and how exactly is the Blue Labour approach going for the Labour Party
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and how exactly is the Blue Labour approach going for the Labour Party
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Wonder what the imminent reorganisation of police force areas will do for the names they pick in crime dramas
Great understated British horror moment on Antiques Roadshow where a woman produces a haunted-looking headless wax figurine, she and the presenter cheerily twitter for a couple of minutes about how horrible it is, before an abrupt cut to the next item
International Women’s Day, you know what that means
a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
genuinely fascinating to me how compelling a post from my grad job lunch break was to so many people…and yet I get it
Had a very vivid dream last night that I was caught in an air raid and had to go to a shelter which for some reason was segregated by nationality. Got to the British section and the only people in there were TERFs talking about biological sex.
This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
👀 Labour MP Joani Reid said today that she was “not part of my husband’s business activities” after her spouse David Taylor was arrested on suspicion of spying for China
But her former company was loaned money (interest free and with no set repayment terms) by his companies
And how Ukraine isn't their war, so we in Europe have to pay almost the entire cost of supporting the Ukrainians.
But Israel's wars are their wars, apparently, and we should join them too.
That Today interview was maybe the worst interview I’ve ever heard her do, although perhaps I have a short memory.
In any sane world (or indeed Tory Party) Kemi’s performance over the last two days would be swiftly career-ending
A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.
Would recommend this excellent Observer podcast for anyone wanting some background open.spotify.com/episode/06lJ...
One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
She's turned the Greans against us
my heart soars once again as our wise and rational equity markets conclude that the chaotic flailing of a declining global hegemon is, in fact, bullish
There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.
Real sense of loss at having not got a pic of the guy I spotted from the bus wearing a varsity jacket that simply had ‘CRIME’ emblazoned on the back
I didn’t even know he was sick
Given scale of what’s happening in the Middle East right now the World Service is one of very few outlets with ongoing news coverage — yet it’s got just weeks of funding left
Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy
2026… going back for more political party
The long 2010s are finally over
Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax
Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."
A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."
Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."
Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.
went to the store
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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.
The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…
