Minute Cryptic - 25 September, 2025 "Undercover reporter changed surname to protect privacy, initially?" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (20,030 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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One thing making Trump so difficult to deal with is that it's impossible to separate his politics from his grotesque ego. He's obviously a hugely damaged, possibly deranged, person, but he articulates it through politics. I'm not sure that's ever been the case for the leader of a democracy before.

I understand Mr #Trump is now assuring his followers of his own personal ability to cure scrofula by touch. With hints that other conditions will soon follow 🤷‍♂️ #ThePresidentsEvil

Are there any Rightists – even one – who is basically saying, 'OK this has now gone too far. I'm getting off'?

More than Boris Johnson & Liz Truss becoming PM, I think the most disgraceful thing about 14 years of Tory government is that this waste of oxygen was in charge of our children’s education.

I can't disagree with Dan here...

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Pritzker seems to be the only one warning about this regularly

Fair play to Sadiq Khan. To live rent-free inside the head of the president of the USA is a massive achievement for any Mayor of London.

Never felt more patriotic or missed living in London more tbh.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

When the government is using *three* adjectives, it is a considerably weakness to have all three of them - "unrealistic, unworkable and unfunded" - being about how, rather than why. At least one or two of the three words should be fron the family of "unprincipled" or "extreme"

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

An absolutely wild table. Where in the country are schools most effective?!

Minute Cryptic - 23 September, 2025 "Announced you are divorcing mature spouse" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (28,928 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Some of those Ukrainian drones got through the air defences and hit targets in Moscow. #explodey

Bonmati is a strange choice. Didn’t win the UCL or the Euros…

The Arbor App for parents is a technical nightmare.

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.

It’s actually impossible to make non-lumpy gravy using granules & we never talk about it.

The jingoism, xenophobia and moral cowardice on the other hand are absolutely fine.

This is actually a ludicrous goal.

Disgraceful response.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

It's obviously true unless something unexpected happens, but a) the incumbent government needs to actually have *delivered for its coalition* to lead a republican front b) the leader needs to be a plausible leader of it and c) they do need to actually be able to say 'Vichy was bad'.

This is a morally cowardly line. It’s always the line. It can no longer hold.

This is not an appropriate occasion for a holding response.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

No need for this @mrshepstone.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch should throw Liz Truss out of the Tory party. See my letter below 👇

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

Where’s the PM?

We need to hear the PM saying this, forcefully.

I quite like immigration.

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

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.

To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.

If mainstream politicians stopped to *think* for a moment they’d notice that. It might help if newspapers noticed it, too. Farage has shifted further right in the last few months than he has in a decade. And instead of calling it out, media is cheering it on and mainstream politics is silent.

At what point will they move from deporting to exterminating? If you’re not deploying your vote specifically and directly to stop these psychotic fascists from coming to power in 2029, you’re actively helping them.

It took ~9 months for Farage to go from disavowing mass deportations to promising them, and then 25 days to go from promising them to expanding that promise. At this rate I really dread to think where this policy will be by the next election... bsky.app/profile/sund...

Nigel Farage and Reform are running almost as scared as Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives. Reform is an unprecedented threat on the Tories’ right flank. But Reform and Farage are under pressure too: from Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. Farage is running rightwards, and fast.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Such naked denials of the Palestinian people’s right to statehood show why the UK and several allies’ recognition of a Palestinian state is so important - force has slowed but it cannot be allowed to permanently deny a path to a two state solution

God imagine being an Arsenal fan. Such great players. Such a dull team.

Arsenal won’t win anything with Arteta. He’s not brave enough.

Gyokeres vs LFC and MCFC

Arteta be brave? Against a decent team? You’re waiting for Godot.

1-1 will do us.