Fair enough but should we at least consider pulling the sticking plaster off as slowly and painfully as possible?

At this point, you could argue that the damage Mandelson has done to Labour over the years by far outweighs the contribution he made to its revival in the early 1990s

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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Suddenly remember there's a huge packet of peanuts in the kitchen I bought yesterday and I announce to an empty flat that I am winning the war BY A LOT.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Very marvellous

Grown ups once in charge waste no time pissing colossal majority up the wall.

Send this to my brother who replies "Nothing more authentic than an emotion scheduled for 3.35pm"

Ah...

There was an experienced woman already in post. So why did they want Mandelson in particular? I don't buy the Trump whisperer nonsense. The Trump admin was happy with the present ambassador. It does, as you say, stink.

latest episode of @quietriotpod.bsky.social excellent, as usual, on this subject.

Please enjoy this illustration from The Magician's Nephew of a fraudulent amateur magician and spiv being chased by a leopard

Sir Keith Starmerglasses shows he can be spontaneous as long as it’s planned well in advance.

Trump lies compulsively and automatically in every situation, a lifelong habit as a means of surviving only to the next moment. It's his most deep-seated and basic instinct. The second he has uttered each lie it becomes real to him. He will deny and often forget anything he has said to the contrary.

Being depressed would require Trump to have some kind of interior life. Insatiable greed and compulsive mendacity don't qualify.

What a greedy, gutless fraud Rogan is.

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!!"

Surprise

Hahahahahahahahaha

and… her voice is just gorgeous. It’s not totally my personal taste in music but I would always be interested to hear anything she did because I’d know it would be quality and not a rip-off.

and wears it lightly

is carved entirely from spam.

Shit off, Liz.

An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash.

The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.

As a regular person in the UK where the current stories about the PM make no sense whatever, and nothing anyone in the US admin says about the situation in Iran can be relied on to be even vaguely accurate, I am finding it's now remarkably pointless attempting to follow the news at all.

A lie. As she knows of course.

yes. flash mob. entomb in concrete like Chernobyl. walk away.

Hiya

Trying to use Bluesky at the moment feels like attempting to load my browser with my late Dad's collection of broken lawnmowers.

Plus recurring preoccupations, disinhibition and increasing public use of profanity.