At some point Labour is going to have to deal with its base being urban, multicultural, and in many cases educated. If they solve the current graduate unemployment crisis and the dearth of entry level jobs there would be political dividends for years but the party is incapable of considering this.

That is definitely A Middlesbrough Shirt

Twitter was like a zoo where both sides thought they were the visitors.

He was going for a West Country accent, sounds a bit Somerset to me - I thought he was OK, a little broad maybe, but very harsh to be in this thread. The Shire is loosely based on Warwickshire/Worcestershire, but W/country is often the default "Yokel accent"

Warne - I was vaguely aware of cricket, but had never seen anything like the drift, drop & spitting turn that he got out of a heavy cricket ball. I've never fallen out of love with it, and will still watch any wristspinner going - truly a game within a game.

This has been really striking - only a couple of years ago, r/United Kingdom was firmly left of UK centre, now Reform-adjacent. Could happen organically, but seems very unlikely, especially given the site demographics

The waxy pallor of the Slab

I would be far more concerned about the prospect of Conservative resurgence if they showed any sign of listening to the saner voices in the party - as it is, it may take another election defeat & at least one more leader

So many other ways Starmer could hit Cons record of tripling net migration to 720-900k without inaccurate hyperbole of open borders (echoing Robert Jenrick). His chaotic inheritance of an asylum hotel backlog is from a botched fantasy attempt to ban asylum, obvs not from an "open borders" experiment

I'm not sure I'm who you're asking, but there's still a lot of videos being posted on twitter that you just don't get here, Robelinda being an prominent example. Also a fair few accounts (mostly Indians) that do technical analysis that I'm reluctant to give up on

Good grief. Even when you're aware of the extent of gerrymandering in the abstract, seeing how openly it's been adopted is still a bit shocking

I'd settle for a stumping