Would like this post 10 times, just to see you hyper

Aha

We should redistribute farmland by vote share. A small group of Southwark Labour councillors should be given half of Northamptonshire.

Rugby teams must be made up of at least 16% Zack Polanski fans.

Also, likely just going through Dublin to avoid US immigration on the far side, which surely tells you something about the US too.

I don't think copying anything Mamdani did will make anyone's campaign worse necessarily, although there might be a lot of very uncool video about.

Very hard to read what that sale means, given how shit Son is.

The takeaways from Mamdani campaign are broadly right, but they miss that he was running in an election in a major media market during an off year. If he was running next November, I don't think he'd have had any chance of cutting through. So I'm not totally sure the lessons can be generalised.

People go on about social media, but phone ins are so poisonous. The Nicks (Campbell and Ferrari) allow the most awful views to go unchallenged (because an equally bad one will be along seconds later).

I suppose the caveat is that Softbank's decision making is absolutely terrible.

Did he do the show with a clarinet guy? I saw him last year with a clarinet guy and it was good. He seems better live, and maybe as a person, than ever. Very much "on it". And he did New Partner.

End of day

I think I knew, then forgot that! (It certainly does)

They seem to have loads of campaigning independence in Germany - in our data we've got about 100 each SPD and CDU local youth wings that run their own social media ads etc.

Definitely feels like a trap they've set.

Perhaps it's a cultural thing, but they seem enduringly popular in Germany (all the parties have them at all sorts of levels and they do quite a lot of active campaigning I think). Maybe they're more mature than us, though god knows what goes on in an AfD youth wing meeting.