"Olly Robbins is not a shouty man. He did not thump the table, or launch into a tirade against Starmer for how he has been treated. Instead, he quietly and methodically demolished Number 10’s latest convoluted explanation of the indefensible."
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...
In less than a month's time, it will be 16 years since we last had an intelligent prime minister.
A reminder of how utterly inept labour have been: a trivially stupid law like photo ID to vote is still in force. They've spent two years counting the stationery.
I'm not sure on "left to headteachers", but blanket bans are the worst kind of solution here.
Also, anyone who thinks phones in schools are the priority the government acts like they are is... misguided, to put it mildly.
"what's that, a smart speaker?"
"No, it records every conversation we have"
Yeah, that's getting smashed...
The problem is I think there are non-shady reasons to do it, at least for some meats.
Requiring packaging to specify weight before additives would be one solution?
Good, but why labour decided to cause this particular trainwreck in the first place is baffling. The last thing the HE sector needs is this level of seagull management from Westminster.
BBC News - 'Huge relief' as students given loans 'in error' get repayment reprieve
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Too early to say, but this feels Noteworthy.
A PM's fortunes can turn fast.
Huh. Guessing it would be a weak for some tastes, but thinking about it there's no reason it shouldn't work...
(I've never tried it, but apparently you can make tea in an aeropress)
Imagine showing this post to someone two years ago...
It all comes back to 'you really do need to have a prime minister to run this thing'.
Telling voters that they don't care about a particular scandal tends to go down like a cup of cold sick.
Voters HATED it when Boris Johnson's government tried it, repeatedly, over partygate.
Labour would be well advised to remember that, as voters very much do care about Mandelson/Epstein.
It's starting to feel like Starmer just assumed mandelson would pass vetting (which is, politely, optimistic) and is presiding over a culture where noone wanting to tell him he was wrong?
*something* went badly wrong. It's just so badly wrong we can't tell quite what went wrong.
There's no version where the fault isn't ultimately Starmer's, though.
There's a typo in my reply, will repost it. See if you can guess...
I mean, I don't think you can be ready for a bunch of incompetent nutters, can you?
Caution: thread may cause inelegant blubbering.
Everyone at the FT and HSBC should feel utterly humiliated that this utter nonsense got published.
This also shows why you sadly can't trust the press on hype bubbles - such as AI - when they're still publishing tripe like this on crypto in *2026*.
Strong arguments against democracy:
1-Trump
2-Local Facebook
Truly they walk among us... 😱🙄
Sadly this is probably in the public interest just as much as Robbins' own. Civil Servants shouldn't be used as useful scapegoats for failings of ministers, especially the PM.
"know to actually fly to somewhere" might be a better analogy for starmer's failings...
Labour MPs worrying about the replacement are missing the point - when the pilot doesn't know to keep the nose level, anyone on board with a damn license will suffice.
"Starmer still does not seem to understand that he is the prime minister and needs to act accordingly."
Sadly fair - Starmer isn't just unable to do his job, he doesn't seem to get what his job actually *is*.
That's utterly unsustainable.
TIL he voiced Slagar in the redwall animated adaptations.
10/10 casting, no notes.
This stuff is fucking nuts and as a basic bit of due diligence their potential clients need to say to themselves this is fucking nuts and, no matter how good the product, what exactly are we getting into here?
So renewable energy schemes have to be too small to be useful according to the "greens" (nimbys).
So chuffed at my talented colleagues on the Atomfall team getting a bafta for their hard work - and best *British* game specifically. I'm sure they will have a celebratory pot of tea on Monday!
Because it's a stupid reason they don't want to admit to. It's like raising employer NI contributions, something a complete idiot thinks is really clever. An experienced diplomat needs to handle people like trump, you don't need to send another a-hole just to talk to an a-hole.
"it's ok that it was a bad decision, he passed vetting"
"But he didn't even pass vetting?"
"Well, noone told me that!"
Yeah, Starmer needs to put the shovel down or the party will need to kindly take it off him.
