Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I find this guy one of the most perceptive and generous foreign commentators about the UK. So I suppose that it should come as no surprise that he's having a rough time now he's spending time here www.instagram.com/reel/DVW6Mpf...

Lord Peter Ricketts, former head of the Foreign Office: “If you’re going to attack a country you have to show it is in self-defence and that there is some kind of imminent threat. You can’t make that case here…An indifference to international law is dangerous.” www.ft.com/content/b988...

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth

I think the logical and likely response is that bourgeois supporters (who make up most Labour MPs, members and voters) will sacrifice Mahmood over migration.

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have not seen this discussed yet bsky.app/profile/sund...

Obscene.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

And on Monday's order paper is a written statement on "asylum changes". Next week would also be when the Spring statement of changes to the immigration rules are often laid.

Several canvassers say the *settlement* reforms (make over a million voters wait 10-15 years for settlement, not 5, is a top of mind concern for those affected & friends, family A basic fallacy in Home Office citing more in common polling on asylum reform - a different issue - and net migration

This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

Gorton and Denton results. labour comes third. Ouch. Greens: 14,980 Reform: 10,578 Labour: 9,364

FUCKETY BYE CUNT

Reform's call to "restore Britain's Christian heritage" captures the contradictory essence of modern populist politics. It's a scramble to weaponise a religious identity that the British public themselves have left behind. 🧵

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

I'm a recent convert to the TLS but I adore it and learn a massive amount each issue. This is from a review on a couple of books about time and it has just scrambled my mind.

NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

Being a Canadian Liberal right now must be like being in the Labour Party c1998, but with the added bonus that the French keep vaguely threatening to invade Britain and William Hague, due to ideological ties to Jacques Chirac, can’t quite articulate if this is a bad thing or not.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

I've been meaning to run this analysis for a while: the probability of voting Labour at GE2024 in seats *gained* by Labour was higher for people who were younger, more liberal, on the left economically, more likely to favour immigration, do not think immigration is the most important issue, etc.

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation' New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

This is absolute gold

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

Trump literally reminds me now of a bloated fish out of water, thrashing and flailing away.

A country whose population refuses to surrender has entered its 450th day of uninterrupted mass protests nationwide, rejecting the stolen election. Georgia doesn’t flinch or surrender when faced with a corrupt government that serves billionaires and Russia. #3E

The noise of the executive complaining of the judiciary, even in circumstances like this, is a sweet constitutional sound.

christ

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

This is the crucial point. Fine to discuss gender and management style. But could there also be, and I know this is insane abscess old-fashioned of me, a discussion of performance?

Lot of good UK economic news recently - retail sales strong, tax receipts healthy, gilt yields and inflation down. Maybe - still a big maybe - productivity showing signs of life. That said, the jobs market still feels tough - perhaps the price of that better productivity. 1/3

Wage and earnings inflation might be bad news for the Bank of England but it's better news for the Government finances. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Jenrick is such a hilariously inept buffoon.

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

Hilarious. Have fun Donny.

I kinda hope there's a party at Woking Pizza Express tonight

There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...

Here it is, my magnum opus: an analysis of what’s wrong with the UK’s approach to fiscal policy (under this and previous governments), and a proposal for what an alternative to pass-fail fiscal rules could look like. I’ll follow up with a longer thread later.

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

holy shit

This is not rational and I accept that but people who pay for things with their watch are cunts.

Only confronting the truth can end this scandal: The best possible approach is full transparency, get out in front of it, then deal with the fallout inews.co.uk/opinion/pala...

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

"Cum Knees for short"