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Brexit campaigning turns 10. Here's how promises to voters hold up Brexit campaigning kicked off on 20 February 2016. The trail saw big promises made to voters. A decade on, how they stand up?

“The Brexit campaign kicked off a decade ago. Here's how 10 promises made to voters hold up today” www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Starmer’s real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmer’s challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isn’t the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...

If he's looking for the bright side, at least Andrew Mountbatten Windsor won't have to worry about where he'll be living for the next few years....

Well said. Osborne is a particularly egregious example of someone failing continuously upwards

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

The @bettertransport.bsky.social is right. Trams can get Britain moving again bsky.app/profile/bett...

This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons.

Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.

Dear @labouruk.bsky.social are you fucking deranged?

YouTube video by Golden 80s music Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day HQ

The ghastly tech bros and their dash for AI dystopia made me think of this youtu.be/O-c99rkQlV0?...

Shepherds in #Lesotho

Good grief. Tory MP Matt Vickers, speaking with #LewisGoodall on LBC is an absolute cretin

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire

This is such a brilliant story #WinterOlympics www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

I prefer it when ‘Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.

Not just a trip to South Africa, but an excursion into the Mountain Kingdom of #Lesotho

How could appointing Liz Truss's favourite civil servant go wrong?

Given what has happened with some previous appointments it would seem wise for the PM to consider the truth of stories that have been suggested about Antonia Romeo.

between the Department for International Trade's (DIT) then second most senior civil servant Antonia Romeo and Palantir's Louis Mosley, executive vice president and head of U.K. operations. During the meeting, Romeo told Mosley about NHSX — a new "joint organisation for digital, data and technology" that uses new technologies and data to deliver British health care — set up that month. The meeting is described in briefing notes prepared by DIT and was obtained by POLITICO through a freedom of information request. After their April 2019 meeting, Romeo connected Mosely with David Prior, chair of NHS England who later ensured that Matthew Gould, the CEO of NHSX, was looped into

By July 2, 2019, Prior was drinking watermelon cocktails with Mosley at a dinner the Palantir boss hosted on the eve of the launch of NHSX, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The same day, Palantir had been added as a supplier to the government's approved list of cloud technology contractors, a spokesperson for the U.K.'s government contract tendering body, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), said. A series of engagements with Prior, Gould and DIT followed in the months after the dinner. Prior then visited Palantir's headquarters in San Francisco on January 14, 2020, where he saw a demonstration of the company's health care software Palantir Foundry. Mosley met Romeo again a week later on January 22 at Palantir's pavilion at the 2020

saw a demonstration of the company's health care software Palantir Foundry. Mosley met Romeo again a week later on January 22 at Palantir's pavilion at the 2020 annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Romeo's briefing notes said she should court him by promoting the U.K. as a leader in tech and "a great location for Palantir to expand their software business" and connect him with the technology director at the Crown Commercial Service. The company sees the U.K. as "a gateway to the rest of the world," according to briefing notes prepared for the meeting in Davos. Immediately after the January meeting, Romeo's private secretary emailed Mosely to introduce him to DIT health care officials, including DIT's Life Sciences leadership team and director for investment.

The Antonia Romeo who did more than most to saddle us with Palantir? That Antonia Romeo?

Antonia Romeo is the Cressida Dick of the civil service

Just a reminder that possible new Cabinet Secretary Antonia Romeo was in charge of Chris Grayling's disastrous probation privatisation, has a bit of a reputation for, er, robust management of junior staff, and seems to fail upwards. She reminds me of Cressida Dick for some reason.

Antonia Romeo is the wrong choice for Cabinet secretary. A government which was serious about improving its performance would not select her.

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One can only conclude that Peter Hendy is a moron

A couple of things #KeirStarmer could do to immediately improve Labour's Comms operation is to get rid of #Ofcom and create a regulator with some teeth and to stop posting on fucking Twitter and prosecute it instead

This 10-point plan would allow Keir Starmer to get a grip on his government. He should read it and fast | John McTernan Things are terrible right now, but he has a radical manifesto to draw on, a landslide majority and breathing space. He must seize the day, says former Labour party adviser John McTernan

Hard agree with @johnmct.bsky.social on his advice to Keir Starmer. Stop the delegating and focus on what matters in our day to day lives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everybody Hates Keir How did Starmer go from landslide to endgame in under two years? Also this week: the most murderous mammal on earth; and every thought I have about an insane train plan.

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

Just a reminder that possible new Cabinet Secretary Antonia Romeo was in charge of Chris Grayling's disastrous probation privatisation, has a bit of a reputation for, er, robust management of junior staff, and seems to fail upwards. She reminds me of Cressida Dick for some reason.

Myth Busting: Would it really cost £100 billion to bring water utilities into public ownership? - River Action UK The government claims it would cost £100 billion to nationalise water. Experts say: that doesn’t hold water.

Renewing Britain, and Labour's popularity. Part 1000. Stop tinkering around the edges and take our water industry back from the spivs. riveractionuk.com/news/myth-bu...

It's tough for Starmer, given he needs to diversify his cabinet to survive, but has hitherto worked quite hard to not learn anything about the PLP, relying on his advisors to do a lacklustre job in his behalf, the most trusted of whom no longer work for him (and were giving him bad advice anyway).

No one is saying that a hundred percent of the governments problems are caused by the media but there’s a hard core of journalists (who are in the some way or another tied to the last government) bent on destabilising this government with an stream of misinformation & mistruths.

Simple solutions to big problems There used to be a Zipcar and a van parked at the end of our road but suddenly they disappeared at the end of the year.

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Excellent. And could you look at contracts with Palentir while you're about it?