LilacTash

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The brilliant historian Tessa Dunlop is one of the only people I know in the media who expresses serious alarm about the climate crisis.

Listen to her!!

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@sazza_jay @MatofKilburnia Good questions - it seems strange and of obvious benefit Manchester and politicians who live in that area. Would have liked to see a process involving other northern cities.

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@ArchRose90 I’m not sure what is so difficult about wearing something a little more suitable? At his age without hitting the gym, most men benefit from some tailoring 🥺

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@JakeWSimons Moobs are out again 🙄

[Rémi Kasprzyk @KasprzykRemi]

Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.

Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.

Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.

Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.

Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.

Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.

La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.

Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.

Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.

Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
💔🌍

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@wfdobie @georgeeaton From a comms point of view this could also expose him and ‘layer up’ poor impressions - but without looking at the numbers I have no idea if it’s working 🤷🏻‍♀️

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@georgeeaton Can you tell yet? There is a lot of resistance to a PM making himself look silly. I assume it is for the greater good and more people will like it, than preferred a more serious PM. I mean we do live in a world that elected Trump and Boris Johnson 🤷🏻‍♀️

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@TedUrchin @Shivajihimself2 I think given some of the responses this cringey stuff might work 🤷🏻‍♀️. People seems to want entertainment not serious government and it’s concerning but hopefully underneath ‘supply teacher’ antics we will get some serious policy?

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@PaulLewisBorman @DrNeilStone That reflects quite badly on the population and how seriously it takes government, but I suspect you’re sadly right that it does work :-(

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@DrNeilStone No - it’s awful

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@bmay Would be good if this could stop 😳

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@Hepworthclare I assume this is meant to be better comms - lots of positive comments on the post. I’m a bit embarrassed for them having to do it, but if it serves the greater good and attracts low engagement voters who might otherwise not support Labour then maybe it’s a good tactic 🤷🏻‍♀️

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@holygraileth @MurrayC_11 Why would you say something so ill informed? I mean I assume you think it’s true - which means you should address your lack of knowledge if you want to keep commenting on politics? Or just stick to nitty Reform groups 🙏🏻

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@Thehuck_59 @LBC Is it true that Andy Burnham has not thanked Keir Starmer or acknowledged his work?

[Tommo @LUFC1992_v2]

Everyone in England right now

#WorldCupFinal

[hammy. @iamhamesh]

quite telling starmer is front and centre with zelenskyy and macron.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Comment last evening from a retired French député.

"First it was that stupid Brexit and now they force out the best Prime Minister the UK has had since Tony Blair. It's a very strange country. almost suicidal"

https://t.co/mukrnJxZhl

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive top French honour https://t.co/KT1bU2gsfH

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

I will accept Nigel Farage’s request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.

But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.

[LilacTash @suzanneorsler]

@TRobinsonNewEra That looks like you might be eligible? Have you ever thought about education?