You simply cannot convince me that money is real

On the News Agents, Wes Streeting explains that Mamdani’s win shows how Labour’s different from the Democrats because Labour MPs are all democratic socialists, actually. LOL

Can anybody lend me $1bn. I promise I will pay it back

The News Agents are furious with Reeves’s speech. Emily is “happy”to pay more tax but doesn’t want to do it just to help out the government. L M A O

If he knows he should just tell somebody tbh

Choose your fighter

Nominating a Sun journalist for an award, specifically citing a fluff interview with Farage about how councils spend all their money on DEI? Feels like a flex imo

End indefinite leave to remain, but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Psychosis Wormhole Machine Will Kill You Rather Than Log Off

Completely captured by the some of the worst people in the world.

I hope this version of ChatGPT enterprise being used for implementing the law is better at “routine tasks” than than the one I’m obliged to use for work, which cannot reliably parse html

This week, Tim explains that Reform fare badly head to head nationally against a strong establishment party, but will pick up Tories if they can say Labour will need the Greens, Plaid & SNP to govern, like in 2015. There’s not much to be done about it, but it’s interesting to hear the thinking.

Idk man, the Tories getting 2% suggests there was some pretty strong tactical voting to get Reform in, too

Deregulation for growth latest: obliging businesses to employ a full-time toilet cop

It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing

Nobody is more surprised than me that the wildly exaggerated criticisms I make of them *as a silly joke*, for fun, turn out to have been insufficiently stupid and cartoonish

Yeah, the examples political hacks use to show Reform has “professionalised” and “detoxified” have a lot in common with tech hacks breathlessly reporting that ChatGPT can somewhat accurately plan a city break itinerary if you give it the right prompt

LOL www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This being so, you’d expect that our media would foreground the views of the 97% and consign the 3% to the fringes with the flat-earthers, and that our political parties would do the same, but

Really quite alarming on Kuenssberg to see Maitlis, who’d clearly been booked purely to talk about Prince Andrew, confidently explaining that we need to build data centres asap to avoid falling behind on AI.

Afaics from Zack’s account of the Sun story, it’s straightforwardly, obviously libellous to say he made money out of it. I mean maybe he’s lying, but somebody needs to do the work to prove it if so.

Instructive scenes on the UK’s Most Nuanced podcast. Iain has no idea why the Greens appeal to anyone and has no intention of finding out. Miranda has heard about/is terrified by the idea of degrowth, and also thinks they’re not focused enough on the environment. My guys need to find A Line asap

It’s particularly risible when the government’s approach to the complex problem of growth is the simple solution of deregulation, which has led the current chancellor to make several speeches about how the real problem with the economy is bats and newts

I fear the gambling companies have massively overestimated how much they’re respected by the public

“Oh so serious unrest is bad now? So much for the kinder, gentler politics” - me for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Current polling and its analysis from professional political journalists suggests almost everyone has lost touch with society.

Farage got to where he is now by using the voice of command that hacks understand from school and university & friends in the city. Being actively rude is a relatively recent development.

Think of it as a post-Brexit, anti-woke replacement for the Erasmus scheme. Tommy Robinson goes to Tel Aviv, Maccabi ultras come to Birmingham

Morbidly fascinating that the former DPP would want to publicly test his uh relentless focus on the safety of British working people by pressuring the cops in favour of foreign nationals with a history of violence.

Yes, it’s called lobbying

Wilfully misunderstanding football, policing and flags here - all 3 of his specialist subjects!

Incredible horseshoe scenes on the News Agents, as the team explain that Farage thinks *literally they themselves, the News Agents team & people like them*, are the real problem, and Polanski thinks it’s very rich people, and conclude that nobody knows which is more accurate.

This really shouldn't feel so unusual and like such a breath of fresh air. Almost a relief. If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.

British.

that's what happens when the government pushes the narrative that most mentally unwell ppl in this country are faking it for benefits.

What the fuck www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

“The Treasury should follow the Adam Smith Institute's advice” 😵‍💫

Who is advising these people to keep saying this

“I know not with what materials a 2040 Tesco will be built, but a 2050 Tesco will be built with sticks and stones” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mm, “openly communicated” isn’t quite right for MPs briefing to Politico et al. There’s a large netherworld where something is basically undisputed in the Westminster trade press but becomes a conspiracy theory if it’s plainly stated outside the bubble.

On the News Agents, Emily explains that the Green Party doesn’t take donations from road builders, intensive farmers or meat producers, and wonders aloud if they’ll have to get past that now that they’re polling well, in order to be taken seriously. Uk journalism really is incredible

“Is this fash dork…actually kind of sexy?” - me for GQ for some reason

“Its lawyers are eager to point to supporters it has recruited from different political and religious areas — like Claire Fox” 🤔

DW lads we’re all going to die on a burning planet but perhaps [checks notes] Keir Starmer will build a utopia of values archive.ph/1ByM3

Would like to hear from some of the people who genuinely fell for this shit (i think most platformed people knew it was bullshit and didn't care, but others). Anyone a bit mad?

On the News Agents, Lewis sits down with Neil Kinnock to swoon over the Militant speech and the incredible transformative power of rhetoric. Idk man I suppose I’d just ask why none of his other speeches worked in that case. Is it because he fell in the sea

On the FT podcast, the team agree that Badenoch is back back back after a barnstorming Real Tory speech. George notes that the plan to deport one hundred and fifty thousand people was “flaky” because it didn’t give specifics. “It was crammed with policy”, Miranda purrs. Lads, WTF

On the NS podcast, Andy recounts a years-old anecdote of a friend spotting Tony Blair “pounding a treadmill” in a Dubai hotel gym, then coming back 3 hours later to find him still at it. Is the MFer a cyborg

IDK man, did a young producer prevent noted accuracy fan Ian Hislop (65) from saying anything after Victoria Coren Mitchell (53) read it out www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One of the hotel providers made 180 million in profits while abandoning basic care. Labour could have chosen to go after these corrupt businessmen instead of the random people in these so-called hotels that never had any say in where they could live in the first place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...