Ravi S

It does seem harsh on the Druids.

🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics

www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...

👇🏾 Exactly this 👇🏾

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

'Labour politicians urgently need to adopt the Conservative/Reform view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it.'

Discuss.

Nah the correct answer is, "can't be arsed with Oasis, I'm going with Happy Mondays, Kinky Afro"

Tony Blair’s thinktank accuses Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices Report by Tony Blair Institute urges government to drop some green policies amid criticism of decarbonisation goal

The headline should say

Tony Blair's fossil fuel producer funded thinktank accuses Miliband of driving up energy prices

At least give the relevant context in the headline.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also good news for bureaucracts too.

UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies Government says new legislation will curb overseas interference in elections

Overseas tycoons such as Elon Musk would be barred from giving substantial donations to UK political parties under new legislation to block companies making gifts if they do not have British owners or make sufficient revenue in the country

www.ft.com/content/f4ed...

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

Amorim steps in after surprise Man United ticket decision for final United staff had been told they could pay for two tickets for friends and family

A reminder of one of the 'unpopular' things that Ratcliffe did was not paying for staff to go to Europa Leaugue final.

He's just a grim human.

Ruben Amorim 'steps in to pay for staff' after Manchester United ticket decision for Europa League final | The Standard share.google/y91sLorBpZJi...

Would Starmer have said this if McSweeney was still Chief of Staff?

Almost certainly not.

Would Starmer have said this if McSweeney was still Chief of Staff?

Alsmost certainly not.

You may not agree with Nigel Farage when he says working from home is unproductive, but you can't deny he practices what he preaches. The guy supposedly lives in Clacton and he hasn't been anywhere near there in over a year.

Does he realise that most of the team he owns are immigrants?

You can't even make a four-year-old work in a factory these days

Trade unions are pretty popular! The reluctance to make the case for strengthening them, seems to stem from a historic and now misplaced belief, that unions are still unpopular. Amazing how people who claim to guided by "what the people want" so often fail to look at actual public opinion.

In a sensible polity Trump would be impeached and removed from office for this act alone.

But, yes, we know.

A horizontal bar chart from the Institute for Government showing the tenure of Cabinet Secretaries. The tenure of Sir Burke Trend (1963-1972) is highlighted in a poor attempt at a pun. The full list can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_(United_Kingdom)#List_of_cabinet_secretaries

Time for my increasingly frequent, 'there's a clear Trend on this chart' joke

Only a reflection of what has happened in the US. MAGA call Democrats "communist" or "radical left" despite this clearly being wholly inaccurate

Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

The party that just want to love and protect women and girls strikes again

What, you mean there were competent capable women who were overlooked for men?

Surely "Morgan and the lads" would never advise the PM like that.

Not today's main point, but I do find it odd that ministers are signalling their support of Keir Starmer - pretty important as their silence is interpreted as a sign they might quit and force him to resign! - by... posting on X.

You know, the site condemned for being an AI porn hellscape last month

All this begs another question: the Cabinet Office is supposed to be responsible for ethics and integrity in government.

Can Starmer really retain a Cabinet Office minister who commissioned a PR firm to investigate journalists on the flimsiest of pretexts?

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Just beyond parody at this point

A Farewell to Morgan McSweeney What a fantastic week. Peter Mandelson toasted to charcoal, the government being forced to make public all communications about him, the pos...

"If McSweeney has a genuine talent, it's as a con man."

If loyalists are having to arrange supportive questions then he's toast. That's not leadership, it's hiding.

The only way to deal with it, is to take all the hostile questions and show people you get it, and you have a credible plan to make things better. That's what leadership is.

You assume the people doing the briefing care about their own party. They don't.

They really only care about holding the levers of power.

Once you see everything they say and do through that lens, it makes more sense.