Sam Proctor

Who are No 10’s new power brokers after Morgan McSweeney’s resignation? As the PM appoints two acting replacements, here are the five people vying for his ear in the new operation

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Has he pronounced yet on how much of a ‘loser’ Vonn is?

Oh god! Not in Amersham! Did you raise the alarm!!!

That’s my afternoon sorted then. On the sofa with this gold oozing into my brain. Cheers Alex!

Maybe de doesn’t watch Channel 4?

Underhand tactics you say? I’m shocked! 😳

He should have been sacked months ago.

Chicken gorgons and chips

At the Guild of Photographers Annual Awards. On the menu card, someone’s ordered Gorgons & Chips, due to dietary requirements. I hope he had a mirror with him to eat them, eh @sturdyalex.bsky.social ?!

Need not all be about elbows out, greed, undercutting your competition and clawing your way to the top. Stand by your principles and do good, and karma will come to you. 👏 /2

@mrjamesob.bsky.social just listened to your full disclosure interview with Mark Constantine of Lush, a man of whom I previously knew nothing but now have the greatest respect for. What a wonderful man! Thanks for revealing his quiet, kind, generous soul. So heartwarming that success in business /1

Compared to obvious wronguns like Trump, Johnson and Farage, Starmer is a decent man. But he’s held to different standards. Trump was best pals with Epstein for years, God knows what he got up to, but none cares. Starmer appoints someone who knew Epstein and OMG!!!!!!

Every word. Let’s use the public mood of revulsion to usher in new, stronger standards in public life, transparency and give voice to the powerless. Private meetings between the powerful behind closed doors is no way to run a democracy.

Where did the money come from for Farage ‘girlfriend’s’ Clacton house? 🤔

Chutzpah!

No need to be fair. Even if expected, it is no less outrageous for being ‘priced in’.

I can’t believe he’s not yet jettisoned McSweeney. What is he waiting for? He’ll take ‘em both down otherwise.

‘It was posted erroneously by a member of staff’ according to the ten o’clock news.

Have the BBC reported it yet?

What sport are you actually watching Dan, I can’t make it out from your commentary…?

Goodwin and his ultra right wing friends can F right off. We women who don’t have children are not paying a penny more in tax as punishment. You don’t know if they can’t have kids, never found the right person or chose not to bring a child into this crazy world for whatever reason. This is mad.

How very perspicacious! Written well before Bannon.

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….??
After you’ve helped their collapse?

What a lovely story. Shame it’s all over. We’ll have to look at what all the other slimy tax avoiding oligarchs are up to now instead, I suppose? 🤔

Wow.

What I can’t understand is what Bill Clinton got out of hanging out around an ultra right wing paedophile obsessed with Bannon and pushing far right agendas in Europe. Hopefully his deposition will clear that one up.

Thank you for helping us laugh for otherwise we would cry. The state of us!

Fantastic. Hopefully others will follow his lead.

a basil plant in a pot with the words sippe bas on it ALT: a basil plant in a pot with the words sippe bas on it

Bang goes the ‘drought tolerant planting’ …

That’s brilliant!

Home made marmalade

Eleven jars of home made Seville orange Marmalade and my kitchen smells like sunshine!