Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Husband loses 4 stone to donate kidney to his wife #Shropshire 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

This Resolution report seems to capture the issue for a key section of the population. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

That US athletes are doing this, at, let’s face it, some genuine personal risk of retribution, gives me a glimmer of hope.

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/9PqARl5l7Q8?...

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband.

Max Wilkinson (LibDem) Will Home Sec condemn Trump’s ICE squads & reassure us that we will not see ICE squads on Britain's streets? Shabana Mahmood (Labour) "Unlike most of Westminster, I am not plagued with “America brain”. I do not spend any of my time worrying about what is happening in America"

Absolutely this. If trying not to burn the planet is too radical for the government, we are doomed. bsky.app/profile/luca...

Morning. A reminder that the names will continue to change with regularity in UK politics until leaders realise that there are no easy solutions and that difficult choices have to be made and justified.

Inject that uber-woke net-zeroist rejoinerism straight into my veins

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

So bleak that net zero, a decade old Conservative climate policy that is wholly inadequate in scope and ambition, is now too radical for parts of the Labour Party

'Uber-woke, netzeroist, Rejoinerism'. Like that's a bad thing 🤣

Have to say… “uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism” sounds very appealing. Particularly in light of the fact that anti-woke, fossil-fuel-ist, brexitism has been such an exhausting and ruinous shitshow.

I want an "Über-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism” T-shirt

It’s also about cost. Of flooding, fire and drought, and their sociopolitical impacts. Paid individually through uninsured events and loss of asset values, and collectively through taxes and insurance premiums. 2/

The main point about Net Zero is not that it’s a vote-winner or loser, or even that it’s a legal or treaty commitment. It’s that it’s essential to the medium-term liveability of our planet. 1/

It's funny watching British politics from afar. And wondering why a party with a massive parliamentary majority would not simply use that position to enact its programme, rather than worrying about the next election, which is still several years away.

Ironically the same supporters also hate everything good about this government - drive for net zero, closer ties with the EU (for all begrudgingness). "Uber-woke" - you're an MP in the *Labour Party" ffs

Ra-Ra-McSweeney, lover of the Faragey...

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

To be fair, he lasted just over a month longer than Mandelson did following the May 97 election.

This. It’s not just Mandelson this government got wrong. Paving the way for Reform.

This type of X comms from the Home Office seems a political gift to Reform, and fuel for overt racists, while repelling progressives at the same time

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

Extraordinary reporting. And a window on the two Londons - the one we live in and the phantom city of the online rage economy

And a month ago mandelson and the ceo of Palantir were in Laura K like it was normal

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

In so many areas (not all), the market has failed. It has destroyed communities, delivered worse outcomes, cost more money and degraded the environment. The right can never admit this because it means disowning Thatcherism. The left should not have that problem.

DM's are open to HAKE filled FATE videos.

The absolute lack of remorse from the perpetrator is genuinely chilling

So now we know why Trump is Putin's puppet - Putin bought him for money

Totally mad @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Always an exciting moment when we see les grues (the cranes) flying north over our part of France… a sign that spring is on the way.

oh dear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A staffer shat my pants.

Noteworthy that these ridiculous stories come from the same (and equally ridiculous) *desperate times* spin of the now long train of failed PMs.

Have Keir Starmer’s allies considered…just getting better at their jobs?

I don't think we have to engage properly with Matt Goodwin talking about birth rates, he's just trying to signal that he wants more white people, it's not really anything beyond that.

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

"ALL THESE POLICIES ARE YOURS, EXCEPT NATIONALISING THAMES WATER. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."