Yeah some unsolicated hot takes in no particular order

1. React is better than everything that came before it and I haven't seen anything do it better
2. Hooks are genius
3. If you've never done frontend on a moderately large app, you probably underestimate frontend engineering

When I say that these so-called 'gender criticals' are genocidal in their intent, what is happening to Dr Upton is intrinsic to that desire

The GC message is this: No matter where you go, no matter where you hide, we will find you - and we will make your life a hell only death can save you from

This is turning into a great example of how soft soap interviews can sometimes be more revealing than hard hitting ones because people relax and say more than they mean to.

wHy dOn'T yOu fINd tHe hOMe sEcREtaRy jOkiNg aBoUT dEpORtINg hER poLiTIiCaL oPPoNENtS fUNnY!?!

I’ve seen a few people try and give context that she was on Matt Forde’s podcast, but it doesn’t excuse it & just shows how ridiculous the show is. It may have worked in another era, but it doesn’t when the world is a nastier place.

The Prime Minister doesn't understand his job.

The Chancellor has given up.

The Home Secretary has radicalised herself.

There isn't a foreign secretary.

A government on autopilot into oblivion.

Feel like it should be bigger news that the Home Secretary is very publicly losing the plot

I’m not saying that her opponent in the last general election was good (far from it) but he would have only been a irrelevant backbencher vs a Cabinet Minister - if only 4,000 votes went the other way

If Keir Starmer resigns and we end up with Wes Streeting I’m going to crawl into a printing press

Also they have social media in Canada and Carney's doing fine.

They have it in Spain and Sanchez has been PM since 2018.

And in France where Macron's been President since 2017.

He’s clearly got some sort of ego (or some might call it an earned sense of accomplishment) as he thinks highly of himself (even if it’s not outwardly like Cameron’s “I thought I’d be good at it”)

If it’s a choice between Starmer or an empty chair, the empty chair wins.

Can't believe I watched Starmer in Parliament for an hour earlier and forgot to post this 12 times

There’s been no Gary Sambrook moment yet, but it’s not looking good for him.

Me, in 2022, a rube: Starmer hates Johnson because he's the opposite of everything he stands for.

Me in 2026, enlightened: Starmer hates Johnson because they are the same.

I don’t want to hand it to Lee Anderson, but he’s pretty much nailed it on Starmer.

Reminded of Miliband's best line

“Don’t you think he looks tired?”

(I’m hoping people get the Harriet Jones reference 🤞)

Absolutely brutal line

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Maybe I’m misremembering this, but didn‘t Amber Rudd have to resign for inadvertently giving misleading information?

Fwiw.

The Prime Minister should have resigned when House of Commons voted that he (and his cabinet) could not be trusted with "national security" decisions on the release of the Mandelson papers.

If House of Commons has no confidence in a PM to do that, they have no real confidence in PM at all.

I think it was the monoculture gasping for its last breath before it only contained Taylor Swift & Beyoncé.

It was the joint feeling of knowing that most people you knew would know what it was and share in the experience.

There was a drop in quality, but I think TikTok & IG Reels did them in

They’ve subscribed to the “NPC theory” that the Trump admin has adopted where everyone else doesn’t have any agency of their own, leading the admin to be shocked when others do have their own agency

You can see this on Welfare reform when whips told them it wouldn’t pass, but they didn’t listen

It’s pretty amazing that they’re politically wrong (he’s so unpopular with everyone so he’s not “sensible”) and historically incorrect (Chamberlain was removed & replaced by Churchill in the run up to WW2 & Major replaced Thatcher during the Gulf War)

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

This is why I’m lowkey suspicious of the certain lefties (despite mostly agreeing with them).

Like sure unions are good, but can also work to keep outsiders (like non-white people) out of jobs (see the Bristol Bus Boycotts) which is why intersectionality matters & you can’t just rely on class alone

Yes, normally from the burn out during the week.

Either Saturday or Sunday is 12-13 hours of sleep, followed by many hours of bed rotting.

Talk about reading the room…

There was a time where I respected Dugdale. Now I do not. There’s not reason to “hand it to Rowling” when you are the Chair of a PRO LGBTQ organisation when Rowling has been rabidly anti-trans for many years

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990