PIP receipt does not depend on your employment or earnings. It is designed to increase financial support for those who need this help to do everyday tasks. That's the opposite of promoting "incapacity" or "non-participation". You should spent 15 minutes on Wikipedia before writing the next blog!

In a glorious moment of national unity, everyone agrees that these local election results confirm exactly what they believed yesterday.

Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can override the rejected vetting of a close friend of the world's most famous pedophile for the role of the uk's most prestigious diplomatic position and then lie to parliament about it

I don't think I ever posted this here, but last year GB News saw one of my infographics and asked me to appear on the show. I made my answer extremely clear: NO.

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

I assume there will now be calls to nationalize the university of leciester in order to save these "highly skilled, well-paying, unionized jobs", or do these ones not count because women do them? thetab.com/2026/03/23/u...

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

of course it has anxiety, you’re training it on multiple generations of anxious peoples’ content

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

sort of unrelated to this point, though not entirely: the fact that there's such a thing as professors of rare moths etc is one of humanity's crowning achievements to date and this is what the right wants to take away from you

Your policy is to make people from abroad litter pick for free to "earn" the right to stay in the communities they live in.

I'm hearing that the frog has never been so furious as he is with the scorpion for stinging him as he carried him across the river.

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

The argument for a wealth tax is to contain wealth inequality, not to raise revenue. Either he's not read his opponents' arguments, or he has and he's being totally disingenuous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Yeah if you have any academic standards at all, this is a fail. At college level, you don't get to just "think" things. You have to have a reason for it. It's what makes academic work different to just "having an opinion".

“My daughter, who is autistic, does not sleep much so I am constantly exhausted. My body is in so much pain. I need to try to get some medication from the doctor to deal with this pain so that I will be able to work the extra hours.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

He was making a list, And checking it twice. Was gonna find out who’s naughty and full of vice. Then President Trump had him murdered.

Remembering talking to a Chilean refugee who had finally been able to visit Chile after decades in UK. "It was nice, but it is a different country now." She had put down roots in the UK and raised a family. Her life was, and is, here. This is the human reality that Mahmood and Labour want to destroy

i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Cutting PIP in order to increase labour supply amongst disabled people makes no sense because PIP doesn't come with work restrictions and isn't means-tested. Either the chancellor doesn't know that (unlikely) or she doesn't want to admit that she wants to cut PIP to save money.

The case for tax rises is stronger & clearer than Reeves pretends. It's that, given our lack of productive capacity, we have an inflation problem, which means that the alternative to tax rises is either infeasible cuts in public spending or higher mortgage rates.

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵

A scorpion wanted to cross a river but couldn’t swim. He asked a frog for a ride. The frog said, “You’ll sting me.” The scorpion replied, “If I sting you, we both drown.” The frog thought, He wouldn’t sabotage himself. So he agreed.

Once again, if you support this immigration system you do not have "family values" www.bbc.com/news/article...

With alt

Was just canvassed by a reform activist who said it was not the party's policy to end indefinite leave to remain for everyone and that deporting my wife and mother of my daughter would be "crazy" and "we're not monsters". Has anyone told Nigel and Richard this?

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Farage: lefty snowflakes need to toughen up it's called free speech. Also farage: calling my policies racist is inciting violence

every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour

All discourse now involves groups of degree-holding middle class people accusing one another of being middle class and holding degrees. I don't make the rules.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This is why they’re deleting studies

Mic drop.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Hannina wrote a whole post and it is better than most of what is out there open.substack.com/pub/richardh...

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.