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This stuff annoys me, because it’s exactly the kind of 2 + 2 = 20 reasoning liberals accuse others of. Trump clearly thought Amazon was going to display tariff prices across the site, and called Bezos. Amazon says it was only a sub-brand that considered it. Those can still both be true.

Jeff Bezos is going to regret getting involved in politics.

Classic authoritarian behaviour. So weak. So embarrassing.

My 8am lessons from Canada thread! What are your updates from the results

Isn't it beautiful, that word tariffs? Those other countries, they've been cheating us for years, sending immigrants by DHL to eat American pets and it's all because that guy Zelensky started a war. Which reminds me, did you hear about Hannibal Lecter? They say he's a bad person, really bad, but...

I’m sorry but the American way of life is in many ways ridiculous

The STUC general secretary has laid into Keir Starmer's Labour government over "broken promises" and hitting out at the "inexplicable" refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

ICYMI "The data is inconvenient, because it's at cross purposes to the government's project. And so into the bin this useful and interesting piece of work will go, while the "Morganiser" carries on laying the foundation for a catastrophic rout four years hence."

Three months today since this big goofball came into my life, and what a joy it’s been 💕

The editors of the Mail, Telegraph and Times are fully deranged on this issue. These figures are absurd

Even Reform UK Voters Are Getting Sick And Tired Of Donald Trump www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/even-r...

‼️🇩🇪🇪🇺 Merz at @eppgroup.bsky.social Congress places a strong emphasis on Europe “My government will be one of the strongest supporters of Europe that you have ever seen from Germany..”

The Guardian glass is always half empty. #canada #carney

I'd be interested to see the equivalent for how voters describe themselves. I don't mean what party they support or what they believe in, but how they assess their quality as a voter (e.g. lost, rubbish, dangerous etc? Well-informed, diligent, competent etc?) 1/2

Proposal for a @phaidonpress.bsky.social book: Fit Mid-Century Buildings of Camden.

Two days to go until the local elections. My preview for @theipaper.com from last week: inews.co.uk/opinion/stop...

Proposal for a @phaidonpress.bsky.social book: Fit Mid-Century Buildings of Camden.

ICE are indistinguishable from the violent criminals they scaremonger about

Can Keir Starmer Learn Any Lessons From Mark Carney's Remarkable Election Victory? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/can-ke...

“The Lib Dems are counting on the continued salience of anti-Trumpism in Britain. With tariffs still to be implemented, that would seem a reasonable assumption. The stance also befits the Lib Dems’ reputation as a progressive, pro-globalisation, anti-populist party.”

Anas Sarwar told me that the Scottish Government should immediately enforce the interim EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces that essentially bans trans people from certain spaces. He was unable to tell me where trans people should go to the bathroom. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

"Don't Know" seems worth having. I would not underestimate the potential risk of having "Racist" + "Dangerous" as a top brand association: I think a democratic mainstream party would hope to have 50% thinking that was unfair (rather than just a third thinking it does not apply to them)

Badenoch says Spanish power cuts probably partly caused by reliance on renewables - as No 10 says these claims 'unfounded' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Presented my first academic paper since PhD and it went pretty well. So that’s nice.

The Government deporting its own workforce highlights the absurdity of the new visa rules. Good to see Labour MPs speaking out on behalf of their constituents. www.thenational.scot/news/2511721...

If Labour ever signs a Coalition - or even Confidence and Supply - agreement with the Lib Dems can we make it a condition that Ed Davey has to stay away from any camera for the duration?

I recently listened to a podcast in which one of the guests decried the phrase "low-information voter", arguing that they just get *different* information. Yeah, no, a lot of voters have no clue what's going on beyond their four walls.

Imagine thinking that carbon capture is a "pragmatic policy" I would so love to see the content of Blair's investment portfolio in light of a statement like this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a lot more time for Clegg than the average person I follow on Bluesky (and, it pains me to admit, in the UK). But I think one problem with *that* article is that part of what pro-European UK politicians miss about EU membership is that EU membership is a way to magnify your country's power.🧵

Now available on BBC Sounds and going live tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 8... "Hell And High Water - Are We Prepared For The Floods?" My latest documentary with Fergus Hewison and @carljohnston.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Overheard three American teenagers on the Jubilee Line: “it’s giving London Bridge vibes”. Translation please?

God those glasses still look absolutely dogshit, don’t they.

Among other things, people who came to GB to drive buses brought their spouse and children. It's a key part of integration and paradoxically the things that people who agree with this stuff *dislike about immigration* would get worse in their preferred system.

Devastating, distressing and urgent journalism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

How Donald Trump turned the White House into a tacky gold palace full of trinkets in 100 days www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

How much trouble are the Tories in? On pacts, mergers, and the ancient art of managing expectations www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Is it not possible Blair is able to form his own views?

"They want to have everything, and they don't want to pay for it." Charlie Methven takes aim at #MCFC fans campaigning over season tickets and matchday prices. I push back... pod.fo/e/2cde48

Blair’s anti-net zero intervention today suffers from one of his major blindspots - his inability to see (or call out) how political debate has been warped by garbage media coverage

"he's not the smartest butter knife in the drawer"

Every year Tony Blair looks and behaves more like a caricature of Tony Blair. bsky.app/profile/geor...

👇 Really important story from @bylinetimes.bsky.social about the lack of data on donations made by overseas voters – a high-risk route for #foreigninterference in UK elections – featuring a quote from our Executive Director @suehawley.bsky.social.

Recent Supreme Court judgement on definition of sexes in equality law has implications for local authorities in London (and elsewhere). These were highlighted at a meeting of Hackney Council's cabinet yesterday evening. I went along. Here's my report: www.onlondon.co.uk/news-hackney.... #london

My short-read news piece about book-swap libraries being allowed to return to London Underground stations. Well, some of them: www.onlondon.co.uk/book-swaps-t... #London #books

Why Blair argues climate policy just based on cutting carbon emissions in short term 'doomed to fail' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

🇺🇸100 days into the 2nd Trump presidency and his approval among Brits has fallen further since his inauguration to -44. The biggest drop is among Reform UK voters who previously gave Trump positive net approval of 31 and its now just 1.

Duty-free store at busy crossing goes into receivership as Canada/US travel plummets www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Carney’s comeback suggests viability of Lib Dem ‘resist Trump’ strategy Some thoughts on lessons from the Canadian election for @politics.co.uk 👇 www.politics.co.uk/politicslunc...

I genuinely think the only thing worse for the mental health of journalists than the haters is the fans. It is not a profession well suited to fans in the first place, but once someone with no machine around them has the love of 10k plus people – and then the desperate need to keep it – they go mad

Trump hates having allies and loves making enemies. Might not work out for him

Poilievre entered 2025 at the apex of politics: a win for him would have produced endless think pieces about how conservatism across the west was about to be reborn in a Trump-esque image – a franchise model of sorts, for a president always keen to make such deals. Instead, he’s a footnote.

Does Canada provide a playbook for the world’s liberals and incumbents? Short answer: no. “Strategists looking to build an electoral playbook from Carney’s win may soon conclude that this was a unique election, unlikely to replicate anywhere else in the world—or even in Canada, at any other time.”

someone should open a biscuit shop called Essential Cookies Only

It should be St Saul's Cathedral. Me for @jewishnews.bsky.social www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-coul...

It's gonna be so great, I'm so amazing, everyone's gonna love what I do, the moon is made of bananas and all tea cups are actually goats: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #trump

I keep thinking about this advert (which is currently infesting linkedin like a stubborn case of oral herpes), and how its logic could be applied in other circumstances.

Is this the same Amazon owned by one of the billionaires who has grovelled to Trump?

As a member of the public, what would make me feel safe is if Labour designed policy on public safety on things that are actually happening. For example, men who want to kill women because they get their ideas from the far-right. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anyone in central London got a spare modern-ish Android phone they can lend to me for --journalism-- for a day in return for a donation to a charity of your choice.

Security minister Dan Jarvis urges Glastonbury to drop Kneecap from this year's festival line-up - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Bottled water is the biggest pathway to microplastic exposure, Mason said. “Most people in the United States don’t need to drink bottled water. Tap water is safer and more regulated.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

The Bank of England guy?

A problem with being unable to blame your own side for its failings is you end up in the mad place where you think 'the administrative state under Margaret Thatcher collecting ethnicity data' is a) leftwing and b) behind the re-emergence of out-and-out racism on parts of the right.

Accidentally put kisses on a message in a family chat, so I'm up for adoption now

Downing Street Condemns Kneecap's 'Half-Hearted' Apology Over 'Kill MPs' Remarks www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/downin...

Don't post on X anymore, so had nowhere to go to complain about the outage.

Breaking: The man who committed the crossbow attack on the Otley Run in Leeds on Saturday has died of a self-inflicted injury Owen Lawrence, 38, had been in hospital for several days Counter-terrorism police are still investigating, my full story on his online activity will be on the NYT later

Hello darkness (waiting in for a UPS delivery) my old friend*.

Armenian govt moves towards closer relations with EU www.ips-journal.eu/topics/europ...

The Daily Telegraph - remove your brain before reading.

Pretty sure nick just invented the torment nexus cup

In about an hour we have a Commons urgent question on Kneecap, submitted by Tory MP Mark Francois. I genuinely remember when we last had a proper moral panic about popular music. It must be a while.

ICYMI: The UK has signed up to a statement of shared geopolitical values with the European Union. Starmer is bringing Britain closer to the EU. A clear reaction to Trump's presidency. Take the upsides where you can, I suppose...

A Tory/Reform pact already appears to be in action... Labour's Ellie Reeves has accused the Tories of “gifting” Runcorn to Reform by not campaigning in the seat. The chair of Labour told The Huffington Post the Tories were not doing any work on the ground at all (Huffington Post, via LabourList)

This is really good.

While carefully avoiding commenting on an ongoing criminal trial... can I suggest you read the BBC liveblog of the Sycamore Gap tree trial. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Now Carney and the Canadian Liberals have the substantial challenge of protecting the Canadian economy by decoupling it from America's.

Canada can now benefit from the education that Mark Carney received in Britain on how to deal with populist loons

Looks like the Canadian Liberal party will get its highest share of the vote since 1980 - and the Conservatives their highest share of the vote since 1988

MCB criticises Labour for not doing more to prevent 'slaughter' of Palestinians, highlighting contrast with Ukraine policy, @benquinn75.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Mark Francois has tabled an urgent question later today on "alleged incitement to murder MPs by the Irish Republican group Kneecap"

What I find compelling about this is, the 'useful advice' from David Cameron (both a very good PMQs performer but someone who knows the format better than most as he prepped *three other leaders* for it) that she is quoting is so banal as to be obvious.

Exclusive: Ellie Reeves Reveals How Her Sister Was Always Destined To Be Chancellor www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

"The data is inconvenient, because it's at cross purposes to the government's project. And so into the bin this useful and interesting piece of work will go, while the "Morganiser" carries on laying the foundation for a catastrophic rout four years hence."

Excl: Trade union bosses have highlighted almost £500m of public cash "propping up" private sector bus companies amid growing calls for Scotland to draw up a publicly-owned transport system. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

It took six weeks of negotiations between Sadiq Khan's office, TfL, and the London Fire Brigade... but it sounds like bookswap library shelves are coming back to 15 above-ground tube stations. (Those classed as subsurface tube stations, such as the Oval and Clapham etc are a work in progress.)

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Excellent article - and, I would add, by making the nearest big city bigger. I know I am a stuck record, but private entrepreneurs, over a century ago, dug a longer Underground line (the Central Line) than the whole length of Leeds-Bradford-Manchester.

Almost every day since Donald Trump has been back in the Oval Office, I've written a roundup of the wild and unhinged things he and his team have been doing. To mark 100 days, here's a comprehensive guide to the chaos and insanity of Trump 2.0 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Important to remember that this policy is not intended to work. It is intended to appease Reform voters. And to the malign the left into appearing as if it supports sexual offences. The reality is further complexity in a broken asylum system, one which will, in fact, make the public less safe.

Great analysis & insight into what's driving political discontent and economic decline in places most vulnerable to populism. We need our big cities to be engines of growth and higher living standards for their wider area - the 'Manchester/Oldham' problem is widespread & urgently needs tackling.

Hard agree, and not just because I recently watched the 'Common People' episode of Black Mirror season 7. Reject pointless smart tech.

Giles Coren calls out the president of the British Board of Deputies for the refusal to allow criticism of Israel's war in Gaza "while not a genocide, it has become a quite wanton slaughter." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Excellent piece this. Ultimately you can’t govern if you change direction whenever someone yelps. Public opinion is the brake on government but it can’t be the motor, because we all want different things.

Great piece from @rjpartington.bsky.social @theguardian.com on new @trusselluk.bsky.social research out tomorrow. Hunger & hardship are costing UK economy & public services £billions. Slashing disability support & keeping 2 child limit will only make this worse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yes! Uxbridge by-election was so misunderstood - Labour nearly won Uxbridge - They don't need to win seats like that for a majority - They do need enact life-enhancing green policies like Ulez to justify a majority labourlist.org/2025/04/loca...

Dealignment, not realignment.

Wales not on target to meet health, climate and nature goals, says its future generations commissioner - Steven Morris reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Boop.