Sorry this has stuck in my mind.
UK & EU oil and gas lobby: „is the speed of transition appropriate? Should we focus on our resources ahead of importing energy while building battery capacity?”
US „think-tanker” but really republican politician: „but what if world most _toasty_ good?!?!”
UK & EU oil and gas lobby: „is the speed of transition appropriate? Should we focus on our resources ahead of importing energy while building battery capacity?”
US „think-tanker” but really republican politician: „but what if world most _toasty_ good?!?!”
One think that *does* always strike me is that the posher these interviewees sound, the stupider they are. „Some people like it warmer”
I’m sorry but #r4today is currently interviewing someone sanewashing the anti-climate change moves by Trump (Diana Furchtgott-Roth, I think?) who is a *longstanding politician* and naming her as if she was a thinktanker and not really pushing back on lines like „a lot of people like it warmer”
February 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Sorry this has stuck in my mind.
UK & EU oil and gas lobby: „is the speed of transition appropriate? Should we focus on our resources ahead of importing energy while building battery capacity?”
US „think-tanker” but really republican politician: „but what if world most _toasty_ good?!?!”
UK & EU oil and gas lobby: „is the speed of transition appropriate? Should we focus on our resources ahead of importing energy while building battery capacity?”
US „think-tanker” but really republican politician: „but what if world most _toasty_ good?!?!”
One think that *does* always strike me is that the posher these interviewees sound, the stupider they are. „Some people like it warmer”
I’m sorry but #r4today is currently interviewing someone sanewashing the anti-climate change moves by Trump (Diana Furchtgott-Roth, I think?) who is a *longstanding politician* and naming her as if she was a thinktanker and not really pushing back on lines like „a lot of people like it warmer”
February 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
One think that *does* always strike me is that the posher these interviewees sound, the stupider they are. „Some people like it warmer”
I’m sorry but #r4today is currently interviewing someone sanewashing the anti-climate change moves by Trump (Diana Furchtgott-Roth, I think?) who is a *longstanding politician* and naming her as if she was a thinktanker and not really pushing back on lines like „a lot of people like it warmer”
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I’m sorry but #r4today is currently interviewing someone sanewashing the anti-climate change moves by Trump (Diana Furchtgott-Roth, I think?) who is a *longstanding politician* and naming her as if she was a thinktanker and not really pushing back on lines like „a lot of people like it warmer”
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This is what makes us a great country, right here.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
This is what makes us a great country, right here.
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Ah yes, The Witcher
I’m watching a Polish crime drama on Netflix. The police are corrupt, the mayor is in the pocket of the mob, nothing works, everyone smokes too much, there’s something horrible buried in the woods and the guilt of the nation’s past hangs over everyone like a rotting shroud. Five stars.
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Ah yes, The Witcher
Tbf not quite as stupid as the Polish equivalent, which is „licence fee but only 35% of TV users pay it but also the public broadcaster does ads”
No one's going to like this but the UK TV licence fee really is a stupid concept. Presuming you accept the notion that public broadcasting /needs/ a hypothecated stream of income there is really a much more normal way of doing it and it is just reserving a percentage of your taxes.
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Tbf not quite as stupid as the Polish equivalent, which is „licence fee but only 35% of TV users pay it but also the public broadcaster does ads”
Tbf not quite as stupid as the Polish equivalent, which is „licence fee but only 35% of TV users pay it but also the public broadcaster does ads”
No one's going to like this but the UK TV licence fee really is a stupid concept. Presuming you accept the notion that public broadcasting /needs/ a hypothecated stream of income there is really a much more normal way of doing it and it is just reserving a percentage of your taxes.
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Tbf not quite as stupid as the Polish equivalent, which is „licence fee but only 35% of TV users pay it but also the public broadcaster does ads”
Do we reckon it’s ever going to stop raining or nah
February 11, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Do we reckon it’s ever going to stop raining or nah
Passed this so sadly can’t blame SKSQC for failure
I have a (not major but still) professional qualification exam tomorrow, could they hit pause till like 2PM tomorrow
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Passed this so sadly can’t blame SKSQC for failure
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If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.
300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR
The consultation closes on Thursday. What is being proposed is dreadful. Can I encourage you to engage with the consultation and put your dissent on record?
The consultation closes on Thursday. What is being proposed is dreadful. Can I encourage you to engage with the consultation and put your dissent on record?
February 10, 2026 at 7:23 AM
If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.
Nvm just one more tightening of ILR and the Starmer premiership’s legacy is saved
February 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Nvm just one more tightening of ILR and the Starmer premiership’s legacy is saved
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Listening to Matt Chorley's show and Patrick Maguire on there hit it right - none of the contenders are ready and organised. All a bit dramatic today but I reckon Starmer stays for now.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Listening to Matt Chorley's show and Patrick Maguire on there hit it right - none of the contenders are ready and organised. All a bit dramatic today but I reckon Starmer stays for now.
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Okay, yeah, I may have got a bit overexcited in claiming I was 99% certain he'll be gone by Wednesday
I do think that the Anas Sarwar press conference was just too nakedly cynical to be effective, frankly.
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Okay, yeah, I may have got a bit overexcited in claiming I was 99% certain he'll be gone by Wednesday
I’d settle for warmed-up Milibandism with a side dose of social liberalism tbqh, but I am a Labour member
The reason why the Labour party wants a new leader is that the polls and local elections both put them on the brink of death, the policy agenda is a mess of warmed-over Milibandism pared with hypocritical social conservativism and no obvious route to the upside.
February 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I’d settle for warmed-up Milibandism with a side dose of social liberalism tbqh, but I am a Labour member
The by-election in Holborn and St Pancras will be fascinating
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The by-election in Holborn and St Pancras will be fascinating
I have a (not major but still) professional qualification exam tomorrow, could they hit pause till like 2PM tomorrow
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I have a (not major but still) professional qualification exam tomorrow, could they hit pause till like 2PM tomorrow
Lads what if it’s all just long term thinking and Shabana “Tough as nails on immigration” Mahmood is going to be elected by the Labour membership to stamp out uber-woke rejoinerism
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Lads what if it’s all just long term thinking and Shabana “Tough as nails on immigration” Mahmood is going to be elected by the Labour membership to stamp out uber-woke rejoinerism
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Make this the new Rumsfeld 'known knowns' thing please.
“A communications professional is only as good as the communications that they are communicating.”
Thanks Chris.
Thanks Chris.
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Make this the new Rumsfeld 'known knowns' thing please.
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The resignations will continue until morale improves.
Tim Allan, Keir Starmer’s director of communications, has just quit his Downing Street role:
“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."
“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."
February 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
The resignations will continue until morale improves.
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The remarkable thing is Labour have basically made 'anti-child poverty' and 'climate change' the two core missions or this Government and...
... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.
... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.
This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.
…as well as being supported by the vast majority of Lab/Lib/Gn voters, almost all Labour MPs, a 2-1 majority of voters overall and – even now – a healthy majority of Con voters
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The remarkable thing is Labour have basically made 'anti-child poverty' and 'climate change' the two core missions or this Government and...
... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.
... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.
I’m sorry but “the Prime Minister has not spoken to the minister going on the morning round to take the flak for a major scandal from a decision by the Prime Minister” is BoJo behaviour and Keir was elected, apart from anything else, to not be BoJo
February 9, 2026 at 8:34 AM
I’m sorry but “the Prime Minister has not spoken to the minister going on the morning round to take the flak for a major scandal from a decision by the Prime Minister” is BoJo behaviour and Keir was elected, apart from anything else, to not be BoJo
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The government is spending tens of billions of pounds on net zero! The government is softening Brexit! The government is consulting on getting every business to do ethnicity pay gap reporting!
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The government is spending tens of billions of pounds on net zero! The government is softening Brexit! The government is consulting on getting every business to do ethnicity pay gap reporting!
Again, why do our MPs hate our electoral coalition *so much*
I’m guessing that the person complaining about ‘uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism’ will be joining Reform at some point in the next few years
Yes, god help we risk a floundering government that feels like no one is in charge.
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Again, why do our MPs hate our electoral coalition *so much*
Perhaps one of these might, in their Wesdom, go for Chx instead
(I have no knowledge just really been wanting to make that particular bad joke for days)
(I have no knowledge just really been wanting to make that particular bad joke for days)
Ed Miliband backed into second favourite to be next leader on Betfair, now has marginally shorter odds than Wes Streeting.
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Perhaps one of these might, in their Wesdom, go for Chx instead
(I have no knowledge just really been wanting to make that particular bad joke for days)
(I have no knowledge just really been wanting to make that particular bad joke for days)
Same rule as PRs, publicists, spokespeople etc. If you’re the story there’s a problem
As Jonathan Powell wrote in his terrific book: “for the first few years, the press didn’t even have a photo of me”.
Boring opinion: if people know the name of the Downing Street Chief of Staff, the CoS is not doing a good job.
February 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Same rule as PRs, publicists, spokespeople etc. If you’re the story there’s a problem