I hear you've been sent to the Cuckfield bunker

It's fascinating to watch a minister who many have hyped up torpedo their career in such amateurish fashion

A Minion did the Reichstag fire

A core issue for the government here is that we can all infer that McSweeney was the one pushing for this - but he's already resigned over it, so can't continue taking heat for it

A very good, and clarifying, write up of the ongoing TfL strike action

I'd be interested to know what the public at large would make of the details - '5 days work in 4' is something a lot of workers are actively lobbying for. There's a real risk RMT come across as greedy here

Dude... just buy a bike...

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

I could almost understand it if he thought "I'm just a figurehead. I'll leave the technical work to the ministers and their departments, and focus on to overall vision"

But he's been terrible at that too!

I doubt we'll ever get it, because it requires a certain level of public candour I don't think most people are willing to muster, but I would love to hear what Starmer actually thought being Prime Minister meant, at some point down the line

It's Stover

Does this also come with free lounge access?

Ford CEO Draws Line In Sand: Keep Chinese EVs Out Of US – 'Should Not Let Them Into Our Country' Ford Motor Company paused its electric-vehicle growth efforts, but is pivoting to a major push in 2027. With lower-cost production methods and new models in development, the legacy automaker’s CEO wan...

This is Ford's own fault for equivocating on EV production. Had they stuck the course, they might have been in a position to meaningfully compete with Chinese EVs

Instead, they've chosen to engage in the time-honoured free market tradition of running to central government for protection

It's worth recalling that Trump had this played as jetted off at the end of his first term after losing re-election

The dude just really likes Sinatra

You can't just mash together Green and Reform positions and call that the 'centre' - that's not what that term means in political science!

Lisa Nandy: In a rare moment of agreement, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the gambling industry brings joy to a lot of people. He and I have discussed the harms that affect a minority of people. They are significant and important, but the industry as a whole brings positive benefits to the United Kingdom. I think he is underplaying the significant pressures on high street businesses that have existed over the last couple of decades—something that, frankly, his Government did absolutely nothing about over the 14 years that they were in government. We are dealing with those.

Yougov polling on perceptions of the gambling industry - 43% very unfavorable

Really worth stressing what a minority position "the gambling industry is good" is.

If you’re going to do a Bond theme for a game, you have to look at 2004’s ‘Snake Eater’ and say “this is the benchmark”

You shouldn’t be getting clowned on by a 24-year-old title

That new Lana Bond theme is… weird

Vocals and instrumentals which don’t really match up naff and weak lyrics; it all feels rather phoned-in

Tapping the sign again, in light of today’s shenanigans

“Just to be clear, we are Neo-Nazis”

- Palantir

It’s very weird how little this is brought up, not least because “they’re planned by deniable assets of a foreign government” does suggest somewhat less terrifying things about British society than that this is a spontaneous wave of grassroots ethnic violence

I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem

Well that was entirely predictable

It's interesting (if unsurprising) research! But I'm not sure what insight a someone like Payne really brings to the discussion? Other then telling Times readers this group are a threat to them?

I'd rather have a piece from one of the many women in journalism who make up that demographic

'36-year-old divorcee explains why young women are the problem' is certainly a... choice for a column

ME: [wincing, covering up Starmer's ears] sorry, do you mind not talking about politics around Keir? He doesn't know about scary things like nuclear war or poverty or Peter Mandelson and we'd like to maintain his innocence for a bit longer

KEIR: my father was a drill bit

ME: that's right Keir!

This kid’s going places

I’m happy to reveal my ignorance here, but I simply don’t find it believable that a career civil servant with no personal loyalty to Peter Mandelson would take this kind of risk

Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

Yikes... Unless No.10 can prove the decision was explicitly made by another party without his knowledge, this is probably fatal for Starmer

The most obvious candidate is McSweeney, but would he have done so without at least running it by the PM?