Chris Davies

Jim Ratcliffe: “I have all this money and power, how come the world is not all about me?”

Not sure anyone thought they were

Does confirm that they are functionally little better than normal people, though. The illiteracy and cretinous behaviour surely puts the nail in the coffin of getting these types to solve big problems (he says wishfully)

All My Sons really is as good as the reviews. And though Cranston is the big noise, it's a 100% ensemble cast.

Such a defeatist Euro attitude.

It’s Americans’ can-do mindset that means they will survive thermonuclear megadeath simply though smiling and good teeth.

We really need to deal with the names thing. Because the lunatics are, to a greater or lesser degree, adolescent in temperament, calling them names just becomes grist to their puerile mill.

I mean I know these people say stuff like this in a desperate attempt to get noticed but...WTAF is wrong with them?

Astonishing false flag carry on from the Far Right...how screwed up do you have to be to spend time and energy doing this?

In the FIFA World Press Awards presumably?

It’s always you girls

Just stay at home and have some babies won’t you and I can go back to feeling superior because I have a Y chromosome

Terrific piece this. Something that Yvette Cooper said the government would do that seems to have fallen by the wayside is to release this data *themselves*, but instead they've seemingly quit the field leaving it only to bad actors (and now, thankfully, Anoosh)

From the set, right? Fairly sure I got them with stamps along with my special coke glasses

Reminded of Blair arguing with question time audiences. No wonder he lost all those elections

Oh hang on

Thank god it’s a 1917 edition. Not one of those shoddy 1915 knives.

The whole situation is *insane* - there's a very active PR machine at work here

Let’s not forget that McDonald was the one who finally precipitated Boris’s downfall

Like most of us the rich tend to build their worldview around their own interests. (Welfare = taxes on me so bad).

But their interests diverge more from the majority than the norm. And they have fewer people around them willing to point out when they're wrong.

@edconway.bsky.social is a legend

Easy to forget that some of the vociferously anti-immigration folks in the 60s and 70s were trade unionists

Great to see this punchy post from the IfG

This appointment is pretty critical for the civil service, and therefore government as a whole. Makes me wonder who’s really up to the task…

It's the new Occam's Razor - if some political argument makes no sense, we should assume it's a consequence of America Brain

Brilliant.

You want to come and talk to our students? Absolutely. See you in Lampeter at 9 sharp

Fair play to Reform, it’s a classic false flag operation they’ve done here, confecting a rejection they can then make a fuss about.

As if there are many (any?) students at Bangor for Sarah Pochin to talk to, assuming she could even be bothered turning up

And then when they are refused entry they can kick off about Reform being exclusionary - and this time it’s be true!

But also: Tom’s definitional point

There’s some polling that Onward did which found the average estimate for migrants entering the country annually to be 70,000

Given some of the gaps in both numeracy and common knowledge, it’s not impossible for this to sit alongside crazy estimates for the %age population being an immigrant

And certainly not in one of his two places of work, ie Clacton

Classic false flag type tactics. Confect a rejection then use the rejection to drive outrage.

Straight out of the 1970s authoritarian manual

Totally. I feel for civil servant friends who have to come in to an office to sit all day on calls with colleagues in different offices bc it’s been explicit policy to distribute civil servants across the country.

Given what royal siblings used to do to one another, Andrew’s getting off lightly

Are you sure. Sounds like English to me