one of the funny things about this awful advice is it would basically guarantee a Reform majority at the next election. A Reform govt will absolutely destroy the UK's fiscal position, along with plenty else

They will just... break things. Things we treasure. Things we depend on. Things our lives will be much more difficult without. They will just break them, and laugh, and blame foreigners and wokists.

Make sure you absolutely do not skip the part of this interview with Cass Sunstein where he defends his relationship with Henry Kissinger by saying “he was nice about my Star Wars book”

The National's coverage of the far-right lately has genuinely endeared them to me in a way that little else over the years has. It is the only newspaper to approach this exactly as it should be approached, which is by going on an unapologetic attack against it.

A vain, immoderate faith in these institutions made it possible to overlook the fact that their vitality was gone. The machine could still be heard clattering along, so no one asked if it was still doing its job” - Carl von Clausewitz on Prussia in 1806

A lot of this stuff could have been avoided if more mainstream/influential liberal institutions had simply told these people to Fuck Off much sooner

Increasingly really think that we might be in a slow-motion civilizational breakdown as people prove psychologically incapable of dealing with the complexities of modern life.

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

... They've actually not drawn a crowd much larger than the pro Israel marches. This is not a movement with mass support.

In a showpiece event they have been trailing for weeks, with the added publicity boost of this week's murder in the USA (which was all over British social media) they still couldn't get more numbers than Trans Pride. Not only are they smaller than Palestinian solidarity marches...

Of course the other big effect of slash and burn deregulation is to make anyone who invested in good business practices feel like an idiot as they get out competed by lower cost cowboy operators

another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

an underrated source of instability over the next few years is Israel's continued desperation to start a full-on regional war

Tice is politics by retired people for retired people

we are clearly experiencing a crisis of elite accountability. the rise of far right politics might seem like a response to this crisis, but it's not. Instead it represents total nihilism towards the concept

This Epstein birthday book, which is regrettably online and accessible, would in a normal world compel the resignation and/or arrest of everybody in it. And as of right now, the utter depravity displayed therein is the floor for how bad the details might get.

forest swapping Nuno for Ange right at the start of the season is almost unbelievable

This is a key point that UK politicians completely fail to grasp. What started off as enablement has become gatekeeping and taxation over which most governments have next to zero control. When they do recognise it, they mistake regulatory control for a genuine solution.

WHO IS THIS GOVERNMENT FOR

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Farage visibly confused by being held to account, having been coddled by a British media and political establishment that refuses to do the bare minimum.

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

oh fulham man this is unreal

ICYMI: A sitting British MP, James McMurdock, is using the N-word to attack a journalist, Mhari Aurora. Far-right influencers such as Andrew Tate have been deploying the capital "N" as racist shorthand in social media attacks on Black people.

Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.

No, the media did the job it intended to do, well. Once again: at this point this moon-faced innocent affect about what is *very clearly* a highly motivated attempt to whip up race riots is equivalent to denialism. It obfuscates obvious motives and shields bad actors from accountability.

This is great and correct, leading to the all important question, what about these guys? (Pam is the modern Anglo-American right in the meme, but maybe there’s a lot more here than I thought).

Again, like half the country thinks the response to last years riots was -not harsh enough-, the fact people seems to be trying to argue it was too harsh and that it provoked further unrest are out of their minds

A proudly racist man with a previous conviction for violent disorder has set up a militia to "tackle crime" and still gets the soft soap treatment

I put a Scotland flag in the window during France 1998 *because I was 18*, the age where you are supposed to do that kind of thing. Festooning everything with flags and talking loudly about Love of Country would’ve been viewed as crass, stupid and American, when I was a kid. And that was correct.

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

A woman made public statements inciting people to burn migrant hotels down during an event where people tried to do exactly that, pled guilty to incitement, was imprisoned for it, and the second she gets out, a notoriously inflammatory Telegraph journalist is waiting to give her a hero’s profile.

UK media running the J6 rehabilitation playbook on the riots last summer while desperately trying for more riots now actually not sure I've ever felt worse about my country than I do right now

Migration is fundamentally good, and it's the job of governments to build institutions that allow people from wildly different backgrounds to live together in harmony and prosperity, not cater to xenophobic fear-mongering among people who have no idea what they're talking about

1 Politicians say immigration is the cause of all problems 2 They reduce immigration 3 The problems remain since the immigrants were never the problem 4 Anti immigrant sentiment increases since it was established in (1) that the immigrants are the problems and the problems remain

NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice

it's not a systemic fix but surely there's a crowdfunder for legal fees here

Is Weiss aware, and if she is does she care, that Holocaust Deniers have made *exactly* this same argument about how the death tolls in the camps are inflated?

“I am not a journalist, just an ordinary, apolitical Sudanese citizen. The war I saw was not about ideology – just money, power, and the survival of armed men at the cost of our lives.”

The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos. I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return. So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea

i know it's early but even early gdp now is a lot better than most of us at reading growth, it sounds wild but kind of feels to me like the Fed should hike

Speaking as someone who has lost immigrant family to this man and his party, this is precisely the ideology and selling point. “The numbers are all fake, why should I believe anything?” is a thought I have heard articulated, verbatim, in defense of Trump. It is the nihilism of fascism distilled.

“How did i become an EM investor? Well, i invested in US assets and waited.”

And of course, any plans to "wean Britain off its addiction to foreign workers" are going to involve regulation, and that will be regulation on businesses, and that will be anti-growth because it's regulating one of the factors of production. Rachel Reeves is going to have to blame the bats again.

if the fall was due to reduced labour supply, prime-age employment to population would be rising rather than down since the inauguration. The unemployment rate would also be down rather than up since January

this is a great game

Sorry im crashing out on this. WE CAN SOLVE LIKE 90% OF OUR PROBLEMS BY DOING THE RIGHT THING