We definitely need more ‘haters said I couldn’t, they were correct, honestly great call from the haters’ features.

Fortunately by the next GE, UK voters will have had years of watching this sort of policy in action if the US H-1B visa changes come into force. The talent shortages will crush tech and professional services. The UK led Europe in tech inward investment projects last year, why would we give that up?

It was published more than an hour ago but Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she’s no longer suing her own party still hasn’t replaced her pinned announcement that she’s suing her own party.

‘Can I just shock you? The sexist boy’s club I was talking about earlier? I’m with them and you should vote for us.’

Skimread this as ‘Richard Burgon season’ and almost put my back out clicking to see when it was taking place.

At what point does it become a credibility risk for the Greens if she joins

What we need is a new New Party, freed from the shackles of the status quo that have ground down the old New Party. It’s our hope that the new New Party will embody the pioneering spirit the old New Party demonstrated when it was originally launched all those days ago.

Looking past the FAFO nature of Arkansas farmers being ruined by tariffs, this clip surprised me because do Americans see no issue filming themselves on a handheld phone while driving down a street?

‘The Labour leadership should stop catering to Farage’s racist mates and start catering to *my* racist mates’

They could just take down all the road signs to prevent Westminster Outsider Andy Burnham from even finding parliament.

Feel for Rayner as this does seem like a mistake rather than deliberate manoeuvring. At the same time, if you put one property into a complex trust arrangement, it seems a bit naive to then rely on a conveyancer’s advice for the next property. Surely just go back to the trust experts, just in case?

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

Oh.

Whataboutism is very annoying but do think it’s somewhat justified when the people accusing others of backsliding on human rights have been deporting their own citizens to torture prisons. www.thetimes.com/article/5049...

“The only thing they can find money for is weapons of war” Across 2025/26, UK social security spending (£327bn) will be x5 the defence spending (£60bn). Personally think we should spend more on social security than defence and that we should stop pretending that we don’t already do so.

Hahahaha

We get x2 glitzy dramas about the Prince Phillip Newsnight interview and nothing for the day a noble BBC exec rinsed ABC for rights to one of history’s most commercially valuable IPs.

Interested to know if synthetic focus group results have already been presented in discussions with Labour MPs to justify policy and whether those MPs have understood that these are the opinions of voters who don’t actually exist.

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He was asked to take the test in 2020, refused and offered to resign on the spot, and has instead been suspended on full pay until now. Five years.

Cool can we start hearing less from the fishing industry please

UK generally *feels* less violent than it did in the mid-2000s, when it felt like you’d be guaranteed to see fights every night you went out.

No UK climbdown on digital services tax. The trade pact isn’t announced because it’s ready, it’s announced because those 90 days are ticking down and nothing else has been announced yet.

Operation Halt China’s Global Influence is off to a rocky start.

Due to fly from Heathrow on Monday for a honeymoon to Japan that had initially been booked for March 2020 and boy are my nerves frazzled.

In which McDonnell says there’s an obvious short term need to placate Trump to protect Ukraine, but that long term a shift to European economic independence is needed. All framed as advice that hasn’t occurred to Starmer.

I agree with the last para here. We should record the names of everyone who opposes this. And they should reminded of it whenever they pipe up in future about peace, national responsibility, supporting the oppressed, standing on the right side of history etc.

‘Fair enough, ok!’ chuckles the journalist as the senator belittles the sovereignty of a neighbour and ally.

At some point you’d expect the regulatory instability to affect investment decisions for some fairly big businesses that might decide to put their money somewhere that isn’t having a daily policy flip flop.

The former Reform Wales leader was in court *last week* to answer accusations of accepting bribes to make pro-Russian statements

Genuinely this perspective from Americans very interesting. It seems to view the ~80 years of incredible global soft power the US has enjoyed as completely separate to the ~80 years of incredible economic prosperity the US has enjoyed at home, and believe you can cut one without impacting the other.

Very strong back line with a few handy attacking options. But the manager may regret not selecting a Baltic winger or two.

From a purely realpolitik perspective, if you're a middling country trying to navigate allegiances in a now multipolar world watching that meeting, why would you not take up with the Chinese?

It’s fine buying this in daylight but imagine going downstairs for a water at 2am and this thing is looming facelessly at you in your kitchen

The right thing to do and also the way for the govt’s growth agenda to actually succeed.

Finally, we’re pushing back on the Having Beers With Friends stigma that has dogged men for too long.

What is the charge? Chanting a punchline? Repeatedly chanting a 20 year old punchline?

Imagine being company that - inherited existing infrastructure set up by the state - operates in fixed territories so doesn’t need to worry about ‘selling’ to ‘new customers’ - has endless supplies because its product falls freely from the sky And you still go bust. Embarrassing.

Very funny for McDonnell to say this, 10/10.

There’s that Labour Source again, saying something stupid because they get giddy talking to the press.

Fun fact: for the entirety of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this stupid clock was at 7 whole minutes to midnight

Good series of #TheTraitors but next time can they please weed out potential players who’ll take it all too seriously? We’re not Americans.

Leanne pretending to be rubbish at this so nobody guesses she was in the Towed By A Helicopter While Dropping Stuff Regiment #TheTraitors

We all took the piss out of Charlotte acting Welsh to seem more trustworthy but tbf they’ve just been told she’s a traitor and Jake’s still going ‘well maybe not?’ #TheTraitors