Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Ed Davey canoeing through the Strait of Hormuz to draw attention to the Lib Dems '10p off a litre' fuel policy h/t @worgztheowl.bsky.social

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

I just overheard someone say 'footloose and pantsy free'.

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

Donnie Darko's ending is more dystopian than I expected

Dubai’s top British influencers have been fulsome in their praise for the UAE Government as the Iran war continues. Speaking from jail, one said, “They quite rightly locked me up for tweeting a video of a drone blowing up my apartment.” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

What are the world’s deadliest animals? Great @ourworldindata.org chart giving a sense of magnitudes of numbers of humans killed by different animals in 2023. Only mosquitoes beat humans in their deadliness! ourworldindata.org/deadliest-an...

Reform offered hate. We offered hope. Hope won. The police say his accusations of cheating are baseless. Farage is a bad loser.

👏 🚨 This is how to interview Nigel Farage - confront him with his own words and expose his hypocrisy.

That’s because footage of three corpses rolling down a hill in a bathtub on wheels would be seen as distressing, Roy

Farage, Reform, the BBC and almost all UK newspapers ignore this, but always focus their anti minority hate agenda on other smaller non-white perpetrator cases. This one is massive, but is ignored by the UK propaganda machine.

"The Chinese government has the full, un-redacted Epstein files." "Anonymous has the full, un-redacted Epstein files." That's nice. I'll care about it when they're released publicly online. Until then, it's all just meaningless, shameless engagement bait.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

The Chagos Islands deal: a mini explainer The Chagos deal isn’t a giveaway but a long-overdue reckoning with colonial crimes, legal reality, and the price of military legitimacy westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/the...

For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a "full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum." So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

@mrjamesob.bsky.social listening on catch up to Laura in hh. You note that the “no blacks…” posters would be illegal now whereas the flags aren’t. This is precisely the the line that NF and his ilk can tapdance on. Now TR is doing the same. The name “raise the colours” seems covertly racist too.

Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY "All we ever talk about in this country is immigration" "Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

Almost like the billionaire press barons are starting to collectively shit their pants…

Look at what's been stolen from you since 2010 - no wonder things aren't working 👇 Rachel Reeves must absolutely raise tax to FUND PUBLIC SERVICES 80% of UK millionaires think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share in tax @patmillsuk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

The people who put Farage in the papers and on the TV all the time agree with Farage. Therefore, what Starmer says about Farage they see as an attack on them and that's why they're having a a tantrum this morning in the papers @mrjamesob.bsky.social

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

There goes the First Amendment.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social just listening to your last hour on adhd diagnosis (unfortunately on catch up so couldn’t call). It’s so refreshing to hear accounts i can identify with. You have some colleagues at global katie breathwick and sam pittis with the you’re wrong about adhd podcast.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

How did 77 million people actually vote for this lunatic?

Holyyyyyy....I am a tired exhausted puddle on the floor. What a day for @vrubinobs.bsky.social! This observatory is incredible. Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪 skyviewer.app

Project Here.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway. I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many

In an indemnity deal with The Sunday Times dated 17 November in which she handed over a dossier to the Murdoch Sunday paper, Oakeshott said: “I am in no doubt Banks and Wigmore have been acting as agents of influence for the Russian state”. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So the far right are planning a "Great British National Strike" tomorrow. On a Bank Holiday Saturday. They claim there are 500k of them and it will shut down Britain. Will be interesting to see how many blokes with sunburn do end up roaming the streets looking to beat minorities up.

maybe if the tech nerds had ever had a humanities class they'd understand that the way people interact with technology in Star Trek (speaking with computers, hand motions in the air,) are largely because those are ways to tell a story to viewers and/or look neato, not because they're actually useful