Olly Robbins is brat!

His father is Emeritus Professor of International Social Theory at the University of East London,[6] where he has taught since it was founded as North East London Polytechnic in 1970, devoting his career to French post-structuralist social theory and the work of Pierre Bourdieu.[7][8] His mother was a civil servant, who left her job to raise her children.[9] He was educated at Colfe's School, a private school in Lee, south-east London,[10] and Hertford College, Oxford, where in 1996 he took a BA in PPE.

Absolutely brilliant shot/chaser here

Hahahahaha

This is good

🚨 NEW: No 10 sources say the public will get to see “horny Starmer” in the Commons later today

Also interesting that by raising the Savile thing Boris Johnson got the core tension in Starmer’s approach to leadership, where “as DPP”, “ “as leader of the Labour Party” he takes credit for various institution-level achievements but inevitably hasn’t been informed about their various failures.

Mikel Arteta: wh-where am I

Handbrake Turn Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Me to my civil service colleagues: i will notte be seen Deade with Mandelson now the vetting hath done a Numbre on him

me when Sir Keir asks me if the Mandelson appointment will be finalised soon: Most certinly Sir. Vetting gets bettre every Week Sir

Still, good news about the Fabian YIMBY meetup

truly amazing luck that they continually managed to phrase it this way despite not knowing about the failure until tuesday. would have been embarrassing otherwise!

Quite funny that no-one’s talking about why he failed the vetting

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The lawyerly wording he used at the time (about the process being followed — which, it has been, albeit not in the way anyone would expect) gives credence to this IMO

Today v much ‘Al Capone Tax Evasion’ day for the Sir Beer Korma truthers amongst us

As in, even on the best version of events for Starmer (where all his officials are incompetent, lying etc) this was obviously a wildly stupid thing to do.

Bit underdiscussed imo that the ‘original sin’ of this all was Starmer announcing him before he’d been vetted.

I’m told Starmer is “furious” that they didn’t have his nose; was informed by cabinet secretary only earlier this week that they were in fact using their thumb

Funny

Toddler getting to the point he can request specific books: really good.

Moved to tears by the Sort Your Life Out / Mr Tumble crossover

Windy isn’t it

I’d lose my head if it wasn’t screwed on!

Got almost halfway home from nursery this evening before i realised (because someone waved at me) that my son’s bag was on the roof of the car.

The vibes at the Scruton Cafes* in Budapest must be at an all-time low.

*A chain of cafe/bars inspired by British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton. Est by the Hungarian govt-backed Batthyány Lajos Fnd to help the Orbanist right connect with the youth. They have not succeeded

(My pics, 2025)

First swifts of the year :)

Voldemort in Goblet of Fire

They were watching the Arsenal game

Arsenal in the title race now like one of those Stewart Lee bits where the more you repeat it, the funnier it gets

It’s simple really, Arteta just isn’t very good at his job. And is also a wretched, hateful man.