4) And while most people don't pay much attention to day to day politics, they've been failed abysmally and lied to for nearly my entire adult life. We no longer believe we will be richer than our parents. And the polls bear that out: fuck all of you, is what they're saying, but especially who's in.

3) People are not stupid, and they will only put up with things getting noticeably worse for so long, and 14 years of the Tories made everything noticeably worse. You need a feel good factor to counteract that while things are turned round, and this pair are grey, condescending and hectoring.

2) that they really don't like being actively insulted, and Starmer and Reeves from the outset, indeed in the case of Starmer since he became Labour leader, have abandoned any pretence of principle or propriety. You don't start by taking away winter fuel allowance, even if now u-turned on.

so many greats, I think about this one a lot

I wonder, were there headlines in the Telegraph 50 years ago saying this is the year we must kill off feminist ideology?

Toss up between this and Everything Must Go, think the Richey songs + obv. Design for Life put the latter ahead

Don't forget bald

Can they at least be consistent, in that I thought last week we were meant to be terrified they were about to invade

You're not allowed to be 7 years older than me rodent, at most I thought you were 2 or 3 more

If we rightly portrayed those who continue to defend genocide as the extremists they are, and that means every single notable pro-Israel group in this country because they all fully back Likud and Netanyahu, we might realise this guy isn't the outlier, they are!

I'm swear I can remember wiretaps on MPs being illegal or at least meant to be, so I'm sure that won't be how our famously accountable intelligence agencies are spying on our elected representatives