A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Reminder.

wow it's really lucky no Sun or TPA staffers ever accept cabs when they appear on the BBC because otherwise this would look like a pretty embarrassing bit of hypocrisy

No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

I reckon the collapse of Northern Rock was worse for consumer confidence. Wonder who the Chair was?

Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

Labour seems to be pursuing an even more self-destructive variant of the Rishi Sunak strategy: taking a position that will never win over Reform-leaning voters and simply infuriating and alienating the people who actually elected them to office.

Honestly what is the point of a Labour government that won’t take a stand against mass revocation deportation of people with permanent settlement rights? If you won’t stand against anything you stand for nothing.

“You need to vote for us to stop Reform” is hardly going to work as a campaign slogan when you won’t even criticize a Tory MP proposing things more extreme than Reform (or Enoch Powell, or the BNP), and won’t stand up for the families such proposals threaten.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Micheal Heseltine is a person with principles and a spine.

Genuinely what the actual fuck

The UK is not a papers, please society. It is a 'can you navigate a Kafkaesque thicket and/or get someone from a middle class occupation to sign your papers please society'.

Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers Via Samuel Long

Speaking of things making themselves irrelevant and shrinking their audience, how are things at the Washington Post?

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

@melyorktt.bsky.social's The Sunday Times article analyses the impact of 45yrs of right-to-buy. It highlights our UK Housing Review research that shows 50yrs ago 95% of state spending on housing was on building homes & 5% on benefits. By 2022 this reversed to 88% on benefits & 12% on building homes

This simple alliteration was sitting there waiting for the government to use. They were just too pathetic and incompetent and craven to see it.

I mean, there is no other way to look at this than blatant racism is there?

Churchill could have ended the war in 1940 if he wanted to, too.

Wow, I bet Farage’s “Lawless Britain” campaign will be all over this

This is more like it

A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats said: “It looks like Reform are playing musical chairman. Perfect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Non rien.

Update - looks like it was completely fictitious. That is really bad. bsky.app/profile/feli...

Ah so they've either made it up completely or changed the families identity. Pure generic ragebait. bsky.app/profile/ianf...

If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed). Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust. It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives

Starmer's remarks were deplorable, not because they echoed Powell (they didn't) but because they endorsed the core claims of *modern* populism: - that a "squalid" establishment conspired against the people; and - that immigration is to blame for Britain's poor economy, housing & public services.

On the unabashed corruption of the British government lobbying for a tournament to be held at Trump's own golf course. Includes no golf jokes. www.thetimes.com/article/8936...

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

Our cover this week.

I'd be willing to bet that faced with similar economic pain Americans would already have burned Mar-a-Lago to the ground before the Chinese population thought of a clever euphemism so they could quietly grumble about their recession online without getting caught out by the censors.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...