This story is well worth reading. Asylum hotel protestors decided to pack up and go after learning more about the refugees inside and discovering Sidmouth and Honiton Tories had been lying about who they were.

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30th September // 1st October

Wow Starmer finally drawing a line! "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation... If you say that they should now be deported, then mark my words - we will fight you with everything we have".

Starmer is right to call out the "broken Britain" story. A lot needs fixing, but we risk convincing ourselves that our democracy is so corrupt, our institutions so broken & our future so hopeless that the only sane response is to burn it all down. That serves only the arsonists like Trump & Farage

Today's speech was easily the best Starmer has given. For the first time since the election, he told a compelling - & optimistic - story about what the government is trying to do; charged that story with moral purpose; & drew clear battle lines with the Right. A few quick thoughts & a challenge...

An extraordinary claim

September 30th/October 1st

Starmer describes Reform’s plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain as “immoral” and “racist” – by some distance his strongest criticism.

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ladies if he’s a matador that is a huge red flag

Quite incredible to see serious media outlets being forced to debate the idiot ravings of a world leader as if there’s any validity to them.

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Ed Davey made a confident speech: there is a great deal of strategic logic in a liberal challenge to Nigel Farage is offering Britain the chaos and cruelty of Donald Trump's America, and in taking a strong stand that Elon Musk should not be above the rule of law www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

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Anyone investing any of their time, energy and sincere idealism in this rolling farce needs to step away and find another outlet

This is, I think we can all agree, absolutely fucking ridiculous.

I have reached Inbox Zero and it feels weird.

RIP Robert Redford. Charismatic, stylish and an eye for a great role. We’ve lost another icon of Hollywood’s New Wave. Just as talented as a director. And, in establishing the Sundance Film Festival, helped pave the way for a new generation of young independent filmmakers.

Yes

At last! A much needed response. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We are lost

Labour governments have been hurt before when calling out racists. Starmer himself was attacked by the media last year for doing it after Southport. But fear of a repeat is nowhere near justification for silence. It’s just cowardice. Take the fight to the far-right. If you don’t, they win.

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.

Tommy Robinson is lying about the police estimate, by a factor of nearly thirty, to turn 110,000 into 3 million. He is spinning "MILLIONS" quite hard. It is a lie.

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We are in for some grim months ahead

This should be the lesson to far-right populists who threaten democracy: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

It’s a shame the right has spent the last few weeks claiming that incitement to violence should be protected free speech. Maybe it’s good that it isn’t after all

It’s scary to think about how the consequences of this will play out.

We have some truly stunning third kits in the Premier League this season 🧵

This makes no sense!

In hindsight, the idea that all politicians needed to do was deliver on their policies only, was the wrong lesson to learn from the post-Johnson Tories. Now Labour looks like it is incapable of creating a narrative or even basic communication.

Christ! It really is a post that seeks to up the cruelty ante with each successive holder.

My hunch is that if Zack Polanski's Greens or the Corbyn Party were platforming quite this level of crank madness about cancer in the Royal Family, they would get quite a lot of heat for doing so

It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.

An unrivalled talent for blowing up his life at every opportunity and making his defenders look dreadful

Home Secretary can be a poison chalice. I fear for her.

Getting Cooper out of the Home Office is a huge plus. I am not sure she's going to set the world on fire as Foreign Secretary, though. But as Starmer does all the important stuff on that front it's not a big issue.

Do I even want to click on this with the sound on? I might die of cringe.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Jeremy Clarkson, here, who built his career on license fee payers.

A big blow for Labour. Raynor is authentic and popular in an unpopular government. Hated the misogynistic campaign against her. It was a mistake by her but stepping down was probably the right thing. Hopefully she will be back.

Can we just skip straight to the Jacob Rees-Mogg and Liz Truss defections and get it over with

RIP Giorgio Armani He dressed movies beautifully.