I think the popular perception is of a presidential PM, but that isn't actually how the office functions. That's part of the disconnect between public expectations and reality, I think.

Little by Little, Oasis is growing. Some Might Say Big Education is going to have to Acquiesce to Oasis' structure, but we'll see it there's a Masterplan or if they just Roll With It.

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"Minions, Monsters and the March on Rome"?

Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.

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The funny thing is when you do miss a flight you end up sitting around in an airport for hours anyway, so it doesn't even make sense on its own terms.

Josh Barro is, of course, a millionaire whose parent's names are blue on Wikipedia, so your air-mileage may vary.

The JC has published an op ed by Nigel Farage rallying against Jew-hatred.

This is a man who sang antisemitic songs, and supposedly said “Hitler was right”, “Gas them” during school days

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unless you are a student with reactionary politics, in which case your precious feelings must be cushioned in a gentle layer of chick-fluff, lest we sin against Diversity of Thoughts.

Hard agree.

"whilst this didn't happen, its very indicative of the kinds of things that must be happening"

In the UK the Far Right is functionally a movement entirely of Gen X and Boomers. Despite all the articles about radicalised young men, they aren't the main constituency of the contemporary far right at all.

Come on, it was thousands of years ago. They only had the Rogue Trader RPG back then.

There's a whole genre of Instagram video thats just slow-motion footage of, like, the French Rugby team in training, and I dont think the audience is "Rugby fans".

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

"They had the Mormons - they could have had the Morons!"

biting satire that cuts to the heart of contemporary politics

Lots of safe jibes at Vance and Trump and US healthcare, calling Putin a "loser", barely a peep about our domestic poly-crisis

Watching HIGNFY for the first time in about ten years and its absolutely shite isnt it? Absolute soft establishment waffle punching easy targets with an air of above-it-all smugness.

I know they're trying to use this as an attack line but it just makes him cooler?!

I also simply do not believe he didn't know. Mandelson's resigned over scandals multiple times. The papers called him "the Dark Lord". If someone vetted him and told me he was a saint, I'd want to see their working out.

"family and community life" above a giant nightclub with a 2 hour queue lol

It's so funny that in about 15 years the same dickheads will be posting wistfully about the bygone halcyon days of the 2020s. Yearning for the lost civilization of MAFS Australia and the Nintendo Switch 2.

It's been evidently deeply unpopular for months and Shabana Mahmood is still going full steam ahead!

There's a certain point where you have to stop with the fig leaf of an electoral calculus. They want to implement these policies. This is their vision of the good.

Call me cynical but I'm not entirely convinced the guy with the Nazi tattoos who appeared on multiple antisemitic conspiracy podcasts and keeps using slurs is "endeavouring to improve every day"

Call me cynical but I'm not entirely convinced the guy with the Nazi tattoos who appeared on multiple antisemitic conspiracy podcasts and keeps using slurs is "endeavouring to improve every day"

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ok but Derek are his trousers good or nah?

Considering the level of very public collusion between Orban and Putin, I can't really imagine how extensive the secret collusion must have been.

Why have we coined "Popesplaining" when "Pontificating" is right there!?