The BBC is just reporting the PMQ exchange.

Best delete.

Keir Starmer social media post When it comes to keeping kids safe online, looking the other way is not an option. Today I sat down with senior leaders from Meta, Snap, YouTube, TikTok and X. This is what I told them. Below this is a screenshot of Sir Keir Starmer's speaking to camera, ringing his hands and looking pained, but no more pained than normal, with the subtitles saying: I've just come

No way he's not being sabotaged

I'm hearing disturbing reports that Starmer has lost Dunt (who's blocked me) - it's the end of days...

But the headline is, the guy's a thin-skinned bigot with terrible political instincts. Those 3 things alone mark him out as almost uniquely unfit for the position he's in and frankly that not being enough for some centrists highlights why the party they wanted to own forever has crumbled to dust.

“Oh, you don’t like Keir Starmer, who told all the left-wingers to fuck off, emboldened the far right, demonised asylum seekers, legitimised anti-trans rhetoric, and made an Epstein ally the US ambassador? Well GOOD LUCK FINDING YOUR PERFECT UNICORN!!!”

unserious man

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social 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. 8:38 PM • Apr 21, 2026

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social Anyway, I see many of you have very strong views as to the two or three things that definitely prove Starmer is indecent, so l'Il just leave you to discuss them - and wish you the best of luck with your choice of Saint Saviour, who definitely has never done or said two or three questionable things. 9:03 PM • Apr 21, 2026

this is an absolutely nuclear level of fragility to display on the internet

A detail everyone is ignoring or forgetting.

Peter Mandelson masterminded Keir Starmer's reshuffle days before the scandal broke.

That is, while he was the US Ambassador.

This seems like quite an important detail!

I remember the hesitancy from some of the lads, after that ITV interview: Come on, we’re not seriously calling these super-keen idealistic kids Nazis, are we? And yes, yes they were doing that. That was the plan.

Bookends for a low, dishonest decade here: from cranky auntie Margaret on ITV saying that getting a letter for publicly roaring abuse at her boss reminded her of her relatives under the Third Reich, to Margaret explaining that Jobs For The Lads are fine actually, for the correct type of Lads.

McFadden says he doesn't know if the Doyle story is true

Ridge "Did you ask no.10 what happened [before coming on]"

He dodges

"Did you ask no.10 what happened?"

He dodges

"Did you ask no.10 if it is true?"

He dodges

"Did you ask the Q?"

He dodges

"Did you ask the Q?"

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.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Because Manderson had mentored and guided Morgan McSweeney, who in turn mentored and guided Keir Starmer. Mandelson wanted a big, upfront role, and McSweeney thought Mandelson was the man for the job. Starmer went along with it - unquestioningly, evidently.

Have you considered that anyone to the left of me is being very mean and that actually I, some guy who refuses to read or think, should be the arbiter of how left something should be?

well, eleanor, what if the greens believe something ridiculous that I made up? have you considered that?

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social I'm shocked, *shocked* that once again the Greens are opposing renewables Mark O'Neill@radiobeartime.com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.. The Greens are an embarrassment BBC NEWS 'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on ro... www.bbc.co.uk 9:33 AM: Apr 18, 2026 Everybody can reply

Except they're not opposing renewables. They're opposing us flogging off still more of our natural resources to rent seeking overseas capital. And we can all click on the article to read this

‘I feel profoundly let down.’ Is Starmer's government mimicking the Tories and their '14 years of corruption and dishonesty'? James O’Brien says he was ‘perhaps naive’ to think it would be any different.

Blimey, Starmer's lost O'Brien, it's the end of days.

(Reminder - he's the fella that wrote a book about 'How to be Right', and yet so many people were telling him that he was catastrophically wrong on this for years...)

How this fucking dangerous, vicious clown has maintained a position as a commentator, presenter and occasional rep on public bodies - for so many years - is absolutely beyond me.

When people look to why this country is fucked, they could do a lot worse than examine the career of enablers like him.

When the Sunday Times in particular used to refer to “Labour insiders” and “whistleblowers”, they were talking about: Morgan McSweeney, this guy and various Josh Simonses. These guys were *also* behind the “independent anti-disinformation organisations” assuring people nothing weird was going on.

‘And lo, it came to pass the Lord God did smite the nation, for they had turned from all that was good.’ - Psalms 1:30 (minutes on high)

It really is worth noting that we are where we are precisely because the most Sensible people got their way at pretty much every major decision point.

Well, here’s the thing: if you spend years taking crackpots seriously and vowing to take the Necessary Action, it’s really awkward if you have to then stop and say Actually, these recommendations are absolutely insane and we can’t do them without looking like we are also utterly deranged.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleco... it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern riqht in the west has become both entirelv intellectually shallow and deeplv fundamentallv morallv corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie because it is.....the factual truth Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country 1h

Do you know what's actually tedious? Centrists finding out time & again not only that their analyses of where the world was heading were wrong all along but helped provide the conditions for us getting to where we now are whining about "teenage tankies"

A nice example of how journalists put words into the mouths of others. Here Rachel Sylvester in The Observer interviews Mary Beard. Note that the latter doesn't offer any names beyond Caesar. It is Sylvester who does the roll-call.

Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities' ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are rejected by the Home Office. However, the changes coincide with a marked increase in the numbers of visas being refused by the Home Office on spurious and inaccurate grounds, according to research by universities that has been shared with The Times. Neither students nor universities are able to challenge the decisions, which are often taken months after a university has accepted the applicant and in some cases just days before they are due to start studying.

UKVI carries out discretionary "credibility interviews" to ascertain that a student's intentions to study here are genuine. In another interview, when asked why they had chosen to apply to their chosen institution, the applicant said they had considered several factors, including the university's ranking, employability support, student satisfaction while also noting that it was an ancient institution and cited the year it was founded. The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered.

In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.

In another credibility interview the applicant was asked to describe some of the taught modules they would be studying as part of their degree. The applicant explained that they had been offered a place to study a PhD in biomedical engineering which was fully research-based so did not have any taught modules. Despite this, the UKVI refusal letter stated that they were not satisfied on the basis that their answers were "vague and generic" and had failed to explain the taught modules they would be studying.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants.

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More than 500 arrests at Palestine Action demonstration Event organisers said it would show the

We can laugh and say “LOL, check out the priorities” but very clearly, this is the priority.

I mean, look. There is no future where these politicians and their media allies admit what they have done and speak honestly about their behaviour. They will all deny it, together, to the fucking death. The end.

A dead empire led by bad people

What did public figures have to say about the war on Iran, or the genocide of the Palestinians? “Silence bordering on hostility” is correct, because everyone has seen the British destroy the fuck out of anyone who steps out of line.