'Maybe it’s because I’m an Irishman that the proscription of Palestine Action took me back to the bad old days of the Hurd broadcasting ban. “What was that?” I hear anyone under the age of 35 asking. In 1988, determined to “deny terrorists the oxygen of publicity”, Margaret Thatcher...'

I do occasionally get the very strong sense that some approaches to teaching being fêted atm must feel incredibly patronising to young people. I keep wanting to shout, 'they're not babies, you know!'.

Will be interesting to see which groups are sponsoring events at this week's Conservative conference. Unfortunately I won't be able to tell you about it because her press team have banned me from covering it! bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Join us here for the YouTube premiere of the full chat: youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk

New: Labour’s curriculum and assessment review: too cautious by design? educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/lab... (Open access) think piece on the review, whose final report is expected in a couple of weeks. Read here educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/lab... or here open.substack.com/pub/warwickm...

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Whether we like it or not there is a very real class system alive in Britain❗️ Most of us have class and then there’s those who just don’t and they dress like that👇🏼🥴🤦🏼‍♂️😂🤣

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Imagine someone with her track record trying to take th moral high ground

Someone had to say it. Thank you, @duckworth.senate.gov

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE ⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences? https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

Highly unlikely that Government will succeed in recovering any of the PPE Medpro money. The legal threshold for recovering sums an insolvent company has already paid out is high. This is yet another reason why it was appalling that Gove et al chose to deal with tiny box-fresh VIP lane suppliers.

Another one!! Russian official dies at five-star hotel after 'falling from high floor' following Putin crackdown Former St Petersburg transport boss Alexander Fedotov, 49, was found dead outside the five-star Skypoint Luxe hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport

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Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

🔴Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report? bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Let's hope the Government now finds the courage to go against the proper VIP Tory Royalty who also made tens of millions at a time of crisis supplying PPE which was not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte: 'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

20 years on from the passing of Robin Cook, I delivered the Robin Cook Memorial Lecture. You can read the published version of my speech here. www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...

Where has this been all summer?! That’s what Labour should’ve been saying then, not now.

Apparently 5% of Reform voters think they are racist.

PM Starmer in his conference speech: "When was the last time that you heard Farage say anything positive about Britain's future?" "He can't. He doesn't like Britain, doesn't believe in Britain. He wants you to doubt it just as much as he does" Positivity is "bad for business" for populists he says

Netanyahu doesn’t want peace, ever.

“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

Who could disagree?

Sadly I am not tye least bit shocked by this. Following the murder of Steven Lawrence the Met were found to be institutionally racist. Nothing has changed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome. And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

The Labour Party are bought and paid for. Lobbying, cash for access, vested interests. This is who they are. It doesn't have to be this way.

Well thanks for emphasising the party you belong to, Mahmood, because without that, it would’ve been hard to distinguish you from the Tories or Reform. All seemingly competing to win the “Biggest Bastard to Immigrants” prize. You cannot win against Reform, but competing with them disgraces you.

Good idea - send all those people who retired to Spain home if they don’t speak Spanish! 🤣

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3% more and this Labour Government need to worry more about the left - than the right. Lower bills. Protect the NHS. Nationalise our public services. This is how we start to turn our country around. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Farage is applying for a job. That job is Prime Minister. The only thing on his CV is Brexit. He campaigned for it for 27 years. So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS. If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is bonkers, it will mean that foreigners wanting to live in the U.K. will have to speak better English than the people who object most strongly to them being here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

High standard of English to be required for leave to remain, home secretary to pledge - The Guardians r(e

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

"Keir Starmer is a cynical, disappointing sell out." I spoke to the Sunday Times 👇🏼

Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.

We call this WINNING.

Not satisfied with trying to out racist ReformUK plc, Starmer is now trying to out Tory the Tories. WTF is wrong with him? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you really need to get rid of him but please don’t replace him with Wes Streeting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

National Front —> BNP —> UKIP —> Brexit Party —> Reform Different names, same racist bigotry. Don’t let Reform voters claim they are anything but the National Front in disguise. WE SEE YOU.

For Labour there really is NO coming back from this pure abandonment of both people and values!!

@labourlewis.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social wtf is wrong with Keir Starmer? If I wanted a racist, transphobic Government I would vote for the Tories or Reform. I don’t but feel abandoned by a Labour Party I no longer recognise so will be voting Green in future.

Given what we learned this week about Musk's father allegedly sexually abusing 5 of his 6 children, is this a surprise ? And we all suspect Andrew Windsor is a nonce. (I make no allegations).

The government should remind schools that Oak National Academy is ‘optional’ and ‘adaptable’ to ease any concerns about the curriculum resources quango, major review suggests

Good www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Imagine having all this pilfered by Palantir, or similar. Governments and tech giants simply can't be trusted. It's really that simple.

There's also the issue of what I can actually USE a British ID card for. Will it replace a passport? Or do I still need both? In the EU, an ID card also serves as a passport, allowing you to travel within the whole of Schengen, the EU, the EEA and all the other countries with an EU travel agreement.