Election Special: 1. The Economy

This is an excellent bit of comms by Labour. Jon Richardson, in a bath with a beer, telling you how Sunak made his millions from the downfall of our economy. Really important message, brilliantly delivered.

woman: i can't afford to live man worth £700m: i know how you feel

Rishi Sunak talking over everyone just comes across as exhaustingly rude and arrogant #sunakvsstarmer

Is “2k more tax “ the new “350 million NHS “bus slogan . Doesn’t need to be right. Just needs to be repeated . Have we come so little way since the grubby days of that campaign ??

#DoctorWho Finding out who Finding Susan Twist is < THIS MAN

Lads, you literally put the son of a KGB spy in the House of Lords & refused to investigate Russian interference in U.K. politics. Pack it in, you look ridiculous.

In all seriousness, this is exactly the kind of homosexual pandemonium that the man who wrote such fuckery as ‘(Not) Getting Married Today’ and “…while her withers wither with her” would have wanted. I miss him so goddamn much.

Rishi Sunak: You think it's fine for people to come & they shouldn't be removed Audience 1: I said are you considering leaving the ECHR... you just put words in my mouth Audience 2: Only 2 countries don't subscribe to the ECHR.. Russia & Belarus #bbcqt

Sunak is constantly torpedoed by the inescapable fact that he is a thoroughly dislikable shouty little shit. #bbcdebate

This is simple and brilliant and poignant by BladeoftheSun . . . more widely than performing that kindness remember we are all vulnerable now . . . our environment matters too

Lyme Regis, Fossils, Ammonites, and Fun! thelastkrystallos.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/lym… via Lisa Shambrook

Lyme Regis, Fossils, Ammonites, and Fun! thelastkrystallos.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/lym… via Lisa Shambrook

First they came for the weapons grade imbeciles who, unbelievably, compared an actual Holocaust to the idea of stopping people from smoking in pub gardens. And I did not speak out. Because there are literally no words to describe the utter awfulness of these hideous people…

At first glance, you might think Jan van Eyck's masterpiece is an ordinary portrait: Italian merchant Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, Costanza. It looks like it could be a wedding ceremony, but there is far more going on...

My column on Saoirse Ronan burning the chat show circuit down theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What a devastating indictment of our country.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

British voters do not like Trump 'because they don't really know him', Farage claims. Most of us don’t know Farage either, we just know instinctively that he’s a cunt.