My money is on Ed Milliband

Damn. Sorry to hear that.

Well, its not as though we've not repeatedly hammered on about this, but there are none so blind as those that will not see... The people wanted magic unicorn cake and by god HMG is going to try to give them magic unicorn cake (aka blaming foreigners & 5th columnists when they inevitably fail).

Glad to hear that you're on the mend and that it should (hopefully) only take a few weeks. But also, yes, you take it easy!

How long do they think your recovery will take?

Those pro-EU voters are going to go somewhere. If only the Labour party had an easily communicate policy on their approach to the eu. Tories & Reform: no! Greens: Rejoin! LDs: Single Market! Labour: imperceptible negotiated changes depending on economics, headlines & focus-group results!

Wait, there's a DCMS? Still?

Blake: So Serverlan, you have finally caught us.
Servalan: Moi?

I love the Mass Effect games (well, 1 - 3), though tbh, I always found the Mako sections to be really tedious.

The danger of that approach is if all policies on the left are equally reprehensible, you end up with the genuine Jacobins coming to power. Why be restrained & moderate when exercising power if your opponents believe you are irredeemably evil?

Imagine doing ANYTHING AT ALL and constantly interrupting it every two minutes to ask everyone around you “do you like me? Is this ok? Please like me! Should I do something completely different so you like me more? I will ask you again next week shall I?”

That’s what government by focus group is.

No pause. No let up. No relaxation. Not until that monster is out of the house, the locks are changed & the systems that are meant to stop people like him getting in are given a thorough overhaul.

My oligarch boss is insisting that I ignore inconvenient facts & dissenting opinions, so here is an article on how Mamdanis term in office is already an abject failure.

What did they expect? Labour got elected, ran a dour "its all awful" PR campaign, pandered to Reform voters (who will *never* vote for them), told their core (pro-EU, pro-public services etc) constituency that they had to support them 'or else' & then watched as their polls collapse. Go figure.

Ohhhhhhh. Nice.

"Dark City" & "The Dark Knight"

Dare I ask what this is in response to? Or do I not want to know?

Well, yeah, obviously. In American English "taxes on wealthy people" translates to "Communist dictatorship".

Oddly, the more they contort themselves to stop Mamdani, the greater the chance they'll end up with Mangione.