William Tilbrook

The Doctor warned us about this

It helps if you start from the perspective that actually saying 'due to this war, things will get worse' is more helpful than making unduly optimistic claims.

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

There are about 300 people in the UK who think this war is a good idea, and they are all either columnists or MPs.

Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.

A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.

Really intrigued as to how the politics of 'everything is more expensive, I really hate the PM, but I look over and the leader of the opposition is going "we shoulda bombed them, this war is great"' play out, but I wish we were conducting this experiment when I were, say, 80.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

I really do dislike this aggressive informality in corporate comms sometimes

We're 18 months off 'uwu it seems you've been a smol bean and not paid the mortgage. We're evictereening you in 14 days'

Sects on the Brain A post-Gorton narrative which is dramatic, seductive, and wrong

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Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections?

Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence.

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

As always: its not just grammars you're bringing back, its secondary moderns.

And no one wants their kids to go to one. Which is a issue when 75% of kids will do so.

Always missed in this debate. You're making the education of the majority worse, to privilage a small minority.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

A surprising number of people at Westminster: 'Well, Twitter was wrong about who would win the election in 2015, 2017, the referendum in 2016, and at best partially right in 2019 and 2024, but when it told me bombing Iran was popular, I believed it'.

EXC: Inside Morgan McSweeney's cosy leaving drinks last night

— Acc to multiple witnesses Keir Starmer, in a speech to room full of Labour right types, said that McSweeney is not only one of the best political strategists in the country, "but in the entire world"

"Mr Speaker, as @GIGACHAD_1776 said to me on X yesterday"

We've all been Griffinpilled by Quinn the GM

ROSE GARDEN, 2029
ed davey: and the threat of reform.... anyway this is why I am joining PM polanski in coalition...any questions? (All journalist raise hands) Any questions not about my gigantic new boobs? (all journalists lower their hands)

The old age dependency ratio has put an unbearable burden on middle income young earners and that means labour backbenchers need to resolutely back immigration reforms that will make that problem worse is certainly an interesting take

Think there is something to be written about how bad the news environment has got for people who want to keep up with politics but don't have the time/knowledge to go beyond the flagships.

The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.

'Separatism' is when British Muslims vote for the most socially liberal candidate in the race to stop Matt Goodwin, who Kemi Badenoch herself explicitly said was a threat to minority life in this country, becoming an MP.

how much has zendaya had to hear about spurs' potential relegation

Also despite endless griping about profiteering etc, UK grocery is relatively cheap vs much of the world. UK supermarket run on an operating margin of 3-4%, which is *amazingly* low. They are brutally efficient operations, pretty much unmatched anywhere else.

I make the point that Democrats are one of the most electorally successful centre-left parties in the world a lot but man, setting out the numbers does contextualise how Yanks whining about Dems being losers are the equivalent of like Barcelona fans complaining that they never win anything

A 2023 tweet: every european election The People’s Democrats (center-right) 31 per cent Soviet Worker’s Party (center/center-left) 22 per cent Citizen’s Forum (fascist) 19% Wow! (Center) 11 per cent Friendship is Magic (left) - nine per cent Green Partt - eight per cent

This remains a good, tongue in cheek guide, though the centre-right is doing worse across the board than it was then, while the Greens are taking the “Friendship is Magic” vote in addition to their traditional core.

If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.

turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right

He was a consistentlay grumpy lecturer In my experience.

PM: You get those migration numbers down?

Home Sec: Sure did boss, real fuckin damaging to public services and increasing the one voters hate most, just like you asked

PM: what

UK party leaders ranked by Most to Least Online:

Most
Polanski - Name searcher, 3am poster

Badenoch - one of the few posters banned from more forums than she's read.

Farage - New entrant, didn't like Twitter until it got racist.

Davey - Watches instagram reels for new campaign ideas.

Starmer