Honestly what is the point of a Labour government that won’t take a stand against mass revocation deportation of people with permanent settlement rights? If you won’t stand against anything you stand for nothing.

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

Paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social

This one million times over

Less than 24 hours after a poll showing the Greens as popular as Labour.

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

If I was a Labour strategist seeing the Greens eat my lunch I wouldn't do something this stupid www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is nothing more important in British public life than defeating Farage and making sure he gets nowhere near any actual power. Nothing. Doesn't matter who you are. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

No further questions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A £1 notepad for $100. You have to admire sheer balls of it.

Only the UK rail industry could launch a clock that goes anti-clockwise.

Really enjoyed doing a deep dive for @transformernews.ai on what an AI collapse might look like – how much bigger than the dotcom boom would it be? Would it leave infrastructure behind to build upon? Could we get a 2008-style chain reaction? www.transformernews.ai/p/what-happe...

Not only a moron, an incredibly powerful moron.

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today. on.ft.com/3KOUh07 Key para.

Layla Moran is in a different league. I cannot understand why the Lib Dems do not see what an asset she is.

Casually noting that Norway is the original home of the troll.

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Nick Clegg says asking petrol companies to charge for petrol would kill the car industry

Be careful! During Halloween, the veil between our world and the great beyond is at its thinnest. You will never be in more danger of becoming an actual slutty nurse

Read this gem by @roberthutton.co.uk if you need a laugh this morning (and who doesn't?). thecritic.co.uk/help-your-lo...

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Thread of the day, no notes

Interesting - not least on what the media considers not to be a story.

Mass deportations of legally settled people to murderous regimes characterised as a bit of visa admin. The BBC acting as Reform's PR department again

“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.

All hail social media

I'm shocked to discover that a senior member of a party run by Nigel Farage had a dodgy relationship with Russia.

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

He called his boss "America's Hitler"

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

💯. Progressives have to stop franchising out their consciences to the courts. Politics is about moral choices. The problem with Reform's proposal isn't that "the courts won't allow it". It's that it's grotesque and inhuman. If we're democrats, we must believe that this argument can be won.

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Very well put www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Queuing in pubs combines the worst elements of communism – yes, the very worst elements – without any of the good stuff, like free housing or hastily built nuclear power stations.”

I sense that Tommy Robinson supporters might never be persuaded by Badenoch, for you know, reasons.

Huge missed headline opportunity here. Microbial life on Mars? It’s a God awful small affair. www.earth.com/news/nasa-an...

He's not very bright is he? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I always remember when Anne Robinson tried to do her school ma’am act on Ricky Hatton on Celebrity Weakest Link. AR: “Ricky - you were the weakest link in that round. Why do you think that is?” RH: “Probably because I get punched in the head for a living, Anne.”

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

546 people reaching straight for the laughing emoji. It doesn't take much to see how evil might flourish, does it?

It's always the ones you most suspect

The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.

I mean this seems like a legitimate question from @annaturley.bsky.social

Fucking disgraceful.

He's home schooled but still gets his head put down the lavvy at break time.

According to my local parent WhatsApp group, the new school playground insult is: "Your dad paints roundabouts"