Toby Young capturing the zeitgeist once again.

Keir Starmer today

Can we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?

According to reports this morning, Yvette Cooper is one of Mahmood's allies in pushing Starmer out. How is it ok that her husband can be sat there while this conversation takes place?

@uklabourparty.bsky.social heard you were looking for a new leader .. 😎

"06:35 – Wake up to 37 missed calls from Chris Mason." open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

World's worst urologist.

Extraordinary after such a wet winter... If only someone had bothered to build the odd reservoir in the last 40 years we might have been able to store it 🤷‍♂️🤯 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Even on Psalm Sunday?

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A revealing look into the Reform leader’s private journal. (Is this real, or satire?* Read on to find out…) ✏️ @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

Chrissie151 is.... PATRIOT OF THE DAY!

37 Missed Calls From Chris Mason That's everyone's nightmare!

I know it’s satire, but so much of it rings true.

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best thing to come out of the local elections 'Romford Diamond Protocol' 😹

Nigel asked me to type up his election diary. It was my pleasure. "16:36 – Receive an image of a brick in a puddle. It can mean only one thing. Jonathan Gullis is a councillor again." www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

When I wrote this, a couple of weeks ago, it was intended as a joke, rather than a prophecy. thecritic.co.uk/issu...

Mae Cymru yn ysgrifennu stori ein hun - ac mae gennych chi'r cyfle i fod yn rhan ohoni ✍️ Ymunwch â Phlaid Cymru heddiw i helpu siapio dyfodol Cymru - plaid.cymru/ymuno 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dros Gymru. For Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

It reminds me of Orwell's observation (paraphrasing) that most political predictions consist of saying the people who are currently winning will continue to win and the people who are currently losing will continue to lose

Now do Pheasants.

Does anyone want to buy some magic dogshit? It's quite clearly just ordinary dogshit, and only an idiot would believe it has magic properties. £10 each, hurry hurry while stocks last

Was cricket page 340? Football 302, Rugby League 370 - lovely stuff. Internet is just Ceefax with nobs on

📍 Sir Gaerfyrddin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru WIN 3 SEATS 💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL 3 SEDD Llongyfarchiadau Cefin Campbell, Nerys Evans ac Adam Price! ✨

📍 Ceredigion Penfro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru WIN 3 SEATS 💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL 3 SEDD Llongyfarchiadau Elin Jones, Kerry Ferguson ac Anna Nicholl! ✨

Plaid FTW!

The problems faced by Indigenous Australians have been overlooked for too long. It has taken a horrific murder to force Australians to confront the intense bigotry that persists across society ✏️ Lynne O'Donnell

The Greens win the Hackney mayoralty, famously a bellwether for England as a whole.

I used to go to my grandad's old people's home and watch the Yorkshire score update on Ceefax with him.

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

The PNG Courier on bungs, banquets and bunglers …

Jenrick now on GMB saying the two big parties have failed. He was in one less than 6 months ago.

after a devastating streak of two World Cups without official songs by Shakira, we are so back

"Say what you like about Nigel – for instance, he’s a loathsome chancer who doesn’t receive a fraction of the scrutiny to which Polanski is subjected – but he isn’t half good at getting people to vote against their own self-interest." Awesome, as always... 🙌

"Nuance is difficult in a political climate that rewards simplicity" Do read this excellent (and nuanced) piece by @hannahweisfeld.bsky.social of @yachad.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the mess that is our current debate on antisemitism www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/argument/733...

"We have interviewed over 75 women who were detained.. all the women say the thing about sexual violence, including rape, sexual torture, sexual humiliation.. its systematic.." Kifaya Khraim from the Women's Centre for Legal Aid & Counselling on women being raped & tortured in Israeli jails

Excellent review; no quarter granted to any political leader. Badenoch gets off lightly by not featuring at all.

Jones is absolutely on to something here: quick thread 🧵 Polanski IMO is not blameless for controversy over the last couple of weeks, but because his position on 🇮🇱 & economics is different from the establishment: he is not allowed to be a “proper Jew”… (1) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a pleasure it is to wake up this morning knowing that I am in no way involved in today's electoral activities!

EXCLUSIVE - The Papua New Guinea Courier's view on today's Welsh, Scottish and local elections. More in my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Chances are some proper political history will happen in Cymru tomorrow. We’ll have to wait until Friday to find out… #senedd26 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #elections

African red slip ware, first half of the sixth century, found in a grave in Taranto, Italy, with birds that look to my eyes like inspiration for insular art...

🚨 @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: “Posing for photographs with individuals later convicted of a violent attack on an anti-racism gathering is not a minor lapse of judgment: it speaks directly to the character and values at the very heart of Reform UK.”

Either they do that thing where every time someone's addressed you recite their entire family tree or I'm out.

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