Labour’s asylum plan said, in the same breath, that the 1) if we don’t get hard on migrants people will become more overtly racist and 2) that most people are not racist and are kind and welcoming This isn’t coherent? People who aren’t currently nasty to migrants won’t suddenly be nice

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Lmao

3 weeks away and the first thing we came back to was a “we’re sorry we missed you” note from the Labour Party 🙃🙃🙃

Again can anyone point to a success he’s had?

New senate twink just dropped

Greene’s doing this for the same reason she was pandering to brainworms years ahead of when it became the GOP platform. She’s cynical but not actually stupid, and better than most at getting ahead of the curve. Knowing which way the wind is blowing. She’s placing her bets now for the post-Trump era.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Of all the British traditions I think the one I love most is that every couple of years we physically torture a Radio 2 DJ in order to raise funds for children in need. www.bbc.co.uk/live/cy7exkn...

I almost miss unmanaged decline, it was more fun to watch

The budget is like in a week isn’t it lmao

If this holds out then we will eventually just end up with a GRA2 because we will once again be in breach of the ECHR aspects that led to the GRA in the first place

Chaos with Ed Miliband finally winning

Perhaps taxpayers should also not foot the bill for other luxury leisure (fuel duty freeze)

Journalism is a revolving door and in the same building are think tanks and politicians

Oooooer I can very much see large rallies of “when I say tax the you say RICH; tax the RICH; tax the RICH”

The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.

A lot of people who aren't paying close attention are going to be surprised to discover that the recent batch of emails *aren't* 'the Epstein files'! This is just the appetiser...

All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

57/ In his evidence, John Kirkpatrick stated the EHRC “removed” the interim update to “encourage the minister, by all means available to us”, to adopt the new draft Code. And it is to further the strategic goal to progress that Code.

IMO there is no way to incorporate the Supreme Court judgement into law because it is inherently discriminatory; it needs to be retracted

30/ The judge asked how would the counsel formulate it? He gave his own formulation but also remarked that even his would amount to direct discrimination.

Wes is never the adult in the room so this is quite a feat

Replacing Starmer with Streeting would genuinely make me even less likely to vote Labour like I would actively campaign against them whereas at the moment I’m kind of fine whatever depending on constituency

Almost everyone currently in cabinet would just be a continuation of the same type of business suit middle manager cosplaying as working class politics rather than anything useful so I do not know who the 2024 intake think would be good to replace

Our education system isn't working. Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski. linktr.ee/boldpolitics

Does remind me when the newsagents quoted Glinners tweet about kicking trans women in the genitals and said it was clearly a joke and people over reacted. Shows you exactly the (at best) indifference they have towards trans people.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Ever since Gordon brown was made to apologise for calling a bigot a bigot we have been stuck without this

Really found it utterly bizarre Lucy Powell decided to come out against this

An important structural point not mentioned in this @financialtimes.com piece: raising income tax and cutting NICs will reduce fiscal incentives for self-employment and counteract the trend towards lower tax employment models. This should have positive long, as well as short, term fiscal effects.

I don’t think the time taken is a reason to go against nuclear, it can take a decade to connect a wind farm to the power grid (and also is very old tech).

Not me actually being in Picton and not noticing

About bloody time, Britain 👏 leapsports.org/news/CoE-int...

Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C 👉Emissions still rising 👉Pledges improving, not delivering 👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles …and the next decade will decide everything www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a baby

The question is how many more times do we get to see Cuomo lose

Does remind me of when Sadiq first ran for London Mayor and the campaign against him was Islamophobic and completely endorsed repeatedly by David Cameron

Lessons for Labour - you don’t have to appeal to the worst people!

More hot progressive charismatic politicians winning please!!!

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Democrats looking at Mamdani and really out there performing their own version of HSM’s Stick to the status quo aren’t tbrh

We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.

california democrats hire this queen immediately

Since the election almost all the vote movement has been within these blocs rather than between them. The centre/left bloc vote is rising because a lot of Lab24 voters who had been saying "don't know" are now saying "Green".

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

He should be forced to quit and then he should be primaried. An utter disgrace.

Saw a wild penguin today and it makes the honeymoon worth it

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... I actually think this is all fairly straightforward. The only concern is whether they go the whole hog or not. Raise taxes! But do it enough so the political hit is worth it. The cut to NI vs raise in income tax is a good way to balance it too.