fish & chips is Jewish street food. it's well-documented Victorian Jewish immigrants started selling it. I well remember my grandmother doing a big batch of 'fried fish' in matzo meal every Friday to eat cold for Shabbes lunch. I'm willing to bet 'white English' people don't have that memory.

Respect my authority

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

In the UK something like 34% of UC benefit claimants work. 40% of low paid workers and 4% of population use food banks. Oxfam study found the richest 1% of the UK own more wealth than the other 70% combined. And it is getting worse . But sure, no wealth tax as won't work etc etc

I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?

Spain-Africa: Madrid's radically different approach to African migration - BBC News share.google/FmhxLwkoBx6q...

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears. Headline on BBC News web site. This is wholly misleading. It was Robinson's lawyer who said the stop was unlawful, not the court. The court will rule on the case on 4th November.

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off news.sky.com/story/price-...

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself.

London haters latest. Less than Copenhagen. COPENHAGEN. They've got about 15 different words for hugging, for crissakes

This Is Fascism

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes - BBC News share.google/MVwTQTliMW5Y...

Some good news: Most people don't trust Trump and RFK Jr.'s claims about autism. Just four percent of respondents told a KFF poll they believed the claim was definitely true, while 30 percent said it was probably false and 35 percent said it was definitely false www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks - BBC Future share.google/rTcYroRb77ov...

Nothing says strong, confident, leadership with clear ideals than cracking down hard on uniform and dress code - just like schools really. IMVHO If you don't know what you are doing focus on viable trivia. search.app/Js461

Some really decent in depth and fact-based reporting from BBC which runs counter to a narrative swallowed whole by much of the media and politicians of all stripes (some of whom should know better). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Very much enjoyed being a part of Slow Horses!

Georgian protesters give government ultimatum after watching Moldova defeat Russia—all five leaders arrested Pro-Russian party tightens control. Whether Georgia’s democracy survives depends on what’s next. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/07/g...

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US | PC Gamer share.google/WwelyUNfiDs2...

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Gary Neville is being attacked so viciously as he is listened to by the people that Farage and Kyle are courting @lewisgoodall.com

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick. At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division. The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Urbanists should start an annual celebration of public transit. Call it Dia de los Metros.

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain” If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is. Sickening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In fact this *understates* the point here. Tory policy is not (just) to remove benefits but to remove ILR and deport, exactly like the Farage plan the PM correctly described as racist.

@bbcnews No Phelp is lying committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/127578/html/#:~:text=The GFA placed a codified,the Human Rights Act 1998. share.google/qS05NW5hSLgQ...

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes - BBC News share.google/mg3o1ImGWKDd...

"Does the ECHR stop states from controlling their borders?" No. The ECHR Court emphasises migration policies are up to states themselves. "But the ECHR stops the UK from deporting foreign criminals." No, it doesn't. Successful human rights-based appeals against deportation are very rare.

With Kemi Badenoch saying the Tories would take the UK out of the ECHR, this YouGov poll in June found the public wanted to remain members by 51% to 27%

Really good thread. A thing I completely got wrong is that I thought we had already reached the limits of how anti-business a government was willing to be when it came to immigration - turns out as big of a journey as the Tories went on from 2016, Labour could in fact go further.

Good write-up this. Every bit of research shows that 'pre-buttal' (i.e. people don't see the misinformation or malinformation first) is much more effective than factchecking. Part of that is 'government should try and make it so that you can cover UK politics without being on X'.

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does. E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

@hignfy.bsky.social Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact share.google/geTczIhf7fQp... Er no....

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Making topical comedy at bleak news times can be so tough but, in my book, it’s thank heavens for the return of Have I Got News For You, where Ian and Paul work magic to conjure laughs when there are none. Tonight with wonderful Miles Jupp and Sheila Hancock - and me trying to host. 9pm on BBC One.

'Two of the victims have now died.' LBC's Andy Hughes brings an update from Greater Manchester Police after the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall.

Why aren’t supposedly “patriotic” Tories and Labour calling for this?

The richest 1% hold more wealth than 70% of Britons | Oxfam GB share.google/4ZEoHuOhu59t... But we cannot tax the rich. Won't work. Will kill the economy. Something creating wealth, something balance blah... Sorry 1% hold more wealth than 70% combined. 1% you can pay more.

Do we really want Farage as PM? Has anyone just pressed him on his ties to Trump? His nonsense economics? Vaccine denial? People eating swans (a lie)? Nigel Farage on course to be next prime minister, mega poll projects | Politics News | Sky News share.google/Jro2655TuyV6...

For a large proportion of the Northern Irish population being required to have a document which identifies you as a UK citizen is impossible. So you need a compatible Irish ID card system. Which means you need the Irish govt to introduce one. And share the info. And that's not going to happen.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Remember how many weeks and months our media spent going after Rayner? Strange that they couldn't drop the equivalent Farage story fast enough...

May I be so bold as to remind you of this, from ten days ago, when most other commentators were hailing Nigel Farage's unmatched political genius?

Gaza aid flotilla hit by drone attacks and explosions, activists say | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera share.google/lQhzTDhDj2Nw...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage refuses to back science and would listen to the US and RFK and Trump regarding Paracetamol. Every time he comes on TV or the radio needs asking about it. Every Time please.