It's funny how we've been cutting welfare spending for being too high for fifty years and yet, inexplicably, welfare spending is still somehow too high.

...and yet they can't conjure an atom of sympathy for "PIP cuts mean the median disabled person is in poverty now".

They always invent this ridiculously convoluted sob-story "a little old granny who knits and has no money at all( but whom inexplicably lives in Hugh Hefner's old gaffe) is never going to see her friends again, because of Rachel Reeves".

And the prime mover, the central *cause* of their apparent distress is that they own an asset worth multiple millions of pounds. I'll happily swap - they can rent from my nutcase landlord and I'll live in their mansion and pay the tax.

Honestly, what baffles me if they are completely willing to burn mountains of political capital on pointless shit (defending Mandelson?) but seemingly incapable of grasping the nettle on the slow-motion crises devouring the UK.

I often find these day-of vox pops a but baffling. "Its had no effect on me in Grimsby!" Of course it hasn't it was announced five hours ago?!

People need to feel the benefits before anything shifts.

"The problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of public assets to privatise" - mirror world Margaret Thatcher

I've said for years. The Reform constituency don't care about the legal distinctions between 'asylum seekers' and 'illegal immigrants' - they're imagining deportations of people they feel a racial animus towards. Many of those are full citizens!

Let's be honest Kemi needs all the help she can get.

I'm so down for the coming Butlerian Jihad

"directly" holding on for dear life here

The supposed free speech champion Bari Weiss explicitly setting out to delimit acceptable speech. As per.

NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.

Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.