10.03.2026 17:13
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Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.
Brilliant thread
Only borderline disgraceful this time?
"On the foreign front, Labour has fixed some of the vandalism of the post-Cameron Tories through such innovative ploys as deigning to visit the second-biggest economy on Earth."
"People were voting not based on who will increase their wages or fix their schools, but on who will protect the interests of their identity groups and punish those they disagree with. This is not healthy and it is not British."
You know, what might be interesting one day is if somebody could look into whether there's any history of social or religious or class divisions being a factor in British politics. But I guess it's a bit of an obscure, weird idea, which must be why nobody's ever thought about it before
Maybe they have been banned from inspection copies and due to cut backs they have had to buy their own. In which case much respect for having more than a couple.
Not a day or minute goes by that we don't remember you. Everything brings us back to the light you brought into the world. We miss you more than ever. Life will never be the same without you. Joe Berry 29/10/98 - 22/02/2020. Love you Mum, Dadam and Ams. 💔💔💔
As predicted at the Home Affairs Committee last year committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Policy by Pub Bore. He's just that spittle-flecked Hate Guy in the corner of your done-up bar saying that modern beer is horrible and anyone under 50 is lazy and a loser. As beatable a politician as there'll ever be.
The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process."
Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed
Just beyond parody at this point
“As Darling was telling his colleagues about his plans in confidence, Mandelson was leaking them to his friend and benefactor, the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.” Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on Mandelson and Darling:
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
We're pushing hundreds of thousands of kids back into poverty so a bloke drinking 20 pints a week can save a quid
I'm sorry but the barrister defending in this case comments are disgraceful. This isn't a tragic accident, he has pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving. That is not an accident it's a choice to drive far below the accepted standards. news.sky.com/story/van-dr...
Isn't this what those who wanted a graduate tax want?
Honestly what is the point of having a programme that is *not* live if you are not going to use that function to aggressively factcheck the people on it?
Perhaps Nigel Farage would like to explain to the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq why he’s such a good pal of Donald ‘bonespurs’ Trump?
Draft-dodging scum says what
Here comes the next government U-Turn. BBC News - Number of police forces to be cut in major shake-up
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As he went on, another possibility sprang to mind. Perhaps Johnson has recruited some of the sarcastic writers who used to work for his British namesake Boris, filling his speeches with lines that were best understood as jokes against their employer. How else to explain the complaints that Russia was “more emboldened”, the warning against “the indulgence of self-interest” or the injunction to “call evil and madness what it is”? Hoyle looked round the room like a hawk when Johnson came out with that last line, daring anyone to laugh. It was the kind of speech that would have been largely anodyne at many other points over the last century. As it was, it was like a toast to your parents’ long and happy marriage delivered while your father was loudly banging his secretary in the next room. “We see the UK and Europe stepping up as faithful partners today,” Johnson said, speaking on behalf of the unfaithful partner currently posting screenshots of private messages from fellow leaders. He w
US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...
It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.
But if you seriously believe that a women cannot have any objections to a person with a penis getting changed next to her, I am not sure there is much else to say.
(The question is are you brave enough to tell the women in your life yes, you must accept this?)
Not only that the claim to some special insight because ask questions in court (where already know the answers) or use extrinsic evidence to support your hunches (Amanda) hardly gives insight into whether someone is lying. Compulsive viewing but embarrassing for those claiming special insight.
The contestants she mentions were not half as clever as they thought, Hugo and Harriet in particular. It is a game of bluff, deception, outright lying, not particularly one of "intelligence". And I would agree that is a strength not a flaw of the game.
Proving once again he is the best sketch writer of the moment @roberthutton.co.uk 's sketch today is fabulous. thecritic.co.uk/francis-urqu...
Its an exodus at the top of the courts!
Fantastic case this: On the meaning of "property" in the Theft Act 1968. Do goldcoins in aan online role playing game constitute property when they are not reducible to any physical property. Yes says the CA - The Hinks of our time! www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.
A couple hundred jobs go in a factory and there’s journalistic and parliamentary outcry. Thousands of staff cuts across UK HE every year for a few years - a ‘lucrative export services industry’ - barely gets a mention outside the sector.