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Robert Peston
@Peston

Roy Hattersley played an important and under-rated role in the rehabilitation of Labour after its near collapse in the early 1980s. He was also an accomplished historian and writer, and very funny.

Roy was a dear friend and close colleague of my dad. He has been part of my de facto extended family most of my conscious life and I am deeply sad to learn of his death. Sincere condolences to Maggie and all his friends and relations

https://x.com/Peston/status/2066286446789427229

Roy Hattersley has died.

A man my (left wing) mother once described as "a thug" for his role in trying to abolish grammar schools in the early 2000s.

Shows the awfulness of grammar schools that it united the right and left such as Thatcher and Hattersley in wanting to abolish them.

It's private schools that should have been abolished, not grammar schools.

It's baa-aack. Possibly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyxgwkyxyo

Not sure “finish the job” is the best way to phrase it tbh.

So what is Burnham's defence policy ?

Not to concede any goals from set pieces.

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
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They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.

https://x.com/BillKristol/status/2066280571051921491

And the point in the war was

Quite often asked by one side in a war, and sometimes both.

It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.

PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.

It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.

I've worked for engineering companies. Now there's a right-wing environment.

Roy Hattersley has died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hattersley#Personal_life_and_death
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/roy-hattersley-lord-hattersley-obituary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7224g41x1po

Burnham has a human touch we’ve not seen of a Labour leader since early Blair.

I think he’d be wise to go for an election, get a reduced majority before things hit the fan.

I think that would be insane. He has a 150+ majority for three more years. Why risk it all for another two years?

Which humiliation was worse for the US?

Vietnam or Iran (2026).

We will see in the coming years.

I suspect Iran has longer consequences.

That's a ridiculous comparison.

In Vietnam over 50k Americans died and its ally was overthrown.

Whereas the USA has lost effectively nothing this year although Trump has failed to get his big win.