Finally the lyrics make sense...
03.03.2026 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Finally the lyrics make sense...
03.03.2026 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Even if the Spring Statement was not completely void, growth peaking at 1.6% isn't incredible
03.03.2026 13:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Feel like you do have to update some of your speech if you are going to accuse your opponents of being responsible for an inflationary shock largely driven by external conflict and you are now facing the same situation...
03.03.2026 12:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The old age dependency ratio has put an unbearable burden on middle income young earners and that means labour backbenchers need to resolutely back immigration reforms that will make that problem worse is certainly an interesting take
03.03.2026 10:33 β π 33 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Fortunately, the new offices are ready to go with some truly wonderful views of the 38th Parallel
02.03.2026 16:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You always think she has reached a limit with her crassness and ignorance, and then she just manages to go beyond what you ever thought possible
02.03.2026 10:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It feels particularly horrible this is announced at a moment the government is getting set to to participate in a war that is threatening to massively escalate and destabilise not just the region but the global economy upending millions and millions of lives
01.03.2026 22:17 β π 36 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1Doesn't bode well for Labour that its senior leadership and strategists are convincing themselves opposition to this sort of vulgarity is rooted in narrow sectarian interests
28.02.2026 11:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Labour deciding to sacrifice bourgeois support at the same time as sacrificing proletariat support is a bold electoral strategy
27.02.2026 23:52 β π 29 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Alarming that the PM is jumping on the outlandish accusations they lost because of sinister sectarian forces
Clear signal that the demands of some communities are illegitimate and shows a clear failure to even remotely engage with the enormous shortcomings of his premiership...
I know it's a bit of a running joke how bad he is with basic data analysis, but kind of spectacular he has looked at the numbers and concluded progressives didn't beat him
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The idea you would penalise the NHS if the service doesn't meaningfully reduce economic inactivity rates is bizarre
The NHS should not be a public service of first and last resort to deal with the policy challenges successive governments have failed to tackle
www.ft.com/content/6943...
Professor David Strain, BMA board of science chair, said:
"The BMA supports a 'Good Food Bill' because not enough is being done to halt rising obesity levels and preventable disease, particularly among children. Doctors are seeing the consequences of poor diet every day."
βPeter Mandelson tended his own mythology and influence over the party, of course. But many were attracted to the politics of pure means that he represented, irrespective of ends.β
Online now from the next issue: @piercepenniless.bsky.social on Mandelson and Epstein.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The Kingdom of Heaven risks being left behind if it fails to embrace AI
22.02.2026 21:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Middle class is basically a stock insult in UK political discourse to dismiss opponents as out of touch with the salt of the earth masses who are a single homogenous blob who are not political beyond being directly aligned to the very specific political faction the accuser belongs to
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Flat screen TV, that's middle class
Coffee table, that's middle class
Multiple pillows on the sofa...you better believe that's middle class
Giving Β£500,000 to Liz Truss to help her promote her fundamental ideology that the best way to allocate resources in society is exclusively via the decisions of the individual
22.02.2026 10:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In the future, everyone will be a senior member of Keir Starmers team before having to resign due to matters he had no knowledge of for 15 minutes
21.02.2026 23:24 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Healthy life expectancy is falling across the UK, according to new data published today.
Read more on the urgent action we need Government to take. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
Every January we get stories about economic recovery, and then by May realise it was all because people were frontloading activity to avoid tax changes, and the economy is actually flatlining, and we actually need more minor tax adjustments and then the cycle repeats
20.02.2026 09:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tbf who knows more about creating a weaker, poorer nation
18.02.2026 20:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ironic how the political right have convinced themselves unis are hotbeds of radical leftism providing no real skills, when the most consistently popular courses are things like business management, computer science and law where the general student mindset is get a good job and make lots of money
17.02.2026 13:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Need some sort of Brave New World style job allocation programme for newborns to be immediately placed on a pathway to the 3 key professions of the future British economy under reform: plumber, electrician, right wing podcast host
17.02.2026 13:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The youth unemployment figures are especially grim
50,000 more apprenticeships is great and all, but since April-June 2024 there are more than 100,000 additional people aged 18-24 who are unemployed
Not sure the gov are really grappling with the scale of the crisis
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Me reading through the shortlist Starmer and McSweeney came up with for the US ambassador role...
12.02.2026 18:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Spinning interest rate cuts, a consequence of our stagnating economy, as a sign everything is going according to plan is quite bold
12.02.2026 08:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Failure from Nandy to condemn such ugly rhetoric is awful, but also, why are you sagely nodding along to the ridiculous things Ratcliffe is saying when you could be highlighting things like the youth unemployment scheme, which the government you are a minister in has launched
12.02.2026 08:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Could you imagine a world where Labour goes full speed ahead to uber woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism...
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