Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 9h ago

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

Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds.

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

politico.eu

Most of Burnham’s ambitions are admirable. What’s missing is a policy road-map/resources. The danger is that a yawning gap between rhetoric and reality simply turns tightens further the ratchet of public cynicism …

Institute for Government@instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 6d ago

Burnham can’t take the politics out of social care reform Andy Burnham's pledge to tackle social care is an encouraging, though familiar, commitment, but he will need to face some very difficult choices to succeed says @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/burn...

Badenoch says the UK's net zero policies have raised emissions. Obviously this is false.

There's a favourite adage among richly paid management consultants who do their working from home at my local sports club: More AI=more pool time. www.ft.com/content/7e14...

PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations

Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

ft.com

And been seen by thousands of British visitors including school children who won’t probably get the same “Norman” experience at the BM

I saw it there a few years ago while on holiday. Didn’t have to book in advance.

All the hyped hype about Bayeux tapestry viewing at BM seems to miss fact that this wonderful artefact has been readily on display in Bayeux for past 40 years .. yes it’s the same tapestry ..

Britain's TikTok PM certainly energetic. So far we know he will provide: - good growth in every postcode - political power ditto - 1m council houses plus - end graduate/blue collar divide - end social care crisis - reequip armed forces All, save a few tweaks, by sticking to Starmer's policies

PM: "From today Britain will value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap" Hope everyone's got that.

"The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it" - French mission to the UN

François Heisbourg@fheisbourg.bsky.social · last wk.

US walkout at UN Security Council: When the US votes with North Korea and Nicaragua, the US UN ambassador can't bear to hear the French PermRep making remarks on that realty

Nice sketch on the truly sensational BBC interview with Britains new PM …I mean what a scoop! Has Andy Burnham been avoiding the media because he has nothing to say? www.thetimes.com/article/8bdc...

I an willing to help with the washing up but without using my hands. Or soap. Or water www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care

In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.

bbc.co.uk

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

Exactly. Creeps like Mark Zuckerberg know exactly that people are doing with their pervert glasses, it‘s a race to the bottom with these goons

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

Kerry man generous in defeat …after 75 years and a performance that showed all its ospirit Mayo back it it’s rightfully place in Irish football ..the angels are singing ….only wish I was lifting a Guinness in Kiltimagh!

Ben Fenton@benfenton.bsky.social · last wk.

@philipstephens.bsky.social Congratulations, Phil. They were the better team and to beat this Kerry team they needed to beat history too. Fantastic game. I am not glad they won because I am a Kerry man, but it is such a moment for the game. Really pleased for you and yours.

Anyone looking for serious insights into Burnham’s character need only read the @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social pieces in the FT …can then ignore all the Westminster hype and fluff about the “meaning” of the new PM

"The decision to freeze the account of a political party has no known precedent in modern times." www.thetimes.com/article/48c9...

Reform UK’s bank account was frozen after Cottrell donations

Nigel Farage’s party could not make or receive payments for two weeks during the 2024 general election campaign, The Sunday Times can reveal

thetimes.com

Truly ridiculous hype from BBC news about Burnham interview “the scoop everyone was scrabbling for …the very first SIT DOWN interview with the PM ..” Wow!

If you want genuine Hollywood classicism I’d recommend Kubrick’s Spartacus over the rather lame and overlong Odysseus …

It’s been a long wait but tomorrow afternoon Mayo will right the wrongs of 75 years…

19th century Birmingham is a better model than 21st century Manchester. Some thoughts in the FT about Burnham's devolution plans www.ft.com/content/aba1...

The Victorians have some lessons for Burnham on radical devolution

Britain needs the social and economic glue of local power

ft.com

Really cool that the FT is re-running commenorative articles from the archives from this time 50 years ago on its front page

a dispatch from yesterday’s slightly bizarre day in Albert sq as.ft.com/r/39686fc3-0...

Number 10 North is no ‘gimmick’, says Andy Burnham

Prime minister remains insistent that new Manchester office sends a more important signal to rest of the country

as.ft.com

A few words in praise of Bluesky because without it I wouldn't have known about these books, all of which I enjoyed reading. My thanks to @helenebismarck.bsky.social @philipstephens.bsky.social and @rorycarroll72.bsky.social for taking the time and effort to write them.

How many times have a read the empty phrase that Burnham will "do politics differently"......

Excellent piece from somehow who knows Japan www.ft.com/content/397c...

Japan awakes

Why 1 per cent interest rates could shake everything up after a generation of deflation

ft.com

Cambridge graduate who has spent entire working life in politics establishes his working class credentials.....Hmmm

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am an eternal optimist...

Mapping the constituencies of the cabinet if bseems Burnham already given up on the English Home Counties …not too comfortable for the 60 odd Labour MPs in the south outside London … but an opportunity maybe for Ed Davey

So Burnham begins with a Soviet-style cabinet purge …interesting demonstration of promised consensual style