I see you as a GenX early adopter

There will come a time when you yearn for the big light.

That's a masterstroke

The Devil is in the Detail: Parliament and Delegated Legislation This 2014 book was the first comprehensive study of the delegated legislation system at Westminster in nearly a century. The book opens up the process, through the presentation of detailed research an...

17/ How secondary legislation works - the legislative lifecycle - is covered in my book, The Devil is in the Detail: Parliament and Delegated Legislation. Some detail is now dated but the parliamentary processes have not changed. Free to download 👇(THE END)
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

Fascinating read, with a political side-note: once again we see a regulator falling apart due to funding cuts in the 2010s, and the government not paying attention after 2016 because the focus is elsewhere.

The general public don't care that the Tories closed down the UK's main gas storage facility in 2017. They should but they don't.

Life's not fair, especially when it comes to politics. That should be super clear by now.

So when the brown stuff hits the fan, Labour will take the brunt of the blame.

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As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator...
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Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new.

Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

listen to the Trumpian way that Farage tries to silence my tenacious colleague @annasophiegross.bsky.social

(who was politely asking a reasonable question)

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

This is an extraordinary interview in which the former FCDO perm sec basically tells No 10 not to appoint Antonia Romeo to be cab sec, and that they should talk to him about her record.

Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

“Mandelson’s involvement with the US tech company Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency…Palantir…has UK government contracts worth more than £500m. Global Counsel, a lobbying company Mandelson co-founded and part-owns, also works for Palantir.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The year Hyde Park was sold to propety developers for housing Did you know that Hyde Park shouldn’t exist as a large park, because it was once sold for development into housing plots?

Your view on this is the final boss of proving yourself to be a True YIMBY.

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Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old

Why isn't this a major news story?

No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton

There's always a tweet.

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

They'll all count for the metrics

Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:

Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.

Jenrick joining Reform UK:

"Nigel has stood consistently, and very often alone, for what's needed."

Jenrick before joining Reform UK:

"I don't think he's a serious politician. I don't think he's got the answers to the problems that our country is facing."

Jenrick on Farage:

"I don't think Nigel is the bloke you want to have running your kids' schools or running your local hospital or... trust your savings, your pension, your small business to." (Sept 2025)

"I don't think he's a serious politician. I don't think he's got the answers." (Oct 2024)

Thank God we have a tradition of unarmed policing, if Farage ever tries this in the UK

Mercator vs Peters projection map ("West Wing" Season 2 Episode 16) YouTube video by The iCenter

Only one thing I can say: West Wing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Xy...

If you haven’t read this thread, please remedy it before the year is over.

Trump 🔽

This is hysterical and sad at the same time.

We laugh at Liz Truss, but she has become a monster.

How did his opponent find his chin?

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Beware those who want to bring this system here