Lucy

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

"Mr Speaker, as @GIGACHAD_1776 said to me on X yesterday"

‘Orcs’ is a racist dog whistle.

Starmer in the Commons when challenged by Tory MP Gareth Bacon about UK actions over Iran: "Hanging on to President Trump's latest words is not the special relationship."

I applied for a job with Robin Wales once. Clearly dodged a bullet there.

I get why people compare worries about kids on social media with previous moral panics but I think an important difference is that when previous generations worried about computer games or rock music they were worrying about things kids did that their parents didn't understand.

Childless adults stop opining on kids’ access to social media challenge

Also that article she’s screenshotted doesn’t even say what she claims it does.

Once again: childless Very Online adults are not the voices we should be prioritising in the debate around kids and screens.

Nope. Social media is still bad for kids and no one should be listening to TL on this as she is the poster child for the Terminally Online.

Well, it worked out brilliantly in Afghanistan…

Sincerely hope they will listen to this (but not holding my breath).

Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe

My radical take is that the people primarily to blame for the inevitable wave of anti-Semitism we are already starting to see are in fact the people being anti-Semitic

One reason Hannah Spencer did well is she passed the “gets it test” few politicians do on two levels. First: personally we heard praise she seemed normal in touch & respected voters. Second message; the below from her speech is the perfect distillation of what we hear in groups.

I know it's not the main issue, but what's the FIFA protocol for when a host nation for a world cup attacks or declares war against a participating nation in the run up to the competition? especially when the head of the host nation is in receipt of your inaugural peace prize?

It seems very implausible that Galloway was that much of a factor.

Literally no one wants to hear from Americans on the weirdness of any other country’s politics. Get your own house in order.

But it’s the absence of any coherent political narrative that’s the problem. They came in after a truly awful, long Tory night and failed to offer hope, failed to offer optimism, failed to offer any sense of real change. Failed to offer any vision that is coherent and makes sense.

THIS. For the love of God stop fighting the 2029 election and offer people something to hope for NOW.

A wake up and smell the coffee moment for Labour. Early signs are that Labour wants to sip hot milk instead ("we couldn't turn out our vote." No, you did. That's the problem.)

Governing strategy, policy, comms, campaigning - all needs a complete reset and in that order.

Miriam Cates: Have more kids!

Also Miriam Cates: Not like that.

‘Orc’ is a blatant dog whistle to a very specific section of the online far right. It’s terrifying that this man is a member of parliament.

This is how I discovered Polanski’s position on ‘natural birth’ and god, fuck this so so much

Oh no, so sorry to hear this.

1300 basically comprehensible to me, 1200 basically not. Extraordinary how rapidly the language evolved.

Unlike that famously authentic US-based Mexican food chain, Taco Bell. Why are Americans like this? Don’t they have problems of their own to focus on?

YouTube video by Ultramarine Saturday Morning Watchmen HD (by Harry Partridge)

Big ‘Saturday Morning Watchmen’ energy (but at least that was a spoof). m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SV...

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

Morgan Freeman as Kindly Old Criminal in He Cant Have put The Poster Back Over the Hole It’s Impossible

“I remember the first time I saw Andy…”