Asking the important and interesting questions

another bold one from the party of free speech i see

The real question is did the minions serve Cromwell

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The

Raging insanity.

If you were born in 2009, there will now be things it's illegal for you to do that it remains perfectly legal for someone born in 2008 to do. Forever, apparently.

Textbook second-class citizenship.

EVEN IF it's "in a good cause".

It's true in every country as well

he's right though. why are you shouting

I think the current policy package is inherently incompatible with effective centre-left governance and would, even with a "competent" leader, land Labour in much of the same place

I am desperate to find a way to not slate Keir, but he won't provide one

There's many reasons why I think this approach is a bad idea, but a really obvious one is this: would you trust Nigel Farage with these powers?

As others have noted it’s remarkable how similar these two men’s trajectories have been

Turns out, as Boris Johnson *also* found out four years ago, blaming your subordinates for your failures of judgement tends to backfire!

It was both I think? iirc there wasn't much detail in the manifesto either?

Kicking social care into the grass! One of the most obvious and most pressing issues that would require short-term pain to solve

Last time Labour lost Camden it made Jeremy Corbyn, one of the most stubborn men alive, substantively revise his EU policy

He always ticks me off

The response to Hartlepool was certainly a sign he didn't know what he was doing

Trump, soon boasting about how he's closed the US trade deficit

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

Kent is probably the worst because half the county is very deprived and half of it is very rich. But yes there is a lot of it around here

Yeah it genuinely is just right-wingers too snobby for Reform. The sort that oppose flags on lampposts because it makes the area look poor

Funny to recall that this government, mired in scandal, policy u-turns and infighting, won a huge majority a little less than two years ago. And while the fiscal inheritance was bad, the bar for improvement was also set incredibly low. It was just so hard to see how you could end up here so quickly.

Just as well we’re approaching half time for this government

Do knowledge-rich curriculums cause mental health problems? And do skills-based curriculums make kids love school?

Great piece by @daisychristo.bsky.social debunking the idea that England's more rigorous school curriculum and assessment caused the decline in mental health.

TL:DR: Scotland + Wales have parallel declines - despite implementing opposite school policies.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/do-knowled...

The last line here is very funny. “Look, after we cause mass unemployment on a level unseen since the Great Depression, I worry there could be a public backlash if it turns we weren’t candid enough about it beforehand”

First day of hayfever season today

Boris resigned when I was last in Belgium. There might be something in this

Guys*, don't do this, regardless of party. It just makes you look like you hate democracy or 'the other'.

*Non-gendered

This guy buggered off before his party got destroyed in his seat

"The FSB, IRGC and other terror organisations are waging a terror campaign against Britain's Jewish population using gullible young people as undetectable proxies" is a national security crisis we are just deciding not to think about

My optimistic but pessimistic view is Reform gets in some time in the 2030s after a messy Lib-Lab-Grn coalition