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
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people on here will tweet anything. "Al Carns is a potential Labour leadership dark horse". No he isn't. That isn't true.
February 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
people on here will tweet anything. "Al Carns is a potential Labour leadership dark horse". No he isn't. That isn't true.
I find it astonishing no one has gone “is the Labour membership gonna vote for this”. Morgan McS’s experience of the 4.5% liz for leader result at least led to Keir’s 2020… shall we say liberality with the connection between pledges and later policy?
RIP the hypothetical Al Carns leadership bid
To include "a much tougher stance on immigration"!
1. What is the content of how Labour could be much tougher than Home Sec Shabana Mahmood?
2. How is that viable in a leadership election? Or with Labour voters?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
To include "a much tougher stance on immigration"!
1. What is the content of how Labour could be much tougher than Home Sec Shabana Mahmood?
2. How is that viable in a leadership election? Or with Labour voters?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
A surprise candidate to replace Starmer could neutralise Farage’s voter appeal
With the prime minister rumoured to be ‘in a dark place’ and considering quitting over the Mandelson scandal, political editor David Maddox looks at the possible replacements, including a rapidly eme...
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I find it astonishing no one has gone “is the Labour membership gonna vote for this”. Morgan McS’s experience of the 4.5% liz for leader result at least led to Keir’s 2020… shall we say liberality with the connection between pledges and later policy?
Built 2day might dismantle l8r
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Built 2day might dismantle l8r
My old man yells at cloud view is that the British *don’t* talk about the weather enough. My work mates were _surprised_ when I said it’s been a month of nonstop rain. The weather’s been shit! Why aren’t we complaining more!
In what is now very quickly approaching 4 weeks #London Heathrow has only seen 3 days without any rain in that time. Wet.
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
My old man yells at cloud view is that the British *don’t* talk about the weather enough. My work mates were _surprised_ when I said it’s been a month of nonstop rain. The weather’s been shit! Why aren’t we complaining more!
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"Of course I'm frustrated that the front pages of tomorrow's papers aren't going to be about the Pride in Place Project" diva the front pages were never going to be about the Pride in Place Project
February 5, 2026 at 11:46 AM
"Of course I'm frustrated that the front pages of tomorrow's papers aren't going to be about the Pride in Place Project" diva the front pages were never going to be about the Pride in Place Project
I too believe this is the moment senior politicians should stand up and say how the Labour Party needs to change
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I too believe this is the moment senior politicians should stand up and say how the Labour Party needs to change
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As a devotee of the Lynton Crosby school of dark arts (go Roos), what Keir needs now is a dead cat to distract from the Mandelson "unpleasantness".
I'd suggest he sets up a brand new government department, say for instance one dedicated to supporting UK culture, media and sport.
I'd suggest he sets up a brand new government department, say for instance one dedicated to supporting UK culture, media and sport.
February 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
As a devotee of the Lynton Crosby school of dark arts (go Roos), what Keir needs now is a dead cat to distract from the Mandelson "unpleasantness".
I'd suggest he sets up a brand new government department, say for instance one dedicated to supporting UK culture, media and sport.
I'd suggest he sets up a brand new government department, say for instance one dedicated to supporting UK culture, media and sport.