Burnham's behaviour really has been a disgrace over the last couple of weeks. You had to drag something feeble out of Starmer with forceps, but such as it was it appeared. Burnham's just been completely fucking nonchalant.
Jamie K
@crumpsalljamie.bsky.social
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
obligatory reference to Passport to Pimlico here. In the film, if yoiu remember, the newly independent 'principality' immediately got ransacked by spivs and thugs.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 14h agoUnease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
so also with shoplifting, which isn't so much a matter of commercial theft as ordinary customers deciding to go on the rob, encouraged by constantly rising prices and enabled by self-scanning and self-checkout.
Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 2d agoMore Britons are failing to comply what used to be seen as civic obligations. Disparate, sometimes important and sometimes trivial, overlay them and it seems like something has slipped in the relationship with the state
Just to make things clear: Remarkable thread on the extremely weird people running the AI industry
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 3d agoRationalism as a whole is a religious movement. Not everyone takes marching orders. The core people who mostly live together and attend events and especially orgies in Berkeley are a sex cult, and the ones that aren't having any sex are part of the wider movement and are its recruiting funnel.
trying to think of anyone of any prominence in any form of public life, past or present, who ever supported Stoke. Even Vale have Robbie Williams.
Mike Gow 高英智@mikeygow.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s a True Blue Bromance! 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 💙 Up the #NSNO Prime Ministers #Everton
Amongst the crickets who aren't chirping in support of the RNLI are, well, the Royals. I mean, this is a patronage relationship and the patron is suppsed to support his client.
since we're doing this, 9/11 was the day I introduced myself to my half-sister who until that day did not know I existed. She in turn introduced me to the fact that I had two other half siblings of whom I had no knowledge at all. So I was a bit preoccupied that day.
Really looking forward to the cartoonists getting to work on this one!
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w agoThere's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad
a depressing day is enlivened by an account of a cold war fixer, former US Treasury Secretary, and sponsor of both Charles Manson and a scheme to build a Brigadoon theme park in Scotland. Pure Ross Thomas stuff here: reason.com/2026/09/07/r...
Robert Anderson’s Cold War
How Eisenhower’s treasury secretary became a Cold War fixer, intelligence go-between, and a man no one wanted to discuss.
reason.com
They can't be this obtuse. It's policy to appease these goons.
Declan Gaffney@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 2w agoHome Office response to Fascist thugs at Portsmouth, from Grdn.
One of the constants in the Labour elite political outlook is the belief that the UK is an inherently right-wing country that it can only govern through genuflection to reactionary forces. With the collapse of the centre-right this has led to sincere bigotry & catastrophic weakness towards fascism.
Between revelation and enforcement there's an intermission where the relevant organs have to work out whether it's a case of 'protect but does not bind' or the reverse.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Electoral Commission has a responsibility to assess apparent breaches. It can also - if it identifies a potential criminal offence - notify the police. The media statement is simply an inaccurate statement about the responsibilities of the electoral commission + the police
one reason I'm secptical about all the AI health miracle stuff, apart from it sounding like panic PR, is the fact that it comes from an industry headed by the sort of people who think that disease usefully thins out the unproductive from the herd of human biomass.
Running Dog@runningdog.bsky.social · 3w agoNot superhuman though is it, it literally computer www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
test for Andy: somebody ask him what that large body of water between New York State and Canada is called.
Julie briefly burst into tears when I told her. But not unhappily. It was just the necessary thing to do.
We know all the classic lines (“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”), but I fondly remember her being on TFI Friday and someone in the audience shouting “I love you, Dolly”. An immaculate pause and: “Oh, honey. I told you to wait in the truck”
"I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now"
Beefeater Fella@beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 4w ago🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK Prime Minister Burnham played a Smiths song on guitar with Ukrainian soldiers during his first overseas trip as PM. They performed an Oasis song for him in return.
what do you suppose British politicians would have done if confronted with a similar set of demands to Carney? Literally *everyone* on the right would not only have folded but have gone full Petain. Starmer too. Burnham...I'd like to think not, but I'm not completely sure.
would be kind of funny if Meghan and Harry turned up in Devon with 20,000 heavily armed Dutchmen.
thinking about this adhd business, having briefly experimented with amphetamines for, uh, recreational purposes, if that stuff makes you calmer,more purposeful and better able to organise your thoughts then you are truly wired differently.
my recurring worries about Israel's nukes cluster around Israel starting a shooting war with Turkey in Syria and getting the worst of it.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last mo.Sooner or later the fundamental irrationalism of placing Israel's insatiable desire for total military primacy in the region at the center of our raison d'être in MENA has to face the music that we have other, more substantial and logical interests.
