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Okay, it's just an ankle fracture. I'll have to wear a boot for a few weeks. Okay, it's a fibula fracture too. I'll be in a cast a few weeks longer. Okay, I have orthopaedic surgery today. Okay.

Zack Polanski, and the Greens under his leadership, are not ready for primetime, and it is a tragedy that interesting ideas that may improve this country greatly will get lost in the wreckage left behind by this fact.

This sounds like Dan has been at the ket, but read to the end - he's describing adult social care. This system ate every penny my parents had, and their home. Meanwhile my auntie - pretty much the same age and circumstances - paid nothing. It's chaos. I don't have any answer. But somebody must.

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Aha, similar to the American use of the word 'drought' in the same context

That's not a serving, that's a sniff.

😂 Ouch, I can feel the burn from here.

Well this is a doozy

No shit? Character who saw the way that both his grandfather and his mentor lost their hands designs a weapon that mitigates the danger of losing his hand? Wow.

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

Aw man I didn't even realise I missed these

In which Darren Jones gives me the political version of The Ick.

How about Number 10 suggests that Ed Miliband steps down when Donald Trump does?

What on earth happened to the notion of a government - any government - doing something, not because of the optics, but because it's the right thing to do?

And then there's retaining Lisa Nandy at DCMS, oy.

...and beyond 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙌🇪🇸

On balance, yeah. And perhaps I am too hopeful. But I'm going to hold off on fixed judgements until he's actually made substantive decisions.

Right now, everything is about the markets, because as we've seen before on the other team it takes very little to spook them. If he's going to make any seriously radical choices he's going to have to pay some lip service to the ideas of stability and continuity.

His speech was a tad Blue Labour coded, wasn't it? Still I think it's a bit early to say definitively whether that is where his leadership will be centered, or if it's rhetorical framing to keep the markets calm

Seems to me that Starmer did ultimately end factionalism in the party. By the end of his tenure we were largely united around the idea that he had to go.