Adam Snow

Policy by Pub Bore. He's just that spittle-flecked Hate Guy in the corner of your done-up bar saying that modern beer is horrible and anyone under 50 is lazy and a loser. As beatable a politician as there'll ever be.

The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process."

Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed

Just beyond parody at this point

Peter Mandelson betrayed his colleagues, his party and his country… … to please the bankers who had wrecked the world

“As Darling was telling his colleagues about his plans in confidence, Mandelson was leaking them to his friend and benefactor, the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.” Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on Mandelson and Darling:
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

We're pushing hundreds of thousands of kids back into poverty so a bloke drinking 20 pints a week can save a quid

Van driver admits killing King's College London university student in campus crash Aalia Mahomed, 20, was in her second year of a physics and philosophy degree.

I'm sorry but the barrister defending in this case comments are disgraceful. This isn't a tragic accident, he has pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving. That is not an accident it's a choice to drive far below the accepted standards. news.sky.com/story/van-dr...

Isn't this what those who wanted a graduate tax want?

Honestly what is the point of having a programme that is *not* live if you are not going to use that function to aggressively factcheck the people on it?

Perhaps Nigel Farage would like to explain to the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq why he’s such a good pal of Donald ‘bonespurs’ Trump?

Draft-dodging scum says what

Number of police forces in England and Wales to be cut in major shake-up Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce plans for police reform next week.

Here comes the next government U-Turn. BBC News - Number of police forces to be cut in major shake-up
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As he went on, another possibility sprang to mind. Perhaps Johnson has recruited some of the sarcastic writers who used to work for his British namesake Boris, filling his speeches with lines that were best understood as jokes against their employer. How else to explain the complaints that Russia was “more emboldened”, the warning against “the indulgence of self-interest” or the injunction to “call evil and madness what it is”? Hoyle looked round the room like a hawk when Johnson came out with that last line, daring anyone to laugh. It was the kind of speech that would have been largely anodyne at many other points over the last century. As it was, it was like a toast to your parents’ long and happy marriage delivered while your father was loudly banging his secretary in the next room. “We see the UK and Europe stepping up as faithful partners today,” Johnson said, speaking on behalf of the unfaithful partner currently posting screenshots of private messages from fellow leaders. He w

US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

But if you seriously believe that a women cannot have any objections to a person with a penis getting changed next to her, I am not sure there is much else to say.

(The question is are you brave enough to tell the women in your life yes, you must accept this?)

Not only that the claim to some special insight because ask questions in court (where already know the answers) or use extrinsic evidence to support your hunches (Amanda) hardly gives insight into whether someone is lying. Compulsive viewing but embarrassing for those claiming special insight.

The contestants she mentions were not half as clever as they thought, Hugo and Harriet in particular. It is a game of bluff, deception, outright lying, not particularly one of "intelligence". And I would agree that is a strength not a flaw of the game.

Francis Urquhart or Baldrick? | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine I should begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well…

Proving once again he is the best sketch writer of the moment @roberthutton.co.uk 's sketch today is fabulous. thecritic.co.uk/francis-urqu...

Its an exodus at the top of the courts!

Fantastic case this: On the meaning of "property" in the Theft Act 1968. Do goldcoins in aan online role playing game constitute property when they are not reducible to any physical property. Yes says the CA - The Hinks of our time! www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.

A couple hundred jobs go in a factory and there’s journalistic and parliamentary outcry. Thousands of staff cuts across UK HE every year for a few years - a ‘lucrative export services industry’ - barely gets a mention outside the sector.

Worth noting that AI use can, and is, being used by some in the judiciary. Whilst they accept that fundamentally judge is responsible there, no obligation to acknowledge it's use in the judgement according to latest guidance. A mistake IMHO. not against use but am against lack of acknowledgement.

If you are blaming an AI for your mistake - it's still on you.

It's like blaming your car for running somebody over.

Police chief apologises for 'erroneous' Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban evidence, blaming AI In a report to a council safety advisory group, West Midlands Police referenced a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham United that never existed.

Who on earth is using copilot for this kind of search?? Chat GpT or Google Gemini I could understand, but copilot?? Another reason that suggests clear incompetence! news.sky.com/story/police...

I’m on Mounjaro, and not afraid to say it Enough of the weird embarrassment about the medication, already.

Anyway, here's one I made earlier.

www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

“Let’s focus on winning back Reform voters, who are furthest from our core vote in terms of everything that matters -demography, ideology, priorities, values”
“Are they at least open to voting for us?”
“Oh yes, their approval of Starmer has doubled in the last year!”
“Really?”
“Yes, it’s 2% now.”

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions

This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

Which inevitable ministerial resignation will have the most impact on 2026?

Channel 4 late night Hong Kong Cinema, in the 90's. Classic Christmas!

£300 for a half day online only conference! errr. no.