So the Tory's now believe anyone with dual citizenship doesn't really count as being British. That a responsible way to behave is to ship our criminals off for other people to deal with like it's the 1800's or maybe they've just been watching too much Banished.

I kinda feel that every single ethical hacker ought to be spending as much time as they can trying to shut down twitter. It's nothing more than a radicalisation machine now. Disclaimer: I know nothing about hacking, ethical or otherwise.

This is how we know the culture war is being driven by the coddled middle class folk. No one who had any actual problems in their lives would have the head space to get all het up about something as trivial & stupid as this. All that comfort & self-importance makes perfect radicalisation targets.

March 29, 2023.

Strongmen won’t fix societal disorder. In fact, they make the problem worse, Adrian Wooldridge says 🎥

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

And all DPD execs to just get notes saying "sorry we tried to deliver your present but you weren't there" despite it having never made it anywhere near their house.

"There's no point doing anything about climate change because of Chin.... oh."

That feeling when you used to champion jury trials and now you've started scrapping them.

March TOGETHER against the far right: National demonstration 28 March 2026 Central London Sign-up here: togetheralliance.org.uk #TOGETHER

Breaking news: Christmas still exists. Unfortunately, culture-war nonsense does too. Claims Tesco has “banned Christmas” are just another racist dogwhistle, not a defence of anyone’s actual faith. They feed a false idea that "white British" cultural traditions are being “taken away” by minorities.

have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"

There are rumours the Government wants to curb trial by jury - an appalling way to try to fix the broken justice system they inherited from the Tories. I've challenged Ministers to improve our prison system and pressed for urgent action to protect public safety and prison staff.

What the actual fuck? On so many levels. We are nation of many faiths and none. We've done politics shackled to religious beliefs before and it wasn't pretty. Also... Jesus was of course famous for not wanting to feed & protect the poor & in need. Is Badenoch our worst politician?

Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

We’ve so internalised the idea that racism is ‘causing offence’ that we’ve forgotten that it was usually about structural oppression. In 1968 Powell, who Farage referenced tonight, was trying to prevent the 2nd Race Relations Act being passed. He wanted racial discrimination to remain legal.

So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025

Rachel Reeves must take bold action to slash the cost of living, rescue our high streets, and start fixing the mess left by Brexit. That means negotiating a new Customs Union with the EU, to grow our economy and bring in tens of billions for the Exchequer.

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

I think this is a very important point in yimby discourse: people say they don’t like densification but in London at least the densification is happening anyway. It happens via house shares, kids living in parents houses forever etc. you get the densification with or without more housing!

"Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?"

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

🚨It's time there was investigation into Russian interference in our politics. And the first person they should question is Nigel Farage.

Someone needs to ask them why they believe migrant parents are a greater threat than any other parent allowed to access school grounds. I think we all know where those answers will lead.

When someone says their abuse was not hurtful or insulting, it is imperative that the voices of those affected by it are made just as loud as the one making this claim. It simply isn't within the capacity of the abuser to quantify the harm they have caused to the abused.

When deciding if the ends justify the means, you should always consider "what if we don't achieve the ends? Can we still live with the means if we fail?"

Nigel Farage saying he used racial abuse but "not in a hurtful way", says everything you need to know about him. That's not him as a youth saying that, that his him, right now, trivialising racial abuse - he just doesn't believe it's serious or harmful.

They chased Reform to their own irrelevance... & Labour are trying to do the same.

Today I delivered a letter to No 10 Downing Street, along with the Principal of Impington Village College (IVC), Jo Sale, and campaigners, urging the Prime Minister to reverse cuts which will affect funding for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in 20 state schools across the country.

This should (but won't) be a wake-up call for the UK government & media still treating social media (& especially X) as a barometer for public opinion. The UK agenda is not being driven by the UK public, but hijacked by people making money boosting far right agendas.

So, to recap, just this week... -- Trump's negotiators adopt Russia's "peace" (surrender) plan for Ukraine; -- Farage's Reform UK colleague is sentenced to 10 years in prison for pro-Russia bribery; -- Musk accidentally outs numerous "MAGA" accounts as Russian troll farms. #RussiaRussiaRussia

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Ex-Reform leader Nathan Gill has just been jailed for 10.5 years for taking money to push Moscow’s line in the European parliament. So when Nigel Farage echoes Kremlin narratives… is it sponsorship or sincerity, and which is worse?

NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵

WhatsApps reveal Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements and that Gill’s handler took orders from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close Putin ally. It's a complex, detail-heavy story. So we went back to journalism's roots and made a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey.

That moment when you're in the final battle of your campaign and everyone else in your party is critically injured but you're the Bard with maxed out charisma and somehow rolled a Net 20 to charm the villain. Your friends are alive but you might just need to marry the dictator to keep it that way.

Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, isn’t pulling punches: he accuses the Home Office of “lumping all asylum seekers together” and treating a diverse group as one problem to be fixed. Owen Sennitt reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

"Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Through my trials and tribulations, And my travels thru the nations, With my plastic Jesus I'll go far."

The majority of those on the right & far right who cry "free speech" as a call to arms just mean consequence free speech when they air their horrible & repugnant prejudices, views & desires.

"I think that the government are increasingly aping the likes of Reform." @joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT

Elon Musk spending billions of dollars to buy a social network to replicate what it's like to have friends who like you, and an AI to replicate what it's like to have a supportive father who praises you, only to have both consistently turn on him is Promethean torture if Prometheus had deserved it.

Footage shared on social media claims to show migrants stealing items from a graveyard in the UK. This is false—the video actually shows a cemetery in Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.

*sigh*