[Youngian]

Far right activist

Whoever it was they are remarkably inept, they failed to burn down two houses Starmer no longer lives in and set fire to a car which isn't his. The burning of the Reichstag it was not.

[mattomac]

The kind who only said a few swear words on X no doubt?

[Bones McCoy]

A wizard did it.

[Abernathy]

Rafael Behr is such a good political commentator/writer. This piece is very perceptive, and I very much concur with Behr’s analysis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisf ... VcIda3yyuA

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making

[The Weeping Angel]

They do say that Bluesky people don't really do humour.

https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/ex ... -with-keir

I wake up around 5.30am and wonder if that’s a normal time to get up. Grok tells me most people get up around an hour later, so I stay in bed and scroll Lee Anderson’s X feed - he’s usually cooing in a racist way.

Victoria needs her sleep, so I let her lie-in while I go and ask the focus group we keep in a static caravan behind Number 10, what to do for breakfast. Back when I was in opposition they’d recommend a bowl of porridge with hazelnut milk, vanilla paste and goji berries, a cup of rooibos and a Guardian. Now I’m PM they’re more likely to recommend a Greggs bacon bap, can of Monster (Mango Loco) and a Sun.

I like being Prime Minister. There’s less anxiety and more presence than when I was leader of the opposition. Not having a vision is very liberating. I’m a Capricorn. So I crave routine. Morgan [McSweeney] is really into that too and before we start work we like to chant mantras in front of GB News. In opposition it used to be “follow the crowd, not your conscience”, but now I’ve got a thumping majority we’ve changed it to “follow the mob, not your conscience”.

If it’s a week where we’re releasing a white paper on immigration that surrenders almost entirely to populism, I’ll remind whoever is on the broadcast rounds that they now think multiculturalism has failed and migrants are in fact to blame for our poor housing and public services.

If they suggest that this cowardice validates the hateful nativists who stubbornly insist they don’t recognise the diverse country they’ve lived in their entire lives, and who will also never vote for me, I’ll ask Angela if she wants to retain the ministerial car and then look meaningfully at the crossed out pictures of Zarah, Jeremy and Dianne I keep on my desk.