Transcript from President Restraining Order’s speech before the UN

Before politicians and media get themselves into a mess. Let me clarify. For most Muslims, Sharia means living ethically, praying, and giving to charity. Any councils are advisory and are not above the law and are no different to Jewish Beth Din courts that have existed in the UK since the 1800s.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

It is serious President Trump is seeking to spread islamaphobic lies about our democratically elected London Mayor & denigrate our great capital city. What can we do? We can email Keir Starmer & call for the USA ambassador to be summoned. The form is here👇 🙏😊 contact.no10.gov.uk

Good news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I read in the guardian that Starmer & team are preparing a progressive fight back against the rise of the far right “Sources said Starmer’s speech would build on an argument he made in an opinion piece for the Sun newspaper”. So I went & read the Sun article. 👇 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3678572...

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Just done another one! It's like a weird new hobby! www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Complain! Ask for a reply. The BBC are obliged to supply one!

Goodnight. 🖼️ The Night Sky, Robert Ayton, 1965.

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is a good article & worth reading.

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Britain is better than its reputation. And its bad reputation plays into the hands of divisive nationalists. So, to repeat. Britain is better than its reputation. Complacency is bad. So is catstrophism.

There’s a phenomena experienced by motorcyclists called target fixation, where they concentrate so hard on an object that they’re trying to avoid they end up driving straight into it. This government is doing this with “losing the next election” Ironically partly due to a fixation on fiscal targets!

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

“Lib Dems back motion saying government should start talks on UK joining customs union with EU 'immediately'” guardian politics live Good. There’s much support across the UK for far closer ties with the EU- inc a customs union - which oft goes unrecognised in majority of mainstream media & politics

“Come,” said the Wind to the Leaves one day. "Come over the meadow and we will play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. For summer is gone and the days grow cold." 'An Autumn greeting' by George Cooper #AutumnEquinox🌬️🍂 #BookchatWeekly 🎨 Franklin Booth, 1911

Very interested to see whether the trumpeted Trump announcement rumoured to be alleging a link between autism & Tylenol shows any understanding of difference between correlation & causation.. or whether any potential subsequent law suit from brand owners & manufacturers may help with that lesson 😳

Are you hearing rumours of a 'rapture'? This is where this bizarre magical thinking idea was dreamed up in the 1830s. Powerscourt Estate, County Wicklow, south of Dublin. #rapture 🧵

Welfare reform 'must happen', UK minister says. Silence on corporate welfare. For example, Drax makes profits but gets subsidies. Silence on tax perks of the rich. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Welfare reform is a code for squeezing the poor, old, sick, disabled.

As Rosh Hashanah begins, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jewish Londoners for their incredible contribution to our city. From my family to yours: L'shanah tovah!

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

It would signal the the de facto end of nearly all immigration to this country, from those coming to work to those who come for love. It would crater our economy, tear up relationships, remove status from millions of European, result in endless legal battles and leave us as an international pariah.

This has to be a moment of reckoning. Broadcasters must focus on the practical consequences and make them clear. It would be utter, society altering chaos. That should dominate the approach, as it would coverage of any other party's policies.

“We’ve just got to stop taking the right wing at its word on free speech. What they actually want is to be insulated from any criticism. This is a fundamentally political story that echoes what we’ve seen from Meta, X, Amazon, Tesla, etc. whose fortunes are tied up in their relationship with Trump.”

Publisher criticises Reform council’s ‘Trumpian’ boycott of Nottingham Post

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“If you get access to the open internet before you get formally educated, your worldview will be fucked,” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yes she is! And she’s the creator of the conspiracy theory pyramid that was going around several years ago, too.

"fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" = well, that's the internet won for the day; logging off, ttyt

I didn't know this creator had a bluesky page, but she's @abbierichards.bsky.social and she's very good at explaining authoritarianism.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

So the ppl at Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s march who spoke to camera on wanting to “protect women & girls” are going to be really vocal about dangers of white young men now? & Mr Farage & his supporters too? & campaigning to hold owners of Snapchat to account? No? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yup. Invest to save. Save money and also save some humanity for the people fleeing terror and abuse and seeking asylum. Ed Davy’s proposal makes a lot of humanitarian sense. If you think it’s a good idea too pls take a moment to send the article to your MP 🙏😊 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“The idea of free speech is the idea of truth and progress by the free exchange of ideas. It requires that we sometimes change our mind on the basis of what we hear, not just that we get to shout as much as we like.”

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

A great idea with some wonderful people involved. I hope southbank can reach out & encourage creative institution & community events & participation across UK to happen in the same month. Ppl in the UK need things to look forward to & have opportunities for friendly connection across communities.

After showing support for Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon mocks President's Trump's trip to the UK in a genuinely amusing way

A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.

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Whilst the OBR is not the only reason, the FT headline omits that the OBR is most certainly a major contributing factor 👇.

“What gets measured gets done”. And the OBR is measuring short termist features of our economy & fails to measure return on investment - as is clear by the failure to fully value surestart: failed to be properly valued by OBR & seen as a cost, shut down by Osborn & evidenced now as a massive ROI

to UK economically & socially, & the slashing of the surestart programme has been fully evidenced now through research to have cost the UK life chances & increased tax returns. So yes, the OBR is a massive part of the problem keeping the UK shortermist & risk adverse to essential investment.

“Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies found recently that Sure Start children’s centres in England generated £2 of financial benefits for every £1 in costs – and created £2.8bn in savings and revenues at the scheme’s peak” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hear Hear Pete! One form of resistance -to online hate, to the algorithms set by billionaires that monitise online hate - is is to reach out to ppl, to have conversations, to engage in volunteering, to hold community events, to speak to people you don’t agree with 100% & treat each other w decency 😊