Daniel McElroy

It is funny having a PM who actually has an idea of how to do politics and wants to do something with the country. If Burnham finds a way through the current challenging economic/fiscal moment he has all the tools to be, shockingly, good at the job.

I know Burnham has his flaws, may well come unstuck etc but a lot of the right-wing reaction to him is "how dare you do politics, that's so unfair!"

This man has the look of someone who wants to sell a town a railroad

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

Not to open oneself up to accusations of being right-wing, but a minimum wage of nearly £30,000 a year and a higher rate tax bracket of £50,000 does look a little off

CMAT tiny desk concert and she plays Lord Let That Tesla Crash? I’m gobsmacked. She is such a great performer, nailed the set and chose the best songs for it.

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

"If you believe you've been in an accident that wasn't your fault, call Claims Direct on 0800 630 630"

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Jair Bolsonaro still unsure whether to go for a celebratory trip to the hospital or a consolatory trip to the hospital

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

hello from upstate New York:

Your age divide is little baby watch this

It's impossible to imagine a Conservative leader having made better decisions over the past two years than the ones Kemi Badenoch has, apparently:

Tell you what's really good for recovering from anxiety and depression, financial instability.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Abandoned cordons sanitaire everywhere you look:

One: this is welcome Two: Burnham is the first PM in some time who’s remembered that he’s PM, so can set the agenda.

I see the BBC that impartially blurs political symbols, slogans and logos of all kinds has entered its “you don’t get on camera without wearing the symbol of the Royal British Legion” period again

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Maya voting for Bash was so incredibly suspicious I will be amazed if this doesn’t get brought up against her #CelebrityTraitors

It’s actually hard to put into words how irredeemably vile this man is

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

incredible that there are two and a bit episodes left and the three remaining Traitors have received a total of zero votes between them at the roundtable throughout the entire game #CelebrityTraitors

why am I genuinely emotional about Miranda Hart being fake murdered? #CelebrityTraitors

I’m so gutted about Miranda. Makes sense to kill her but god, she was the best of the bunch. #CelebrityTraitors

It’s fun that you can now look at basically any nonsense being peddled by a major party and pinpoint its cause to a particular social media site. This is Facebook nonsense, for example.

There's going to be a lot of this kind of shit in the next month and it's all going to fail, like all their Jan 6th court cases. Just shows how desperate they are.

I appreciate he wants a simple strong narrative for why he is a change, but Burnhamism as an idea (ending neoliberalism) is very different to Burnhamism in practice (more akin to business friendly socialism).

To borrow a policy from Stephen Bush, the is one type of learning that is most likely to actually help someone into a job and it isn't an NVQ in bricklaying. Give driving lessons to NEETs.

#CelebrityTraitors

We’re now in year seven of JK Rowling playing the victim and finding pseudo-progressive justifications for bigotry. Not an interesting thought in her head

But can they Deliver At Pace and See the bigger picture?

Reform UK Oxford will host a talk in November criticising "DEI" by the Nathan Cofnas, who describes his belief in + commitment to biological racism as "race realism", writing "in a meritocracy, blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Sorry I know they’re menaces but I just find their dynamic so unbelievably charming. I would watch a romcom with them in it.

You might like to remember this next time you hear someone claiming that net-zero is driving up bills

Huge 11pt Dem lead in today's NYT/Siena poll. They find (as I wrote about last month, with our YouGov data), that Trump's steepest losses in 2025 were with non-white voters, while in 2026 they are with white voters www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...