I accept I'm not gonna convince anyone else. But this from the principal funder of the FWS case doesn't immediately strike me as "good faith" so much as straight up playground name-calling...

This is mental, and rancid, and a massive step backwards.

Fun fact for Labour Party members: per the latest rulebook, you're permitted to canvass for (albeit not donate to or share a party with) Count Binface. Anyone up for a summery trip to Clacton? 📋🗑️🙂 labour.org.uk/resources/la...

Sure, Ed Balls is a Blairite and this is absolutely not just the i failing to understand there's a difference between 'Blairite' and 'anyone in Labour to the right of Ed Miliband'😑 Calling Balls a Blairite is Gordon Brown erasure and I simply will not have it.

Good to see thinking about who develops and controls the models we rely on. We need more detail - but sovereign, or at the very least capacity to switch *to* sovereign, LLMs is non-negotiable.

As a home automation nut I was also delighted to see some of these motorised ones in the south of France (Carcasonne) while visiting the other day! (45C did however demand air con in addition to these passive measures...) www.somfy.fr/produits/vol...

Agree with the passive cooling thoughts (I'm a big fan of the massive external wooden shades in the Mediterranean). On the time transfer - sure but it'd be more efficient to do the same time transfer in a power plant. Utility economies of scale are best! www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

I think this would be pretty easily solvable tbh

In part, but even without NIMBYs the growth they require to survive this phase of acceleration demands immediate increase in capacity (eg check out Google's token serve numbers). Fossil fuels are so much quicker and the plants so much denser per kwH.

Live footage of Andy Burnham reacting to our very low net migration figures

It's okay, I actually found a great article from the Migration Observatory on the topic at this madlad's instigation and it's proven informative. I do find the "Blocked by" number kind of wild tho!

I think the questions were far too simplistic to be enlightening. More vibes than what I'd actually prefer policy-wise.

Just one more example, alongside what Jess Phillips and many, many more anonymous ministerial sources have said. We all wanted Keir to succeed - but he's just temperamentally unsuited to political leadership. www.ft.com/content/94aa...

We're halfway through May and it's already above the average for 2025. As the kind of guy who follows open source CVEs religiously: there has 100% been a big spike in high severity ones in the past month.

Yeah tbh I only included back to Mandelson as I'm not familiar with the earlier history so fact checking is harder. But with the standard Claude proviso:

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

This is from Claude so usual caveats apply but the numbers look accurate. The criteria were: personal enrichment and rules have to have been broken.

I think this only applies for *personal* financial scandals. Eg Bernie Ecclestone was £5m, Cash for Honours was nearly £14m

Yeah let's just hope we get the Burnham who did buses rather the one who chickened out of a clean air zone www.ft.com/content/9dd4...

"Supporting a Labour politician making a tilt at the leadership on the basis of a promise to do electoral reform" I'm sure there's no way that can go wrong...

IT IS TIME. MY BODY IS READY. FOR CHAOS. WITH. ED. MILIBAND.

Ohhh I was actually wrong to think Josh Simons going over the top & calling for the PM to go was a sign of being disgruntled at being fired for investigating journalists. It was actually a genius loyalist move; he is so loathed among the 2024 PLP intake that it's actually shored up Keir's position 👏

Ange can complain all she likes, but the NEC is completely controlled by Keir. The only way Andy's getting into Parliament is if Keir consents or gets couped. This is a weak-sauce intervention which will be ignored by a guy arrogant enough to think he can overturn historically bad approval ratings.

Deeply amusing that No 10 could not find *a single backbencher* willing to be named. Can't help but think the only member of the PLP making this argument is called Steir Karmer and he's wearing a pretty unconvincing moustache.

He pledged it in 2020 then cynically dropped it once it no longer served his purposes. There's a video of him at that point accurately explaining the problem with FPTP so he's thought about it to that extent!

Great stuff from @london.gov.uk. This kind of muscular, values-based, inclusive patriotism is the PM's instinct and indeed was something he pursued in his first year. But he let McSweeney persuade him it was better to concede to the far right rather than hold the line. bsky.app/profile/lond...

Ironic that in making the "delegitimising valid concerns" argument, Mahmood herself shuts down critique of her illiberal, unfair policies as illegitimate. Saying she's trying to out-Reform Reform is a policy point; nothing to do with saying she doesn't belong here. Vapid, defensive nonsense.