Dale Bennett

It’s like a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

On the one hand, anything to distract from reports of his increasingly well-documented, lifelong racism.
On the other, if he's told some donors this (& the FT will have sourced this properly) you can be sure that he'd've told others the polar opposite if he thought that's what they wanted to hear.

I wouldn't be surprised if Labour were to run on rejoining the single market/customs union at the next election. One of the primary challenges they will face (if present conditions continue) is to unite the liberal left behind them and against Reform/the Tories. Brexit 2 is a good way to do that.

Sabrina Carpenter responding to an ICE video using her song: This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.

White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.

He did cite Varoufakis straight after Stevenson

it's Ofcom so the major social media platform they'll kick off with could easily be myspace

Hello, I am mental

#Justice4RachelReeves

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽

Music to my ears. ~AA

So Canada can manage to negotiate involvement in the EU's SAFE defence procurement scheme and yet the UK can't

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.

All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"

We wanted to understand the legality of killing Venezuelan boaters without a trial or charges. So we talked to three unvaccinated Kid Rock fans at a Buc-ee’s in Amarillo.

Unfathomably, I think Verstappen’s got this again 🫩 #F1

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

It would be very in keeping with how UK elites are chronically 6-18 months behind the curve if UK university leaders torch their credibility in trying to appease Reform and MAGA only for further shifts in political trends to start seeing a decline in support for Trump and Farage

The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics “Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press

Don't forget🚨

70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.

A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF

The Paquetá’s must have had another flutter on a booking

Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.

In Timothy Snyder's book 'On Tyranny' his first edict is "Do not obey in advance".
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.

Stranger Things… Good lord! 🤯

Bring back Budget purdah

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.

It's hardly a massive difference.

When I was young, the Independent was the best designed newspaper on the stands. This is what it looks like now: a par of text sandwiched between two ads, an auto-play video and a pointless and intrusive swipe function. It's as if it hates the work of its own writers.

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour