Worth a reminder in these milk-livered times

Our brand-new Burnham government is surely a reminder of various Shakespearian insult generators out there on the internet. 

Worth a reminder in these milk-livered times.

Thy manners are borrowed from a goat’s backside!

Thy wits are as sharp as a mashed turnip!

Thy tongue flaps more than a sailor's laundry!

Thou jarring, milk-livered hobbledehoy!

Source - but there are others

He waxes desperate with imagination

Starmer: I’ve left Britain better than I found it

Sir Keir Starmer has claimed he is leaving Britain in a better state than when he became Prime Minister.

During his final Prime Minister’s Questions today, the outgoing Labour leader said his Government had stabilised the economy, strengthened national security and enhanced the country’s global reputation.

Since winning a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, Sir Keir’s premiership has been blighted by a series of policy about-turns and scandals.

A man who is playing a part is always ultra-anxious and he often overdoes it, because he can never quite release himself from the fear that the person to be deluded must somehow notice what he, the deceiver, so plainly sees, i.e., the deceit.

J.M.W. van der Poorten Schwartz – The Black Box Murder (1889)