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Finally, a proportionate response to people playing music out loud on their phone.
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Matthew Syed
@matthewsyed
Author of Rebel Ideas, Black Box Thinking, Bounce and You Are Awesome. Columnist for @TheTimes and The Sunday Times. Presenter of Sideways on @BBCRadio4
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And, as ever, @matthewsyed gets it right again....too much to hope that politicians read it and learn
thetimes.com/comment/column…
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This is where this insanity leads. People already pushing to oust Streeting if he wins the leadership election. This isn’t politics; it’s a sequence of falling dominos
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
***BREAKING: Labour’s soft-left condemns Wes Streeting’s bid for No10 and vows to oust him from Downing Street if he becomes PM*** A senior soft-left source blasts Team Streeting for their public statements calling for a “swift” and “rapid” contest before Andy Burnham can get in. The source says: “If Wes thinks he can pull off some kind of stitch up to avoid a fair process that he will have no legitimacy even if he briefly ends up in office. There would be no support for the government in the Commons and we would challenge him at the first opportunity. He’d be lucky to outlast a lettuce.” It means the Labour Party is in civil war tonight Streeting appears to be trying to force a contest before Burnham is eligible It is causing meltdown among soft-left and left MPs Senior figures on the left of the party are threatening to oust Streeting from No10 if he succeeds in his bid to be PM
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@matthewsyed That is because they never do what the people want!
Labour were sunk, not just beacuse Starmer was not up to it but dumping stuff on us, that was NOT in their manifesto #bbcbreakfast #r4today
That has been true 30 years
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The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
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@matthewsyed Is discussion of the loss of Wales, and Scotland, and Labour MPs and canvassers being told to eff off on the doorsteps in Labour’s traditional heartlands, and historic losses everywhere including parts of London just “tittle tattle”?
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Regicide is a dangerous game to play if you're on the fiscal brink - and UK is more exposed now than under Liz Truss. comment.press/brown
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Reform voters are racist apparently. As soon as I saw this insult to millions of British people (one of the least racist nations on earth) I suspected it was from an academic. It’s impossible to exaggerate how western universities became overrun with woke ideology
Alan Lester@aljhlester
Sigh. Yes Matthew Syed, people are disillusioned after decades of economic stagnation and inequality. But no, the fact Reform voters were nice to you does not mean they’re not racist too. You endorsing their scapegoating of immigrants doesn’t help. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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Staffordians are amazing people who have been utterly betrayed by a political system that forgot what it was for and who it was supposed to serve.— their Reform UK vote is a cry of despair
thetimes.com/article/01fa40…
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"Why would the Tories get into bed with a party with which, immigration aside, they have about as much in common as with Labour?
It would not 'unite the right'. It would be an incoherent mess and disintegrate within about ten minutes."
Matthew Syed:-
thetimes.com/comment/column…
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I agree with @matthewsyed in sense that the circular firing squad of digital age political media is now making the job of PM, whoever has it, almost impossible. Leaders in business do not face the same, it is hell we reserve for our political class. Something fundamental has changed here, which we need to address and discuss.
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
“The country is becoming ungovernable...” The Times's Matthew Syed says constant leadership speculation is making it harder for Prime Ministers to make tough choices. #Newsnight
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“The country is becoming ungovernable...”
The Times's Matthew Syed says constant leadership speculation is making it harder for Prime Ministers to make tough choices.
#Newsnight
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JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
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NEW: A new type of lawfare is emerging, the Wall Street Journal's editor has warned - powerful people suing for the act of reporting.
Lawsuits are arriving before a word of a story has been published, says Emma Tucker.
A depressing development:
theguardian.com/media/2026/may…
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@SeemaMisra_OBE Hi there - can you follow me so I can send a DM? Thanks
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Kemi’s media interview today was interrupted by the kind of people that shout loudest at the Hate Marches. You know, the ones that aren’t polite enough to wait ‘til the end, then ask a question, then to actually listen to the answer.
This is what happened.
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'“Keir Starmer, Jew harmer”. Really? In a world of Islamist hatred, terrorism and ancient conspiracies dressed up in modern slogans, is the PM to be held up as an enemy of Jews?'
Matthew Syed: times-comment.com/msks
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A synagogue is not an embassy.
A Jewish school is not a military target.
A Jewish child (or adult) in Britain bears no responsibility for the actions of a government thousands of miles away.
That shouldn’t need saying in 2026. It does.
Excellent piece in @thetimes by @matthewsyed
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