There are no new revelations in this report in #TheObserver. But it is notable for all the buck-passing. #LibDems and civil xervants and #Conservatives are all peen to tell how rapidly they dumped #AndrewMountbattenWindsor, after they took over from Labour.
#TheObserver's #AndrewRawnsley rarely brings fresh insight. His talent is some gently amusing mild snark, kept within the limits of decorum in the drawing rooms of The Observer's genteel readers.
#Rawnsley's column today about the still-undead #Starmer raises a few weak smiles. "Erwin Schrödinger gave us his famous cat, which is simultaneously alive and dead. The curious case of Sir Keir Starmer presents us with Schrödinger’s prime minister."
https://archive.is/kmTZK / https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/schrodingers-prime-minister-is-poised-between-survival-and-collapse
I suppose there had to be a slot somewhere for some #Starmer loyalist to defend their boy. Here it is, in #TheObserver: Starmer's biographer #TomBaldwin explains how everything is the fault of everyone except Starmer. 🙄 Especially #GordonBrown.
https://archive.is/ZVvkP / https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/the-mandelson-scandal-is-not-starmers-to-answer-for
To be fair, the desperation is quite funny. Not belly laugh funny, but faint smile funny.
#Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.
But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.
That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver https://archive.is/0071G
And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_(Amendment)_Act_1974 #iepol #uspol
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@ChrisMayLA6 It's self-entitled delusion. #TheObserver is cynically flattering the #europhile fanaticism of its dwindling readership.
Any UK readmission will mean not just an end to UK opt-outs. It would require evidence of a sustained cross-party political consensus for #EU membership, so that the UK could be relied on to not resume its #MillwallFC-style hooliganism in EU institutions. That consensus is not just absent; it's unforeseeable.
These people are mad. England is #TheMadCountry
#TheObserver:
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Musk has shut Doge – but what has he done with the data?
The department was a historically bad example of how not to reform government – even the Trump cabinet is washing its hands of it
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https://observer.co.uk/news/business/article/musk-has-shut-doge--but-what-has-he-done-with-the-data
14.12.2025
#Data #democracy #DOGE #FailedState #government #IT #Musk #politics #taxpayer #USA
Why Newspapers Are Lying to You: Luxury vs. Survival | The Observer 2025 Breakdown
https://www.deeppressanalysis.com
#MediaManipulation #TheObserver #UKPolitics #EconomicCrisis #SocialInequality #KeirStarmer #Journalism #DeepDive
Muere el fotógrafo Martin Parr, el cronista de la división de clases sociales y de la excentricidad
"We have become careless of what matters. Never again? From east to west, bullies dominate. International institutions have been allowed to wither. In the US, powerful voices echo Nazi justifications for overriding democracy."
November 9, 2025
/by #TheObserver
Claire McNab
Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda
RTN
Deep Press Analysis
EL PAÍS: el periódico global
Christian Frank