“There’s the door you can leave” moment.
Labour don’t want the votes of people like us, they want the votes of imaginary people who will never vote for them, exist in AI focus groups, or are ghosts in their daydreams.
The industrial heartland voters these people want are simply not real.
Are there, perhaps, any recent examples of dubious characters with obvious security risks being appointed to the House of Lords?
Fishing basket with rotting iron bar
Morning!
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
“Palantir’s worldview and business model are impossible to separate.”
Sarr, Mateta and Kamada will make the difference if it’s still goalless later. Missing Wharton’s speed of thought 🦅 #cpfc
His nicknames were "the Prince of Darkness" and "the Dark Lord".
He was repeatedly sacked from government for lying.
His connections to Epstein and Russia were widely reported for years.
Yet Starmer still trying to claim he was somehow kept in the dark about Mandelson being a wrongun. Come on
Ultimately none of the process chatter about the Mandelson appointment really matters, it is all just fluff around 'the PM made a bad decision that became politically untenable':
Voters have just today left to register to vote for the local elections taking place across England on 7 May. Anyone who wants to take part must register before 11.59pm tonight.
Registering takes minutes at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Just need name, address & National Insurance number. Pass it on.
Sir Oliver “Olly” Robbins is a clever, well-informed person. He’s also ambitious & diligent. Sir Keir Starmer & his team now have a potentially highly dangerous enemy. Not because Sir Oliver wants revenge (though he might) but because of the facts of the Mandelson case.
A long 🧵. Have a cuppa! /1.
📌 ICYMI — Trojan Horse? Rupert Lowe’s Far-Right Restore Britain Is Standing 13 Candidates as ‘Independents’ in One Council
Anti-racist campaigners accuse the ex-Reform MP of seeking to "disguise" the extreme views and affiliations of his candidates
This is the way
It’s worth reading the whole Palantir piece to see that they are leaning in to being the Legion of Doom.
Yesterday, the BBC covered 600 people crossing the channel in small boats on Saturday, noting it was the 2nd highest in a day so far this year. What they'd didn't add was that even including the 600 people, crossings are down 35% compared with the same time last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Morning! Beautiful blossom everywhere 🌸
Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump.
It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both.
And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good.
Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes.
Just get your shit together.
My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Today the Prime Minister will assure Parliament that there was no window, or if there was a window it did not break, and if it broke it was not from a ball, and if there was a ball there was no kick.
He will add that he is "furious" about the window that broke from a ball that was kicked. (By him.)
Rainbow light show
Mr Scruffy on the decks
Waiting for Zack
We’re all going Green
Brilliant night at Beaverworks at The Big Rave to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social
We’re doing the ‘Swedish Death Cleaning’ for our daughters. Getting rid of stuff now we don’t want and would be a pain for them to do when we’re gone. Anything we sell goes in a family holiday pot.
Pink tulip with yellow and green pattern inside
Morning!
Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.
He's now offering to "put things right".
Go on then Richard - resign.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Disagree. He needs to stand up for what is right. Trouble is he doesn’t believe in anything
We’re going to be 12th again aren’t we 🙄 🦅 #cpfc
Well said, Signor Sanchez 👏 Can you imagine Starmer ever saying that? Me neither. But Polanski would.
It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day, and this week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I spoke with
@trillingual.bsky.social about his excellent new book, which is all about how the British establishment made the far right respectable www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
Mr & Mrs Duck out of water
Iridescent green necked ducks out of water
Mandarin duck out of water
Mr & Mrs Duck in reflective mood out of water
