Angela Rayner’s Liz Truss problem – politicalbetting.com
Angela Rayner’s Liz Truss problem – politicalbetting.com
If Sir Keir Starmer ceases to be Labour leader before the next general election then I expect Angela Rayner would be the likeliest candidate to replace him yet during the white heat of a leadership election campaign I can see this comments being used against her by her Labour rivals.
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https://x.com/EnolaJon/status/2047287639884054773
https://x.com/hackneyabbott/status/2047296729251205200
When the herd moves, it moves...
But I am glad to see that they are strong believers in copyright enforcement, that helps keep lawyers in business.
However, if a Swiss bank and the Telegraph are opposed I may have to think again.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2026/03/23/uae-and-saudi-chart-new-trade-routes-as-hormuz-disruption-grows/
She’s so authentic and working class, working class communities should love her.
Nah. She’s awful
She’d be labours Liz Truss.
"Mandelson was brought back into the fold by Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney."
This is from The Times in February 2021.
When I asked a Starmer aide about it at the time, they replied:
"You do know citing stuff from @Gabriel_Pogrund isn't gospel, yeah?"
The club will argue that they’re making a huge effort to confront racism, and point to a number of stadium bans and withdrawn memberships in recent years.
Cancel your vacation !
My time will be sparse that weekend as I’ve already negotiated time to watch the Miami sprint race and Grand Prix next weekend.
* (unless someone puts out a mean leaflet about us in which case we will sue the b*******)
Hordes of retirees doing the same thing (I’m on a popular route), I’m getting a bit tired of the constant greetings and pleasantries. Great to see though and the pubs are doing a decent trade off the back of it. And that’s before you add in all the walkers too.
If the oil price does go mental this could be another good year for outdoor activities, domestic holidays, as well as renewables. Some of the best scenery and history in the world is never more than a day’s cycle away.
But you can't be sued for libel.
Corporate bodies can sue, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013
https://x.com/marinetraffic/status/2046220922466504817
They offloaded passengers and hotel staff, kept a minimum navigation and engineering crew onboard, and stayed as close to the Omani coast as possible.
Two of them were visible from my house for the past seven weeks, it must have cost the operators millions of dollars to have them stuck.
The comparison is doing most of the work. Truss managed to shred fiscal credibility in public, in real time, with actual policy decisions. There’s no evidence of anything comparable here.
What you can see is how useful the line is. “Markets nervous about Rayner” is tidy, repeatable, and lands easily in a leadership contest. It doesn’t need much behind it to stick.
Feels like a narrative looking for weight rather than weight producing the narrative.
Also, it’s Thursday afternoon and the sun’s out, and we’re all pretending a broker note is a major political event. That probably says enough.
I cycled 20 miles to the in laws yesterday. Loved the cycle but it was fucking freezing.
This may be the year I get rid of my car as I cycle more than I drive.
(Not sure how the franchise mechanisms work - maybe protected before contracts come to an end?)
Partly because I have just been told the cost of the trip, WERE I paying (I am not paying)
Somewhere between £30,000-£35,000. For a week
The Letby saga continues…
If Letby is actually innocent, there's no case for gross negligence because she wasn't stopped.
https://x.com/nafovoyager/status/2047267920196112562
That’s at least three current massive fires at oil facilities, plus the chemical factory.
https://x.com/SebJohnsonUK/status/2047298147102142614?s=20
Probably it is. I did the maiden voyage of the Greg Mortimer to Antarctica, with Antarctic sea kayaking led by the man who invented Antarctic sea-kayaying. That was about £20,000 back then and might be £30k now, but it's nearly two weeks
Private helicoptering around the Whitsundays? My personal safari right across Zambia with my own little aircraft at various points? The Oberoi-only jaunt across north India?
All insanely expensive, were I paying, but I still think this tops out. Wow
The case against the bosses is presumably that the doctors' concerns were ignored allowing more babies to be harmed or killed. I think that's a tough one. At the time there were significant voices supporting Letby (i.e. proclaiming her innocence) such as the nursing manager. Its also the case to ask this - if the doctors genuinely believed that Letby was harming babies why didn't THEY go to the police?
how much money can be incinerated in seven days without technically buying anything.
Which shows what a different world the super-rich inhabit.
Charter a 200’ yacht for the Monaco GP weekend, you can burn several million.
The hotel room prices alone were shocking, at those prices you’d expect at lest six hookers in my room.
I’ve stayed at Claridge’s and the Burj Khalifa and the Vegas prices made those look like a Premier Inn.
The G K Chesterton story of a murderer who hid their crime by arranging battle on the same spot comes to mind.
Anyone can set up something almost the same, with a better implementation, and put them out of business overnight. How much IP do they own on the *concept* of using words to describe a location?
One of the management being arrested for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice means more than being a bit casual, it surely means an active cover up.
Tiny but exclusive African lodges and Arctic/Pacific/Caribbean private islands etc
"In his treatment of civil servants Sir Keir has started to resemble Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, at the end of “The Last King Of Scotland”. “You should have told me not to throw the Asians out, in the first place.” “I did!” shrieked the adviser. “But you did not persuade me!"
How does 'tax and spend' tank the pound? Spend and not tax (à la Truss) would tank the pound; tax and spend has not tanked the euro.
Don't forget Truss's budget was the "most Conservative budget" since 1986. So said Chris Evans/ Allister Heath, Ted Verity and GB News.
Russell Brand says he had ‘exploitative’ consensual sex with girl, 16, at height of his fame
Brand, who will be tried in October over allegations of rape and sexual assault, tells podcast he slept with 16-year-old when he was 30
Russell Brand said he had “exploitative” consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl at the height of his fame.
The comedian, actor and podcaster, 50, will be tried in the autumn over allegations of rape and sexual assault made against him by six women. Brand denies all the charges, which date from 1999 to 2009. Speaking about his past actions in an appearance on the YouTube show of the US journalist Megyn Kelly, Brand described himself “selfish” and an “exploiter of women”.
He said: “I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30. When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/23/russell-brand-says-he-had-exploitative-consensual-sex-with-girl-16-at-height-of-his-fame?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Got to say that doesn’t surprise me
https://what3words.com/panning.tests.education
Probably why they can't monetize it tbh
You also don’t want to be in a landmark hotel when the bombs are still flying, you need to time your stays carefully for the ceasefire.
Would definitely recommend Emirates Palace though, that was a totally crazy place, standing out in a country of totally crazy places. Was genuinely like staying in an actual palace for the weekend.
But there does need to be some check that it is the correct formulation of the three words and not in Zimbabwe. Maybe with a bit of thought there could have been a country code - or even what 4 words with the country as word one? That would then flag up any errors.
It really needed a military application - to drop a bomb on the what three words location.
https://x.com/AvaSantina/status/2047330887323295928
NEW: Sadiq Khan tells me he would never have appointed Peter Mandelson.
“It’s been an omnishambles start to finish.
“Park for a second any distress to the offence caused to any victim of Epstein…it’s clear his business interests were of concern.”
https://x.com/lydiamoynihan/status/2047051163728506997
https://x.com/piratewires/status/2047027303306363352
The problem is when it gives you a location that's only ~50 miles wrong. That's very plausible as a result and so you don't question it.
The problems with their implementation (three words from a largeish word set, including plurals) is that it's not as good as the implementation of the guy whose idea they stole (five words from a smaller word set that was more carefully chosen to exclude homophones and plurals).
But they got to market first so a better implementation is harder to get off the ground.
And then, of course, if you can copy and paste the latitude and longitude into a text message, you don't need it anyway.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
Or is he just a clickbait activist?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/shoplifting-political-protest-microlooting-whole-foods.html
“The rich don’t play by the rules, so why should I?”
Three migrants, who illegally entered Britain on small boats, have been convicted of gang raping a woman on Brighton beach.
Iranian-born Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Egyptians Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, attacked the woman in the early hours of October 4 last year.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/bfa4e8f2-d42b-46a2-bba4-1414cdd41caf?shareToken=bba200ff47d6dd75ed85c77926177d88
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/may/23/foodanddrink.london
Maybe there was a different reference in 2004 that I followed, but it was definitely in 2004, and from the Guardian or the Observer.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/hasan-piker-will-never-be-the-democrats-joe-rogan/
https://x.com/bbcmotd/status/2047328765311918347?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
They had a Joe Rogan of the left, he was called Joe Rogan. Then the left went mad over open borders, covid lockdowns, and men in women’s sports.
Even funnier is the idea that the left needs to manufacture their own “Joe Rogan”, because they require their person to be totally on point with every message, rather than having an opinion of their own outside today’s groupthink. And they need them up and running before the mid-terms.
Rogan happened organically, he was just a comic in his house talking crap with other comics for about five years before he made any money at it.