Mahmood trumpeting her admiration for Danish asylum policy, only to have to distance herself from its architects because they‘re massive racists. Incredible scenes

This policy is bad for community cohesion. You don’t build confident, contributing neighbours on rolling 30 month visas. The current 5‑year route is how people plan for the future and fully join our communities. The Danish model won’t work here. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mahmood announces more work for her already overworked department www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obvious by now but bears repeating: Labour's proposals across all forms of immigration policy are totally for public consumption. All signs point to them making worse the problems they allegedly solve

Every pic of him in the last 48 hours has looked increasingly more Weekend at Bernies

The beatings will continue until morale improves

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress. There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

uhhh oh my god

One minister said there was “very little appetite” for Mahmood’s approach among cabinet colleagues, with another telling The Observer: “There is a gap emerging [between No 10 and the Home Office] because people have started saying we shouldn’t be doing it, so Shabana has gone public pre-emptively.”

Farage can campaign to disenfranchise Commonwealth nationals. (His "born abroad" data counts naturalised British citizens too). Voting isn't fraud! Farage parties noisy in media on fraud every time they lose in any seat where Asians vote - 2015, 2019, 2024, 2026 - never lodge an election petition

The "like it or not, this is what real Americans actually think" argument is relentlessly used (very often wrongly) to platform anti-immigrant views. But the American public's deep-seated aversion to adventurist wars particularly in the Middle East never gets the same treatment. Curious

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults): Approval of Iran strikes: -10 Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15 Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31 Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20 yougov.com/en-us/search...

Love that the US used to conduct classified operations in the Situation Room or a SCIF, and now it's just a little curtained-off area in a private members' club.

big day for people who have no idea what comes next

"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress. The demand must be impeachment.

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

By taking a far-right approach to immigration policy, cracking down on rights and placing it high on the agenda, Labour has not just turned its own voters away It has mainstreamed far-right politics and strengthened Reform, both politically and electorally Them doubling down should be unforgivable

Several canvassers say the *settlement* reforms (make over a million voters wait 10-15 years for settlement, not 5, is a top of mind concern for those affected & friends, family A basic fallacy in Home Office citing more in common polling on asylum reform - a different issue - and net migration

The Prime Minister & Home Secretary seem to be proposing that the 7 year old daughter in a of the clearer of the bank in Birmingham & London will now face international student fees to go to university at 18 while their classmate, son of the banker,might have become a citizen aged 10

Also to note - Mahmood is essentially saying that immigration policy should be made entirely for political reasons and those reasons should be what they think their ideal type working class voter believes. Quite literally a policy of pandering.

this counter has really caught on, hasn't it?

A litmus test for any serious Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 is their commitment to tear down every ostentatious monument Donald Trump has built for himself and restore the spirit of austere republicanism

simply lacking the political skill to turn this around

Many possible answers here but in comparison to the US, UK politics is not nearly as party-polarized. As in: there is a much larger cross-section of voters whom you can imagine voting for different parties in different situations. And those different situations have been coming thick and fast!

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

Over the past eighteen months, the political science consensus on the nature of Labour's vote has been absolutely correct - and yet also completely ignored by pundits and strategists who continue to get it wrong.

Honestly this is like a breath of fresh air having these tactics openly explored to pushback on the stranglehold that far-right communications have on traditional media. This eco-system needs to be exposed to viewers and Polanski does a really good job of not rising to the bait but dissecting it.

The assertion "We're on the verge of Reform winning" really underrates how vulnerable they are to tactical voting even at precedented levels in UK politics. The main question is whether anti-Reform voters will be able to act collectively constituency-by-constituency where their vote should go.

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

A few years ago (pre-24) I was talking to a Labour politician casually about “well who is the working class in Britain these days, whom Labour should be working for?” And the image of people often in cities, often service workers, often young, often minorities, often educated, did not really figure

Even now you will find very senior people in Labour who just do not take the threat from the left seriously at all, and who simply refuse to believe who their own voters actually are. Now that the Greens actually realise who their voters can be, they have a big opening.

A month later, a resounding Green victory in Gorton and Denton, and the same media are acting like this was completely unpredictable and can only mean pure chaos is coming for us all (bc people couldn't possibly actually *want* something other than more racism and poverty)

The irony of yesterday's result is it repudiates Goodwin's theory that he set out in his late academic career - that the left must lean into voters' turn against trade and immigration. As it turns out, following his advice raised the Greens' vote share, and led to his defeat.

“Ministers need to wake up. If they continue to push overseas nursing staff out the door and make the UK an unattractive destination, while doing next to nothing to invest and grow the domestic workforce, their reforms will die.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is so so so bad. We can’t let this take root, or let “family voting” become a tool people use to discount the legitimacy of Muslim votes.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

great replacement except they want to import racists

Proud to take another group of University of Lincoln politics and international relations students to participate in #BISAFCDOmodelNATO in the grandest of settings- the Locarno Suite at the Foreign Office.

Net migration in all of 2025 (Jan-Dec) will be revealed in May 2026: it is clearly well below net 205k of year to June 2025; and could well be lowest outside pandemic since 2010 (150k in 2012-13) + since 1998 (140k) Ministers still saying net migration is still comparatively high - but it isn't

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Proud of our School of Social & Political Sciences students who took part in the BISA/FCDO NATO simulation joining peers from 31 UK universities + France & Canada. Representing Spain, they tackled security on NATO’s eastern flank. Thanks to @adefty.bsky.social for supporting. @mybisa.bsky.social

📖 Call for Papers 📖: Our project is hosting a workshop on 8-9 July at the University of Lincoln, UK for scholars working at the colonialism-migration governance intersection. Read the call here: tinyurl.com/bdhhejam Submit a paper here: tinyurl.com/43yh85c4 Deadline: 26 March

Undoing the sexual revolution, repealing the Renters’ Rights Act…literally every day these guys add a new liability to the pile.