John McTernan

Morgan always worth reading:

BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

In the 15 years I've been coming to Labour conference, this is the most drama free one I can remember. I've been to conferences that were so tense I burst into tears as soon as I got home. But this year everyone is just bobbing along nicely

As @johnmct.bsky.social says 👇🏽 “It would be foolish to go for an early election…Burnham needs to make the changes…Re-industrialisation — manufacturing, services and creative industries alike — has to get motoring, fuelled by rapid expansion of renewable energy.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Discovery after 30 documented games (my partner has won 22, me eight): our Scrabble set is missing one “E” and two “Ns”. Considering taking my case to the Court of Arbitration in Sport.

🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...

Working on the contents pages for my forthcoming book, GREENSHIRTS. Nazis. Hydroelectric dams. HP Lovecraft. Vikings. Mussolini. Deep Ecology. Trump. The Unabomber. Folklore. The National Front. Tarka The Otter. A RICH STEW INDEED.

These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.

Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.

Sunak's says his inclination was to ignore the argunent that he couldnt be English because he was brown & Hindu [as attention-seeking] but he recognises it should be addressed, about British civic citizenship ane identity & also about the case for an inclusive English identity too.

This

As President John F. Kennedy flicks through that day’s edition of the Dallas Morning News, he pauses and looks up at his wife. With evident frustration, he says, “We’re headed into nut country.” Lovely guest post by @4hundredblows.bsky.social

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It would be great if someone could sort Honor Oak Park, tbh!

Need to persuade my friends to sell their beautiful house in Streatham after I spent a good three minutes trying to break into one of their neighbours’ cabs under the mistaken belief it was my Uber. Tips on how to do so welcome.

🚨BREAKING: In a major win for voters, the Supreme Court Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate its mail voting restrictions ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is great identifying the problem - one the UK shares with the US and other countries - although the solution remains elusive www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

terrible picture of both of us BUT utterly delightful event and also had a very pleasant pint with some lovely people afterwards, at which Henry befriended some Canadians

Why can't they integrate?

🚨BREAKING: Washington DC federal court BLOCKS Postal Service mail-in ballot rule. First court to prohibit USPS from taking steps to allow voluntary compliance with anti-voting rule. A victory for ELG and our clients DSCC, DCCC, DNC, DGA and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries!

Trump says AI’s only needed “guardrails” are a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” referring to himself. He also alleges a conspiracy against AI and data centers, and implies that Americans who are against them are “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers.”

The best sermon is the one you live. I preached this morning. But my real sermon happened across Texas this week, as our campaign collected 20,000 pounds of groceries for our neighbors. As scripture says, “faith without works is dead.”

Sometimes I think 'all that Andy Burnham has done is bring professionalism and direction to the same policy mix as Keir Starmer', then I remember that the absence of 'professionalism' cost £860k on this one instance alone.

So we need some kind of coordination mechanism for fiscal and monetary policy. The institutional design part is tricky and there are lots of ways to do it. We proposed an 'economic policy coordination committee' here, but there are many other possible design options. fabians.org.uk/publication/...

I think that we have to accept that monetary and fiscal affect each other in important and unavoidable ways. This was true pre-QE, but became impossible to ignore post-QE. Global supply shocks -- which aren't going away -- mean distributional effects of price increases need a partly fiscal response.

The Bank of England has been operationally independent for almost 30 years. For almost two thirds of that time, QE has been a thing.

*NEW* Stewart Lee column When the rightwing pro-Christian protesters are standing outside the rightwing pro-Christian newspaper demanding to be bought a house, you hardly need a satirist to intervene… 🔗 1/4

In a recent declaration, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) told a federal judge that, during the week of Sept. 6, it expected to launch an online portal that’s crucial to enforcing and complying with its new mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez: Jimmy Kimmel’s decision to keep his interview w/ a Senate candidate off the air shows just how far this Admin's campaign of censorship & control has gone. This is now the 2nd time..a late-night host has disclosed they had to bury an interview because of FCC intimidation

M&S 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil Crisps with Lobster. Essentially tastes like a posh version of scampi fries. Recommend.

Reminded of the existence of this. Which I read (apparently) 21 years ago. Why can’t we have a movie of this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superma...

🎉 The Festival of Ideas is coming! 🌹 In just over two weeks, The Fabian Society will return to Liverpool for our biggest and boldest Labour Party Conference programme ever - all under one roof at The Bluecoat. 🧵

“We are the people of England/And we don’t really have a view yet/Smile at us, pay us, pass us/Rest assured we’ll soon forget.” cc @ciaranm.bsky.social

The Hugging Face hack is fascinating and has deeply worrying implications. Someone needs to do a long read on it so everyone can understand clearly what happened.

"Mr Elledge’s fondness for obscure trivia is among this book’s many delights." Look at me, Marge, I'm in the Economist. Did you know that cities are at a crossroads?

Shamelessly sold as Poe, a magnificent adaption of H.P Lovecrafts The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Cracking cast but Cthulhu's cameo steals it. 1963. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

David's tragedy here is a lesson for us all. If you're planning on going to a thing where you know there'll be no trouble getting in, BUY A TICKET. The number of stories I've heard of events cancelled due to lack of interest, and then a load of people pop up to say "Oh I meant to book that!"

share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your support

Reform mired in scandal. A Labour government that literally cannot do the most basic bits of “are you a state?” i.e. arrest people who blockade infrastructure and intimidate the free press. Literally everyone in politics is optimising towards a Conservative victory other than Kemi Badenoch.

President Donald Trump pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The promise, made at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, could cost over $1 trillion and would require congressional approval.