That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong. Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary. We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.

Susan Hall shared a video tweet by Melanie Phillips. In it, Phillips wrongly claims London has undergone Islamification. Her suggestions about the damage a Mamdani win might do to New York and the USA are scaremongering racism and Islamophobia. This is divisive and dangerous conduct from Hall.

GB News literally "wearing a poppy." What does that actually mean? Have they donated to the Royal British Legion to earn it? Or is "gesture news" now a thing?

They're proud of the Empire because the climate of culture, literature and war films they grew up in conditioned them to be. Victor comic patriots. Eagle annual little Englanders.

Teach it all, the contradictions, scandals, adventures, violence, connections and complexity. And stop seeing it entirely through the prism of feeling.

As billionaire Venture Capitalists and tech bros try to make the case for "natural aristocracy" let's remind ourselves of the salutary lesson of Australia's 'Bunyip Aristocracy'. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/us-tech-bill...

It could describe so many people

That Oval Office photograph explained.

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole. The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Well that was very entertaining #traitors

Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

SANDWICH GUY NOT GUILTY LET'S GOOOOOOO

Pretty certain this is a scene from Curb

Think tanks... where thinking goes to tank.

But cannot be forced to go...

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

Actual quote: "It's astonishing that my name can be defamed in the media simply because I wrote an erotic novel and got it published by a major company & then mentioned it to a few people in the building behind me. It's a shame that our great nation has come to this." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is enough seditious talk, with no moderation or control, on there to justify 'X' being banned in the UK. If only the UK politicians would grow a pair and take on Trump and Musk like they've taken on ReformUK...

Just read the US venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale's VERY long blog on bringing back the 'aristoi' - by which I think he's suggesting that billionaires like him should be handed the reins of power ... because democracy is stopping a new gilded age. Such jumbled garbage that I had to read it twice.

Surely on these criteria Farage isn't English?

Reform councillor and Doncaster mayoral candidate Alexander Jones needs to urgently provide a family tree showing us where all of his several hundred thousand unique ancestors in the 10th century were living. Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English. Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’. The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Sensible Letter to @thetimes.com today.

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

📣Out now on #firstview! David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789' #Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A gesture compelled is a gesture without meanimg

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

Has she gone yet?

Bit by bit, he's turning the White House into a knock off Sandals holiday resort.

Funny how it's daylight, seeing as this happened at about 7.30pm in November.

Grok, despite telling me yesterday the image was fake, is still insisting even now (2 hours ago) that the image is real. Worse, I asked Grok to give one example where it debunked a racist claim and it replied with an answer that it has shown black people have a lower IQ than whites.

since these people love the expression, call it the "Sadiq Khan Derangement Syndrome"

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

Huge wins for the Democrats in state elections across the US last night. Chaotic authoritarianism is not popular.

Mamdani’s super power is that he leans into every attack thrown at him. Zack has a similar tactic and it works. They’ve learned this from the populist right and I am here for it.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani. Hope wins - and it resonates far beyond New York. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Nigel Farage told us who he was, and who he represents years ago. Might be a good idea to listen.

Farage has been consistent for 15+ years. Opposing decent pay and conditions for ordinary hard-working young people and expectant parents. Meanwhile, he makes a mint hawking bullion, presenting tv shows and flying to the USA to big up his interests - instead of serving his constituents.

A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Yes, I have. ✅

So depressing but vital listening

I preferred her early work

A group of Reform Party members have begun a "Reformers for Remigration" group. It is praised by the extreme Steve Laws, who got 0.4% in Dover Laws was - madly - on the Reform approved candidate list, until June 2023 when Richard Tice threw him out for advocating deporting Rishi Sunak + myself

Something we haven’t seen for a very long time: a major figure in government being frank about the trade-offs involved in governance! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bunyip politics comes to America 170 years after it was laughed out of Australia.

I say give him the money. With every extra dollar he earns, Musk only proves the old axiom that "money can't buy you happiness." The stupid wealth of this very stupid man stands as an example to us all.

Desperate little man.

Oh come on you rabid Trot. You’ll be questioning whether he earned all those medals next. 🤭