If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

What a wonderful portrait and interview with the great @anthonybarnett.bsky.social Have a look for yourselves.. 👇

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Another opportunity for Blue Sky liberals to feel smug about not being on X any more. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

„Die Medien“ als antisemitischer Kollektivakteur? Wenn die meisten medialen Akteure „forschungsresistent“ sind, gibt es vielleicht doch gute Gründe zum Zweifel am entgrenzten Antisemitismusbegriff von Monika Schwarz-Friesel. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker? It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal. Something very dangerous is building here.

November melancholia.

A 🇩🇪🇬🇧 Business Forum will facilitate dialogue between our governments and businesses from next year – a direct result of the #KensingtonTreaty. Good to speak about the close ties between our economies with the German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce and members.

I wish those weather people on the radio would announce the currently unusual warm weather in a slightly less enthusiastic way. 18 degrees in November is not normal.

Another very good read from @edwardluce.bsky.social 👇

"Statt Israel zu diffamieren, sollte man denen die Hand reichen, die gegen diese Regierung sind, die Frieden wollen. Man sollte helfen, sie zu stärken.“ Solche Positionen werden im Zuge des grassierenden Israel-Hasses ausgeladen. Bitter.

Indeed. They lost a whole year.

Very poor headlineby Guardian, making it seem she was guilty of something. What she actually did, was try to maintain a last shred of respect for human rights in Israel. More evidence of grotesque abuse of Palestinians. Israel long ago lost its legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Ein Politiker mit Weitblick würde den wertvollen Beitrag, den viele Syrer*innen zur deutschen Gesellschaft leisten, erkennen. Er würde verstehen, dass wir mehr denn je auf sie angewiesen sind. Ein Politiker mit Anstand würde das würdigen. Ein solcher Politiker ist Friedrich Merz offenkundig nicht.

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Ein großer Fehler, der zeigt, dass der Wert deutsch-polnischen Zusammenrückens immer noch nicht erkannt wird. Als könnte man den Erfolg von einem Projekt wie dem Kulturzug in Euro und Złoty messen. www.rbb24.de/content/rbb/...

Despite my online branding, I do actually try to avoid 1:1 Roman Empire comparisons but come on he is not making this easy

Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case … Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hannan's lurch to far-right ethnonationalism began at least as far back as 2018, when he was palling around with neo-Nazi lunatic (and fellow Roger Scruton disciple!) Thierry Baudet...

Maybe he should come back, after all. Can't see anyone else who can empower ppl as good as he can.

I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”

Have now written something article-length about tech bros and Tolkien www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters

Democracy will be under threat if politicians like Nigel Farage avoid proper scrutiny by presenting their own TV shows, according to Sky News presenter @sophyridge.bsky.social 👏 inews.co.uk/news/media/s...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Im Umfeld von Nigel Farage tummeln sich einige Figuren, die über exzellente Kontakte zur MAGA-Welt verfügen und aus den USA nicht nur ideologisch, sondern zunehmend auch finanziell unterstützt werden. @annettedittert.bsky.social aus London: www.blaetter.de/podcast

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

Expect to hear little about small boat crossing at the moment. 28-day averages are falling again and are the lowest since early June this year also lower than any other year in the last 5 years other than 2023. 1/3

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

„…has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in Gaza that would take the State Department “multiple years” to review“

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Wer aufmerksam Berichte liest/sieht/hört, dem dürfte spätestens seit Vance Auftritt bei der MSC klar geworden sein, wohin der Hase läuft. @annettedittert.bsky.social hat in der neuesten Ausgabe der @blaetter.bsky.social eindrücklich beschrieben, wie das in GB abläuft. Rausreden gilt nicht mehr.

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

Hier die komplette Erklärung der neuen CDU-Gruppe "Compass Mitte", die sich für eine härtere Abgrenzung von der AfD positioniert: "Die CDU ist in dem Wissen gegründet worden, dass Faschismus immer nur mit Hilfe von Konservativen an die Macht gekommen ist."

What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.” Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”. www.thetimes.com/article/9048...

This is why pushback matters. When forced to actually defend racism they get into a muddle. (See also Tory ILR plans).

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Die MAGA-Bewegung will in Großbritannien eine autoritäre Wende nach amerikanischem Vorbild einläuten. Die Voraussetzungen dafür sind erschreckend gut, wie @annettedittert.bsky.social erläuert 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast – und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.

After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

Nick Timothy was special adviser to Theresa May at the time of Go Home vans & the hostile environment policy, which ofc led to the Windrush disaster, and also at the time of her catastrophic decision to call the 2017 election. It’s amazing he’s regarded as any sort of expert, let alone a neutral one

A newspaper owned by a billionaire warns against a left-wing candidate. That must be freedom of speech, right?

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

BREAK 🔥 Starmer on Pochin comments via BBC: "It’s shocking racism and it’s the sort of thing that’ll tear our country apart. And tells you everything about Reform. Nigel Farage either doesn’t consider it racist which I think is shocking in itself or he does and shows absolutely no leadership.” ~AA

Ukraine: Kaum jemand argumentiert professioneller, abgewogener und kenntnisreicher als die immer wieder großartige @claudmajor.bsky.social - danke liebe Claudia, immer wieder: Danke!

Ich glaube, die effektivste Sofortmaßnahme für die politische Kultur in diesem Land wäre ein sofortiges X-Verbot für alle Abgeordneten in allen Parlamenten und für alle Parteispitzen. Diese immer giftigere Melange aus Erregung, Desinformation, Aggression und Irrsinn schadet.

This is the perfect read for a Sunday afternoon when it’s getting dark too early. And yes, it’s also very good. 👇

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.