Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition.
I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
Connections
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Here's the real reason the government keeps freezing the student loan threshold
The part of the loan that's repaid is classed as an asset on Treasury spreadsheets. But when plan 2 student loans started to be repaid, the percentage received back was less than expected...
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This is it, isn't it? A show about lying and treachery turned out to be about friendship and staying true to a promise.
WHAT a show #TheTraitors
To the TRAITORS
Beyond parody
Omg I don’t understand why Harriet didn’t play it stupid?
❤️🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.
Sometimes you read something so gloriously absurd you can't quite believe your eyes:
Virtually anything you can think of qualify as “commodity futures contracts,” with three important exceptions:
Securities
Futures on “motion picture box office receipts”
Onion
HT @matt-levine.bsky.social
Marty supreme - while a pretty compelling movie - I just couldn’t bear to finish it. TBH it started badly with the visual representation of conception. Not my cup of tea.
I used to love painting them as a child! Such a great universe.
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Watching the PM’s speech with Startup Coalition
From a thread well worth reading. One might add that when Labour voters were drawn mostly from the manual working class, Labour… lost most of the time. Labour’s electoral coalition couldn’t win in 1955 and would be absolutely crushed in an electorate with the demographics of 2025.
Final full day at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
Watching Mrs America (which is UNMISSABLE btw) I’m reminded the US is only 250 years old - next year.
‘Too Much’ locations are outrageously stressful. Hoxton flat - Peckham rye pub - outside scene London Bridge
Gah
SXSW London: Here we go
PSA nemaslug finally back in stock in the UK
This is why I never fly the Irish budget airline, delayed flight yet they rack up about 10x £75 hand luggage check fees at the gate by squeezing the measurements 1cm. Priority though mandatory for overhead cabin luggage is pointless.
Thank you again @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com for the recco. 🙏🏼
Rewatching Hacks from the beginning so @guyopperman.bsky.social can catch up, so so so good.
interesting to see if that is enough of a drag…
I’m not sure as food, hospitality, and entertainment are so expensive that I’ve heard lots of reports of discretionary family/service spending being heavily squeezed.
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Ning
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A picture of me in the kitchen kissing my baby daughter, we are both wearing bunny ears and I am holding an Easter egg hunt bag. She is chewing a sequined egg.
Gosh this has been a lovely one! Happy Easter. X
What is the point of the Oyster card readers when changing from the overground (windrush!) at either Whitechapel or Canada Water? Does it make a difference where you are coming from/going to?
