And your publication continues to support this government. A stain that will never, ever, ever wash off.

But OK, that's my opinion. And I think it's way Labour's polling has halved in a year and a half. But unless that opinion is represented in any future leadership contest, then it's not a battle of ideas.

They really, really are not great. Especially when you take in to account what Starmer ran for the leadership on. Anything less than fully reversing every single cut that every single department suffered since the financial crisis mean that you are cementing and therefore supporting austerity.

It's really not.

No, we want far bigger tax rises on those who can afford it. And spending isn't rising under this Labour govt. They've asked almost every department to make *more* cuts.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

My humour is wasted on this planet

Some taxes. Not the most important ones. And they will die on the 'we won't increase taxes on the rich' argument. Because their most important target audience is those people. And that doesn't really make much sense to most people.

And the problem that Labpur have is that anything that veers outside of what Tony Blair might rubber stamp is instantly labelled as incoherent and extremist, to the detrimental of the country. Hence why they are currently polling lower than 20% most of the time.

Ok but costs only really matter if someone makes the argument for raising taxes and spending to reverse the dameg of the last 40 years. Otherwise we're back to the battle of ideas being limited to low tax, low spend. And I'm not not sure that would be accepted in this iteration of Labour.

We're in the Bad Place. This sucks

They did, and one time they gave one of Labour's highest vote shares in modern history. And then they did the opposite. I'm not arguing for Corbyn. But what remains of the Labour Party cannot possibly be a battle ideas. Because the party deliberately drove half the ideas away.

That's a weird place to put it...

A battle of ideas did actually take place in 2015. And the party establishment refused to accept the outcome.

Alex Jones takes off shirt for unhinged rant about InfoWars becoming a satire site ‘Just because you’re wearing my shirt doesn’t mean you’re me, let’s be 100 percent clear about that,’ the conspiracy theorist raged Monday

Alex Jones is so mad about InfoWars becoming a satire site he loses his shirt and exclaims ‘they’re bodysnatchers’

It's not really a battle of ideas when they've driven half the membership out of the party, is it? Who remains to even vote for a new leader?

Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections

The Islamic Republic of Iran has officially informed Pakistan that it will not attend talks with the United States tomorrow and that its decision is final.

Vice President JD Vance has cancelled his trip to Pakistan.

The possibility exists that the war could start again in just a matter of hours.

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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England, Cheshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2000

deeply unfunny premise, horrid response that also happens to be amazingly unfunny, just ? ? ?

US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations | CNN Politics The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in t...

⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used:

• At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles
• At least half of its THAAD missiles
• Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles

This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.

Palantir Posts Manifesto Lamenting Post-War “Neutering” of Nazi Germany The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.

Military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir posts chilling manifesto.

Palantir wishes to support powers which prioritise Western values and denigrate “subcultures” — a clear racist dogwhistle. Civilizations like Nazi Germany and imperial Japan should be returned to power, the post adds.

I assume you're are referring to the picture of Brian?

It was like how they reported Starmer's dishonest leadership campaign. A slight frown, followed by it being ignored. When in fact it summed up his whole leadership.

It was still massively underplayed. They voiced it as a political issue rather than what it was, which was a national security issue. And it was soon forgotten/buried, which Starmer would have banked on. Until it backfired, which was inevitable. It should have been front page news every day.

Post you in another country

(Middlesbrough away)

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Everton are planning to trigger extensions in both contracts of Michael Keane and Vitalli Mykolenko that will keep both players at the club until 2027 (The Bobble)