Crisis briefing
The PM is on the brink.
Good afternoon. It is one of those days in British politics. We have you covered. Here is a selection of the articles we’ve published.
Yesterday morning, Keir Starmer delivered the speech that was meant to save his career – and didn’t. Our political editor called the putsch that evening: “It’s happening”. Sadiq Khan told us that ten years is “not realistic” for Starmer anymore.
Jeremy Gilbert has opined that the solution is a caretaker premiership by Ed Miliband. Andrew Murray, a former point man for Jeremy Corbyn, has declared that Starmer will be remembered as a pub quiz question.
To understand the way the herd seems to be moving, try Matthew Lawrence’s longread: “The case for Manchesterism”.
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Thank you,
Tom
It's bewildering how so many politicians can live with themselves, let alone sleep well at night, and even attend religious services seemingly in good conscience — especially those faiths that teach utmost compassion and charity.
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ODE to the POLITICAL ANIMAL
Politics is ‘the art of compromise’
politics at its moral peak
though this moral peak
indeed lies below a dead sea’s level,
but the compromise of ethics, morals
thus human(e) integrity is politics
at its natural successful state
—a state in which the media beast
must be fed, will feast from
the politicians’ tin can
filled with naught but the spin man
of and for the political animal.
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As for the human species itself, along with our ‘intelligence’ comes a proportionate reprehensible potential for evil behavior, e.g. malice for malice’s sake. With our four-legged friends, however, there definitely is a beautiful absence of that undesirable distinctly human trait. While animals can react violently, it is typically due to reactive distrust/dislike or necessity/sustenance. But leave it to us humans, with our greater ‘thinking’ capacity, to commit a spiteful act, even if only because we can.
Starmer needs to die in absolute screaming agony the arsehole deserves no better,hanging'drawing and quartering would work well.