@johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social : "Isn't the reality this, that when he sought to realise his ambition to become leader of the Labour party with very little base in the party, he became dependent on McSweeney and Mandelson and Labour Together to organise, fund his election.."
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Of course we are, and it’s a global movement. We’ve spent the last ten years whistling past the graveyard because a particular type of Sensible Moderate thought they could ride the far right wave and turn it to their advantage. I think we have now proven beyond all doubt that they can’t do that.
assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing
Shuker said this best, but is by no means alone: okay, I may have fucked my career and absolutely clowned myself in public, but at least I helped to inflict a disastrous Tory government upon the public and that made the dirty hippies that I despise cry. I can always look back upon that with pride.
Nigel Farage: People tell me they've always voted Labour, but not any more The Reform UK leader is expecting a political 'earthquake' in the local elections next month — but insists the era of Tory defections is over
The paper has never been at all shy about which way it will jump, when presented with a choice between left and far right. They have been very open about it.
Well, one important person in particular *was* asking for that appointment, and things have historically tended to go quite badly for people who make that guy unhappy. People who upset him quite swiftly wake up to find platoons of reporters on their doorsteps, asking them questions quite forcefully.
Do you see why might it be awkward for some people in the British press to investigate a scandal about Peter Mandelson: a man who is infamous for running many secret, extremely poisonous hate campaigns against his colleagues, with the full and enthusiastic but undisclosed cooperation of the press
Thing is, I can sort of believe that Starmer just literally didn't ask whether Mandelson actually passed vetting, and also that his Downing Street imagines this to be an excuse rather than a pretty strong case for resignation in and of itself.
We're supplying military equipment to Israel. And Labour cares so little about it that Belgium has to step in and stop the shipments. I guess Labour's too busy arresting protestors against the genocide?
“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker
Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.
We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.
Apparently the take "Politicians fully understand that their policies will kill vulnerable people but they really want that second job with a big company and for journalists to like them" is a take that engenders more Trust In Politics. Which is interesting.
A replica of Thomas the Tank Engine being transported on a large flatbed truck. It’s strapped down in multiple places and the face portion is covered by a large black bag
Thomas gets taken to a black ops site
Couple of days since I finished #Bait, and the quality of episode four keeps popping back into my mind. So well directed and performed, visually stunning and with a great soundtrack. The SOPHIE track in the pink rickshaw is a real piece of perfect television.
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It's tight but he is just on
Tricky times for the content creators, life coaches and right wing journalists who left Britain shrieking claims that it was becoming an authoritarian state
Genuinely kind of disturbing how little attention has been paid to Israeli officials explicitly promising to do unto southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.
The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.
I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
Man driving a motor scooter with a dog in his lap and smoke from bombs rising in the sky behind them
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran.
(Photo by Pooria Hatami)
Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform
They screamed at us for years in order to force this lot onto the country. Just remember that.
Amazing here, as the Times - whose political correspondent it was that this guy spread rumours about, claiming he was a Russian agent, because he’d written about the massive secret billionaire bung Labour Together took - joining in the rehabilitation process. After what, one month?
Sky News & @SkyNews •14m X 'I do think that some of this wider coverage is drifting into conspiracy theory territory.' @TrevorPTweets asks Labour's Bridget Phillipson why Morgan McSweeney didn't have the messages on his stolen phone backed up.
Yes, only a crazy person would imagine that something suspect may have happened here
The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/
