Danny Antrobus

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all.

Thanks,
Zack Polanski

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:

with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.

with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.

Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Labour Accused Of By-Election Dirty Tricks Over 'Fictitious' Tactical Voting Group A leaflet sent out on the eve of the crunch poll has sparked a furious backlash.

Remember the bullshit Tory HQ 'fact-checker' website run during the last General Election campaign? Well, Labour HQ has taken a leaf out of its playbook with a bullshit 'tactical voting' website.

Different rosette, same party.

UK embarrassing itself as usual

What I said about Prince Andrew in 2011 Yesterday, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew the Duke of York, was arrested in connection with his time as a British trade envoy.

i was telling someone the other day about the now show piece that @johnfinnemore.bsky.social did about andrew mountbatten-windsor in 2011, and what do you know, john's put a transcript up on his blog:

Pippa Crerar @PippaCre... •40m g Also - if a journalist is presented with an allegation it is their job in first instance to 1/ establish its veracity, usually by speaking to sources 2/ put the allegation to the individual concerned 3/ consider the motivation of the briefer. If the allegation doesn't pass those tests, you don't proceed to publication Simons appears to have been undeterred. In the following days, Labour Together and its representatives are understood to have briefed national newspapers - including the Guardian - with allegations about Holden, hacked material and Russia. At the time, Holden was approached for comment. None of the allegations Labour Together was circulating about him were published by any news organisation. Holden recently showed the Guardian his source materials, which indicate the story was based on files leaked from the Labour party by whistleblowers.

I put it to you that if the hacks e.g. properly considered the motivation of the briefer and ditched stories if they thought they were bullshitty and self-serving, then Keir Starmer would not now be Prime Minister.

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Post by The Guardian @theguardia... • 32m • Enbyphobia • Transmisogyny • Transphobia (General) 'Carnage of concern and upset': Women's Institute groups close after transgender ban Picture of a protest with a flag saying “THE W/I WELCOMES ALL WOMEN” "Carnage of concern and upset: Women's Institute groups close after transgender ban Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters... www.theguardian.com

I said when this was announced that the only ethical response was everyone leaving and joining trans inclusive groups in protest.

I’m impressed by the hundreds of women who have:

Lawyers representing the Home Office said the proscription had had the intended effect of “disrupting PA’s [Palestine Action] pattern of escalatory conduct” and had “not prevented people from protesting in favour of the Palestinian people or against Israel’s actions in Gaza”.

This looks quite a lot like an assertion by the Home Office that it knew it was breaking the law, didn't care, and doesn't regret it.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

Only 11 Labour MPs (out of 400 or so) voted against proscribing Palestine Action:

Diane Abbott, Tahir Ali, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Kim Johnson, Clive Lewis, John McDonnell, Grahame Morris, Nadia Whittome

Well done to the ones with some principles.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Polly Totnbee opinion article headline from the Guardian, which reads: "It's tragic that a decent PM will be brought down by Mandelson's sleaze - but it's a matter of when, not if"

Wow, Mandelson's going to end the careers of a decent Prime Minister AND Keir Starmer.

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

What's interesting is that at the time this was thought to be true but it turned out it wasn't. Yes, men in Congress in the 1970s freaked out about divorce rates from basic income pilot data. They screwed up the analysis. It was later discovered that relationships improved.

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I hope everyone’s remembering to pronounce Epstein correctly.

"I am resigning due to a payment of 75k which I did not receive and also forgot about"

The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Trump wearing one black leather glove

Trump as Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark with the staff of ra headpiece burnt into his hand

What's he hiding under the glove?

He is unusual in having reached the top of the party with little experience of the culture, the lore, the unintended consequences that can spiral out from procedural combat. There was plenty of machination to consolidate Starmer's position in opposition, marginalising the left and stitching up candidate selections to recruit a cadre of future loyalists. But that was outsourced to Morgan McSweeney, the leader's chief of staff. Once installed in No 10, Starmer felt no obligation to care about internal Labour politics. Nor did he cultivate relationships with those new MPs who would, he assumed, dutifully enact government policy. New ministers were disappointed by how little they saw of the prime minster. Officials have been surprised by his lack of interest in politics, and not just measured by obsessional Westminster standards. It isn't his thing. He cannot be drawn into discussion of ideas. People who have tried say he treats abstraction as indulgence; a bit "wanky".

Isn’t it fun how we always reliably go from “that is a deranged conspiracy that merely proves you are an intolerable extremist, who must be hounded” to “yes, of course this whole thing was an idiotic stitch-up, so what?” without any of the lads ever having been wrong about anything? Rafa, here.

Book cover of The Lady In The Lake by Raymond Chandler

2026 book 2: This fourth Philip Marlowe novel combines the plots of three previous Chandler short stories, making a quite convoluted plot. I found it hard to follow at times, mainly because I read it in fits and starts, but it's totally possible to just enjoy the language and go along for the ride.

replying “ai slop” to all my boss’s emails

Ruben Amorim sacked LIVE - latest news as Manchester United make managerial change Ruben Amorim sacked as Manchester United manager - follow live updates to this breaking news story.

If the Glazers' track record is anything to go by, they'll be seriously looking at bringing in Cristiano Ronaldo as caretaker player-manager.

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