Brothers in arms – politicalbetting.com
Brothers in arms – politicalbetting.com
Ed Miliband is now the odds on favourite to be the next ChancellorDavid Miliband is now the odds on favourite to be the next Foreign Secretary pic.twitter.com/1sAcEf8BUe
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The nation will be like one of TSE’s Stepmoms
But he has a very active and vocal campaign from the left in his favour.
For more interesting than rumours regarding who will get a new job when Burnham is PM
(Yes, I know, different band, but...)
Pessimistic take: the Milibros are favourites because they're the only ones Burnham has heard of.
After nearly 3 weeks in Turkey where alcohol is available but you feel naughty and transgressive drinking it, especially when the adhan starts sounding, it's a relief to be somewhere it's just normal.
On the upside, can quickly get on D Miliband to be next PM / leader after Burnham... Once the Labour party has decided decapitation is the solution to poor polling
And he wouldn't be able to help himself.
That rules out these big beasts like Miliband and Streeting imho.
Pat McFaden as a dark horse?
The Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born in the United States, including those whose parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily, striking down President Trump's executive order.
I honestly cannot remember anything special that he did as an MP, any great ideas or insights and frankly I think he came across as a bit of an awkward geek.
Maybe the years earning millions for an international charity have help him develop some great policies.
1. Ability to make the numbers add up. Limited room for fudge.
2. Someone you trust. CoE can make or break your premiership. Key person to deliver your agenda.
3. Canny political operator. Very visible role.
AFAICS, Miliband seems OK for 1 and 2. Not so sure about 3.
If I can skate away with that pun, you'll have to wait for my latest trick subject to a private investigation from your local hero.
Lots of whining on here considering the previous #11 occupants foisted on the country. Zahawi? Kwarteng? Hunt: a man who spent more time planning the next governments financial crisis than his own fiscal probity, NI cuts paid for by future cuts anyone? The ever advancing 'fiscal headroom'...
In Kosovo I adopted the practice of going to a bar when the Maghreb call to prayer sounded (sunset) and I wasn't the only one
https://lawakhigbe.com/2025/07/29/kemi-badenoch-the-anchor-baby-who-pulled-up-the-drawbridge-by-lawson-akhigbe-lawakhigbe-com/
https://x.com/sidewalk_steve/status/2071970987537535143
Essentially, declaring that the Constiution is whatever Trump says it is, however astonishing a position that would be to take for an honest judge.
(OK, so there was no honest judge in the dissent, but you get my point.)
I think they're trying to exasperate me into submission via static while on hold.
Although you might just tweak it past enough states if it was made retrospective and it was pointed out that would mean Trump and Rubio would lose their citzenship...
After I said no, they offered me £120.
I pointed out I can get pretty much the same thing for £58.
It's not as though I watch much TV anyway and I could manage on my mobile data at a pinch.
So we'll see if they haggle their way to £65. I won't renew for more.
The majority was 5, Barrett and Roberts joining the libs, and the dissenting was 3, Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito.
You may notice Kavanaugh's name is not there. Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence.
The 5 believe the 14th Amendment clear as day says illegals must be granted citizenship at birth. Yet Kavanaugh disagrees. Kavanaugh believes
"Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so."
Kavanagh then goes on to explain why he believes the majority is wrong.
This presents an huge opening for us. Roberts or a liberal is replaced by a conservative, and we get the filibuster killed and reword "in jurisdiction of" sometime in the 2030s, and we can end birthright citizenship.
They’ll just cancel it at that point, knowing there’s no way of negotiating.
Then have a friend or family member sign up for a new contract at the same address.
They continued to phone and I sent a recorded delivery letter to their head office and still they tried to phone even when I refused to provide answers to their security questions.
My last DD after 25 plus years is on the 7th July and they will not get another penny
Shocking behaviour and frankly unacceptable
I have made some passable amber / skin contact Melon B at home (not for sale). The variety suits it quite well.
EDIT: just ordered some Mtsvane with dinner and waitress asked "do you want a litre?" Wouldn't get that question in a Turkish restaurant.
What this court is is what it has been since the last appointment - three who will take the GOP position no matter what, three who will take the Dem position no matter what - and three who will decide based on what the law actually is.
That's obviously not as good as having zero, zero and nine, but it's probably the best we can hope for under current conditions.
The idea that "Trump will get his way because the GOP controls SCOTUS" has been clearly shown in the latest batch of judgments to be what it always was - complete bollocks.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-current-politics-ii.525535/page-169#post-26730838
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-current-politics-ii.525535/page-169#post-26732365
I cannot think it at all likely they each get one of the Great Offices of State, however. Burnham will be (or ought to be) picking the most effective and balanced team, not simply picking the stars. It's the difference between Fantasy Football and the World Cup.
Hmmm. Thinks....
So Rachel Reeves's successor is...Rachel Reeves?
Let's hope it's the Sultans of Spin who are determining the odds, rather than Ed's actual chances.
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones..
Hunt wasnt so bad but Zahawi and Kwarteng were.
Make sure your communications preferences are set so Sky can contact you
1) Let your contract end and within 48 hours (often much quicker) Sky will send you a winback offer which is the best price you can get.
or
2) Go on the Virgin Media or EE website and price up their new joiners prices, knock £15 quid off saying you're getting a discount for being a O2 or EE customer and tell Sky that's why you're leaving
(My way is actually get a friend to work for Sky and get you the friends and family discount), I am currently paying £28.50 for the full Sky package, entertainment channels, sports, cinema, UHD etc.
are at each other's throatshave creative differences.(Remember, if someone isn't an MP, it's pointless even considering them when it comes to next leader.)
https://x.com/mykhailorohoza/status/2071915857102451080
There’s also a crazy - but uncorroborated - story of a swarm of tiny Ukranian drones that look like a flock of birds, that landed on a group of aircraft at a Russian base.
https://x.com/jalle51/status/2071937644339073239
If that last one stands up to scrutiny, it’s a total gamechanger in military warfare.
More interesting to me is if Burnham can ignore Miliband's perceived political baggage if he also thinks Miliband is a competent technocratic choice as CoE, which he presumably does.
Credit where credit is due, since he was essentially the swing vote. (ACB, I think, actually has principles, even if I don't much like most of them.)
That such a clearcut issue should be decided on a 5/4 vote is in itself pretty shocking to me.
Starmer: bot
Reeves: bot
Streeting: human
Philipson: bot - the sharp bob makes her a cool bot though
Lammy: human
Ed Miliband: Human but nerd
Burnham: human
Nandy: human
Cooper: hmm, robot attributes but human just about
Mahmood: human
Yeah there's a bunch of others too: Heidi (human), Reynolds (human) etc but I can't be bothered to list them all.
But they need more humans at the top.
I'd rather they bring back Ed Balls than David Miliband to be honest
The need for the world - not just the UK, but like defence it requires us all to play a role - to get on top of emissions and steer us away from apocalypse is surely as starkly obvious this year as it's ever been.
Not quite what I wanted but saves running four different accounts and possible interruptions to service.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/26/andy-burnham-long-coup-chaotic-year-long-project-return-him-westminster
The one that is more likely to have been strung along is Streeting, who was a genuine rival and after Starmer threw in the towel could potentially have had another stab at getting 81 nominations. Streeting chose instead to ingratiate himself to Burnham but I doubt if that will count for much now. E Miliband would only have challenged in the event that Burnham could not have stood and Streeting had forced a contest.
Alito's dissent gives the game away:
"This Court adopts a rule that even England abandoned"
Yeah. England changed the ancient common law rule by passing a law.
Not by asking their courts to rewrite history.
https://x.com/ASFleischman/status/2071972339093258465
That just ignores the entirety of US constitutional law, and justifies it by saying, "but what about England ?".
Absolutely nuts that a Supreme Court Justice can just wave away the plain text of the constitution in that manner.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/06/30/harry-brook-i-want-to-be-england-test-captain/
And away with the faries.
To become the only centre of world news again he would have to have a coup or similar to void the November elections and then do something to fix the 2028 election.
I think there is a working assumption that unless something 1930s German happens, the next interesting question will be 'Who clears up the mess, and how do they go about it, and whose career and reputation goes down with him?'.
And I think Brendon McCullum has run his course as well.
Time for Richard Gould to absolutely grovel to Alec Stewart and Richard Dawson. And if he can't get them, to Rahul Dravid and Gary Kirsten.
And when that is sorted, we can work out who the new captain should be.
Hint - it should not be HArry Brook. The man has the attention span as well as the sense of a concussed goldfish.
Make Andy Flower England test coach again.
And their best player, Folarin Balogun, only fluked even that:-
Balogun was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Nigerian parents. His parents were living in London, but visited New York when his mother was seven months pregnant. However, on their intended return flight, airline staff refused his mother permission to fly due to safety concerns over her given her pregnancy was too advanced at that time, and he was therefore born in New York. He returned to the United Kingdom with his parents when he was two months old, growing up in London, England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folarin_Balogun
Well ok, there's 3 of them. Not as many as the high days of Graham/Graeme in the England cricketing world of the 1990s. Gooch, Thorpe, Hick, Dilley, (foxy) Fowler, Swann, Rose, Cowdrey...
But this isn't even arguable. Anyone born in the US is a US citizen. That's what it says in black and white and plain English.
Just as anyone is entitled to bear arms.
Are they laws we would have today? No.
Are they sensible laws? The first arguably no, the second definitely no (the Second Amendment is the craziest law ever proposed, never mind made, not forgetting the legislature of Indiana wanted to make pi=4).
Are they stuck with them because their constitution? Yes.
A double hundred (away to India) in his penultimate test and was dropped to make way for some rebel tourists.