Anyone listening to Badenochs speech? She's acquired a really disturbing chuckle

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.

Lyndon B. Johnson's response to satire

Dutch late night TV has its take

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Penny Mordaunt accused Zack Polanski of playing student politics: this is the woman who once said cock 6 times in a parliamentary speech for a bet...

The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is Trump on Ozempic? If so, it's done wonders for his ankles. Fair play.

Elon musk sat at a computer and invited violence to a bunch of people some of whom proceeded to attack the police. Tonight Times Radio invited his father on to lie on his son's behalf.WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

"They are legitimising the extreme right by letting them dictate the terms of politics, and in so doing are paving the way for them ... This is appeasement pure and simple. It didn't stop fascism in the 1930s. And it will not work today."

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

The far right are claiming Christianity as their own The Anglican church hasn't really covered itself in glory recently. Now is their moment to reclaim some moral high ground. Speak out now, please, to condemn fascism.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Thinking there's a weird comparison to be made between Starmer and May. Both basically decent. But rubbish at politics. Both hamstrung by events and both terrified by the right wing media, so frightened into terrible decisions.

Times Radio doing a fab job at avoiding the fact that Mandleson was on their payroll till a few months back..

Gary Lineker winning presenter of the year award tells a whole different story about this country than the one Farage has been peddling to the US

BBC News currently interviewing Linehan. Can this be right mid trial?

Meet Lee Twamley, one of the English anti-immigrant bigots behind 'Operation Raise the Colours'. He was convicted of attempted smuggling migrants into England in 2016. He served 20mths. Now he's grifting for more cash and backed by Britain First. They all have skeletons to hide don't they?!

Pay your tax Reform UK

On the same day in the Telegraph:

I also note, since we're on the subject, that Joanna Rowling had no problem being known as JK when her publisher told her she would sell more books if she appeared to be a man, and happily identifies as Robert for some more best seller action. Two tier gender identity blurring?

I note that the usual suspects being outraged by the Linehan affair had nothing to say about the arrest of over 500 people peacefully protesting genocide, or the imprisonment of JSO Roger Hallam for planning a protest. Two tier free speech ?

Tice has been an MP for a year now and I'm yet to hear him say anything even vaguely intelligent. Billionaire Christian who thinks the Church shouldn't comment on morality and would throw refugees to the lions, climate change denier who thinks saying ' stupid ' constantly is an argument...

Turns out it wasn’t that hard if you want to do it. bsky.app/profile/libd...

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Imagine if climate change was the headline in every newspaper every day, and climate scientists were interviewed on breakfast TV and always represented on QT. Imagine if, eg, David King's voice was as familiar as farages....

🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers. Not just in fleeing persecution abroad. Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores. But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2... The Donold going on about 'Bad People" arriving in boats has a certain irony to it

www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/imp... Also The Draining of the Fens

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

I have autistic family and friends. None of them have ever felt the need to display their genitals to strangers. Greg Wallace's 'defence' sucks.

Reform have 5 MPs. Obviously they are over represented in the media. But more interestingly we only ever hear from 2 of them . Where do they keep the other 3? Would love to hear their take on policy.

Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter

Ok, help me out here . A man drives into a crowd of people. There are 100s of witnesses and loads of video evidence. After 3 days of questioning the police say it's a very complex case. What am I missing? Genuine question.

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

This is a genuine question to any politicians who happen by. When did you last visit a council run care home? I've been a visitor at 4 in the last few years and I'm very aware of the size of the task. Are you?

If you're seriously concerned about the rise of reaction and are voting this week, there's only one choice as the rest is shades of evil

I’m still reading the 88-page Supreme Court judgement but from what I’ve read so far the authors do not have a sound grasp of biology.

RIP Pope Francis, clearly a good man who despised war inequality and the despoliation of the earth. Now we can look forward to the tributes from all the politicians who act in precisely the opposite way to which he preached.

Lots of really weird reporting on the Supreme Court ruling, along the lines of: this brings some much needed clarity... followed by: no one knows how this will work in practice.

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies. Pass it on. #ActOnClimate