Michael
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was trying to find this post so I googled “tweet about pride but it’s an orange walk”, and google’s crap AI took it as an instruction
What, specifically, does this government believe it has done to “improv[e] LGBT+ healthcare”?
by the way, it is absolutely shameful that it took a month and this woman going public with more details than she wanted to share when the behaviour she had already described, alongside that described by several others, was extremely clearly disqualifying. screenshot from the early June NYT piece:
this should lead to him dropping out and the party establishment figures who endorsed him withdrawing those endorsements
NB deleted this post because the person I had screenshotted deleted theirs and it didn’t feel fair to leave it up getting loads of reposts
the government not “tackling the profiteering utility companies” is a really dumb attack line but at least it’s one they completely invited on themselves by talking this up as a real thing at the outset of the world’s most easily explainable energy price shock
I think it’s a bad sign for Polanski if, unlike someone like Mamdani, he feels unable to explain his own position and trust his supporters to get it.
Kate Forbes participated in a question and answer session on "the challenge of leading with integrity". Challenging indeed.
obviously the number one problem with the Mandelson appointment was the moral failure in not seeing why he was unacceptable and number two was not sufficiently anticipating the political risk associated with number one. but also: why were they so convinced he would get an amazing deal from Trump?
This is just so shameful. Labour overtook the Tories in the polling average before the end of 2021 and had a consistently huge lead from autumn 2022. How dare they say “oh, we were so busy planning to lose that we forgot to plan what we’d do after winning” about an election in 2024?
This is the worst answer she gives in the interview for my money. The instinct, when confronted with a hard trade-off on the matter at hand, to say “well, this wouldn’t be a problem if we fixed a separate huge expensive problem” is one I’d associate with tankies on Twitter, not the head of the EHRC.
we can all breathe a sigh of relief: the Scottish Parliament website gender search functionality has been partly restored. please stay tuned to BBC Scotland for a future write-up of how it doesn’t call any trans MSPs men and therefore is unacceptable
I am not an AI hater but I think it’s really dumb for news organisations to put AI summaries of their own articles above the actual text, especially when those summaries can easily be wrong. (Pat McFadden has never been Energy Secretary!)
PS if RuPaul wasn’t a coward that Super Bass lip sync would have used the Glee version
“if we’d voted for Jeremy Corbyn there wouldn’t be any war with Russia” “because Ukraine would have won, right?” “…” “because Ukraine would have won, right?”
Good column and I agree with Robert that Miliband is the choice Burnham would make if he is confident. This quote from a minister stood out - it’s luridly over the top. These people need a reality check.
pleasantly surprised to see a Cabinet member willing to be robust on this. hope it’s a sign of more to come.
Rachel Reeves has not taken the right decisions to fix the country *or* get Labour re-elected and her former staff going out to moan about how it’s all the PLP’s fault are contemptible