Perhaps people would be more likely to consider this as a genuine economic phenomenon if it came from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair rather than the celebrated author of popular fantasy novels Terry Pratchett. www.abc.net.au/news/2007-06...

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

the most ridiculous thing about the neo-nazi-tory-candidate row is that the Liberal Democrats are going to win that council seat anyway so I'm not sure why so many people are prepared to put their reputation on the line in favour of a weirdo who will probably finish second or third

Thought Bluesky would appreciate the t-shirt my friend made to go see the Nick Cave gig in Brighton on Friday.

This is quite the leap from May 2018 when the Conservative party was sending feverish emails to their members warning that a Corbyn-led Labour gaining council seats would result in “Bolsheviks in charge of your bins”

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 13h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Obvs the most interesting bit is the striking image of Peston and Balls forming an indie covers band but it doesn't mention that two 90s britpop musicians (Dave Rowntree from Blur & Tom Grey from Gomez) unsuccessfully stood as Labour candidates in the last election

Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 5d ago

www.economist.com/britain/2026... Wrote about our indie music loving elite and how Burnham is...just another 50-something bloke interested in the exactly same thing as others of his generation

yrrem samtsirhc!

Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 5d ago

Agir!

- What did Tony Blair eat at Granita? (We know Gordy didn't eat anything but went to Labour HQ to eat a steak afterwards, but there are no records of what Tony ate) - What brand of cigarettes does Michael Gove smoke? (We know they're Marlboro but no indication as to whether they're lights or reds)

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d ago

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

Keep thinking of this & can't get over the implication that leaders of major parties can't "tour the rest of the country" during an election campaign because they're worried they might lose their seat. The only party leader who's lost their seat in modern times is Swinson & she very much had a bus!

Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 7d ago

Kind of a mental line from Farage on why it's so good for him to be fighting the Clacton by-election. Reform shouldn't ever have needed to be seriously fighting Clacton at the next general election if they were remotely on track to be the next opposition, let alone the government?

this might be an unpopular opinion but I genuinely think we should teach kids about ancient computers and how to use them, they should know how to type in commands into a dos prompt and where the folders are in the c:\ drive, plus maybe how to do a formula in excel

Dave Bulmer@demontomatodave.bsky.social · last wk.

In 1998 our IS ("Information Systems") textbooks claimed that while tape was the most used form of storage, someone had invented something called a "hard disk" to allow storage of up to 5 megabytes (half the size of one of my favourite Amiga games from five years prior) This photo of it was inset

ok so I have personal experience of this because when I was a kid my dad burned a naan when trying to heat it up and threw it out into the garden in frustration and it frisbeed over the fence into our neighbours garden who were having a nice glass of wine until a charred naan landed in front of them

Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally, someone asking the important questions

@neillcameron.bsky.social thought you might appreciate Spronky's guest appearance on a home-made birthday card.

the Beano have form on this. You knew Keir Starmer was on his way out by the time they ran this bit.

Philip Cowley@philipjcowley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ft an unrecognisable Speaker

Help me out bluesky, this claim is from the Sun's report of Starmer's farewell pints and I really need to see a picture of the "STARMER SOLID" t-shirts. Does anyone have one?

four sevenths of these people are now in the cabinet and another one is the PM's chief of staff

oneoneoneone@oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Burnham's victory has reminded me that it's nearly ten years since this NS piece. Where are they now?* *International Rescue/Good Morning Britain/Energy Sec/Foreign Sec/Scotland Sec/?????/Flint Global

was about to say this is Nadhim Zahawi erasure but Zahawi was chancellor for such a short time he never delivered a budget. not quite up there with Grant Shapps finally getting to hold a great office of state for just six days but pretty close

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 2w ago

Hope that John Healey follows Rachel Reeves' example and mentions at every opportunity that he's the first bald man to deliver a Budget in 50 years, giving hope to men up and down the country by showing that hair loss is no barrier to their dreams.

North Korea is led by a Manchester United fan whilst the Catholic Church is led by a Real Madrid fan

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2w ago

Both the UK and Canada are now led by Everton Fans. London is led by a Liverpool fan. New York is led by an Arsenal fan.

the best no 10 lectern was Gordon Brown's which looked like he'd just wheeled it out of a conference room in a mid-range hotel, all the other ones are trying way too hard

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is no lecturn for andy burnham

no shade on my local pub but they've just posted this on Instagram and their "we only missed one game" line has serious "thank you David Miliband for your second preference" vibes

On the occasion of Sir Keir Starmer's last ever PMQs I thought I should perhaps share some of my favourite goofy Starmer photos that I've collected over the years. Here he is getting a haircut when hairdressers reopened during Covid

in my first ever bar job I was going down to the cellar to get more ice and made a joke about how dangerous it is to fly it in from the north pole and everyone looked at me like I was a complete idiot and pointed out that you could just make it in a big freezing machine

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s the cultural reference you must frequently have to stop yourself from making at work, because no-one else would get it? Mine is “ze price stabilité is ze most important thing”.

genuinely love the idea that left-wingers are going to watch godzilla performing a ridiculous flying kick on megalon and tut and say "sadly this doesn't contain a moral message about the dangers of the atom bomb, i cannot enjoy it"

Godzilla vs. Megalon: Kaiju Battle

Alt: Godzilla performing a completely ridiculous flying kick on Megalon

static.klipy.com

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 4w ago

I watch Godzilla to watch him drop kick other Kaiju and fuck shit up what in the fuck are you talking about man

loath to get into bin discourse but firstly it is not a "bin style helmet" it is his face, something that is clearly implied by his name, and secondly I don't think the bin-suit is armour.

Jack Blackburn@hackblackburn.bsky.social · 4w ago

The (I hope) definitive update on what Binface can wear in the Commons is in today’s @thetimes.com diary

This has reminded me that many years ago I wrote a terrible poem about Ann Widdecombe going on Strictly called Rehabilitating Right-Wingers Through The Medium Of Dance

By becoming Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, Farage joins former office holders Peter Mandelson, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Owen Paterson, Enoch Powell, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Gerry Adams, Chris Pincher and fellow Clacton MP Douglas Carswell.

Mark@quigonsmith.bsky.social · 4w ago

🔥

this raises the distinct possibility that kemi is somehow going to be encouraging a bunch of elderly and demoralised Clacton tory activists to go knock doors for a man with a bin on his head

Hughster@hughster.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fair play, perhaps the funniest thing she's done

No British novelty political candidate can hold a candle to the 2024 attempt to get the 700,000 year old glacier Snæfellsjökull to become the president of Iceland on the basis that it qualified being at least 35 years old, hold Icelandic citizenship, and have no criminal record. (It didn't work)

personally I think novelty political candidates are broadly a bit silly and rarely funny but there is something very funny about a politician mired in corruption forcing a byelection on "the people vs the establishment" and finding out that their only opponent is a goof dressed as a giant bin

Votez pour le escroc, qui est aussi le fasciste.

Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 4w ago

Marine Le Pen can run in the presidential election next year, but must wear an electronic tag.

this has reminded me of when those lions got Covid and I mentioned it on a zoom call with my family and my parents spent most of the rest of the call wondering how you get the test swab up a lion's nose safely

Ok so I'm now intrigued by this. Rees-Mogg got into trouble during Covid for travelling 15 miles to go to church specifically because he wanted to attend a Latin mass, which is something that is very SSPX coded (but not necessarily SSPX)

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · last mo.

I don't usually want to know what Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks of anything but I feel struck by a sudden fancy to know what he thinks of the Schism.