As of noon ET, Fox News has not mentioned reports that its then-employee Tom Homan accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents as part of a corruption probe closed under the Trump administration. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

Firstly, it's 'Prime Minister Starmer' to you. Secondly you can keep your Islamophobic tropes about our country to yourself. Your dismissive response on recognising the State of Palestine, coming from a man wanted by the International Criminal Court, proves our Govt was right.

This line has been much in my mind over the last few weeks

Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah. His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

This is not narcotics policing. This is the production of politically charged snuff movies.

3. 45 year old mother of two British children who leaves country for over 90 days in whatever period Reform are using to look after sick relative, and is not allowed back in. 4. Hong Kong BNO visa holder, likely to be arrested by Chinese on return, but does not have a job meeting salary threshold

Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on: 1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa 2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

I just had a call with an immigration lawyer and an appointment on Thursday. Reform is literally threatening my ability to stay in the U.K. after 20 years and six years of settled status. But they also means I’ll be able to vote against those fuckers.

Trump boasted that he halted a war between two countries that have never fought and are 4,000 miles apart.

My partner’s path to citizenship was highly skilled migrant, indefinite leave to remain as a spouse, and then becoming a citizen. This is insane.

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Honestly fuck right off.

This view that Zarah Sultana was the naive one in the Your Party debacle needs proper challenging. She wasn't the one who thought that you could base a "progressive" coalition on the back of a group of bourgeois communalist social conservatives.

Find out just how hard you can cringe by watching GB News dickhead, Martin Daubney, saluting cars in the hope that his hero Trump is in one of them.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

This is so messed up.

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

As straightforward a case as you can find of being cancelled not because of spewing hate or celebrating murder but because the most powerful political figures in the land did not like being criticised: news.sky.com/story/jimmy-...

Feel like you’re going mad watching fiction become fact, anti-fascism become fascism, hate become love, and aggression become respect under Trump? Now you know how it feels to have spent 20 years studying Russia. And guess what? It only gets more crazy.

Was at my local body shop in Somerset and someone had taken an axe to a hatchback. Never seen that in Tottenham

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Legitimate concerns"

This whole Trump law suit is completely barking

UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂 Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.

Jacqui Smith called Musk's comments "dangerous and wrong" & "wholly unacceptable" on calling for violence. After a wobbly weekend, the pressure to notice what was said and to respond has got the government to an important baseline

Is there any chance I can persuade you to write an FT piece about how weird it is that Grok stands up to Musk more often than our government?

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

I was thinking the same. This is a moment that calls for the articulation of fundamental values. If Starmer can’t rouse himself for this, then what is the point of him?

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Free speech update...

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Poland again scrambled fighter jets today due to Russian drone activity over Ukraine.

When Musk posts "if they won't leave us in peace, then our choice is to fight or die" then he is openly socialising more violence, claiming it to be a necessary response to the threat from the radicalisation + violence of others Taking Musk seriously as a significant security danger is long overdue

Elon Musk gets 6 million views for a post saying "either we fight back or they will kill us" He was sharing Will Chamberlain sharing a parody account + seeming to see it as sincere. So Chamberlain's post heightens affective polarisation. Musk seems to suggests violence is inevitable + necessary

I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.

The Times is reporting that it was Morgan McSweeney who pushed for his friend, Peter Mandelson, to become US Ambassador.

Far-right commentators reacted in shock to the murder of Charlie Kirk, claiming his killing is 'not what America is'. "I'm sorry, this is exactly who you are," say The News Agents. "You have the most toxic political environment in the world."

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

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