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Labour Control vs Government Improv as a Tell‑All Ignites; MAGA Therapy Gets Briefings; Kansas Officers Injured; NHS Strikes Bite; Wales Edge Japan
Labour Control Meets Government Improv, and a Book Tosses a Match
Inside Labour, the vibe is rigid control, while the government feels like strategy-free jazz. A new book by Paul Holden, The Fraud, alleges that a hard-edged right faction around Morgan McSweeney used astroturf outfits to inflate claims of antisemitism and marginalize the left, helping suspend Jeremy Corbyn and, the book claims, selling members a left-leaning Keir Starmer who then pivoted right in power. The same stitch-up culture is flagged in Wales, from historic leadership fixes to recent selection rows, with apparatchiks portrayed as loyal to Starmer over Welsh leadership. Meanwhile, the fiscal side looks like budgetary hokey-cokey. With polls sagging and Reform UK circling, Rachel Reeves’ red lines on Income Tax became leaks, counter-leaks, and shelved hikes. U-turns on U-turns, some not even announced before being reversed. What used to be a sackable Budget leak is now a policy trial balloon factory. If this is the master plan, the control freaks run the party while the chaos merchants run the country, a combo that usually ends with the fire alarm going off.
MAGA Family Therapy, Now With Security Briefings
The Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene feud has graduated from petty sniping to personal-security-level drama. Greene says she is receiving threats after breaking with the former president on key issues, and claims private security firms have warned her about a hot bed of danger being fueled and egged on. Nothing says movement loyalty like threatening your own. For a coalition obsessed with purity tests, this is the part where the graders start eating the exam.
Kansas Shooting Injures Four Officers, No Ongoing Threat Reported
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is probing a Saturday morning shooting at a home near 113th Street and S Topeka Boulevard in Osage County. Three Osage County sheriff’s deputies and a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper were wounded. Their conditions have not been released. Authorities say there is no active threat to the public. It remains unclear if anyone has been arrested. Topeka police assisted and reported no injuries to their officers.
GP Strikes Clash on Air, While the NHS Bleeds Staff Off Air
A GB News debate on GP strikes and staff shortages traded sharp elbows. Dr Bhasha Mukherjee called the situation disastrous, warned of A and E avoidance and massive delays, and said the NHS is losing British-trained, world-class doctors to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Gulf, leaving behind what she termed leftover doctors. GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp rejected that implication and argued strikes harm patients, citing, she said, a six-day London stoppage that led to 373,000 cancelled outpatient and elective appointments, 140,000 added to waiting lists, and five deaths. She agreed the UK needs more training places and better hospital conditions, but said striking is not the fix. Mukherjee countered that excess deaths occur on non-strike days too and that pay and conditions have regressed since 2008, pushing new doctors out. Translation, politicians and health mandarins are rehearsing while the NHS keeps hemorrhaging staff and public trust.
Wales Edge Japan, Saved by Two Calm Heads
Wales spent most of the afternoon treating possession like a hot potato, with discipline wobbling and cohesion fraying. Japan made them scrap for every meter before Wales nicked it at the death. The player ratings land mostly in the middle, with two standouts propping up a win that felt more escape act than statement. If there was a plan, it arrived late and asked for directions.
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By IniaesLabour Control Meets Government Improv, and a Book Tosses a Match
Inside Labour, the vibe is rigid control, while the government feels like strategy-free jazz. A new book by Paul Holden, The Fraud, alleges that a hard-edged right faction around Morgan McSweeney used astroturf outfits to inflate claims of antisemitism and marginalize the left, helping suspend Jeremy Corbyn and, the book claims, selling members a left-leaning Keir Starmer who then pivoted right in power. The same stitch-up culture is flagged in Wales, from historic leadership fixes to recent selection rows, with apparatchiks portrayed as loyal to Starmer over Welsh leadership. Meanwhile, the fiscal side looks like budgetary hokey-cokey. With polls sagging and Reform UK circling, Rachel Reeves’ red lines on Income Tax became leaks, counter-leaks, and shelved hikes. U-turns on U-turns, some not even announced before being reversed. What used to be a sackable Budget leak is now a policy trial balloon factory. If this is the master plan, the control freaks run the party while the chaos merchants run the country, a combo that usually ends with the fire alarm going off.
MAGA Family Therapy, Now With Security Briefings
The Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene feud has graduated from petty sniping to personal-security-level drama. Greene says she is receiving threats after breaking with the former president on key issues, and claims private security firms have warned her about a hot bed of danger being fueled and egged on. Nothing says movement loyalty like threatening your own. For a coalition obsessed with purity tests, this is the part where the graders start eating the exam.
Kansas Shooting Injures Four Officers, No Ongoing Threat Reported
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is probing a Saturday morning shooting at a home near 113th Street and S Topeka Boulevard in Osage County. Three Osage County sheriff’s deputies and a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper were wounded. Their conditions have not been released. Authorities say there is no active threat to the public. It remains unclear if anyone has been arrested. Topeka police assisted and reported no injuries to their officers.
GP Strikes Clash on Air, While the NHS Bleeds Staff Off Air
A GB News debate on GP strikes and staff shortages traded sharp elbows. Dr Bhasha Mukherjee called the situation disastrous, warned of A and E avoidance and massive delays, and said the NHS is losing British-trained, world-class doctors to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Gulf, leaving behind what she termed leftover doctors. GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp rejected that implication and argued strikes harm patients, citing, she said, a six-day London stoppage that led to 373,000 cancelled outpatient and elective appointments, 140,000 added to waiting lists, and five deaths. She agreed the UK needs more training places and better hospital conditions, but said striking is not the fix. Mukherjee countered that excess deaths occur on non-strike days too and that pay and conditions have regressed since 2008, pushing new doctors out. Translation, politicians and health mandarins are rehearsing while the NHS keeps hemorrhaging staff and public trust.
Wales Edge Japan, Saved by Two Calm Heads
Wales spent most of the afternoon treating possession like a hot potato, with discipline wobbling and cohesion fraying. Japan made them scrap for every meter before Wales nicked it at the death. The player ratings land mostly in the middle, with two standouts propping up a win that felt more escape act than statement. If there was a plan, it arrived late and asked for directions.