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It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Fill him in on the news will you

This is much the province of historian of fairy tales, as it is that of the constitutional lawyer or historian. Once upon a time there was this mad, bad ruler who wanted a prize…

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This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

In an amazing coup, Reform have a star defector, the self-described most popular politician in Britain! It's... hang on, have I got this right... Nadhim Zahawi? thecritic.co.uk/zaha...

More appalling news from dystopia central www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

This Optical Illusion is so weird!

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally... christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

Rachel Reeves did not tell me what the weather would be this morning.

Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10

Absolutely useless and pathetic, the local elections can't come round soon enough 🗑️

Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.

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British.

No words could ever do Big Mac justice but I tried my best... niallharbison.substack.com/p/farewell-b...

A very big day for the street dogs

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman" Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥 "You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive. The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital. “He has Constitutional rights.” “No.” ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Many of us worked our butts off to change minds and shift policy within Labour, knowing that when the shift finally came, hecklers would still heckle "too late". Moral superiority resides in the object-ing, not the object-ion. But I will still take modest real victories over grand fictional ones.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Further to this, all the characteristics mentioned by Mahmood already have to be met to get ILR (salary, English, life in UK test, clean criminal record, no welfare benefits) other than this weird Duke of Edinburgh style volunteering thing that they cannot possibly implement.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

As I was saying…

The primary aim must be getting the govt off X. This offers the possibility of a cascade effect taking journalists etc off it. We need to seperate the national debate from the extremism engine.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Meanwhile, the "patriotic" dimwits on X are posting AI pictures of the Arc de Triomphe to show 'support for the country they live in.' I laugh because otherwise I'd seriously be weeping.

That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists... And nothing. Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility. As America gets ever darker, too little light here.

Just looked again on X. While Keir is posting about business, Shabana as home secretary called out violence against police yesterday but nothing about the racism or Musk. Silence from other bigwigs like Lammy, Cooper, Reeves..

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.

Also. FAO Daily Telegraph: this is the Penshaw Monument, not the Pembroke Monument. Penshaw is in the North East of England. Pembroke is in West Wales. They’re about 350 miles apart.

Oh.

🔴 NEW - Farage lies to Congress 🔴 His jaunt to Washington ended in him being royally skewered by Democrat Jamie Raskin. 👇

Nigel Farage just lied about assaulting me in the US Congress!!! Thank you James Raskin for exposing this "Free Speech Champion" for the authoritarian threat he really is!

Farage's tactic as an MEP was to show up just to make an anti-EU tirade and then clip it for YouTube. Nice to see the tactic used the other way around.

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again. These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration. He has to go.