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I can't speak for @greyeyemagpie.bsky.social but about the same?

Haha holy shit, what in the barrel-scraping fuck is this bollocks. BREAKING: BillYinzen could move to Gosforth, a residential area in North Newcastle.

Excited for the £30 fee discussed with (their) intermediaries.

"clubs not in talks"

If they're going to give him £300k+/week, I say let him go as soon as we have his "replacement(s)" in. Not a second before.

Reminds of that fella who was pretending Isak was going to deliver a written apology last year.

The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.

The line's going to be "vote Reform get Starmer", isn't it.

I doubt any Labour policy wonks are really scanning bsky, but Streeting will have the same problem Starmer has. He's just too Westminster to appeal to the places that already feel left behind.

I agree, but I do get the feeling that his time with us is at a natural end. If we can get a chunk of change for him to move abroad, that's a double win in my book.

I've not been plugged in, are they meaning the 5-6 out-of-contract + 2-3 "big" names? That would sound/feel right to me, squad needs a big refresh really.

I hope it's a listicle. Maybe "You'll never believe the 95 reasons protestants are done with the Pope".

I'm going to try asking nicely on Saturday.

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

It's technically accurate, and we've done the same thing before with JSA and PIP. Ultimately, people won't really care as long as the money keeps coming, but it'll help prepare for the difficult conversation we'll have to have in the next 10-20 years. #ukpolitics

Which got me thinking - we probably need to change how we talk about the state pension, otherwise the problem will persist. The gov should start referring to it as "retirement benefit" or something similar, then slowly drip-feed that over 2-3 years for adoption.

The state pension probably won't exist by the time I retire, and it's currently the single biggest line-item in the welfare budget - but people, broadly, don't think about how it works, don't consider it a benefit, and, frankly, pensioners vote.

It was quite a hard conversation to have without making her feel attacked, given how being hard-working and taking no hand-outs is intrinsic to her identity.

When challenged on that, it turns out she'd just not really thought about where that money comes from and sort of assumed it came from the taxes she'd paid when she was working.

Not too long ago, I was talking to my grandma about WFA and she thought she should get it because "she's never claimed benefits in her life" despite getting the state pension.