Corbyn didn’t have much charisma, but more people liked what he was saying. This government could try having an idea and also try toning down the kicking minorities a bit.

Many councils with high levels of poverty would experience significant drops in their assessed share of national children's services needs funding:

Haringey: down 52%
Lewisham: down 51%
Brent: down 50%
Redbridge: down 49%
Newham: down 48%

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Again, for those at the back: parties advocating the mass deportation of millions of people legally resident in the UK, as well as the abolition of human rights for all UK residents, are at a combined 50%+ in the opinion polls. The electorate of no other European democracy is as extreme as this.

When it feels like every day another D-list celebrity comes out as a bigot, it’s a lovely surprise when someone (who you didn’t expect) sticks their head above the parapet to defend what’s right. It’s heartwarming, quite possibly even more than SEB realises.

this has been a thing I have thought about after the first 'AI psychosis' stories, that up until now the only way to get that kind of sycophantic boosterism is to be rich and powerful, and we know what that can do to some people

This leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

Government responds to the petition to use proportional representation at the next UK general election. (Spoiler: the response is disappointing)

Madrid is the city London wishes it was. More on this later!

And you can normally walk back to where you’re staying because the centre is so compact (maybe stopping for a quick drink on your way too).

Having lived in both, there’s just no competition when it comes to bars and nightlife! (And quite a few other things to be fair)

Oh there’s more than one of these in my area.

"London is leading by example when it comes to air quality, with other major cities including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham - with smaller populations and fewer vehicles - still exceeding the legal limits."
(from Mayor's press release) www.london.gov.uk/london-meets...

Perhaps because there are certain treatments, e.g. transgender medicine, pain management, types of dentistry, that are almost impossible to get on the NHS, and other areas where people go private because they don’t want to suffer while waiting for years. That isn’t a luxury like private schools are.

If he’s taking the fight to reform, then all the power to him, but it’s going to take more than one speech for me to convinced given how authoritarian and xenophobic his government has been so far.

Standing room only at the Trans Solidarity Rally earlier
#Lab25

Does he still think immigration has done incalculable harm to the UK? Does he still think we’re an island of strangers? Maybe he should also have a word with the Home Secretary, who clearly didn’t get the memo yesterday.

The thing that strikes me about this diagram is that Reform voters are extreme single-issue voters. They don’t really care about economic issues, they just love the racism.

I really hope important people in government are listening to you or certain Cambridge academics, because Starmer, McSweeney and co clearly don’t seem to be.

Definitely two curveballs. Needed to search the spelling of one of them

The biggest oddity being that their definition of “cooler voters” = “voters with divorced dad energy”

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n