Not one for a Friday, but I think it’s apt right now - finally arrived in paperback after @mrjamesob.bsky.social ‘s interview with Laurence Rees last summer!

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Boycott the FIFA World Cup in the USA. Don't reward fascism. #3E #BoycottFifaWorldCup #BoycottUSA #BoycottFifa

I think witnessing Brexit as both insider & outsider had a profound effect on Mark Carney. His resolve in the face of the next stage of the attempted destabilisation of the West might even be described as a ‘Brexit benefit’!

Can’t believe we are here and no amount of my shouting about this is being heard!!

Kamala Harris, "There's so much about this moment that' is trying to make people feel like they're lost their minds. When in fact these m'f*ckers are crazy"

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

It feels obvious to me, the US admin are trying to provoke a reaction from people to give them excuse to deploy the Army and cancel midterms…!

Shutting down X is no longer a matter of free speech. It is a matter of child protection.

Are we seeing the beginnings of an all out ‘boots on the ground’ World War 3 involving actual military action between nuclear states!? Or is this a MASSIVE dead cat being slung around to deflect from Epstein Files etc!?! Or is this 2-pronged - project 25 and Trump dead cat!? I really hate that cunt!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk your next topic should be ‘how does NATO decouple itself from US’ if you haven’t already done thince hour 2 yesterday! I am still catching up…

How Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With His Foreign Interference Inquiry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk the perennial jokers who run Reform FYI; they will of course claim someone else runs KCC socials….

💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers". Read on for more... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

What? You mean London hasn’t fallen as they tell me so…!?!

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

I am hugely depressed by the narrative being spun up by our mainstream media, which is now propagandising (is that a word?) reform racism… I don’t feel safe…

Why TF is @lbc.co.uk @tomswarbrick.bsky.social giving a platform to the nut job Ann Coilter to spout her utter nonsense with any pushback ffs!?!

This is what the nation is becoming; yet another racially motivated rape by Nigel’s people…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I found an American version of you, albeit younger version! Parkergetajob is his insta handle, he’s brilliant!! Jaw dropping stuff!!

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Appalling editorial judgement

Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."

Yes! If the US is clamping down on actual free speech then we need to push back on the same evil that is dividing our nation

Exactly this!! Ffs!

The incitement contained herein, 4 days before an American President makes a State Visit to the UK, is surely no longer an avoidable issue in the bilateral relationship.

Intro to the Running Man 1987

"Of course Britain’s broken – Farage has done everything he can to break it. Now he's off abroad to tell everyone how broken we are!" Clacton's MP is across the pond slagging the state of the country – but didn’t he help break it? @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

Gun murders last year: US: 17,927 England & Wales: 22 Here's the data, per capita, in the chart below. It's the guns. I wrote about the evidence, with lots of data, along with a more personal response to the Annunciation Church shooting (where I was baptized): www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...

I want to invent a new word for fake patriots that have never done patriotic thing in their lives whilst claiming thus because they flew a flag after acquiring from collecting tokens in the Sun or from Sports Direct. I bring you the term ‘Fakeriot’ please @mrjamesob.bsky.social amplify!

Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?

@sathnam.bsky.social #gurpreetkaurbhatti great theatre performance for #marriagematerial so relatable and funny! Thanks for bringing this us!!!

Depending on colour and ethnicity this will either be a massive several days top news ‘too many immigrants’ story or ‘page 30’ small paragraph mental health incident’….over to Refrom Ltd for comments…

Ffs @mrjamesob.bsky.social I had these ads on one of the websites I visited…! A Mogg calendar!? Who in their right mind…!?! Is the same person that admires Sam Fox fetishises over Mortician Mogg!?

Thread on psychological warfare 1/n I posit the Ukr destruction of strategic bombers is Russia's psychological moment turning point when ordinary Russians affected by privations & gov suspicions might understand they cannot win their war of aggression. Firstly here's what happened at Kerch bridge

For mutual benefit really; for UK to get us out of financial hole and Russian threat, for EU to support them from Russian threat and plug a small hole in financial gap… they still hold the cards!

😆 from @dccartoonist.bsky.social

My parents who came here in the 60s can’t really engage in English; they built Britain after the war, broke their backs in farms and laying concrete on our motorways! Why has this country decided not to accept them anymore…!? All things said, I know I will never be accepted by this country…

“I wouldn’t have predicted this!” @mrjamesob.bsky.social exposes Nigel Farage’s tactic of bringing in 'a race-based grievance' into the UK-India trade deal, as it's a 'bigger electoral tool for him than a genuine benefit of Brexit'.

UK-India trade deal increases GDP 0.1% Brexit lowers GDP by 5% ▶️Goldman Sachs: -5% ▶️Centre for European Reform: -5.2% ▶️National Institute of Economic and Social Research: -5–6% ▶️Cambridge Econometrics -5% The reason services are underfunded? Brexit

Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

Labour have a massive PR issue; they need to be a lot more forceful against what Reform are spouting out! Reform are totally controlling the narrative aided and abetted by their far right media supporters. They are insidious; Labour need to start to play dirty and take back control!

Who is the interviewer on Prime interviewing in English and Spanish (I think - interviewing Latauro Martinez)? she’s brilliant! I bet the gammon a spitting blood due to her brilliance and taking jobs away from the lazy English speaking male interviewers!! #interbarca #championsleague

It’s all good Reform winning councils; most new reform councillors in our area have never been in politics or elected before! Our county will get a rude awakening once they realise these charlatans don’t know how to govern!!

Reform are winning massively in Kent right now; wining by huge margins in my area! Hugely depressing! So much airtime given to the Piundshop fascist and Starmer’s chasing of the reform vote is handing this on a plate to those hate preachers! He needs to get dirty….