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He posted an AI video of himself shitting on Americans six days ago

The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.

A Politics UK Tweet TEXT: 🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has not applied for a PMQs question since July It comes after he watched yesterday’s PMQs from the spectators’ gallery in protest of never having a “right of reply”

This is classic Farage, all grievance and no graft. He’d rather play the victim instead of doing his job.

Its drummed into us from birth - fairy tales, movies and TV programmes all use this to get us onside.

To put it another way, UK politics seems to be a field where only the interview counts.

"Our accounts manager just lost the company £500 million and deliberately burned the office down!"

"Yeah, but they were very clear about where they saw themselves in 5 years time, so what can you do?"

This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered:

The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be

As strikes on alleged drug boats grow, so do questions about their legality and goal President Trump says he has authority to carry out the strikes, but international experts are asking if the attacks are truly about countering narcotics or instead toppling Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

President Trump says he has authority to carry out the strikes, but international experts are asking if the attacks are truly about countering narcotics or instead toppling Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. n.pr/4nhlVQL

Kwasi Kwarteng Wealth taxes will make the UK poorer Labour's logic appears sensible but it defies economic reality

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice…
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

It's almost as if 2024's massive rejection of mealy-mouthed, downward-spiral, centre-right, blame-the-poor, end-game-capitalism, austerity-obsessed politics was a signal to Labour that the country was desperate for something else.

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

The burning of wood and coal in homes contributes to almost 2,500 deaths a year in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/... @asthmaandlung.org.uk #RespEd #LungSky @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

There's an old truism that politics can't work if you think the other side is actually evil.

But I don't really know what else to call this

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

One thing this Government hasn't realised is that giving money to the richest is as useful as throwing it on a bonfire

Billions has been given to Water, and billions to Energy with prices going up even as Wholesale Energy costs continue to fall

For all this you get nothing

Even bin Laden didn’t target the White House

They want to run the country - Reform couldn’t run a whelk stall

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What's Happening at Mar-a-Lago?

Image is screenshot of BBC report with picture of Andrea Jenkyns, reporting that she has asked for 147,000 to help answer emails she gets as part of her job

Image is screenshot of BBC report about George Finch, leader of Warwickshire Council, wanting £190,000, to hire three political assistants which previously were not needed by other leaders. Because nothing saves money and fix his potholes and empty his bins, like three political advisors

Reform are furious.. they’re raging about all the £1000’s frittered away by Councils so they promised to cut spending👇🏼

By giving Andrea Jenkyns £150K of Council £’s to hire someone to answer her emails.. as she won’t bother❌

And £190K to George Finch Council leader for 3 new political assistants❌

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

This in FT this morning 👇

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

I'm old enough to remember Action Man "randy" Andy.

In my childhood, he was hailed by the press as a war hero - the "handsome prince" and when he married Sarah Ferguson, it was a major national event.

How ridiculous and embarrassing it all seems now.

And in fact always was.

"Listen love.." says Nigel Farage to Mishal Husain, someone streets ahead of him intellectually. A little glimpse into the Britain he wants to get back to.

Donald Trump posts a video of himself wearing a crown as he flies a jet with "King Trump" written in gold on it, dumping shit onto protesters in American cities, which rather makes the protesters point for them.