"Hey men" and they're Grammy voters 😂 😂 😂 x.com/Reddit_Spurs/s…

Olivia Dean during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech for Best New Artist: “I’m up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I’m a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated.”

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: “Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

the soty category became a joke over the years unfortunately

Removing the Lords, and moving to one chamber like Norway, would be a massive benefit to cleaning up politics (and saving money, and enhancing swift delivery of policy). So, naturally, the entire political and media class oppose it.

If being besties with one of the most prolific nonces in human history isn’t enough to get Peter Mandelson booted from the House of Lords, perhaps being engaged in espionage might meet that threshold. Or is the British establishment too cowardly to confront its own enemies within

I love how Corbyn is in the Epstein files, but only because it’s just all the billionaire nonces going ‘under no circumstances can we let Corbyn be PM’

This is why I find Peter Mandelson's repeated bleat about how the victims, and not him, are the 'real' story so nauseating and offensive. He knew why Jeffrey Epstein was in prison. And he treated Epstein's sleazy misogyny as though it was just a big joke.

McSweeney resignation following same pattern as all previous Starmer/McS reversals: delay, maximise damage, give in.

The Labour Party is making the same mistake Joe Biden did. It doesn't matter how many manifesto pledges you've checked off if the public doesn't *feel* like their lives have gotten any better. The manifesto doesn't mean anything to anyone who isn't a policy wonk.

In 2023, the FT reported on an internal JP Morgan memo that suggested Peter Mandelson had stayed at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan apartment in June 2009 (when Epstein was in prison). Keir Starmer doesn't have to answer for "believing Mandelson's lies". He has to answer for

Suzanne Breen making the right point. The contrast between Michelle O’Neill’s generous attitude to British Royals & that of the DUP to President Connolly is indicative of where we are headed. Unionism’s antagonistic approach will bring forward the inevitable moment of crisis.

“If you come in with a completely different agenda then the country legitimately says, ‘We didn’t vote for this’." Like cuts to winter fuel and disability benefits? Or introducing digital IDs? None of that was in our manifesto in 2024, yet the government tried to do it.

Look at the rise of the far right in Europe. With 24% of votes, it’s the highest since the 1930s. Think about this. And look at the inflection point: 2010. It’s the financial crisis. It’s always been the financial crisis. Not culture, not immigration, but economics.

It’s popular to hate on The Mandalorian now, I get that. But it truly sucks how Mandalorian S1 had me invested beyond words can express, and now I don’t feel one single ounce of excitement for this character.

Useful insight from George Eaton on why Starmer’s government has been such a confused mess

The UK HM Treasury needs to completely rethink how it evaluates major infrastructure projects. The bearish forecasting here was a catastrophic failure and implies we're massively under-investing in transportation capacity.

What is called when you have two different legal systems based on religion/ethnicity??

Shabana Mahmood is a fool for rejecting the lifeline thrown to her by the judges. Mahmood could have responded “Decision to ban made by predecessor. Blah. Respect rule of law. Blah. Keep under review. Blah.” Instead, even if Mahmood wins her ‘fight’ 🤪 with the judiciary on

Very good piece here on the insane demands on MPs from constituency casework, which has been rising almost exponentially since Covid It's clear we need to completely rethink how our democracy works, and I think this is a good opportunity. We have a system where councillors