I’m sure the Starmer statement is well intentioned, fwiw!

God a lot of typos there… but hopefully sentiment captured.

Again, this is not a “Jewish community” issue - this should be something that everyone finds abhorrent. But even Keir Starmer’s statement frames this as an issue that is because the Jews have been complaining again. Kanye puts the emphasis on making amends to Jews. It’s exhausting.

I can have empathy that psychosis is possible and that Kanye has a verifiable mental illness. But hundreds of people facilitated him, they manufactured swastika T-shirts, they were extras and backing singers and producers of his Heil Hitler single and music video. Don’t these people have any morals?

A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…

Nothing sweeter on the evening of Easter Sunday than raiding the fridge-cold remains of Easter eggs which have been crumbled in your children’s sweaty little paws 🪺

Starmer calls for ‘ambitious’ new UK-EU ties as Trump threatens to quit Nato PM to focus on European defence and economic partnership for ‘dangerous world’, in pivot away from US

What exactly could No10 be seeking with Europe? More details in tonight’s story

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Labour MP Karl Turner has had the whip suspended.

I understand several MPs complained about an interview criticising No10 that Turner gave to Jody McIntyre for his X account.

McIntyre is a campaigner who stood against Jess Phillips at the general election in a campaign she heavily criticised.

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

On the podcast this week for a special guest appearance, and I talk a little bit too about the fate of the assisted dying bill - and if it could return, Lazarus-like, in the next session

PM's meeting with energy and shipping bosses seems light on substance - mostly a performative exercise showing the PM has "grip" on the situation with platitudes about government and business "working together" on a situation neither can control in any way.

Yeah I asked it a few days ago to find me a nice pub with a playground on the way to somewhere we are going for easter. It found one brilliant option, three that did not have playgrounds even though it insisted they did, and one that it entirely hallucinated

"The AI can't be the problem, it must be you, stupid human."

Yeah i don't know how to use them but I thought I would see if it could transcribe a clip and it can't. It could just say "I can't transcribe clips like this" but instead it makes things up. That feels like a design error to me but what do I know?

A story in three parts when I tried to see if Gemini could transcribe a Sky News clip of Keir Starmer talking to energy bosses in No10. It insists the clip is of Princess Catherine and then hallucinates a conversation from No10.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

MPs wary of move against Starmer while war is raging Even after electoral disaster, Iran war gives many MPs pause for thought about timing of leadership contest

A week after Labour’s election victory in July 2024, officials at Labour HQ held their first crisis meeting about the May 2026 local elections.

The moment is reckoning is almost here. How will Starmer play the immediate aftermath? Our weekend read here.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How will the Iran war play at the ballot box in May? – podcast Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot look at how the ongoing and deepening conflict in the Middle East will hit people in the UK

🚨 War and bills: How will the Iran conflict play at the ballot box in May? @jessicaelgot.bsky.social & I discuss in our latest #PoliticsWeekly podcast

www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Welcome to the BBC Matt Britton, now to take a big sip of coffee etc

fine, but what are we going to do about social media for boomers?

This is pure Alan Partridge.

A blow to Reform UK which has received about £12m in last year from Thai-based investor Christopher Harborne and other donations from donors based in Monaco.

BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.

Rycroft review looks sensible, but I don't understand why a moratorium on crypto donations to political parties is preferable to a straight ban, not least because a future government could (it looks like) scrap the moratorium whenever it wanted.

Biggest comeback of the year just dropped

White working class voters are not a homogenous political bloc as some would have you believe.

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds Lucy Powell says byelection showed people need a ‘reason’ to vote Labour, as senior figures consider change in strategy

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer's 'Love Actually' moment after insults from Trump.

“A lot of what is said or done is undoubtedly to put pressure on me. I understand what is going on.

“But I am not going to waver on this. I am the British PM and my job is to be absolutely focused on the national interest."

from Fraser Nelson:

Starmer’s ministers look at new economic blueprint to quell voter anger Devolution of tax powers to mayors, scrapping of national insurance and property tax overhaul on report’s menu

Cabinet ministers have been studying a blueprint for Labour to radically overhaul its economic offer and messaging, including devolving tax powers, abolishing national insurance, and major property tax changes.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...