Where Starmer went wrong was throwing his lot in with people whose overriding obsession is interparty warfare and distinguishing themselves from anything that could be construed as ‘left’, IMHO. Those people damaged him, and he can’t escape the fact, no matter what he says in parliament.
The only people who are impressed by the ability to stay just on the right side of culpability are pundit weirdos. Ordinary people just look at it and go ‘he seems like he’s lying’.
This highly technical dancing-around-whether-I’m-lying-or-just-being-economical-with-the-truth thing *is* Starmerism, isn’t it?
I suppose that’s what you get for making a lawyer the PM, but if trust in politics was already a crisis, someone like that being in place is the worst possible thing.
Like, the big thing missing from the whole ‘who knew about the results of Mandelson’s vetting and when’ thing is undermined slightly by the fact that the word ‘Mandelson’ has been a universally understood byword for political misconduct for like thirty years.
The parlour game convinces nobody.
And maybe that’s ok! Gabriel certainly took a grab of Haaland just before
Let’s be real; it was a foul by Haaland on the goal
always gotta retweet this because it's hilarious and true and the dude is just very casually a 10
Fascinatingly, the 16th arrondissement, Paris’ most wealthy - like Kensington & Chelsea - now feels poor and rubbish. They’ve not got on board as [they] want to protect their right to drive everywhere and as a consequence it’s noisy, dirty, and ugly public space
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Imagine there are two mechanics in your town.
At one, the dude howls incoherently while letting a bunch of rhesus monkeys bang on your car with rocks.
The other mechanic is a normal guy, who actually knows how to fix cars.
Your car breaks, one of these guys will get it working faster.
As someone perfectly put it, “we are being led by failed middle managers”.
It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”
“this whole thing smacks of a gender” i holler as i overturn the global economy and turn the down jones industrial average into the industrial shit
iPods were a great product that only died because they couldn't figure out a way to insert ads into your own music.
Odegaard and Havertz have collectively played 300 fewer Premier League minutes this season than Guehi and Semenyo have *for Man City*.
Arsenal 2025/26.
Alexander Isak has more Premier League starts, appearances and minutes this season than Kai Havertz.
Barcelona bribed the ref to give Van Persie that second yellow at Camp Nou
starmer starmed his last starm. this is the most back we have ever been.
i love starting with "lots of strange reactions to this game" and following that up with the strangest reaction yet
"men don't gush over cute kids" is like the most insane thing I've ever read
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
Man, the whole "anti-woke" moral panic just looks worse & worse in the rearview mirror.
GET HIS ASS
And the fun part is that *everybody knows this*.
Yeah well, we can’t have an inquiry into that because it’ll swiftly become apparent it was just Peter hooking Morgan up with undeclared millionaire bungs and Steve Reed drafting smeary dossiers on colleagues and passing them to Peter’s friends at the Times. And that’s just for starters, in 2018.
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
Do I hear the distant sound of Chaos with Ed Miliband??
Again: the political theory underpinning the democratic strategy was that there are more votes to be won from republican-leaning voters by tacking towards Trump on policy than lost from those to your left. This political theory turned out to be untrue. You can either learn from that or not.
Ed Miliband being mentioned seriously as a candidate for PM, Francois Hollande running for President again. The piss weak social democrats of 2012 are back and they're turning up the volume!