Performative indignation aside, I suspect he's telling the truth here. It doesn't excuse his apparent distance from the matter and it definitely acts as yet another indicator that his 'managerial' style makes him an extremely poor fit for the role.
Except that’s exactly what you’ve just done you snivelling, pathetic, disingenuous, hate stirring moron.
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Little boy on the tube: Bell-end.
His mum: I'm sorry? What do you think that means?
Little boy: I don't know but it sounds pretty.
This is an exciting new constitutional development.
There's something so absolutely maddening about how the rambling old prick does that little 'Ooh we're gonna get in trouble... probably' thing after he says something that's not at all contentious or worthy of trouble (or even happening.)
There is so much tenderness in these first spring flowers.
Ukraine is beginning to bloom, despite everything.
'...mild anxiety, I have it every morning, I still go to work'
Man of the people Nigel Farage conflating his own situation (works for himself, doesn't need to) with that of someone with a mortgage, children to juggle etc being treated inappropriately in their workplace. @ftweekend.com
I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:
Hegseth's jockstrap hyperbole is genuinely unsettling. He's turning himself on as he reads, the slavering psycho.
It’s Kyiv today.
I just love sharing glimpses of this city with you.
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately. And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse. It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores. • Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC 'lanyard class. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Speaking as a lower middle class graduate with an office job and a mortgage, born in the late seventies, I would say: this is half my social circle and most of the people I worked with for years. How in the name of Christ did nobody in politics or media see this coming?
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
Remember the "Red Wall"?
Labour have Guy Fawkesed it.
Hopefully Labour now realise that 75% of people don’t want Reform and that the people who vote Reform will not vote for Labour. It’s so fucking obvious. I don’t know why they’ve been doing what they’ve been doing. Congrats to the people of Galton and Simpson making the right choice.
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Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
'The BBC understands that he does not believe that he has acted in any way criminally.'
Why on earth would you apply this hand-wringing caveat to a news story about Peter Mandelson 'being taken from his home in unmarked cars'?
And... homework is a choice and a strategy. No civilised society should even tolerate its insidious presence in our kids' lives.
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And he will sing like a blackbird greeting the new Spring.
Photograph of Andrew MountBatten, the despicable nonce, on the front cover of Private Eye magazine. On the day he is finally arrested. Hurrah.
Let this be the start...
This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
This point is, I think, nonsense on its face. We are all old enough to remember Greenpeace breaking into sites & destroying, e.g., GM crops.
Did this make them terrorists?
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
Wish his mam had left it another 70 years.
