Sub-skeeting everyone in UK political Bluesky here, but: the big story is that the government has been in power for around 71 days and the next election won't be for at least 1300 days, and frankly any takes about the polls, the government's strategy are premature at best or downright wrong at worst

Really important stuff from OBR:

"We find a sustained 1 per cent of GDP increase in public investment could plausibly increase the level of potential output by just under ½ a percent after five years and around 2½ per cent in the long run (50 years)."

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Let me shock you - John Gray has written his article again. And the New Statesman has published it. He gets paid, subscribers get charged. The circle of life. World class grift.

On reports of friction inside Starmer's Downing Street and what they indicate about a deeper, structural flaw in the way we are governed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

rah is emptying the dishwasher and singing a show-tune style song that includes the lyrics: “I’m putting shit away…. I’m putting shit away in a logical place! I’m putting the shit away!!”

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

i would love to become bitter and acidic but im worried somebody would use me to bring complexity to an elevated dessert

I saw your man today. Well I didn't see him but my sword Idiotbane started bucking in its scabbard.

Joe Strummer realizing he’s good at the guitar: Oh thank God

DOCENT: actually, sir, during the time when he completed Guernica what Picasso was smoking was the horror and brutality of the Spanish Civil War - so I doubt very much that you would want some of that

Etretat, the Needle Rock and Porte d'Aval, 1885 https://linktr.ee/monet_artbot