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The Australian and Canadian results are reminders that, yes, you do need to compromise with the electorate to win, but you also need to be willing to stick down lines in the sand and say 'this is what we believe in' on some things. That is a lesson that our own government could do with learning.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Whatever you think of Harry or the royal family, it’s pretty unprofessional to start doing an impression of him while you’re supposed to be interviewing him.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

People have to go different places, and especially outside London, public transport is beyond dire. Cardiff council have done their best to make it a pain to drive in town, and I will still choose that as an option, because it’s so much better than getting the bus here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh absolutely fuck offfffff

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

For what little it's worth, my contribution to this morning's "here's why today's result proves how I was right all along" discourse is that it feels increasingly clear to me they should have reversed the NI cuts and gone all out on trying to fix public services.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Not a political strategist, but one lesson Labour might take from this litmus test of their platform is that the efforts they are making to lessen the political cost of doing difficult but necessary things aren’t, in fact, doing that. But it is muddling the message & stymying the pace of progress.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

as always with this guy, "alleged Nazi sympathiser" is extremely funny paired with the picture

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a bad search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Well that's Polygon immediately out of my rotation www.thewrap.com/polygon-layo...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“Westminster” is it, aye. “Westminster”. I wonder who was in charge of “Westminster” in the years you identify. Ah well, I’m sure we can’t identify them - perhaps we’ll never know! - so let’s blame “Westminster” as a whole.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Would depositing the world’s largest straw man in the middle of the discourse count as fly-tipping? Asking for a friend.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 4 days ago • 977 comments

No doubt it would be electorally popular if Labour were able to 'deliver' public service improvements without further broad-based tax rises, openness to immigration, closeness to the EU, or openness to global trade more broadly. But that fact does not impose an obligation on the universe.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

don't want to beef with the specific person who posted this but don't understand why so many people are reluctant to understand that, actually, to quite a lot of people, the idea of just staying at home alone all week fucking sucks? wanting to leave the house and talk to people is normal!

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

temu addicts hardest hit

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

This is an absolute dogshit study, with “findings” being massively over-reported despite immense shortcomings and limitations. BBC have an article, and they practically debunk it… but really deep in the article.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer's bending over backwards for these people and it will never be enough for them. They're your political enemies, start treating them as such!

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Oh by the way she's still not happy (and never will be) - sadly has enough money to make it everyone's problem. Common theme!

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

As a Labour MP Clive should probably be aware that Labour launched a major crackdown on tax avoidance during the Spring Statement. So, I guess, he's trying to support the govt here? Or just being a idiot. One or the other.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

submitted 7 days ago • 189 comments

Absolutely fucking insane, evil, and obviously unworkable. What inept evil fucker came up with this shit?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The EHRC have been taken oven by rancid, vile transphobes who are seeking to actively harm trans people. This is revolting, and I’m deeply concerned that the government haven’t taken this as an opportunity to legislate to protect trans people.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

he’s right and he’s right to say it

submitted 9 days ago • 274 comments

Continue to think there is so much sticking heads in the sand around this in left-of-centre discourse which is going to look painfully outmoded within months let alone years

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

There are times when a decent person would quit rather than preside over a sick farce. This is one of those times.

submitted 10 days ago • 111 comments

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this incredible news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 12 days ago • 817 comments

MPs should be allowed second jobs, at least to some extent, because many professions we’d actually want MPs from have re-registration requirements and MP candidates shouldn’t feel they’re risking their entire future career for what could be a tiny stint in Parliament.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

This is why the man is impossible to deal with. Changes his bloody mind (and in potentially any direction!) at the drop of a hat and is as liable to do it on big strategic decisions that usually require months of thought and planning as 'what shall I ask the chef to cook for me tonight'.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

the one silver lining to all of this is seeing this parade of dipshits get their just desserts

submitted 24 days ago • 440 comments

has hell frozen over???

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments