In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.

Not everything online is bad blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/f...

Another very wise piece

Students Consider Legal Action After Being Given Loans Worth £190m In Error Students could take legal action after over a dozen universities wrongly classified their courses as being eligible for maintenance loans, leading ...

Today we reveal students could take legal action after over a dozen universities wrongly classified their courses as being eligible for maintenance loans, leading to thousands being told they owed money www.politicshome.com/news/article...

'Every Movement Was Controlled': The Quiet Rise In Children Under Deprivation Of Liberty Orders There has been a 13-fold increase in the use of court orders that deny children freedom to move and associate in the last seven years. Justine Smit...

An important report from Justine Smith on the 13-fold increase in the use of court orders that deny children freedom to move and associate in the last seven years www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Over A Dozen Universities Wrongly Spent £190m Of Taxpayers' Money On Student Loans A student loans mistake by universities has seen up to £190m of taxpayers’ money wrongly given to unaware students, PoliticsHome can reveal, leavin...

Big story from us: Over A Dozen Universities Wrongly Spent £190m Of Taxpayers' Money On Student Loans

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Out Of The Rough: Cricket's Battle To Open Up To All Cricket has long been seen as an exclusionary and rarefied sport, but it is undergoing huge changes, including a drive by its chiefs to open it up ...

I wrote about where cricket is in its efforts to actually become a sport for all www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Have been reading "Midnight in Chernobyl" recently and when you hear of the cover ups, the sycophancy, and general mismanagement it's hard not to think "Just what form with Trump's version of this take".

Multi-party politics isn’t necessarily chaotic – we could be moving towards a new local two-party-ism There are certainly reasons to argue for electoral reform. But pointing to the current system as a generator of chaos could be a misinterpretation ...

Fascinating piece on multi-party politics www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Culture Clash – Lisa Nandy On Keeping Hope Alive Critics say Lisa Nandy should spend more time meeting stakeholders in her brief, but the Culture Secretary tells Francis Elliott she’s fighting for...

We talked to Lisa Nandy. A great interview by the great @franciselliott.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

What Is The Iran War Doing To UK Energy Bills? The conflict in Iran has triggered concern about an energy bill shock in the UK. How likely is a spike in prices? And what could the government do ...

What Is The Iran War Doing To UK Energy Bills? www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Shock and confusion as forensics sighted at police incident but also uh Peter Hitchens

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The Professor Will See You Now: Waka Lessons in political science. This week: waka

"One of the many curiosities of this issue is that there are many people who feel negatively about defections but positively about rebellious MPs" - great piece by @philipjcowley.bsky.social on "waka-jumping" www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Zack Polanski: “There’s A Lot Of Inauthenticity In Politics, But It’s Not Coming From Me” Green Party leader Zack Polanski talks to Sienna Rodgers about his by-election success, potential Labour defectors, and how his upbringing shapes h...

Here’s our latest cover interivew: Zack Polanski talks to @siennarodgers.bsky.social about the byelection success, Zionism and Labour defections
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This is amazing and made more so by the fact that for some reason it's not on spotify

How The Greens Won The Gorton And Denton By-Election The Green Party's historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton sent shockwaves across British politics. Campaign insiders tell PoliticsHome ho...

Tom Scotson @tomscotson.bsky.social has been miles ahead of most of the lobby on what’s happening on the ground in Gorton and Denton throughout the campaign: here’s how the Greens won www.politicshome.com/news/article...

three possible AI-driven paths: - tech singularity end of scarcity, ai boosted growth, or complete human extinction

Referring everyone who asks me who’s going to win in Gorton and Denton to this chart

Pleased to be invited to speak on BBC news yesterday about the government‘s SEND reforms and how they’re landing with MPs

Coverage from the day linked below www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The Professor Will See You Now: Recycling Lessons in political science. This week: recycling

It's @philipjcowley.bsky.social on Potemkin consultations, with a piece that, having just chaired a news meeting, I wonder could be applied rather more widely than local government www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

an amazing album

PM Set To Ask Independent Adviser To Investigate Minister Over Think Tank Allegations Keir Starmer is looking at asking his independent ethics adviser to investigate whether minister Josh Simons breached the ministerial code over his...

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How Strong Is Support For The Greens? Zack Polanski's leadership of the Greens has generated significant interest in the party. Nearly half of people are considering supporting them at ...

Our Sunday read from @adampayne26.bsky.social is a really good look at how popular the greens truly are right now www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Parliament is about to make a grave mistake over its own restoration No one disputes that the Palace of Westminster needs serious work. It faces fire risks, crumbling systems and decades of underinvestment.

Jesse Norman on Parliaments restoration www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.

For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics

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In short no, but it’s something I’m working on….

Labour Still Hopes Burnham Could Deliver The Party A By-Election Win Labour is increasingly confident that it could win the Gorton and Denton by-election – and it is relying on Andy Burnham to help hold the seat, des...

Labour is still relying on Andy Burnham to help them win in Gorton and Denton, despite blocking him as a candidate www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Countdown: Can Labour Meet Its 2030 Clean Power Mission? The success of the latest wind power auction has put Ed Miliband within sight of realising the goal of decarbonising the UK’s electricity network b...

Well, now all the fuss has died down we can all relax and enjoy @adambell.bsky.social on Labour's 2030 clean power mission www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A fascinating "why format matters" example here. Making this the text of your post would be standard government minister boilerplate.

Posting it as a screenshot in the official font makes it look like you've been asked to carry the portrait of Lenin at the May Day Parade.

Sacking Morgan McSweeney won’t be enough to ease this sense of decline It was never meant to end this way!

Baz on fire: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...