100% LONG Overdue

Gavin Newsom is warning of real threats to our institutions. “We’re at Code Red.” 🚨 Now is not the time for complacency.

Kind of gives me hope that there are people that work towards addressing the issues or dismantling far right groups. But I still don't see how we're going to move from IMMIGRATION to the real issues and change the topic driving politics currently. People are obsessed with the wrong things.

“Ex-New Age traveller” not as catchy? “Outspoken”? He’s a green Labour campaigner! Powell has received support from Labour donor Dale Vince. He said “she is best choice for deputy leader because of her ability to communicate & represent the views of the wider party” inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Noel Clarke has been ordered to pay The Guardian an initial £3m towards its legal costs after successfully defending his libel claim over an investigation which saw the actor accused of sexual misconduct. (The Guardian)

The 2024 EU enlargement significantly reduced inequality across Europe, study finds

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

Ah, he has seen what regulatory lawyers look like: with their seven heads and ten horns, and upon their horns ten crowns, and upon their heads the word ”compliance”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Excellent now on @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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The logical culmination of Gove’s ‘we don’t trust experts’. Now it’s ’we don’t know anything’.

🗞️ The Professional County Cricket Clubs have voted on the future format of the Rothesay County Championship, with this season's format to be retained in 2026. ECB statement 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/vqwpmzdycb

Reform UK’s immigration plans would destroy the NHS. Is Farage’s mask slipping on privatisation?

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

5.3m views in under 6 hours. And 1m more subscribers. We can only be hours away from a Trump post along the lines of "Jimmy Kimmel should be thanking me. I saved his very terrible show, actually."

www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2025/se... #Notts

Trump’s latest lies about medicines. Poor King Charles. Jess’s Rule. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Explained exactly this yesterday. In the same studio

We remember #RejoinEU

Putin and Poochin

Stark. When the defence of a state visit becomes all about very large companies moving piles of money around then it shouldn't be a surprise that so many people think politics and economics is broken and not about them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tony Blair had a knack of suggesting the bad folk he didn't like were in the vast minority and that there was a big tent of reasonable folk - this government seems to have almost the complete opposite of suggesting everyone but racists are the problem. bsky.app/profile/drje...

Another useful antidote to the US / Europe centred "end of globalisation" narrative... even if I don't fully buy the multiplex world described. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

It appears the Labour Party has let me down again by allowing me to attend its conference. Please send invites to drink myself into obvlion, sorry, talk about how to develop and deliver a better trade policy as part of realistic economic response to globalisation...

That tired feeling when you walk through the first cold winds after summer...

After all that, I posted a broken link. Correct url here 😑 www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Globalisation is still alive and well, but mostly now happening outside of the old west. Can we cope with that reality?

Costs and severity of cyber attacks seem to be going up (e.g. JLR, British Library) while governments continue to be excited about AI. Doesn't quite add up. And defending critical national infrastructure against such is presumably getting harder / costlier. www.ft.com/content/4982...

If he doesn't know then he should shut up.

There are many possible reasons for Hugo Ekitike’s bizarre red card for Liverpool against Southampton. Perhaps the biggest was wanting to prove he can still be the first-choice striker over Alexander Isak. But his ban hands Isak a chance to cement a starting role. @adjones-journo.bsky.social

<<heavy sigh>>

Work on a new £10.4 million bridge across the River Usk is set to get underway after funding was confirmed by the Welsh Government for the project

So, what's the plan Nige? 🤔

Jimmy Kimmel: "The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from their job. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke."

For one last time this summer. #NOTvWAR

Welfare reform is back in the news - find me at Labour conference next week talking about ideas like these because if we invest in our people, we save money and secure our future. #TrueLabour

Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

I thought it was immigrants that didn’t respect our culture? More proof, if any was needed, that England flag shaggers don’t give a shit about England’s history, heritage, landmarks and culture. What they believe in is white supremacy.

Brussels police swooped in on a man accused of affixing fake QR codes to parking meters in a brazen attempt to defraud drivers.

CAT ADVISORY: Today is the first day of Autumn in the northern hemisphere. Ensure your human servants procure extra snacks to see you through until the Spring, then eat them all this weekend.

We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who aren't grateful We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who aren't Christian We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who aren't white... We don't have a problem with immigrants...