Starmer is a decent person who just doesn't have what it takes to do the job. That's the unglamorous truth. The trouble with building moralistic scaffolding around it, pretending he's The Devil just to make ourselves feel a bit better, is that after he's gone, what will remain is our own dishonesty.
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”
It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
Very excited for the Terry Jones statue unveiling in Colwyn Bay next week!
A Python on the Prom is such a fitting tribute for the comedy legend, come along in your best Terry fancy dress and show your support.
#apythonontheprom #montypython #terryjones #colwynbay #statue
Experts at the University of Sheffield want to build a UK Swear Map to show how English is spoken, before the words and phrases used locally in 2026 "disappear".
#language #research #HigherEd #edchat
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If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.
Reform is a business profiting Trump mini-me Nigel Farage with a political party attached.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump.
It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both.
And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good.
Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes.
Just get your shit together.
Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?
This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.
Yesterday we had a journalist post on Threads to say the press doesn't like Labour and holds Labour to higher standards than other parties.
It confirms what we all knew and see every day.
But shocking that someone in the media bubble actually said it out loud!
Happy birthday to Les Pattinson. Here's Echo & The Bunnymen's video for In Bluer Skies taken from their Porcupine VHS 📼
Indiepop Chronicles #91
40 years ago 5/4/86
The "fore fathers of the shambling rock bands" & "the least pushy band in the history of rock" The Nightingales @nightingalesuk.bsky.social interviewed in the NME "Music is treated too reverentially... all groups should be derided to some extent" (Rob)
Well done Labour!
IMF hails UK's budget deficit improvement, which fell from 6.1% of GDP in 2024 to 5.4% in 2025.
The IMF is forecasting that the UK’s annual deficit will drop to 3.9% of GDP this year, and continue falling until 2031 when it will be 1.6% of GDP, the second-lowest in the G7.
The Bishop
A papal representative on his way to meet the US president
Manchester United 1-2 Leeds United: Hello, hello
Making history and pissing everyone else off. That's a perfect night for #LUFC.
by @cmcmenamy.bsky.social
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🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles
Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.
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🚨🚨Impossible to understate the importance of #Órban's defeat for European politics and world politics with an utter rejection of #MAGA as a policy style by the Hungarian electorate.
The world is already shining with new light after the #Hungarianelections. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
🚨🚨I am very satisfied to see that the #pope stands tall in his confrontation with #trump (who has gone bat-shit crazy) showing some real moral integrity.
My sense is that #trump is winning very few people through these ridiculous plays.
www.politico.eu/article/pope...
Can’t wait for JD Vance to campaign for Reform in the UK. How about next week? Is next week good for you?
Congratulations Hungary.
You sent Orban, Putin and Trump the message they needed to hear. And you made even more of a fool of JD Vance than he made of himself. Top work.
Thank you.
🔥This is an incredible result!
A quick concession is of course in Hungary’s best interests.
If Magyar also has a 2/3 majority (as looks likely) then he’ll have full control to remove Fidesz corruption.
Finally- it’s a humiliation for Trump & Putin - and a boost for Ukraine.
Mike Galsworthy's opinion is the one I've been waiting for. He brilliantly distills this victory in Hungary.
It's clear that the Hungarian people want Magyar to clean house.
Just thanked Viktor Orban at the end of the Hungarian Presidency for being our secret weapon and helping us bring down the EU project
Bad night for Nige
That’s not “integrity” you are seeing from the bloke who’s done everything he can to gerrymander this election.
That is a defeat so massive - on a huge turn out- that even a corrupt arse like him can’t wriggle out of it.
America: pay attention.
Here we go with the Putin Trump playbook
Obviously a blockade is unacceptable so the solution is, er, a blockade. 🤷♂️
I pity future historians trying to make sense of this, the dumbest empire in world history.
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Richard Tice's firm broke law by failing to pay £91,000 taxes The deputy leader of Reform UK owns a property investment company that did not pay tax on dividends before sending profits to a trust registered in Jersey Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday April 11 2026, 8.30pm BST, The Sunday Times
Tice, a multimillionaire who has put his business acumen and success at the heart of his political career, owned more than 90 per cent of Quidnet personally and through various on and offshore entities he controlled. He added that he had received "professional accountancy advice" and the revelations were "hardly a story" and "just an attempt to smear a successful businessman turned politician giving hope to millions of people". The MP received some of the dividends in the form of shares, meaning he also continues to hold equity he would never have received had tax been correctly deducted.
When Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, failed to pay stamp duty on the purchase of a second home, Tice said her position was "morally completely indefensible" and that she would resign if she had "any moral decency".
Dick says he’s being unfairly targeted. He’s just a lovely multi-millionaire politician “giving hope to millions of people”…
by failing to pay tax, while claiming to give a shit about their lives and their public services.
“Moral decency” is for other people. Not special little rich-boy, Tice.
The Artemis crew with President Biden, whose administration planned the mission. In case the felon tries to take credit.
