Sure but that in turn is because he got dog-piled in the first place.

I'm sure they can join Jason Cowley at the Times writing op-eds about how Blue Labour would have worked given more time etc etc

The toxic people who don't think Shabana Mahmood doesn't belong in this country are white racists, not white liberals

But white liberals - like the mixed race, Asian or black liberals - have just as much right to disagree with Shabana Mahmood as they do with Theresa May or Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf

badly timed and unbalanced? what on earth are you on about? who do you think you are convincing?

It's all a bit Principal Skinner

Well you got that general background from a Google AI overview so I am sure others can also type that in if they are interested in the question 'what about other Home Secretaries?'.

Oh and the word 'Comparative' is literally in my job title.

I'm sorry, was I writing something about Priti Patel or just a different Home Secretary who can be criticised for things that she, rather than someone else, does?

The brittleness of Starmer, Mahmood, McS and co when under pressure is really very telling.

And is the kind of identity politics that I thought she decried.

Mahmood actually arguing there is an 'element of racism' in criticising her migration policies is not a useful way of justifying or garnering support for controversial decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of people. It looks like an attempt to close off debate.

On top of everything else, the level of 'embattled' behaviour going on with senior ministers and their comfort zone of lashing out of their traditional supporters shows the government is both in disarray and denial.

Have they had a minister stuck on a flight while everyone knew they were about to be fired? great days

Not disagreeing with your Chronicle point tho lol

I’m sorry but the reaction to Kustov’s argument on here is not healthy. I disagree with some of what he is saying but that’s a dog pile if I’ve ever seen one.

Every day I thank my lucky stars about how things ended up going down at Oxford...

He would have gone in August 2024 if I had that power ;)

Over 18 months as PM. Has collapsed Labour's polling share from low 40s in early 2024 to high teens now. Policy agenda remains unclear. Has fired 2 chiefs of staff, 2 cabinet secs, 4 comms directors, head of FO. Poor relationship with Cabinet and MPs. But somehow this is social media... 🤔

The Telegraph did a deep dive into Ed Miliband, they got in contact to ask me what I thought of the energy secretary. Me and Ed don’t always agree, that’s natural, but there’s no doubt he’s getting stuff done and the country is better off having him.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

UK unemployment rate sees surprise fall to 4.9% Most analysts had predicted the rate would remain unchanged at 5.2%.

Further confirmation that gloom over the labour market was considerably overdone.

Employment numbers also look broadly stable, and real wages still rising (slowly).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Land is not permanent - but we think it is Entire civilizations depend on something that is subject to change and over which humans have no control.

We expect our cities to last forever. Yet the land on which we build them is constantly changing. Our folly, perhaps, is to think that only we have the right to reshape land.

My reflections on recent visits to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and Turkey. coppolacomment.substack.com/p/land-is-no...

The sheer fury of people on this cursed website about your milquetoast comment makes me think that when AI takes all our jobs we should all become therapists.

just the most deranged discourse I’ve ever seen

“Hey if you miss a flight it’s a pretty small change fee! So you don’t have to feel stressed, and a lot of people clearly do!”

“Wow you privileged, irresponsible scum, I would never hire you”

Like which of these people seems normal and healthy

literally every day my wife or I go outside with our daughter people go out of their way to be friendly, offer aid or a kind word, no matter where we've traveled. it's nice to remember that hostility as default mode of interaction is not destiny, much as it benefits some to pretend it is

The Mandelson fiasco reveals the true nature of Starmerism This is a prime minister who does not understand the difficult trade-offs involved in governing

Ultimately this is a story with a simple cause: the prime minister outsourced his judgement to someone he *really* shouldn’t have, and now he owns the fallout from that, and hard to see how his government gets out from under that one:

Was close to getting tickets and then a voice in the back of my head said don't it will be terrible...

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Delighted to have published this brilliant and important collection

Exactly - who is going to blame the locals results on a new leader?

Starmer having such a bad day that it has actually broken Twitter

Always Be Closing