Lethal skewering this, in particular this paragraph skewering the idea that Handswortg is an integration failure when it is a multi-ethnic integration success story. As Mrs Merton might say “what is it about this 9% white ward that led you to frame it as an integration failure?”

#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Carl puts his finger on something I've suspected. The British Right is hooked on trying to recapture the thrill of 2016 and 2019 - like how communists were addicted to the thrill of 1917 Petrograd. For both Brexitism and communism, the demonstrable failure of these projects is what has led to this.

Italy's on what it's third wave of right-wing populists, after the previous two let their voters down? It doesn't go back in the bottle, just finds a new host.

The thing is, I'm not sure that "Farage wins, then discovers fiscal gravity" isn't a situation that leads to things getting *even worse*.

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

A work of art

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Last season Newcastle beat Chelsea at home 2-0 and beat Villa and Wolves 3-0, Man It'd 4-1 and Palace 5-0. So a 2-0 loss is not what we need but reflects St James Park is a tough place to go #nffc

#nffc Initial thoughts - 1.Much better performance 2. Kept 'em quiet for almost an hour 3. Undone by a moment of magic 4. Substute front line failed to break the deadlock 5. Sels heroics kept it respectable Some pride restored but points on the board & attacking edge desperately needed.

Looks like they got carried away with banning journalists

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK: “Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

Nothing says you oppose incitement to violence like using your conference to platform someone who urged people to set fire to hotels full of migrants.

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose” Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

"Did you enjoy the Brexit chaos and want another few years of it... then leave the ECHR..."

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

History repeats.

Zack Polanski is such a good communicator. This is a perfect response to the people who are blaming anti-genocide protesters for the Manchester attack.

Biggest 6 month rise in youth (15-19) unemployment this millennia, Q3 2023 - Q1 2024 + 6.9% (28400 unemployed to 42100). Biggest Annual 2008-2009 (+6.8%, 26200 to 35200 unemployed), 2nd biggest annual 2023-2024 (+5.4%, 30500 to 38800 unemployed). This is not caused by youths playing video games.

Anyone who thinks promoting a vicious racist conspiracist like Robinson is good for Jews has lost any grip on reality

I am just so fucking proud of her.

@pgmol-watch.bsky.social Any Forest related patterns?

Today I've joined parliamentarians from across the political spectrum in calling on Kemi Badenoch to rethink her dangerous position on the climate and net zero - a position which puts Britain's economic strength, national security, and environmental leadership at risk.

They are each 1,000 times more useful than Lord Glasman will ever be (or than I will, for that matter). His attacks on them are gobsmackingly snobbish and misanthropic. They reveal the real spirit of Blue Labour: a hatred of public sector workers and of the enabling state.

Begging media folk to do their job here.

Not saying things aren't going swimmingly but last season #nffc conceded 52 goals in all competitions over 40 weeks. In under 7 weeks we've conceded 18 goals. Over a third of last year's total. #leaky

But somehow Trump not just breaking a promise but intentionally misrepresenting his entire extremist, revolutionary agenda to absolutely devastate and reconfigure US government is treated as, more or less, Trump Just Being Trump.

It is the greatest political lie ever told in American history. Not just some busted campaign promise, but an entire campaign on false pretenses. Literal cartoon supervillain behavior: waiting until you get in office and implementing a comic-book plan to annihilate US government virtually overnight.

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

During the peak of the COVID pandemic, Trump asked for testing to be slowed down Now they are banning words like climate change and dismantling climate monitoring Guess what, Neither pandemics nor climate change disappear because we stop measuring! www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

So it turns out, if there were any doubt, that the war on cars is being perpetuated by… er… other cars.

The UK needs a road tax by weight instead of a flat fee. It works everywhere else. You want to drive around in a wankpanzer, you get to pay the 2 grand a year bellend tax. (Road tax for pictured Range Rover is €527 per quarter in The Netherlands)

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%. E-bikes support fewer car trips. V @lloydalter.bsky.social

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

"Keir Starmer said that the sky didn't fall in when we introduced votes at 16 in Wales and Scotland. And I say to you, Sir Keir, that when you introduced PR, the sky didn't fall in there either." Our CEO Emma Harrison speaking at @labour4pr.bsky.social rally at #LabourConference2025 💯🔥