A million times this. It’s incredible that the ‘big brains’ advising the Labour Party genuinely think that they can convert people who are fans of Farage to vote for Keir Starmer. It’s just not going to happen, however cruel your policies become.

Great from @roberthutton.co.uk on the Truss clown-car, as she repeatedly drives it into the wall of shame. This time with her own YouTube show. Most of us would have tired of the indelible humiliation by now. Not Liz. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/408...

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢 “Genocide as a weapons experiment.”

Firstly, on this point, I don't agree with PM Starmer. Brexit didn't shatter the consensus (although it did release a lot of nasty demons into the open). No, it revealed a UK that had failed to establish a consensus in 40-odd years of membership. 3

Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.

NGL, until y'day i thought the FIFA Peace Prize was an elaborate internet joke.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

If Ofcom actually existed, GB News wouldn't.

"Keir Starmer did not create this problem — the damage done by the Conservatives cannot be overstated — but it is making matters worse." Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach:

This post by @samfr.bsky.social on the new book by @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @timbale.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social and @psurridge.bsky.social is as good as everyone says. Especially this point busting the myth of the Red Wall and the "hero voter". samf.substack.com/p/six-lesson...

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy. I wish I was making this up.

It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences. Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday

“There has never been a case in living memory of a US Sec of State missing a regular NATO meeting without good reason. …Of course, the welfare of the Western world does not depend on a single meeting. ... The episode would be negligible if it did not reflect the malaise between America and Europe.”

This is how the world sees the USA now. Land of the bully, home of the snitch.

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2

Ukraine cannot accept any US-Russian ceasefire formula that would allow Russia to “come back with a third invasion,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today.

Great NYT piece (gift link) on “The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived. That fraction is 16% now. The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%. It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

Who needs Sec of State or any US official actually confirmed by the United States Senate to do official state business on behalf of the United States? Just let the President's cronies and family members with potential financial interests tied to foreign entities do it.

Every time he brags about that cognitive test, I’m reminded it’s the one where you have to identify a picture of a lion. The fact that he thinks it’s an achievement might actually be the test.

Das geht so nicht weiter: Der Staat schützt die Rechtsextremen und prügelt auf friedliche Demonstrant:innen ein.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.

Here the audience are not even getting to hear the specifics. The variety that makes them think and feel repulsed. Just a general allegation of racism. That’s a big fat fail.

ICYMI: Boris Johnson responded to the Covid Inquiry via his Telegraph column - he failed to apologise Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice: "It is beyond contempt that he has chosen to respond to the Covid Inquiry by attacking the Covid Bereaved for "wrangling" about the deaths of our loved ones"

New analysis by non-profit climate group Possible today: Private jet passengers typically pay less than 1% of the cost of their flights in taxes, compared to 26%-54% paid by economy passengers on standard flights Loopholes mean private jetters often pay little or no APD, nor fuel duty on kerosene.

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. The bill has finally arrived. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

In Trump’s so-called “Golden Age of America”, October saw the highest number of job cuts in over two decades, business ave hiked up their prices by an average of 12% & 14 million Americans have utility debt so severe that it is being sent to collections. #DonaldTrump

Turkey has a customs union with Europe and there's no such thing as a single market only for goods. If services are regulated differently then one side will enjoy cheaper finance. This will distort the goods market

Wie absurd und vor allem infam es ist, von der Ukraine zu fordern, ihre Armee auf eine bestimmte Zahl zu beschränken, egal, ob nun auf 400.000, 600.000 oder 800.000, muss doch für jeden ersichtlich sein. Von einem Land, das überfallen wurde - und von dem nie eine außenpolitische Aggression ausging

There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.

I’m in touch with a medical team in Gaza who described the situation, and I quote, like so: “this ceasefire is less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire”

In 2023/24, UK govt gave £78.2bn tax relief on pension contributions. 32% benefitted 29.2m basic rate (20%) taxpayers. 68% went to higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) tax payers. Equalizing tax relief at 20% to all, leaves govt £14.5bn spare to alleviate poverty.

All EU leaders in Geneva know that Russia wrote the plan that Witkoff is pretending to be American. The idioms and syntax are clearly Russian. And they all must pretend that they don’t know Witkoff is Putin’s creature. This is America’s role in the world now.

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

Got the band back together at mine and Paul’s surprise wedding reception. I love these people so much 🥰 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social and Ingrid Oliver

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."

While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/

Did the bombshell BBC memo misquote the misquote? on.ft.com/485zOMr Spoiler alert: it did. Panorama edited Trump to make him look bad. But Prescott edited Trump to make the BBC look bad.

news.sky.com/story/legal-... Immigrants wishing to settle, must speak English to A level or degree standard…so a lot better than most of the British born workforce then. What a small minded policy this is…and as there’s no chance of it stopping the boats either, just performative