Joe Ryle

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “We received a letter today demanding that Lamine Yamal be suspended because he raised the Palestinian flag yesterday during the celebrations of FC Barcelona. I think this is something laughable — asking me to suspend a player simply for raising the Palestinian flag. I believe FIFA should instead be contacted to prevent you from participating in football because of what you have been doing for more than three years: systematic killing and genocide carried out in the most horrific ways. Lamine Yamal will be honored, and this flag will become an icon of celebrations in the streets of Spain from today onward.”

AI data centres are now using 6% of electricity supply in the UK and US. Totally unsustainable! theguardian.com/technology/202…

Of course we’ve heard nothing from Burnham. He’s had to use Avanti West Coast WiFi most of the day.

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

I have no particular animus against Burnham, but if you're a sitting MP and look around at your actually eligible colleagues and think "none of these people could do any better as PM" then that should probably ring some alarm bells about the quality of the PLP.

Lamine Yamal raises the Palestinian flag during Barcelona’s league title parade 🇵🇸

Would Andy Burnham fix Labour's problems? There are strong reasons to be sceptical.

The only thing clear and obvious is that VAR has killed football.

The only solution is full abolition.

"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." - David Graeber (from 2020)

🚨 BREAKING: Labour has lost the Lewisham mayoralty to Green Party's Liam Shrivastava It had been Labour since its creation 22 years ago 🟢 GRN: 35,265 (40.4%) 🔴 LAB: 30,374 (34.8%) 🟣 RFM: 7,288 (8.4%) 🟠 LDM: 6,323 (7.3%) 🔵 CON: 4,655 (5.3%)

.@ZackPolanski is spot on here, the Greens aren't splitting the left vote because this Labour party isn't left wing.

We're now getting a significant number of Labour MPs calling for Starmer to go or set out a timetable.

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

**Thumping victory for first four-day week council** This is a major victory for the Liberal Democrats, who championed the policy, and a clear rejection of attempts by opponents to block it. Other councils across the country should now step up and follow their lead!

Reminder that we proved everything she says in the world’s largest trial of a 4-day week back in 2022.

On May 1st, 1926, Henry Ford became the first major employer to announce a 5-day week in his factories (down from 6). So: Happy 100th Birthday to the 5-day week. Now, please retire. 🎈

Today marks 100 years of the weekend. We’ve assembled outside Ford’s Dagenham plant - the birthplace of the five-day week - to say: a century of this model is enough. The world has changed. Technology has advanced. It’s time our working week caught up. The four-day week is no longer a radical idea. It’s already been implemented by hundreds of businesses and is long overdue.

100 years of the five-day week is enough. Technology has moved on and it’s time the working week did too. The @4Day_Week isn’t radical anymore. It’s long overdue.

Remember: they thought moving from a 6-day to a 5-day week wouldn’t work in 1926. 🧵 ⬇️