Imagine being an incumbent labour councillor in one of these councils thinking what might save your seat this time is the elections being postponed with the possibility of someone/anyone better as PM and then... SURPRISE! You're having that election after all! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Does madame want; some fussing, me to vacate this chair so she can sit here, or both.

We need a ban on adults writing and reading hysterical articles about banning social media for teenagers.

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

Sunday evening face.

Starmer's Britain is one in which an NHS Doctor is dragged through the courts and shamed in the press for no crime she has committed and is ultimately forced into self-exile due to harassment Labour on all levels of politics enthusiastically supported

Josh Simons is the minister holding the brief on Labour's flagship tech programme, digital ID. Wonder what impact this will have/is having on the programme, which is already running some months behind the ambitious timeline set out last year.

Mad Mary, an ultra Catholic/anti-abortion candidate where I grew up had a similar trick but the car just drove around playing Mary's Prayer. (She did not get elected)

"The senior Labour figures, including allies of Starmer, believe the Prime Minister may be mortally wounded" May be? Only may be? (People say this government has no central animating mission but it does - it's self-delusion)

Hilary Cass, who called people concerned about trans kids killing themselves "shroud wavers" on the BBC talking about toxic debates

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

Roses are red Violets aren't yella Aon focal, dhá focal Tú focal eile

Get him Hannah Spencer #MattGoodwin

Today we are studying the story of the Bad Samaritan

Is he hoping to line up Ratcliffe as a buyer if the current deal can't get past the CMA or something.

The TLDR of soooo much Green Party discourse on this site is basically that it should be illegal to contest elections as a competitor to the Labour party and y'know, fine, it's certainly a take, lets see how it works out for you in the various upcoming elections.

A total, total humiliation for the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Often find myself despairing about the state of the world, then wander into the room and see the cat doing absolutely nothing and all the bad thoughts just evaporate.

Well thank god that Irish man being held in a US concentration camp may have committed some crimes. Our valiant crime correspondents have saved Micheál Martin from an awkward position by letting us know the guy deserves his ill fate.

The thing that keeps Snatch Game fresh imo is that you never know if you're about to witness the best or worst impersonation comedy you've ever seen. International queens + Ru meddling with the format? This'll be good (bad).

I dunno if you can put a sympathetic spin on ‘Baby Mass Graves’

I know politicians are built different and they're all attention seekers, but if someone described me this brutally I would simply disappear under a rock forever. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Posted at precisely the same time to the Guardian website, who to believe 🤔

Incredible rebrand. It is probably the case that Keir Starmer would beat Nigel Farage in a fight, and that is a strength Labour should absolutely highlight in the coming weeks and months.

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down; Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards Ministers saying it's the end game...

Quite ANASty surprise for the PM there.

sources close to Keir Starmer tell me that Keir Starmer is ‘moisturised’, ‘in his lane’ and ‘thriving’

oh my god this is even lower than the funniest low number I was imagining

Why would they move at pace to deliver change for someone who might be moved at pace out of office very shortly giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Remembering that Theresa May limped on for two years after her advisors were forced out and wondering what horrors await us in the zombie Starmer era.

Exciting day for the Prime Minister, who might actually get to drive the DLR now.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

This is so bleak (also, hustle culture needs to die)

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

New mode of active travel unlocked for south Dublin - kayaking to work!

A fun activity if your partner is running or involved in local election campaigning is to talk about all the leisure time you have this weekend. For maximum entertainment value try it from bed while they are getting ready to go door knocking in the rain.

Good morning from the cat who wasn't going to be allowed on the bed and isn't one bit grateful that she is.

Trans teacher: “I’d like staff and students to refer to me as Mx” School: “Sure, that’s a reasonable request” Tommy Robinson (criminal): “Guess I’ll start harassing this teacher - at school, at home, everywhere” Gavin Williamson MP: “Keep it up, Tommy, and let me know if you need anything”

This came up in the Rest is Politics, where Stewart ended the episode by lamenting how MPs are in financial desperation, leading to corruption. There may be a case for paying MPs more, but desperation? They’re highly paid. Again, just not as highly paid as some of the people they meet.

lol www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

Hilarious

Reform, the pro-death & life-changing injuries party

This seems a little more serious than a ticketable offence!

Before long the story will be of a gang of teenage woman who tricked and exploited an innocent financier and his circle of intellectual friends.

watching elite consensus-makers egg each other on in seeing who is willing to put their name on the "pedophilia isnt that bad actually" article is so cool. that used to happen in private smoke-filled parlors! now it happens in substack comments sections. that's digital democracy in action

He loves to try to do a reset with a little interview or speech that bears no relationship to whatever disaster he's currently mired in. In a more likeable person it would be almost endearing.

Don't want to do any spoilers but the latest Drag Race UK vs the world lip sync was the most chaotic I've seen and is 💯 going to be a long term injury liability claim in the future.

Justin Webb just introduced an item on BBC R4 by talking of campaigners in Scotland litigating to "keep biological males" out of women's prisons. No longer bothering even to pretend to be constrained by the BBC's 'rules' on editorial independence to keep his personal bigotry under wraps.