Josh Goddard

Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Edith Cavell, Admiral Nelson, Robert Kett, my nan, Ed Balls, Lynn Benfield, Jarrolds, the 16th centruy weaving trade, Aviva, Colmans mustard, Julian of Norwich...your boys took one hell of a beating

Natural order restored in East Anglia #itfc

I suspect the Lib Dems would win it given their local success and how its slightly older/posher than parts of London the Greens perform best in

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage.

The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal."

Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community.

Your struggle is my struggle.

Thoughts from me on the UK government's elections policy paper.

In short: many good things, but several points don't go far enough, and there is one big mistake.

🚨New Research 🚨

Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE.

Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters.

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I refuse to accept this, will not recognise it, and shall therefore continue living in a reality where he plays for Ipswich Town

All our trophies would rust! (not a problem they'd have in Norwich)

So long as there's premier league football idm

This and the whole "Ipswich should be winning the league" thing has made me uncomfortable enough to switch off until the start

Yes I think potentially, but the only thing is that is gonna take some kinda long term realignment in their fiscal/economic positions and idk whether thats possible internally

and the wealthiest part of the population is gonna become more graduate heavy rapidly - probably creates a growing pool for an economically centre/centre-right but also not nationalist/far right party which the Tories have abandoned

I also think demographic changes - the interaction of wealth and education primarily - point to this. The 2019 Tory electorate was kinda sustained by high asset wealth and low education being quite well correlated (via age) but over the coming decade(s) that's gonna unravel

appreciate there's significant differences between the 2 though

think in a way the long-term chances of Lib Dem growth lie in replacing the Tories as the kind of pro-system party than Labour as the main party of the left. Kinda what's happened in France - Macron's electorate looks far more like the trad Republican vote (characterised by wealth) than the PS one

what an extraordinary talent Lauren James is, so mesmerising to watch

Setting myself targets like "work for 10 minutes and then you get to check the cricket score"

No chance today

the first week of Wimbledon is the pinnacle of the sporting calendar and I don't think anybody could convince me otherwise

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

It's interesting that Wimbledon was really important in standardising the rules. I think before that the scoring system was typically like squash/badminton with long games to 21 points but the real tennis system with games, sets etc was (quite rightly, ofc) used at the first Wimbledon

Absolutely, but that in itself (that they need to squeeze them) is a hugely significant development!

It makes it wildly unpredictable. But I think the importance of strategic implications for the Labour party are underplayed

The Green party polling regularly at 10%+ is such a fundamental transformation in the British party system and has gone completely under the radar

I've come round to the view that we shouldn't get mad at them, but try and show empathy for those with no major trophies

The return of an age old question: how to be productive when a test match is on?

although perhaps other things justify the naming, maybe Suffolk MA is less depressing than Norfolk MA, or has more sporting silverware

I'm 26 and still catch myself calling it 'Anglia'

Yeah hard not to feel a prerequisite of staying up before anything else was luck with injuries and luck with decisions in games against those around us, and fair to say we didn't get it

In the same way that Burton Albion target Jurgen Klopp