Olly Robbins is the absolute head off Moritz Von Oswald eh?

Call me old fashioned but holders of the Great Offices of State should not be appearing on fucking podcasts.

Lovely sunshine out there today but this breeze from the north can get itself to fuck.

(I mean we all know what the subtext is of course, as always, what he means by "coarse, uncouth" here he means "young, liberal, daft wee lassies" and by "school librarian" he means "middle-aged, socially conservative Adult Human Females who are to be admired and respected")

I can manage to be both a coarse, uncouth vulgarian *and* a school librarian, get on my level Kevin ya big galoot.

Every day lately he's going absolutely bananas about someone, the Alan Brazil of Scottish political journalism.

Look, it's actually pretty simple, it's important to show that Starmer wasn't to blame for the Mandelson appointment because he is going to be to blame for the May elections.

I'm sure this will be the very least of the emoluments required in settling the affair.

Suspect they'll reinstate him when Starmer goes, before an unfair dismissal gets to court.

Civil servants have been getting away with this kind of inscrutable mandarin nonsense for far too long; we need an American style system of politically partial appointees (exactly what Reform have been asking for) so ministers can be more rapidly appraised of vetting failures/ things of this nature

Good for you Pete, best of luck

I was at my actual birthday party recently when two of my closest friends declared me the person at the party most likely to be a spycop, a fuckin liberty.

Really enjoyed Nicola Barker's Darkmans when I read it earlier in the year

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black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Oooooh Mr London

Civil servants have been getting away with this kind of inscrutable mandarin nonsense for far too long; we need an American style system of politically partial appointees (exactly what Reform have been asking for) so ministers can be more rapidly appraised of vetting failures/ things of this nature

It's fine (I don't like to encourage them too much)

Have a great time! Lovely day for it!

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

It's easy to get annoyed at Keir Starmer and his increasingly desperate attempts to worm his way out of a situation of his own making that's totally gone to shit, but I think it helps if you think of him as being played by Tim Robinson in an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

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The most successful centre-left projects in the last ten years were Nicola Sturgeon's SNP and Justin Trudeau's Liberals and no one will admit that because their success was based around taking working aged women and stuff like poverty, the environment and social liberation seriously

It was a popular trend for a moment during Francis to post a quote and a “dang, this pope is liberal” and then reveal it was Ratzinger, saying pope things.

I don't actually think it's trolling. Leo is doing very normal pope things during modern conflicts; he's just doing it with an american accent.

striking that the UK govt has decided that the institutions best placed and often designed to widen participation in HE are disposable. They could choose differently.

Quite something to think we are staring down the barrel of a crisis which will end high level research and teaching as something spread evenly across the country's cities and towns, accessible to all, and both UK and devolved governments just don't seem to particularly care?