People who “aren’t political”

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I am very sad indeed to learn of the passing of Tony Head. When we were casting Little Britain, we were looking for a 'Tony Head-type', because we never imagined for a moment that the man himself would be interested, but he was. Lucky us. He was unfailingly brilliant, and always so kind and warm. My heart goes out to Daisy and Emily.

The private sector created the issue - they are not the ones the government should be taking advice from bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5p…

has anyone asked Tony Blair why he didn't feel the need to make a rare intervention earlier in the year on the subject of Lord Mandelson

Hit back hard. He’s trying to convince us what he’s describing is the centre ground. All his policy proposals are to the right. Back Trump. The Iran War. Never criticise Netanyahu. Increase defence spending. People are free to have those beliefs, but it’s not the centre ground.

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.' The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

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Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means. His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide. Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers. Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations. Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered. theguardian.com/politics/202…

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If there is a next Prime Minister this year, which is crazy, then that Prime Minister, whoever it is, will be a disaster trying to please everybody, and then there will be an even worse Prime Minister, and that Prime Minister will do insane things, and we will LONG for these days

Wes Streeting is loved by political anoraks, Westminster commentators, and factional obsessives. After the last decade of chaos, do we really think those groups are well placed to tell us who the best candidate for PM is?

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough! I remember watching his very first documentaries back in the 1930s, when the chimpanzees wore three-piece suits and smoked pipes.

RT @HackneyAbbott: There is no denying that these election results are going to be very bad for Labour. Yes, Keir Starmer is very unpopular…

Reform top, Green’s second in our Projected National share calculated from today’s vote in 1000 wards, ahead of Conservatives and Labour. care of Sir John Curtice and team…