What really leaps out from the full piece is how lacking in any interest in policy it is, and how all the reading that has shaped it is visibly just 'social media scrolling':

People are going to keep insisting that UK anti-trans politics is really composed of jilted lefty feminists even as its leaders are literally running as Tory candidates.

The ridiculous extension of the wait for settled status isn't about putting up barriers to arrival, it's about putting up barriers to integration for people who have already been here for years. It's agreeing with Farage that these people should be treated with suspicion - and leaving it at that.

There is nothing admirable about a commitment to policy failure. It means you deserve to lose and no one will mourn your electoral death. Least of all your natural supporters.

Which working class voters specifically? Like actually who? Can she point to a data point and construct an actual coalition of voters who wants this and will vote Labour?

You know the irony; trans men and trans women athletes would have backed the female US hockey team. No question.

Concerning that someone turning up to a mosque in Manchester at prayers in Ramadhan with an axe is not getting the wall to wall coverage that this happening to another religious building would get.

The President America deserves 😍

Key detail

This is horrific.

the most predictable problem in the world is happening.

Maybe Farage will go stop this illegal boat in the English Channel?

Spotted in Golders Green, London???

This is what I say to people to suggest I use AI because it makes writing easier... But I like writing. I take great pride in writing well. And even greater enjoyment from criticising those who write badly...

And there's no public access to the Chagos Islands which Farage will have known before he took a plane to the Maldives.

Well worth a few minutes of your time I humbly suggest 👇👇

Just in case anyone ever the Spiked/RCP cared about "women and children".

On top of this, it really risks tipping Reform into a US oriented, Christian nationalist, socially conservative party in a way that is uncomfortable for a lot of UK voters. The question is if those voters notice or care.

You can’t. That boat has sailed.

I could have been someone. Well so could anyone.

Pro-Trump white supremacist with "SS" tattoo who shot and killed family members, is being painted as example of "trans terrorist" by far-Right due to their gender identity. Comments in support of William Pierce, author of 'The Turner Diaries,' implies shooter was active neo-Nazi for decades.

Please, for the love of god, listen to people righting the alarm bells. Trans rights is what abortion rights was for us feminists for decades. It's never about the actual issues it's ALWAYS about the scapegoating of minorities. Throwing minorities is throwing systemic protections.

There is some great stuff on Apple TV. I bore myself by going on about Slow Horses, but just started Down Cemetery Road which is excellent.

Name which Christianity, you coward.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

The problem with these Palantir deals is not primarily data security. It's the fact we are creating single points of failure in the NHS, armed forces, and police. Palantir has massive leverage over essential information and logistics systems. A bad idea.... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Matt Goodwin needs to fuck off.

No lies found here.

I had a catch up today with my American colleagues so that we could learn from them about what's coming to the UK. Fascinating and depressing in equal. They said; Don't underestimate how much people want a Dictator. Yep. So I've got an idea to try out on those people and want to know how it lands:

Jimmy Lai: Response from his children, Sebastien & Claire, & from the international legal team to this predictable but nonetheless disgraceful sentence. Press queries: see contact details here & please direct queries through them. Thank you.

In other news, Reform’s candidate in the upcoming by-election has called for childless women to be taxed more.

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees

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This is so wonderful because there are people out there (many of the British commentariat) who consider these two are "heavy hitters". To quote Succession; "You are not serious people".

Every other “reporter” in that room that doesn’t walk out immediately when Trump does this should never be seen as professional or credible again. I’d say they should be ashamed of themselves, but appropriate shame seems to be one of the casualties of the Trump era in the United States.

I hardly use Pinterest anymore because of the AI slop. Such a shame, making interior decor boards was my guilty pleasure.

Welp. I'll be grabbing all the info/links off my Pinterest account this week and closing it down.

Sad to hear that Lord Jim Wallace has died. He was a good one. RIP.

This guy needs more staff. AI doesn't look like an efficient, labour-saving, lucrative business to me.

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

POLIO vaccines should be optional?! POLIO?! Almost nothing about the vileness of this regime surprises me any more, but 'freedom of choice' is one hell of a justification for not mandating a vaccine for a disease that killed and disabled tens of thousands of people between 1900 and 1960.

I'm reading the penguin as Paddington...

Helps confirm my theory that a huge problem with modern politics is that politicians have no clue about administering systems, whereas one think they do (think they) understand is legislating, so - on a “everything looks like a nail” basis - their solution to every issue is passing more laws

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

PSA: Cafe Nero are selling pistachio croissants.

Lord Reed has announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court on 10 January 2027. www.supremecourt.uk/news/lord-re...

Last night, we launched our new report, The Rule of Law: Building Resilience through Culture & Practice, in the House of Lords - setting out practical steps to embed rule-of-law principles in everyday governance and public life. Read more here: bit.ly/49yt8X

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.