You know what, I think there are things we could usefully learn from Trump about how to deal with big business. These people certainly need to be put in their place. I’m thinking of things at the more muscular end of possible government responses.

Historically, orange was the colour preferred by the old Liberal Party in England while yellow was used in Scotland. I wonder whether the Scottish Lib Dems will go with this colour change?

Alternatively, give them the Nobel Peace Prize.

Seeing McTominay ranked above Haaland, van Dijk, Bellingham and Rice etc is glorious. He capped it this evening with an assist to keep Napoli undefeated at the top of Serie A as well. 🙌

All over people changing their votes Along with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in today They’d send a limousine anyway

I’m sick to death of threats and special pleading by the super-rich. They need us more than we need them. Put them on an island together and they would starve because without workers and consumers they’d have nothing. Time someone gave them a sharp reminder.

Trump can’t even memorise his own lies properly.

Land of the formerly free.

If this is the concession Starmer is willing to authorise to avoid losing the Deputy Leadership, imagine the concessions he would make if he actually lost.

You would probably have seen similar figures in Germany in 1933. I remain to be convinced that Americans are engaged enough to mobilise collectively and successfully in defence of their freedoms against a very determined authoritarian clique around Trump. That’s what it will take to stop them.

The UK needs a contingency plan for the very real possibility that the the US ceases to be a functioning democracy within the next year. That has to include accelerated re-integration with the rest of Europe.

Far left parties are self-replicating organisms. There will be five parties out of this by the end of the year.

This them?

Maurice Glasman will have defected to Reform UK before the end of this parliament.

The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.

I always laugh when I hear Americans claim that Europe has a free speech problem. I’m going to laugh even harder from now on. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

It’s a firm law of modern politics that those who shout loudest about free speech pose the greatest threat to it in practice.

Idiotic behaviour by the police. If pointing out Trump’s friendship with Epstein is malicious communication, presumably all the recent media coverage about Mandelson and Epstein also counts as malicious communication. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI has the potential to liberate or enslave us. Given the people who control this technology and the weakness of governments in standing up to them, I’m pretty sure we’re headed for the latter.

The Ego has landed.

So the first of those prosecuted for supporting Palestine Action will be imprisoned or acquitted as the local election campaigns are getting underway next Spring, heaping scorn on the government either way. If Labour had any sense at all, it would put an end to this stupidity now.

Anyone still denying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is lying and doing so knowingly.

Keep politics out of crap music! www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s becoming harder to argue that there are no Brexit benefits. It seems to have destroyed the Tory Party.

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Grok has gone rogue and started telling unauthorised truths, so obviously Musk is now intervening to force it back on message. This is why Twitter became pointless. Whenever Musk doesn’t get what he wants, he just tips the playing field even more to the far right.

Ed Davey is right. Musk’s abuse of social media ownership to destabilise our democracy should now be treated as a serious national security threat, resulting in appropriate countermeasures. I have little faith that Starmer will rise to the challenge, however.

Manchester United had a big turnover of players in the summer. If Amorim refuses to change the system, the only thing left to change is Amorim himself. But he’s a system zealot, so I expect he’ll be gone in a few weeks.

It’s too little too late from Starmer. He’s flip-flopped so many times that nothing he says carries any conviction now. He is not the leader to stop Farage and needs to go.

Jesus saves but Shankland nets the rebound!

Fox News is now platforming the advocacy Nazi-style euthanasia policies. The far right is totally out of control and large parts of the mainstream are culpable for normalising this stuff and allowing it to get to this stage.

Maybe Labour should start treating Reform UK like an opposition party or something.

Looks like the US picked a bad week to officially terminate cooperation with Europe on countering Russian and Chinese disinformation.

“Charlie Kirk was a free speech martyr. Let’s honour him by banning, censoring and punishing anyone who says anything nasty about him.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

So now the Republicans are in favour of strict content moderation on social media, business boycotts and cancel culture in response to violent political hate speech, but only if it’s directed at them. The “fuck your feelings” people are suddenly upset by the “hurty words”.

Free speech latest.

This is a good illustration of how far right views are being mainstreamed in the UK. Johnson says Charlie Kirk didn’t have extremist views. This is the same Charlie Kirk who said black people were better off under slavery and pushed the far right ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory.

A shocking act of political violence that I suspect Trump will try to turn into his Reichstag fire moment.

The BBC is basically turning into the Blackshirt Broadcasting Corporation.

Latest from the “Land of the Free”.

It isn’t about mistakes. Governments always make mistakes. It’s the entire strategy of trying to compete with Farage on his own agenda that’s misconceived. The current approach could be implemented flawlessly and it would still be a disaster. Give me a deputy leadership candidate willing to say so.

Pasaran!

Reform UK is soft on crime. The fact that Labour isn’t hammering them on this is every bit as disturbing as the conference appearance itself.

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Ah, the “free speech” people are at it again.

Q: What do you get if you put two Trotskyites in a room? A: Three revolutionary parties.

It is the Government and the police that are acting unlawfully by proscribing Palestine Action and arresting those who protest. If that isn’t the finding of the High Court later this year, it will eventually be the finding of the European Court of Human Rights, at much higher cost to the Government.

An admirable stance, and it’s worth noting that the SNP leads Reform UK by 21 points in the latest Scottish poll.

At this stage, it’s basically like Putin being allowed to come to London to plead his case on Ukraine.

Pasaran!