Chaminda Jayanetti

Ending the triple lock is one of the biggest gambles of Andy Burnham's career - but since then there's been barely a peep about it In fact, the only MP to mention it at PMQs was... Andy Burnham Why is his gamble proving so much less disastrous than the winter fuel cuts? My Substack post:

the actual reason is that the media likes Trump and wants to help him. They didn't like Hillary and they didn't like Biden and wanted to hurt them. That explains why Hillary's emails was covered as a nuclear-level scandal and "Trump is a violent rapist who is best friends with Jeff Epstein" isn't

And... it's election day in Israel. Here is your reminder that if the Jewish politicians opposing Netanyahu were willing to work together with their Arab peers we wouldn't be wondering whether or not Netanyahu can be beaten. It would be clear that he could www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

New Scottish Government stats show an 8% drop in new homes added to Scotland’s housing stock - the lowest level in a decade. Scotland needs to build itself out of the #HousingEmergency, with at least 15,693 social homes needed each year. Help us make that happen 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

my goodness, what is this

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @bobbywdean.bsky.social 🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/brit...

Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget

the last time mourinho won a league title, harry kane had one goal for england

THEY WANTED A REFERENDUM IN 5 YEARS IN 2016 AND 2021 AND 2026

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Backlog of tube maintenance works estimated at £6.5bn Maintaining assets on the network requires annual spending of £1.2bn but expenditure has averaged just £700m in recent years https://enfielddispatch.co.uk/backlog-of-tube-maintenance-works-estimated-at-6-5bn/

Talking about Rejoin certainly flushes out all of the people who must be allowed nowhere near any Rejoin campaign that intends to win.

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

The kneecapping of the BBC Is a horrific exercise in avoiding to pay for anything and hoping “efficiency savings” are enough to get by. Just fucking fund the BBC properly.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Has to be said that a great thing about Lula is he is a champion grade hater

Lula clearly went on João Rogan

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob closed the old Cheesecake Factory. So when Vivek Ramaswamy promised to legalize child rape, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then Obama said something elitist.

If I'd loudly, and at length, bemoaned the fact that Muhammad being a popular name in Ireland was a sign of creeping Sharia law, I think it would come up. With Linehan it doesn't. Because frothing transphobia is not merely excused. It's worse. If you hate trans people enough, all else is forgiven

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

Where 14 years of “betrayal” rhetoric set to 11 gets you: shouting at school bags

Back to stage 2. Sorry repost, had to hack sender’s name off

How funny would it be if both Manchester teams go down this year.

A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

Again, worth analysing Burnham as if he is really good at politics: moving red lines from things EU can't accept (free movement) to things it might (euro). Changing terms of debate on an issue from negative (uncontrolled immigration) to positive (Brits can go abroad for work).

Evergreen message from the Financial Times to its readers www.ft.com/content/88c8...

Oh dear. We don't have enough trained therapists (post-doc level) and effective treatments for many people take years to be effective (with at least 1 session per week). We'll also need to increase the number of in-patient beds in MH units. It's never just about prescribing drugs.

This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...