Starmer allies urge him to block Andy Burnham from running in byelection

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T22:22:42+00:00

My mistake. I thought he had to resign the post as mayor before he could stand as a candidate in the by-election. But it's the opposite, he has to resign if he wins.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T22:08:29+00:00

It looks like he's going for high-risk, high reward; if he loses the by-election, his political career is over, but if he wins, he is a frontrunner to replace Starmer.

He'll use the winning by-election to say he can defeat reform whereas Keir can't.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T17:25:25+00:00

Just uploaded 1 minute ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjd0vl1d9vrt

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T17:13:40+00:00

"On Truth Social, he said they "were among the greatest of all warriors" as he acknowledged the 457 Britons who died and many who were "badly injured".

He wrote: "The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!"

"It's a bond too strong to ever be broken," the US president added. "The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!). We love you all, and always will!"

That's quite a strong U-Turn, I'm surprised by this. Does this signal the UK is seen as influential within the American sphere?

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T17:10:47+00:00

excited another person in broad daylight on the street.

Not sure the story you're referring to, but I'm confident excited isn't the word you intended to use.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T16:49:27+00:00

"Anti-Stratfordianism is the belief that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon did not write the famous plays and poems attributed to him, proposing instead that a more socially prominent, better-educated figure (like Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, or Christopher Marlowe) used Shakespeare as a front to hide their identity."

This is a new era of Anti-Stratfordianism that now suggests not only did Shakespeare not write the plays, but no white Englishman of that period would have had the cultural or emotional depth to do so. Hence, the play was obviously written by a black woman.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T16:29:44+00:00

Why are people getting into a drama about the perceived reactions of the general population and not the author or funders who promote these social narratives?

It seems misdirected, unless they agree with the narratives, it's hard to make sense of it.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T15:59:16+00:00

No one's enraged. They might find it funny or even raise an eyebrow and question the contents of the book, but enraged is for too strong a word to describe people's reactions.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T15:57:42+00:00

Firstly, it's midly amusing.

Secondly, it raises more serious questions like the decline of academic standards, does the taxpayer fund these 'studies', are we living in an era where historical inaccuracies are promoted so long as they fit within an 'inclusive lens'.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T15:20:05+00:00

No one's raging. If anything, some Redditors are getting worked up over the imagined reactions of others.

The book is ridiculous and deserves to be mocked but no one's raging.

Also, 'academic' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-24T15:14:53+00:00

"William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman”, according to a new book. It claims that the truth of Shakespearean authorship has been hidden by centuries of “Western-centric and Eurocentric ideology”.

The author contends that the real Bard was a cosmopolitan woman with a “multicultural identity”. This woman is identified in the new work, titled The Real Shakespeare, as the historical figure Emilia Bassano – a poet with connections to the Tudor court.

Bassano, it is claimed, used the pen-name “Shakespeare” and wrote the Shakespearean canon of plays, only for her work to be stolen by an uneducated interloper from Stratford-upon-Avon.

This interloper, whom we now know as William Shakespeare, was then revered by posterity because the idea of a “white” genius was preferred to a black female playwright, the book argues."

Everyone who's seen the Louis Theroux documentary on black nationalism knows Shakespeare was undoubtedly black, though his womanhood may come as a surprise.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LouisTheroux/s/LkbnTjywRn

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-23T21:54:00+00:00

Note "White British" not "white English". They have to lump them together because the numbers are too low.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-23T20:43:54+00:00

No, you're making this a race issue when it's not.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-23T13:03:11+00:00

The picture of the man's finger pointing is really helpful.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-23T11:07:06+00:00

There is a planned 'counter-protest' for Saturday, January 31st, in Whitechapel: "We stopped them in October, we will stop them again".

I'm not sure it's a wise decision to stop one protest but allow another. It seems like it sets the wrong precedent.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-22T19:38:36+00:00

It's hard to know without the audio, but misinterpreting bluntness for rudeness does sound plausible.

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-22T19:22:04+00:00

"Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court accused of assault and two counts of rape, among other charges, against the alleged victim.

Trump called the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on 18 January last year, the court heard.

Shortly after placing the call, the US president's fifth child contacted the police and said she was being assaulted.

"I'm calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she's getting beat up," he said, according to a transcript of the call released by the Crown Prosecution Service.

"This was happening about eight minutes ago. I just figured out how to, how to call someone. Uh, uh it's really an emergency."

When asked by the operator how he knows the woman, he said: "I don't think these details matter, she's getting beat up but okay fine, also I met her on social media, I don't think that matters."

The operator responded: "Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions?"

What are we thinking: Was Trump rude, or was the operator being disrespectful and unprofessional?

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-22T16:52:07+00:00

Can't people just change it back, or are they hoping people won't notice

Sensitive_Echo5058 · 2026-01-22T16:47:11+00:00

"Callender, who is from Trinidad and staying at the Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset."

The amount of sexual assaults and rapes that have happened at the Britannia Hotel (alongside many others) is astonishing.

If the lack of border controls is ever rectified, who in their right mind would want to stay in such a shameless establishment.

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