Sailesh

And this is how the most electorally successful political party in the western world dies, acting at the whims of social media users

idiocracy at its finest. government by the podcasters for the podcasters

For a group of people who supposedly care about protecting cis women, it’s weird how they’re always harassing cis women who don’t conform to their views

Hope the appropriate authorities see this and get Hannah Spencer the appropriate security she needs

Pundits *love* snap elections as it keeps the subject of discussion on horse-race coverage. If there is distance between now and the next election that means the subject has to shift to substantive analysis of policy and governance, topics they find boring and are mostly pig ignorant about

The fact that when she became the candidate, she was handed a gift (that people didn’t initially associate her with Biden so she had higher polling) and squandered it with an incumbency campaign (and fumbled a softball question about it) is one for the history books

One of the worst byproducts of that stupid AV referendum is ingraining in a huge chunk of people the only legitimate way to do electoral reform is via referendum

'Starmerism' is being unbothered by such trivial concerns as 'is that even true, though?' or even follow-up questions like 'is this lie even a useful one for us to tell?'

Is the current Cabinet so parochial that they haven’t seen the footage of kids being taken off the streets in handcuffs by ICE?

Such small, parochial, little worlds they occupy

Stella creasy: [long description of why this policy is unfair and why it affects people]

Sarah owen: how about you go suck a lemon

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

At some point, local authorities need to be brave and bite the bullet on bad drivers - you’re not going to appease them with all these half measures so just do the LTNs and reap the benefits (and let the wannabe-macho car fanatics cry about it)

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

most annoying thing about the stupid "huh have trans people tried being gay instead" take is that like, basically all trans people I have ever met have had mostly queer friends, would have been hard for them not to be aware of "gay" as an option on the table

a man in a suit and tie says " and then at the eleventh hour one galaxy brain " Alt: Ed Miliband in UK Parliament at the Dispatch Box saying " and then at the eleventh hour one galaxy brain "

Milifandom renaissance

More people moved here.

I‘m here for commentary & the Financial Times team were super early adopters here so I gravitated here (as all the other accounts I followed did).

Imho, a big issue with Mastodon is that it felt disjointed and different instances had different rules so no monoculture.

If I was trying to elicit sympathy I probably wouldn't go for Russian UFC teams and crypto guys. But that's just me.

‘Please help, we’re influencers’

Imho I think it was the photo of Macron, Biden, Scholz, and Cameron which did Sunak in on that. It looked odd not having the British head of government alongside other heads of state/goverment

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

The idea that Starmer’s going to have a graceful exit from office is for the birds. He’ll go out with little dignity like May, Johnson, and Cameron before him.

At least Sunak and Brown conceded properly and with grace

Green MPs Hannah Spencer, Ellie Chowns, and Carla Denyer standing in the House of Commons chamber

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as an MP

Earlier today, the new Member of Parliament for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer was sworn in.

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

spent 10 minutes on that one liner 💔

*surprised pikachu face*

(the most unsurprising thing to happen in recent days)

Not to say everything is gender, but god almighty

why can’t men just have a normal midlife crisis? buy a leather jacket, get a shit hairdo, or learn to ride a motorbike , instead of whatever this is

I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.

Ditto. I was a tactical voter for Labour in the last election against the Workers Party, but now, they can get stuffed. I wish I’d stuck with my gut and went Lib Dem at the time.

Now I’d likely vote Green (or another socially progressive candidate).