One thing you can be sure of is that Sadiq Khan gets A LOT of interaction on X. Often from its owner, strangely enough.

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT

[mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week]

I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

Typical pie-in-the-sky fantasy economics from the Greens. Everyone knows that, if it becomes less profitable for landlords to offer properties for rent, they will simply knock the houses down so nobody can have them!

Smh, this is basic stuff.

Really frightened that I've engaged the Lathe Of Heaven here.

Jake Humphrey will accidentally say something insanely racist on his High Performance podcast, and instead of apologising, he'll spot the gap in the market, lean into it and run for parliament in Norwich.

I actually sent SEVERAL emails, and signed at least three petitions on change dot org.

You're welcome.

4:00 p.m., markets are closed! Time for the administration to switch from "leaking that negotiations are going good" back to "promising to wipe out 90 million people."

I'm actually as left wing as they come, but since being called a "fucking centrist melt" on BlueSky Dot Social, just because of my job in comms at Southwest Water, I've had no choice but to sign up for HBO Max in time for the HP series.

That's another comrade lost, and it's ON YOU. Do better.

Labour (or at least the few Last-Japanese-Soldiers-On-A-Filipino-Island types still defending them on BlueSky) DO actually have an explanation: it's a conspiracy against them by the right-wing media to discredit Starmer.

Which is darkly comic to hear from them, even if it might be true...

Stella could conceivably have more impact on online harassment campaigns by hiding her husband's phone than she will by writing this article.

And yet US airplanes are leaving UK bases every day on bombing missions to Iran.

Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán – Europe live US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I agree with Stella that online harassment is unacceptable, irrespective of what one thinks of another person's views. But this is famously not an opinion universally held in Stella's household, let alone in the nation as a whole.

Admittedly, that person is probably now Chief Executive of ITV or the Secretary General of OPEC or something, which might ease the pain, but still...

People talk a lot about "nightmare blunt rotation," but someone has really been on the end of a blunt rotation with Delingpole and David Cameron. While listening to Supertramp.

Shudder.

Related: I have been keen to work my way through Delivery Plans and Project Management templates changing "DO" to "DOR," all the way through in the "Responsible Person" column, because the "O" and the "Reilly" ARE DIFFERENT WORDS!

"But it makes the layout less tidy.*

"DON'T CARE. IT'S MY NAME."

In a number of policy areas, Badenoch is further to the right than Farage. However, there's a not-insignificant cohort of Reform voters who will simply never vote for a party led by Kemi Badenoch, any more than they would have voted for a party led by Rishi Sunak.

I've lots of experience of defending unpopular Labour policies and unpopular Labour leaders, and I'm not sure this is a good way to go about it. Just smacks of complacency.

I regret to inform you that this is not displaying the humility and understanding I referenced earlier.

Any explanation of why Labour or Starmer are unpopular that doesn't include a recognition that they've purposely and proudly alienated a key part of their voter coalition, and an action plan to recover it, is kinda just whining.

So the nasty media boys are mean to Mr Forensic. Boo fucking Hoo.

It's possible (although imho unlikely) that Lab's position as the default progressive party in the UK is salvageable, but the party probably needs to display more humility and understanding than they have up until now.

And when I say "they," I also mean, specifically, you. In this post.

The song from their repertoire.

Anyway, where was I?

Oh, yes, you were talking about how the party 4th in the polls in England, (and 5th in Wales) led by the least popular PM since records began, were a remorseless election-winning machine.

Carry on. Good luck in the locals next month!

Season wore on, and the wheels came off, the supporters gradually became too embarrassed to sing it, because, while they were still the reigning league champions, it was pretty clear that their defence of the title was shockingly bad. So they showed uncharacteristic humility in dropping

Let me tell you an anecdote about self-reflection. I'm a Liverpool supporter, and go to the odd game when I can. When I went earlier in the season, when things weren't terrible, the Liverpool supporters would sing "Stand Up For The Champions," because they're the current champions. But as the

Yes. Unquestionably. Asking why the United Kingdom has unquestioningly hitched its wagon to the military adventurism of two rogue states, and arguing that we shouldn't, is unquestionably in the national interest of the United Kingdom. This isn't even hard.

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubrid but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the gods.

Guys, we've actually got one in the wild here! An actual "magic money tree" guy. I thought they were extinct!

(But seriously it looks like the conservation efforts have worked. So well done all.)

"She was suspended from the Labour Party for advocating a change in policy that the actual Labour Prime Minister is now describing as his proudest achievement, so she cannot have been an actual Labour supporter. I am a very intelligent politics understander."

To be fair, I suppose his actual achievements are so limited and unimpressive that he has to look at a mildly good thing the government has done against his will as his greatest one, but jeez-o.