Further great work from Emma on the "kids being made to pray to Allah" nonsense

A stiff, cold and inhuman automaton. And a robot.

Wait... this is real? Reform actually did this in... Leeds? Did everyone get a badge with a ribbon?

It's been eight hours since the Government announced that crypto donations to political parties had been banned effective immediately and Reform's crypto portal is still accepting donations

People of Dorset... I'm in Wimborne on May 17th and I'm putting my faith in you turning up to see me talk about bad people, bastard people... and the people who history conspired to turn into villains... www.ticketsource.com/wimborne-lit...

"Crispin Odey says he was ‘the victim’ and denies trying to silence the woman he groped"

This is lovely!

Positive social media story attached to this. After Terry died (I didn't know him, but we had met) I tweeted that I thought a statue would be a nice. Some local people saw the tweet and (after a serious Covid-related delay) there was an online appeal and IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING.

As if you needed a reason to come to Colwyn Bay.

Firmly agnostic and even more firmly in favour of a disestablished church. That said, it's very good indeed to see Sarah Mullally appointed as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

Tory MP Nick Timothy is still making Islamophobic comments. His beard must go. He is bringing the hirsute into disrepute. Sign & share the petition c.org/Q8gfrtZDKR

Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.

Did we just break the wind generation record today, twice? On the train right now so will validate later…

It probably has been, and what a gift for this to happen right in the teeth of an oil crisis. Let the media blitz begin... [tumbleweed] Media: Oh wait, Chris O'Shea has just said something about gas storage, let's jump on that.

Lincolnshire person here... this GB 'story' is just pure dogshit... as always.

Kids in a Lincolnshire primary were being taught about Islam and were shown a video on how Muslims praying... in an RS class. This is how the eminently sane gang at GB NEWS are reporting it

Farage hasn’t learnt a thing from the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal. Reform accepting untraceable, anonymous crypto from across the globe is a direct threat to our national security. He must return the cash or admit he’s happy to let foreign money poison British politics.

Just thinking how there's a small scene of people making fan edits of movies - snipping out scenes here and there, re-ordering things and how the same doesn't really exist for books. Technically quite doable, it's just text in a big Word document. Then thought, nah, no one does because it's *hard*.

This Iranian "academic" on @lbc.co.uk is making Comical Ali sound like a neutral and balanced master of sanity

Convincing case that Matt Goodwin used AI tools to write his book. spectator.com/article/did-...

More Nathan Newby's please, would sort this world right out. And as a Leeds born woman, I hope that man never has to buy his own pint in the city again.

We will never forget who backed this war.

That’s one hell of a restoration they must have performed

Crypto donations to political parties to be banned. Good. Farage claims this is aimed directly at Reform. Good. He also says that him publicly promoting Harborne’s crypto company had nothing to do with Harborne giving Reform £9M. You’d have to be a v special kind of useful idiot to believe that.

Incredible given that Charles died on February 6th, 1685.

This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop.

I'm appalled by some replies to this. I've repeatedly made my views on Israel's vile policies known. I should be able to condemn an antisemitic arson attack on ambulances in my hometown without smug replies implying I have double standards or that Jews in London are responsible for Israeli crimes.

This is an interesting phenomenon- rubbish but it ranking highly on Amazon and featured in @dailymail.co.uk. It doesn’t even function as a book with a populist argument but merely as another artefact to be propelled through the far right media ecology. It ought to be career suicide - it won’t be👆👆

The depressing thing is that Goodwin's shitty book is currently ranking 11th on the Amazon best seller list. There's money to be made out of shitty stupidity. Bucket loads of it.

Russian has just carried out a targeted drone strike on a UNESCO World Heritage site in the historic heart of Lviv. This is pure terror bombing against Ukraine's civilian population with no possible military objective

Such a pity.

I am better at ‘claiming’ stuff than #Goodwin. I claim that 70 yrs from now a quarter of Brit adults and a 1/3 of Brit kids will be green aliens from Zarg. I bet my guess is closer than Matty’s.

Fascinating thread

True ….

Why do these Reform types celebrate ignorance and stupidity? Matt Goodwin says "Bilingualism undermines our shared culture and nation". What of the Welsh, Scottish, and Cornish bilingual people, able to communicate in two home languages? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Goodwin claims that in 70 years a quarter of British adults and a third of British children will be following Islam. Absolutely batshit figures based on numbers that have just sprung into his head. Who is dumb enough to believe this nonsense?

"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all," Trump said on Monday. A day earlier, his own mail-in ballot for an upcoming election was received in Palm Beach county.

Everyone please take a screenshot!

I have two theories about Trump and Iran - let me know what you make of them. The first is about the volatile nature of the US’ rhetoric, and the second focuses on yesterday’s phone call. Short thread. 1/3

Remember how "bespoke deals" were Brexit's great big selling point? The Australian FTA with the UK allows them to import more than twice as much beef into this country as the whole of the rest of EU put together... before turning it up to "as much as you want." Farming in the UK is fucked.

Trump will be 82 in November 2028. If he found a way to stand he'd be 8 years old than the USSR's oldest ever leader Brezhenev - when he died in office - and almost twice the age of Theodore Roosevelt the youngest ever president. Oh and it would be illegal... and the USA would be dead

Meloni Loses and so Italy and Europe Wins!!!!

I was in Indonesia last year and yes those monkeys really are a terror. Saw one rather naive American tourist get into a situation that made Jurassic Park look like a Teddy Bears picnic.

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand stout country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

Turns out people like liveable neighbourhoods and healthy cities. Lessons for others.

Jenrick: they banned Chrismas, what an insult to our Lord Chris

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

The thing I find so bizarre about white supremacists is the delusion they live under that they would be happy living with just other white people… they’d just find a different reason to hate half of whoever’s left.

Disgusting.

Chapter by chapter take down of Matt Goodwin's latest book.