I’m beginning to think that many political commentators should close their laptops and go and get another job for a couple of years. When they come back, they’ll benefit greatly from the new perspectives (and joy) they’ve gained.
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
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On the left is the front page of The Guardian when political editor Crerar hates Keir Starmer. On the right is what the front page would look like if she would hate Farage.
Love that Farke just stays seated with poker face, whilst there's pandemonium all around him 😎
We agree. It will be richly ironic if the first world leader brought down as a consequence of the Epstein scandal is a British human rights lawyer who never met him.
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A grid of nine images of music inspired designs including prints, a mug, a phone case, a cushion and a T-shirt.
Happy Record Store Day.
I hope you get everything on your list.
If music's your thing, my record collection prints are worth a look.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/record-collection
#RSD26
£237M is being invested to end the postcode lottery of health service provision, by expanding Community Diagnostic Centres like the one in Norwich.
It means more convenient tests and scans, faster diagnoses, and part of creating a better health service for everyone. Read more below 👇
They obviously tried playing them backwards 😉
Who knew that George Robertson, who is demanding vast increases in UK defence spending, happens to work for ... er ... defence lobbyists who stand to benefit from vast increases in UK defence spending?
Oddly, @bbcnews.bsky.social has failed to point this out on any of their news bulletins today.
I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]
The result is huge. Vast in its consequences. Orban was the inspiration to all those who came after him. He served as Putin's puppet, undermining Europe from within and Ukraine from without. He funded a vast network of fascists around the world. It's all vulnerable now, or falling apart entirely.
As ever, focusing on the bigger picture helps (which for City, is potentially pretty bright for next season). That pen decision though 🤬
If it’s such a ‘gold mine’ why did the 14 year period of the last Conservative government, throughout which it pursued a policy of issuing licenses and maximising oil and gas production, end up being defined by austerity and the worst wage growth since the Napoleonic era?
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
Do any journalists ask him (and others who spout this stuff), what public services he'd cut because of the reduction in tax income?
If the Telegraph was more patriotic than it was anti-Starmer, it would have said "Putin mocks Britain..."
“Is your background in corporate incompetence transferable to public sector incompetence?”
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
Ah, we're further east and I think the pair near us are in Belmore Plantation. Some very tall trees there.
There is a pair near us (to the east of the city). Majestic birds. Especially in the summer (and the warm air currents?), they hardly need to flap their wings, they just seem to glide around effortlessly.
The winner 🤩✊.🔰
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"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project"
That could all end if Orbán loses...
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