PL table for 2026 calendar year. This helps explain why WHUFC will be safe and why THFC are doomed.

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

Yes, it’s so important to spend parliamentary time legislating to make schools do things that…<<checks notes>>…they already do.

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The usual political crisis question is “What did you know and when did you know it?”

Starmers answer is “At all time, nothing.”

Starmers real problem is that Mandelson has too many enemies who are still Labour MPs.

The problem with Starmer's argument (well one of them) is that it depends on an assertion that he wouldn't have appointment Mandelson if he'd known he'd failed vetting.

But he appointed him before vetting was complete.

And she has a killer question. - “Why didn’t he ask?”

Diane Abbott relishing the occasion.

Not sure exactly how I’d write it but it would definitely include Star Trek references.

Might have to come out of blog retirement and write a post about the impact the development of AI should be having on education.

AI (including androids) will develop slowly enough to fool governments into light regulation then very quickly. I can now envisage autonomous androids in my lifetime. The society my kids will inhabit really needs to get its act together. Starting with regulation and taxation.

This is also where I am. The decision to choose Mandelson was wrong on every level and at every point in time.

Also a leader is supposed to stand in front of his troops, not push them into front of the enemies guns.

The sooner Starmer realises he has to resign the better it will be for everyone involved.

York woman, 86, convicted after car insurance typo The pensioner was criminally prosecuted after she had written one wrong number plate letter.

On the one hand, seems a bit harsh. On the other hand, if you’re still driving you should probably be capable of filling in a form. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jews are now living in danger – and the Government’s failure to confront the root causes is a national disgrace - The Jewish Chronicle Antisemitism is at odds with British values but the rot is spreading with Keir Starmer’s Labour asleep at the wheel

I’m assuming that the Jewish Chronicle obtained an iron clad refutation of the allegations of antisemitism against Farage before they agreed to publish this. www.thejc.com/opinion/jews...

The centre ground of X, maybe.

At what point does continued avoidance and error become evasion?

I repeat…

I like that fate has put a little bit of hope in Spurs face before snatching it away.

Something something Poisson something something lamda.

Thanks Keir.

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

Vote Green, get Reform. Literally.
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You should have borrowed my copy of this

Take 3:-
Media coverage of our politics is so dysfunctional that it corrupts whoever comes into contact with it.

More than that, he built up a position that has some consistency and some basis in reality. He also knows our politics works which is really important at the moment.

I’ve not always been a big Ed fan. I voted for his brother in the leadership election. But I’ve been impressed by his resilience. He could’ve run from politics and made a lot of money but he stayed.

Scenario.
▪️Starmer resigns.
▪️Locals are disastrous.
▪️Ed Miliband becomes PM (quickly) with a leftish cohort of 400 MPs behind him.
▪️PM institutes more left learning policies.
▪️Market reaction obfuscated by Middle East mess.
▪️Things come good by 2029.
▪️2029 election up for grabs.

This is the guts of it. It’s about judgement. Or rather the lack of it. bsky.app/profile/bena...

Personally I don’t mind us being left with Ed, but it does raise some questions about a politician that was rejected by the public being appointed PM by his party.

…he’s using precise choices of words to enable him to skate along the leading edge of the truth. The choice of those words are unlikely to have fitted truths unknown to him by accident. He therefore looks shifty.

As undesirable as it may be, he’s going to have to resign.

Which leaves us with Ed.

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

The important thing sometimes are not the exact facts but what the electorate believe SHOULD be the exact facts. Starmer may be telling the exact truth, but the belief is that there are things he SHOULD have known.

The real problem here is that he looks like…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...