Jim Pickard

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

does he become….symbol…?

Poor Kemi.

this is as robust a defence as Rachel Reeves could hope for, lettings agent has coughed up that it’s their mistake

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves may be forced to repay £38,000 in rent after breaching housing rules Southwark council rules allow tenants to reclaim rent paid on unlicensed properties

FT: Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be ordered to repay more than £38,000 in rent after admitting breaching housing rules by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence.

www.ft.com/content/b1ed...

Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.

It's called "Carswell's law."

"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"

Farage: epic grifter

Think one of the key things why adverts are such a thing with them is that people in ads are usually enjoying themselves and having a nice life; seeing non-white people be happy is something that drives your typical racist absolutely mad

yes it was a beautiful day, great light

Thames

Tony Blair Institute undertakes restructuring as losses mount Consulting group and think-tank founded by former PM doubles down on artificial intelligence and seeks new donors

The Tony Blair Institute is undergoing a major restructuring that includes staff lay-offs, as the not-for-profit set-up by the former UK prime minister searches for a more sustainable funding model.

www.ft.com/content/1196...

‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

You can make a case for freedom of speech and debate in some of these instances, but when you’ve got uncorrected claims about ‘enforced veganism’ how is that not a breach of Ofcom rules?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.

who chooses the photographs?

www.ft.com/content/1f79...

iPhone

swan, Thames, this morning

🔥🔥🔥

Go to his profile - he has posted a gift link.

Labour humiliated — but could tactical voting save it from wipeouts? Crushing defeat in Wales raises questions over Starmer’s leadership but result shows resistance to Reform

the only silver lining for Labour from the Caerphilly disaster: what if there is a potential anti-Reform voter coalition out there, almost everywhere?

www.ft.com/content/fed0...

possibly the funniest political moment of the year

Adviser removed ‘enemy’ from China spy case witness statement Matthew Collins says he deleted the word from the final draft in 2023 because it did not reflect the Conservative government’s view

this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case

over to you, Kemi Badenoch?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I read it in The Times tbf

Adviser removed ‘enemy’ from China spy case witness statement Matthew Collins says he deleted the word from the final draft in 2023 because it did not reflect the Conservative government’s view

this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case

over to you, Kemi Badenoch?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is stark and dark. The FT! Not some reactionary start up paper.

I grew up in Abertridwr a few streets away from Lindsay, he's an absolute pillar of the community and a genuinely lovely man who really cares about Caerphilly

What you need to know about Lindsay Whittle, new Senedd member for Caerphilly The veteran Plaid Cymru campaigner won the Caerphilly by-election

the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:

"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour suffers seismic by-election defeat to Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly Results deal a blow to Keir Starmer’s leadership ahead of Welsh elections in May

main read-across from the Caerphilly by-election to the Senedd is the extent of tactical voting both for and against Reform UK

www.ft.com/content/d997...

The Trump Supremacy Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA

www.ft.com/content/1377...