Nathan
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Oh, they're not in a good financial position at all in the medium term IMO, but they still have far more resources than anyone else in the sector. Paradoxically they're probably too big to be effective.
Why is the Green GM mayoral candidate criticising Burnham and then calling herself 'a key Burnham ally' in the next paragraph???
For instance, the constituency where I grew up. Reform tapping into a right-wing vote that the Tories had previously failed to reach, but could they win it? I'd say probably not. (Of course, much of the Labour fall here is down to Muslim voters having been alienated by Keir's position on Gaza)
For the Americans, we do have a *handful* of good affordable Mexican restaurants here, it's not all Tex-Mex and burritos. These chicken enchiladas with black mole were delicious.
Transphobia is such a fascinating disease. Possibly the most sanctimonious and sophistry-prone form of bigotry around at the moment.
Yes and Labour came very close to winning Harwich & North Essex in 2024! Speaking of which, that constituency almost looks as if it's been gerrymandered
What do you mean, "for over seven decades..."? – ITV as an organisation has existed for little more than two!
The world may be a mess, but this morning I have come home to my dear old out-of-tune piano which Iearnt to play on, so for a brief moment all is right with the world
Housing starts plummeted in 2023 and have failed to recover since then. Tell me what's more plausible: a sudden, unprecedented outbreak of NIMBYism, or builders responding rationally to changed financial conditions.
The weird thing is that her 2017 song The Rarest Birds is kind of a trans anthem? open.spotify.com/track/79Z0D1...
Lol the one that surprises me the most here is actually "Foreign Affairs & Defence", because those are not policy areas I'm particularly knowledgeable about
Sometimes people are surprised by how statist I sound when talking about UK housing policy given my other political views, but at the end of the day it comes down to having seen this graph. I mean, just look at it.
Yep – see this other post, in which the author seems to have forgotten that aeroplanes exist
Guys, you should see the bizarre variant of devolution/localism discourse that's happening over on X
I don't think @stephenkb.bsky.social would agree with me here, but in my view the post-1960s habit of periodically trying to unite cities and their peripheries within a single structure has actually *exacerbated* this political dynamic.
Fantastic cover story from the FT bringing to light something from the ERA that had passed me by. 'Labour grants unfair dismissal rights to employees earning >£123,543' is one of those things about this government which makes me go, what??? Why???
Now reading @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social piece on a decade of covering Andy Burnham. First thing that jumps out at me is that this 'fielding the biggest names' for metro mayors thing has never really gone anywhere. It really is just Andy who's done it.
A relatively sane person I know who has stayed on X has ended up reposting nonsense like this:
What a thoroughly unpleasant individual. This platform is great in many ways, but one way it differs from X is in the number of people who are seemingly unable to read and will start hurling abuse at you for no apparent reason
Fascinating to learn that even in a country that has gained more than most from being in the European single market and has seen an unprecedented rise in living standards in the past 20 years, there are people making the "far-right success is because of the economy" argument! Incredible
6) "Be brave, Oscar! Think of the publicity. Who knows, the British Council may forgive you and book you on a forthcoming tour!" Lmfao what
I take the point that is being made here, but I think that the broader lesson is that our highest appeal courts are not supposed to be politicised, don't want to be politicised, and therefore will try to avoid coming into conflict with the parliamentary majority wherever possible.