Marc Jones

Concise and perfect T.

Just WOW

Aware of delicacy, but in this instance I’m compelled to scribe. Apologies to all who may be offended.
Starmer needs to *man up*.
If he doesn’t, then I’m stumped as to who will, given the candidates for succession.
Dark times.

You've basically got a very dumb but very entitled real estate agent and his insipid 3rd wife in charge of the world's most powerful country.

Fooled by Mandelson’s apparent *contrition*. This, in addition to others, was the tip of a political iceberg I was prepared to acknowledge as a number of *one offs*. But then there’s reality. And it stinks. Our entire UK governance system is plainly up for hire. A disgusting network of privilege.

The idea of hereditary privilege enabling CIC of anything more than a Tue night crochet club in Wigan is a reach for most of the veterans I served with. Like the empty suits failing upwards into Def Sec appointment. Yes I mean you, Shapps, Williamson et al. Not fit to lace a pair of combat boots.

Keir Starmer has spoken up

Prince Harry has spoken up

Anyone know if Prince William who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps, has spoken up?

Yup, I was there sharing Bear

If the Conservative party were in government and if Farage was genuinely in reach of Downing Street then this would all be significant.

As it is, he's scooping up failures and sacked MPs and in the process undermining his entire USP.

It's actually spectacularly stupid.

Jenrick defection probably the dumbest thing he could have done. He could have been the top race science guy in the tory party, but now he's going to be a run-of-the-mill race science guy who needs to impress guys who believe a secret sect of Brown people control the traffic lights

Question on Jeremy Vine, Channel 5. Could there be a more beige,, predictable, anal collection of nonsense on tv?
Who the hell is filtering callers?

Seriously Russ, I’m enjoying the first book, but the incessant promotion of the next and beyond is getting in the way of some pretty serious shit on my feed.

No comments on this so far. Yet so true.

Aw, bless London. Doesn’t look like that in North Wales

Excited to see that the head of the political wing of the illegal bloodsports community (Countryside Alliance) Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting has been banned. 🧐

I couldn’t be more embarrassed for the people who put this man in power…

Let’s see how much tv coverage it gets from our *trusted* MSM

Bullies at school. In private education aswell? Thankfully our political system filters. Wait…..

Spot on Sir. Excellent stuff.

@briancoxtalks.bsky.social keen follower of your commentary on everything I can catch. My question is, when we focus on universal expansion, are we considering the possibilities related to infinite smallness?
You can’t reach zero halving a value and all subsequent numbers. This baffles me?

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Brilliant

Agreed, survival of the financially rewarded, rewarded.

It’s just how to stop it.
Might take …. One million dollars?
If you know, you…..

NEW - D-Day Veteran Removed From Remembrance Parade After Forgetting His Poppy

Full story here:

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

a man in a hat and wig is looking at the camera with the word peasants written on the bottom of his face . ALT: a man in a hat and wig is looking at the camera with the word peasants written on the bottom of his face .

In addition to retaining the "prince" in his title, Prince Andrew remains (very aptly) a 'Vice' Admiral in the Royal Navy and also remains eighth in line to the throne.

And there's nothing you plebs can do about it.

But something something about tourists...

By Jonn Elledge Illustration by Roy Scott / Ikon Images “Acomputer terminal,” Douglas Adams once wrote, “is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.” In the same way, while the platform known in happier times as Twitter is famously not the real world, that’s never meant it can’t affect it. One of the less upsetting ways those effects can manifest is outlined in a new report from “reputation management consultancy” (euch) Montford Communications. Posting to Policy explores the way wonks, politicos and shitposters alike drive government action through the raw power of their takes. “A niche account posts something punchy. It lands,” the report explains, with more full stops than is acceptable anywhere but LinkedIn. “Traditional media pick it up. Politicians respond. And policy follows. This is the ‘posting to policy’ pipeline and it’s fast becoming the new normal.” Not all the examples the consultancy gives of this pipeline in action are entirely convincing. The “Nick, 30 ans” meme may have generated discourse, but it has not, as far as I’ve noticed, led to attempts to actually rethink intergenerational fairness; and while Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging video made some waves, the shadow justice secretary is not, appearances notwithstanding, a shitposter. The most persuasive example offered is the transformation of Motability from a worthy but obscure scheme allowing those in receipt of mobility allowance to lease cars, to a “something must be done”-level spending scandal through noise on X alone. Montford’s argument isn’t wrong: it’s abundantly clear by now that things that happen on the internet rarely stay there, and while hacks and wonks hang out on the same platforms as those with actual power it’s unsurprising that ideas sometimes migrate from the former to the latter. That, though, does not mean these conclusions are either new or significant. I can think of things I put on the internet ten years ago that g…

anyway, I am pleased with this column, I think it is good, I hope you read it rather than just shouting at me for what you think it might say

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

When explaining to the average American why life may be economically challenging right now. He points them towards the impoverished and says ‘it’s their fault’. Black, brown or white. It’s never the super rich’s aspiration. It’s their plan. Simply add an idiot and put it in power.

Ok, so I’m thinking about setting up a crowd fund account. I need enough money and will to buy a cage, 160 nappies, swarfega, ball bearings and dangle a £5 note from the top. And a banana. Then we add Farage and Johnson. Scramble.