There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club. This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim. Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

So, the UK ends up spending vast sums to dump people in a third country, one with fairly significant issues of human trafficking, to be locked up indefinitely, because they still can't be returned to their countries of origin, instead of investing here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

No wonder people are so proud to be British right now.

Polanski: I think there should be boycott of Israel Peston: A boycott of a democracy? How dare you Polanski: Well actually Israel just tortured a load of international civilians which is a war crime Peston: Wow would you look at the time

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Peston cuts Zack Polanski off because Zack points out that yes Israel should be boycotted because they Torture Western citizens, including from the UK.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is now claiming it won't accept tickets if offered anyway, on the pretext that Birmingham is not safe for Jews. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is presently in Tel-Aviv. We're an Elon Musk tweet away from serious street violence.

The British media and political class's insistence that the rights of violent, racist football ultras override those of working class Aston residents has to be one of the most performatively stupid incidents in recent history. And it's not as if there's not much to choose from.

Well, that's embarrassing. Why's he even opening his yap?

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

I wonder how much Barny Ronay would enjoy living in Aston while Maccabi ultras marched through, singing songs about dead Palestinian children? What would be the vibes there for 'coolness' and 'unity'?

The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...

The Tel Aviv police appear to be antisemitic.

Ay, so it's your birthday! What you been up to? Ah, yeah. Writing about wanting to fight Robert Jenrick, mainly.

Jenrick is from Wolverhampton. Villa and Wolves were in different divisions for most of his childhood. He's lying, even in his misty eyed nostalgia for the Golden Age of football hooliganism.

#trevorphillips interviewed Ed Miliband and asked him "Is Aston [in Birmingham] now a no go area for Jews?" This then creates the subsequent headline: "In the last hour Ed Miliband has insisted that Aston is not a no go area for Jewish people" See how it works?

Birmingham is quite genuinely wild right now.

The Daily Express, revealing its hitherto unpublicised support for violent football ultras. How many Express journalists do we reckon live in Aston, by the way?

Takes a special kind of talent to run a sex doll industry into the ground *during a pandemic*.

Grateful to see this doting father given so much space to share his opinions. I look forward to his a regular column. Fashion tips? Diet and exercise routine? What's his favourite Christmas tipple? So much to learn! #NormalisingFascism

'Hate has no place in our country. My piece in today's Sunday Express.' Get. To. Fuck.

This is what is often missed, harsher immigration policies lead to more homelessness. Labour's reduction of the move on period for refugees, extending visa routes etc etc will cause more homelessness. It's an inevitable outcome, which then feeds the far right narrative of migrants being a "burden".

Let's not even think what might happen if you took paracetamol after your circumcision...

'Characters'. And other words beginning with the letter 'C'.

Robert Jenrick got me thinking about violence. In more ways than one...

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public. This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack. A few points & a warning 1/

So refreshing to see someone calling these shitrags what they are.

The politics of migration have shifted so far to the extreme right, the Conservatives and Reform now have a more hardline policy on deporting legal British residents than... the British National Party did in 2005

Terrorist attacks happen because black people ask Robert Jenrick to explain himself. Seriously. In any decent political culture, he'd be stripped of his post.

I honestly think if I was Robert Jenrick, I'd regard every time I stepped out of the house without getting punched in the face as a gift from God, never mind all this kvetching about the complexions of the people ignoring me.

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

Can you even imagine, living in this squalor while crowds of people are outside, screeching threats at you? How are you supposed to cope?

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

>chef's kiss<

"Along with Labour, Badenoch is using the small media opening she has to reinforce racist and anti-immigration politics. Their rhetoric is the background to increased racist attacks, the justification of more state violence, and an authoritarian charge to the gutter that only Reform can win."

Ghouls walk among us.

Why is it, do we think, that a large number of people in the UK believe local government is stuffed full of wasteful spending on woke nonsense that left wing bureaucrats refuse to cut? Is this an organic belief they came up with by themselves, or did people tell them that was what was happening?

Ta Nehisi Coates called this absolutely right: people who refuse to draw the line at genocide are unlikely to draw the line at democracy. I would add that everything they say and do should be considered with that in mind.

I have so much i want to say about this but I’m instead I’m just going to shamelessly self-promote and say listen to @bloodwork.show coming 07/10/25

Fairly easy to see current anti-immigration politics as a right wing phenomenon mostly pertaining to refugees. But it’s also worth remembering that this is taking place in a context in which the very idea of being a citizen is being dismantled even from people who live in the west

Again, are we saying that all Jews in the UK are representative and responsible for the actions of a completely separate country on another continent who are reviled the world over, hence the protests? are you arguing they’re the same thing? seems like you are.

'The path of national renewal '. They just sound so effortlessly fashy these days.

Yes, all the same racist hate and incitement is now right in the middle of Sensible Centrist politics *and* MPs and our entire press spent the 2010s screaming hate at right on students, anti-racist activists and the left in general. Could these things all be related? Could they be *the same thing*.

Does anyone know if the Windrush Commissioner has yet expressed himself on the possible impacts of Starmer and Mahmood's hardening of immigration policy? Was he consulted?

Also worth noting that this group ostensibly raises funds on the basis of a community drive to supply flags celebrating freedom for residents of roads who request them- not as symbols of occupation and antagonism towards people who actively don't. www.gofundme.com/f/flags-for-...

Because it's really helpful for people spending tens of thousands of pounds to live and work in the UK to have the Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship treat them being left in limbo as to their futures as, basically, a "bit of bantz" with journalists. Give specifics.