Surely relatively easy for Labour to replicate this here?
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Surely relatively easy for Labour to replicate this here?
Good to hear. (Almost all of those from the Magic Grandpa Popular Front criticising her on my feed have been male.)
What a cool job!
The far left can't stand working class people becoming successful professionals. Especially, it seems, women.
Or, in Yeltsin's case, pickled...
It reminds me of years of statements here about members of the royal family being in good health - until they suddenly weren't... It's entirely reasonable that leaders need time off for holidays or for medical procedures. And they have some right to privacy. But gossip fills a news vacuum.
Just needs a few drones to deal with the queue.
Gremlins all the way! A work of evil brilliance!!
Wow!!!
In more grown-up times, she'd have to resign over this.
This idea of giving power to politicians who know what the f--- they're talking about will never catch on...
Stop giving Farage ideas - marching on Paris would probably appeal to his voters.
As a Liverpudlian, this makes me ashamed.
This would be why we're replacing our Tesla as soon as the lease finishes.
Surely he won't be mad enough to invade?
My mind is blown by learning that Gremlins and Ghostbusters were released on the same weekend. Wonder if there's been another weekend when two films of that impact have been released head on?
Working class woman does well for herself and the far left can't stand it.
@ecroi.bsky.social !!
This should be easy for Labour and the EU to fix. The sanctions regime clearly isn't nearly strict enough.
Liverpool should have sacked Suarez when he racially abused Patrick Evra. Three biting incidents. And now this. Time to ban him for a very long time - or forever. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Attempted murder of the head of the EU? And we'll still do nothing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thank you for providing a wonderful moment of calm.
Giuliani's accident feels like small divine compensation for Trump's likely return from the apparent dead.
Slot's not the "only unbeaten manager" in the Premier League. Only one with a 100% record. Chelsea haven't lost yet either. Sadly.
And if they voted for Trump, they're by definition not of sound mind...
The best apology ever?
Hope everyone else involved is OK.
It nearly is now: as a Liverpudlian Lancashire supporter, I'm never going to cheer on Manchester Originals!
They may be called the "Northern Superchargers" in The Hundred marketing speak, but when they hit the winning six in the women's final just now, their supporters in the Lord's crowd around us were shouting, "Yorkshire, Yorkshire!" (As a Lancastrian - not good!)
He'd have earned a bob or two in the IPL and Hundred!
I'm starting to fear we've let Newcastle and Palace mess us around all summer and we won't get either of them.
Lord's for the finals of The Hundred. Love how the format's attracting so many new fans to the greatest game.
As good (and brave) piece of reporting as you'll read. Deserve ls to win every prize going for journalism.
Barely changed. Other than people aren't as smartly dressed today!
What a lovely f--- off from Netflix to Trump.
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great enthusiasm." -Mark Twain
It's even better than Thatcher.
Hope he's OK
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Unbelievable cricket from 18-year-old Davina Perrin in The Hundred Eliminator. So glad I switched the TV on earlier.
Our lovely local independent bookshop is ordering copies after I recommended it to her today!
Chelsea spend £212m on players this summer. And, it seems, quite a lot on referees.
I picked up "The Scrapbook" by @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social in Ireland last week. I've just finished it, and it really is quite the best novel I've read in many years.
Superb, if depressing, from the ever-brilliant Marina Hyde.
Sadly the last one is tempting fate after this afternoon's court ruling. At least the weather's bad: people are always less inclined to riot in the rain.
I believe the verdict can be summed up in two words: "F--- Farage".
Blocking the Israeli government delegation from this arms trade fair, but not Israeli defence manufacturers, sums up Labour's confused and half-hearted approach right now. www.bbc.com/news/article...
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
Just watched Susan Calman's travel documentary about Liverpool, first broadcast last year. Quite, quite wonderful.
In fairness, being dead would make her a good mayor by Reform standards - less damage she could do.
Eli Lilly increase the UK list price of Mounjaro by 170%. Tens of thousands who've been using the drug to lose weight and get healthier may be unable to afford it. And the sodding BBC leads with this spin, implying that the greedy drug company are the good guys.
When you have cream on your dessert, the cats suddenly materialise as if from nowhere...
Those are the four who should be wearing black shirts in the graphic...
It's a freak result for sure, but there's something bizarre about Man Utd spending £200m on forwards this summer, only for their most dangerous attacker to be Harry Maguire.
Genius!
It's Grimsby up north.
Not as "modesto" as Man Utd, it seems...
At what point do the Man Utd board go, "You know, that Ole Gunnar Solskjær wasn't that bad after all..."
It has been four hours now since the Church of England leaked the names and email addresses of almost 200 survivors of church abuse. No bishop or safeguarding official has resigned. The church has made no statement. Worst of all, none of the survivors affected has been contacted to offer support.
1922 increasingly sounds like an estimate: after the next election, will they have 19 seats or 22?
"The victim did not wish to provide a statement." www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm obviously not upper middle class enough, as it's never come up at the dinner table.
In small boats, presumably?
From a superb book review in The New Yorker by Adam Gopnik last year.
"Ryback details... how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following." 1932 echoes today.
He's fantastic. Great appointment.
Internment camps? How low have we gone that this could even be being discussed?
Which other parts of Thames Valley police's job would they like us to do for them? I quite fancy a go in one of those fast cars with the flashing blue lights on.
But it's hard for the Tories without a leader. What? Badenoch? Ha ha ha.
When you've spent a long weekend in Ireland, and catch up on the UK news to find that Farage wants to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement. Deluded and dangerous.
Can we have Blair back, please? (Minus Iraq, obvs.) Twenty years on, his words still ring so true.
Another approach for Labour than full-bore retreat to 'yes, immigration is a problem, yes it is a squalid experiment, we hate business and commerce' is available and has worked in the past. www.theguardian.com/politics/200...
What an utterly ridiculous misrepresentation of my comment.
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
This is where I'm going to bed and can't be bothered continuing a conversation with you.
You just accused me of racism, with no basis whatsoever. I'm missing the apology.
What? When did I say that? Just bizarre.
I was just thinking the same!
Why are Newcastle games always sooooo stressful?!!
I think the suggestion that he should be tried by the ICC is crazy.
That presumes I've ever supported Israel to the hilt in this Gaza conflict.
Ridiculous. Corbyn's new party will only succeed if they display more grown-up views than this.
Corbyn's acolytes as deluded and offensive as ever. Thank goodness Labour suspended her from the parliamentary party, and she's now left.
A key piece of russian energy infrastructure, the Gazprom Ust-Luga gas processing complex, was severely damaged in the attack. The Ust-Luga complex is considered one of the most powerful gas processing plants in Europe 🔥🔥🔥
This is brilliantly insightful.
Brave journalism. One day, I hope to see Lavrov in whatever equivalent of Nuremberg is devised for these Russian war criminals. A truly evil man.
Love this so much.
Obscene.
Slava Ukraini...
This analysis by Prof Timothy Garton Ash is quite magnificent (as always).
Don't tell Farage...
There's something surreal about being in a Christmas tree farm in August...
As a #LFC supporting Liverpudlian, I'm delighted for Evertonians today: their new stadium is a great thing for our city.
Trying their anti-immigration nonsense on in a city whose entire existence is based on the successful mixing of generations of immigrants from across the world...
Labour must listen and do anything possible to act.
A brilliant TV series, and an even better book - one of the great campus novels. Seems satire doesn't age.
I love our town fair day, but there's always one violent idiot who has to ruin it for everyone, trundling around making threats.
But none of them is wearing a Reform football top...
