a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore

you can probs get away with woo shit when you’re a 5% proposition but when suddenly it seems possible you have a historic opportunity to be a 25% one you can see why the pressure suddenly ramps up to start telling the crystals people to pipe down a bit

Exclusive: Greens to ditch "normal" childbirth policy The party understands that the caesarean-reduction policy must go

interesting to see if this is a one off in an area where they were particularly weird or signals a greater move towards getting more serious as the polls improve and things feel more real www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

MAD that anyone wants us more involved in this batshit war. luxury belief!

i believe the united kingdom gets to have an independent foreign policy, i believe the prime minister’s first duty is to the people of the united kingdom and not donald trump and i believe you’re all traitors!!

the hysterical right wing backlash to starmer refusing to be totally dragged into trump’s fucking mad war has got me defending him more than basically anything he’s actually done

my strong assumption is the right have got the public wrong and the public would prefer the prime minister to hold the line on distance from the american position in middle east (and perhaps even firm up that opposition). what is the best counter evidence?

nicked from a rutger bregman retweet on other place but it appears to be from the comments section

(credit to mr bastani on the other place who has started calling it a luxury belief, the man can coin a good line)

support for all this is a luxury belief if we wanna talk about luxury beliefs

yeah but as all politics understanders know if you don’t like a choice someone else makes it must mean it’s also the irrational choice for them

Absolutely this. My brother is a surgeon; he's used Claude to write an app for his patients. It's not a masterpiece and it won't change the economy, but it is easier for them than trying to fill in timesheets of how much exercise they are able to take. Sensible scepticism has to recognise reality.

to what extent is the reality here that we are just now in a world where this is going to have to be the expressed position of people from all factions who want to become and then win as the leaders of even the most centrist of centre left parties

currently on sale for a fiver on switch eshop btw so just impulse purchased! looks good!

basically think every “conservative” or “patriot” who takes Trump’s side when he has a hissy fit about us having an (even slightly) independent foreign policy is a quisling.

might be time for a united kingdom independence party

as a previous advocate of war with Spain, i now believe we should seek a glorious alliance and bring in a golden age of British-Spanish relations defying the yank menace

people might think he was criticising starmer here but it is actually just that his mind is so shot that he sometimes forgets what year it is

Keir Starmer is once more locked in a death battle with his mortal enemy, Keir Starmer.

former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association Nick Robinson there

it is legit funny to 12 months ago be of a world view where a threat from left in form of greens or whatever is not imaginable to, when it manifests, basically suggest doubling down on same world view to fight them off

Labour Third masterclass

hmmm

guess i mean something of comparable scale and complexity

i suspect most blueskyers are pretty sceptical about the plan here and are on a similar page with it ending in disaster (i agree, iraq + libya seem obvious examples). stress testing that argument, is there a historical precedent where something like this *doesn‘t go terribly*? genuinely!

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

probably slightly more personally unpleasant

there are so many of these types. it is to a large extent the problem because it isn’t just unpleasant it’s also thick

just been doing some reading and i don’t think the gorton and denton by-election is like the iranian revolution at all. although i think andy burnham might have won that too, he’s waaaaay better than the ayatollah

the Labour party trying to paint a picture of why you shouldn't vote Green and it's "everyone will take drugs all the time and also engage in fundamentalist Islam"

of course people voted for that, it's Dune. you've invented Dune!

genuine question: can you imagine a plumber running to be a labour mp? maybe it’s happened and i missed it but i defo missed it. not even that radical left a view, i am asking if there is a place in labour for the petit bourgeoisie