@PatrickCosgrove.bsky.social

Well, why wouldn't a young black guy return your bank card? I'm sorry, but I think that's as patronising as other people are racist. My mother, who died in 2003, used to say, "I met a black man from America in the war, and he was very nice."

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

And here's why: UK tourist detained by ICE for six weeks
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I hope they mean green growth.

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Yes, all good things, but they've not been communicated well so all most people know about are the various U-turns and Mandelson. And now that he's become the story, that's pretty difficult to overcome.

Do you have a better solution?

Well, he climbed Everest last year on Xenon gas, so that's probably a good start for another rapid ascent.

Agree.

Haven't I seen something recently about his closeness to Mandelson. Surely that should rule him out at the moment, even if it's not true.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

I love the idea, but it won't happen.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.

Starmer problem solved. 1: Party pressure forces Starmer to resign after first giving Andy Burnham seat in House of Lords. 3: Lord Burnham becomes PM (It worked for Alec Douglas Home in 1963).4: Burnham wins by-election safe seat moves to HoC. 5: PR introduced. 6: Left-leaning coalition at next G.E.