Mhairi Black, "I'm not understanding why there is so much heat around this" Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 "Is this is a case of farmers working their knuckles down to the bone, living on the breadline, that happen to be sitting on assets" "Or is this like people like Jeremy Clarkson" "Because

100% this. Prescott had authenticity; clearly a clever guy but could communicate from the left in simpler language of common sense and common good. Transplant this into a Labour leader running on a 2017-style manifesto and they'd've cleaned up any election in the last decade.

Typescript: "women deserve to make more than men" Python: "women deserve to make less than men" Rust: "women should be hourly contractors" Golang: "$1000 a year. best offer"

A good Labour source tells me that Heidi Alexander was promised Transport Secretary a while ago... More interesting still: Labour is preparing to pivot to a 3rd Heathrow runyway, and today is a part of that shift. This does increasingly feel like a political drive-by.

Oh come on Labour - so depressing to hear Pat McFadden say UK has no plans for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. We have schemes with NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Uruguay - only reason not to have one with EU is fear of right wing press. Such cowardice Laura Kuenssberg

We've long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it.

how it started, how it's goin #Musk

surprised they’ve never made the stoner Christmas movie where the wrong cookies get left out for Santa and the friend group who were planning on getting baked have to deliver the presents in his stead

Yes, but remember that from childhood Michelangelo and Bernini did not have to do anything else but learn to make art, they did not have to labour, do housework, anything. if you want artists like this then you need to let them do nothing but art, and conservatives *hate* that

Keir Starmer Finish HS2 then. All of it.

Remember how Labour’s non-dom tax was going to pay for everything? Every spending commitment was being paid by this tax! Well, now it’s not happening…

49% of Britons support introducing proportional representation, with just 26% backing first past the post PR: 49% FPTP: 26% By party voted for in 2024 Green: 72% PR vs 15% FPTP Reform UK: 67% vs 20% Lib Dem: 61% vs 20% Labour: 53% vs 27% Conservative: 39% vs 42%

A country that has systematically ignored them, presented them with fewer and fewer opportunities, taxed their successes, locked them out of housing, gifted them lower wages, higher energy prices and offered no political alternatives. Is this result surprising to anyone?

Just trying to imagine the Police, Media and Political response if Climate or Pro-Palestine protestors came to a Westminster demo in a Tank!?

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location

George Monibot critising Jacqui Smith, "You haven't answered the question.. You're not making the situation better because you're not affording safe and legal routes for people to come here through the right channels" #BBCQT "And if you don't do that, you force people into

This & YouGov's poll showing Brits give Zelenskyy +48 & Trump a -51 approval shows dangers to the right in UK of listening to the v. online/US coded in their approach to Ukraine. Brits really support Ukraine & aren't polarised on it. 52% of Reform voters entirely blame Russia!