeating all their talking points – followed by "no u".

Giant whiteboard in Labour HQ: ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶e̶r̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ ❌ issue pwnership ✅

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very important video please watch

Really great reporting by the brilliant @pollysmythe.bsky.social on Criterion Capital and the billionaire philanthropist behind “one of the worst mass evictions in our capital’s recent history” www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

why did she say "hall" in a german accent hahaha

"Do Voters Respond to the Economy or to News Reporting on the Economy? A Mediation Analysis" by Mark A. Kayser and Michael Peress. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Jes Staley - former senior exec at JPM and CEO of Barclays - told the FCA he and Epstein were not friends. Let's break that rule that we can't call rich/famous people "liars". Thread:

ofc there's already a python plotting library for this sort of thing github.com/jndean/LossR...

Morgan McSweeney: a Downing Street chief with the heart of a downhill ski champ No slope too steep He leaves office with his head held low (<20%) A generational Pasokification speedrun 🏅🕊️

Will be watching this on a loop for the rest of the day thank you

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

Reported to @pnas.org in Feb 2016. Asked again in Sept 2017. Journal replied: "The authors have provided a response, and the Editorial Board is deciding how to proceed." They are still deciding, apparently 🦗 pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics

Jonas Radl and colleagues show that is actually the case based on a large experiment of 5th graders in two different counties. Moreover, they demonstrate the role of incentives and how incentives have different effects depending on social background ground. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In the bizarro world of academic journals, the rights of the author are sacrosanct and the integrity of the scientific record is someone else's problem. A paper's validity depends on emails sent 2 months later. Datasets are interchangeable. The overall conclusions of the study are not affected.

Kamran Abbasi, the editor-in-chief of @bmj.com, says they "continue to investigate a range of issues relating to this paper". The main thread of their investigation, apparently, is giving the authors an indefinite period of time to fabricate a new, more convincing dataset.

🔍 Sleuthing challenge 🔍 How many suspicious patterns can you find in this table? (You don't need to know what the variables are.) Hints in next post! 👇

This little puzzle is quite fun! 😄 Actually, it would be 100% fun if one could forget that patients' lives are at stake.... 😬

ANSWER: There's an intriguing "offset" pattern between columns 2 and 3 in the values for mean, median, Q3, and Q1. Out of 18 rows: - 5 rows where all 4 values differ by a common integer offset - 6 rows where 3/4 values differ by a common integer offset - 7 rows with no offset pattern

Let's look at one example: LVEDD final (5th row, teal highlight) The mean for group 2 is 57.25 The mean for group 3 is 54.25 = a difference of -3 But that's the EXACT same difference for these values too: Median: 49.5 - 52.5 = -3 Q3: 67.3 - 70.3 = -3 Q1: 46 - 49 = -3

The corresponding author on this paper is Dr Armin Attar of Shiraz University, Iran. Some of Dr Attar's other work features: - duplicated images (2013) - images reused but described differently (2020) - estimates outside confidence intervals (2021) - strong signs of data fabrication (2025)

🔍 Sleuthing challenge 🔍 How many suspicious patterns can you find in this table? (You don't need to know what the variables are.) Hints in next post! 👇

Govt: *tries to tax farmers* Farmers: that's mean, we have bad mental health RUSI: A DEER FOR EVERY POT AND A SHOTGUN FOR EVERY GLORIOUS FARMER-PARAMILITARY

🆕 POLLING New YouGov polling shows 67% of the public want political donations capped at £50k or less. The public has spoken loud and clear – it's time to get big money out of UK politics. Read more ⤵️ https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/latest-yougov-poll-shows-public-want-end-big-money-politics

First MEP report. Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values! So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U. Enjoy. medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-obser...

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

The government’s announcement of seven new inquiries this year means a record 27 are currently underway They're costing more too - since 2005, completed inquiries have cost over £730m. The Covid-19 Inquiry alone has spent £192m and will soon surpass the record £200m spent on the Saville Inquiry

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

New editorial with John Carlisle: Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a... Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest November 2025 - Politician background and biased perceptions in 🇨🇭 - Redistribution and Deservingness between places/people 🇳🇴 - Ideological capture in the 🇺🇸 - Honest MP responses to lobbying in 🇩🇪 - Homeownership & voting behavior

4/6 🧵In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Short, @sophieehill.bsky.social & Brown advance theory of ideological capture (IC). Use 🇺🇸 antitrust policy case with original survey of citizens & lawyers. Among others, IC characterized by cleavage in policy support between experts & public doi.org/qh8p

the scoreline today is gonna be mad. i'm saying double digits + Hayashi consolation hattrick. #EVEARS #BarclaysWSL