The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

Wonder if that makes it easier to spend more

Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.

Do most Americans get paid by cheque every week? In the uk for anyone on a salary it tends to arrive by bank transfer once a month

Going “I would be very keen on X” and then insisting that you didn’t pressure anyone into doing X when X backfires is such an obvious hallmark of a bad boss that this sequence of events regularly shows up in workplace sitcoms

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.

I think, genuinely, Starmer does just believe that the “wrong outcome” must mean “the wrong process was followed”, and therefore Robbins needed to be sacked. It wasn’t a “cynical but dumb” move, it was a “this worldview is highly unsuited to running a government” move.

This is I think one thing the “who cares?” people are missing.

That at every stage, the Mandelson affair shows a guy who is simply not interested in what his job *actually involves* or how organisations work.

Cannot run an effective government without a prime minister.

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“What about Matthew Doyle, Prime Minister?”

"No pressure existed whatsoever" on the FCDO to appoint Mandelson, Keir Starmer tells the House of the Commons. And that, I think, is gonna be a big big hostage to fortune.

Trump, and his supporters around the world, do not believe we are in a democratic era any more

I think a lot of the question of why don't Brits invest very much comes down to Brits have learned to see their economic future as tied to their house price which unlike stocks and shares they simply refuse to believe can go down

It all kinda makes sense until the final 2 paragraphs and then it falls apart. She wants the government to…let her off council tax? Subsidise the sale value of her home? I’m unclear how they could or why they should!!!

Unemployment isn’t down because jobs numbers have gone up; unemployment has decreased as a percentage because the amount of people who have left the workforce to become economically inactive is large enough to materially shrink the labour pool

There are in fact general elections in Wales & Scotland, and elections to determine the control of hundreds of English councils, in just 15 days time

It annoys me that they aren’t numbered like actual aircraft.
Obviously 7 but really, B5 if we are doing it correctly

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

This is why people on the left who claim to care about the global south should regulate their enthusiasm for universal household bailouts in rich countries.

I think the home secretary should apologise for this incredibly bad taste joke and even should consider her position

30% of Labour prime ministers have employed his grandfather.

Meanwhile 30% of Labour prime ministers found themselves unable to sack his grandfather

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Yes agree and also it’s a cul de sac.

I wonder why the Trump administration is so keen to stop the activities of Americas most important anti-extremism charity

The point is that he outsources his judgement to McSweeney, to ‘the process’, to anyone but himself, then turns on them when it backfires.
Right now Darren Jones is doing an invented job in the House of Commons so the PM doesn’t have to be there. Outsourcing again.

And they’ll go on claiming they are winners right up until the point they hand the keys to Nigel and begin a lucrative retirement

On top of everything else, the level of 'embattled' behaviour going on with senior ministers and their comfort zone of lashing out of their traditional supporters shows the government is both in disarray and denial.

Robbins said no.10 put pressure on the foreign office to give Matthew Doyle a job & not tell the foreign secretary!

Doyle is the man Starmer subsequently gave a peerage to despite the fact he'd campaigned for someone who'd been charged with possessing indecent images of children

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