Process for people like Mandelson

Vs

Process for people like Louise Haigh

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...

The decision to no longer enforce mandatory seat belts may lead to more people dying in car crashes, anyone with a brain says

The Mandelson Affair Was Survivable. Starmer’s Explanation Was Not. The Limits of Process Politics

The Mandelson affair was survivable. Keir Starmer’s explanation for it may not be. It is a parable of his premiership and its wider problems- that the explanation is always process, not politics.

Piece from me on the limits of process politics

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The European right is pivoting away from America Electoral logic is driving a shift as polls lay bare European disgust at the US administration

Thanks indeed to @financialtimes.com for publishing me on the anti-US turn of the European right. From moderate conservatives to nationalist radicals, it is nimbly shifting towards a politics of autonomy. The centre and left must move fast - or risk being outflanked.

www.ft.com/content/cba2...

‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route? Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"We accidentally made an animated graphic for Reform and then did a party political broadcast for them by mistake."

Thanks for confirmation. Important these days.... and yes, that is disgraceful!

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

I had assumed this was fake....
Has #BBCVerify looked into it?

Monochrome drawing of Trump as the Ubu Roi.

#Trump signed executive order to dismantle the Education Department.
As a next step, I foresee the introduction of brand new taxes, namely a death tax, a tax on rheumatism, and a tax on cucumbers.
#Ubu #UbuRoi

#UbuRoi

I didn't spend enough time on there either to be fair, which the weather certainly hasn't been.
So if you followed me for my very occasional #allotments posts you might want to unfollow me.
Other #vegetable posts may still appear.

#Allotments
After one year I have decided to give up my 1/4 #allotment
The rent has gone up from £18.00 to £43.50 (A full sized plot will be £175pa) This is apparently one of the highest in #Scotland with no concessions.
No consultation, little support, zero understanding of role of allotments

Notable that a bunch of the shits now calling out Starmer were quite keen on the appointment of Mandelson.

Most of the rest of us who are calling him out were *also* saying Mandelson's appointment was a disastrous idea *at the time*.

First peg -out done yesterday...

Not another bloody sunset. (With added gull poo on the window) #Dunure #SWScotland #sunset #photography

Don’t let anyone fool you that a pluralistic society means a morally relativistic one.

What it means is that people may hold universalist moral beliefs and may even coalesce around some shared ones in building a good society, but may not impose them on others against their will or on wider society.

The video " No breathing in class" was a favourite with my yr9 SEND class back in 2020

Not sure about the cat thing but I can scroll down..

An ordinary life, well lived.

Actual sunshine today in #SWScotland .
All day.
Cheers.

I need someone I can trust on TS who will verify what is true and what is Trumped up....

My second early Vivaldi have come up before my first early désirée

Or that his background was viewed as his asset....

"Whiting, as you have guessed, is neither historian nor human. His fake persona is harbinger of an alarming trend threatening disaster to academics and journalists alike."

Mandelson is one thing but how come Keir Starmer wasnt told that he is leading a Labour Government?

Hopefully Bert.... #TheArchers

Captain it's Wednesday

Captain it's Wednesday

And sometimes you stay up a bit longer...