🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles says Reform’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

I can't say for sure that with Musk, Thiel and Ellison making their moves that Britain is being treated as a potential MAGA/Broligarch colony for their experiments in data harvesting and algorithmic capture - but it sure looks like it

After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Lucy Powell gets it, it seems. Let's hope she becomes Dep Leader. It'll be interesting to see how that works with the likes of McSweeney, whose approach she is attacking here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/25/labour-reform-uk-deputy-labour-leader-nigel-farage

Rosie nails it.. it’s Andrea Jenkyns with 100% more intelligence all over 🤣😂🤣😂👌🏼

The "Brit Card". Could they make it any more dogwhistly? Also, fundamentally ignores that undocumented workers already, drum roll please, lack documents. Adding another one makes little difference, but does make it harder for people to escape exploitation. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

They should call it The Great British Identity Card. Everyone would love it then. Every week, the British Public™️ could vote someone off the Card. Mel & Sue could host the weekly programme, maybe with cheeky asides from Michael McIntyre.

This from Lucy Powell is the strongest articulation I've seen yet of the way Labour can take on Farage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Typical that we’re intending to go from absolutely no ID requirements (not even a requirement to carry your driver licence when driving) to a “digital” only ID card, but only if your phone has iOS 17 or higher What could possibly go wrong??

Disney Shareholders Sue "There is a credible basis to suspect that the board and executives may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and good faith by placing improper political or affiliate considerations above” Disney and its shareholders’ best interests" SPEAK UP/FIGHT

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Is this a rather large toilet sorry 'rest room'?

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities news.mongabay.com/2025/09/alas...

We have held on to an outdated system with all its idiosyncrasies, which can be exploited by the unscrupulous, because so many people have vested interests in preserving it. As a nation we tend to look to the past, rather than to the future. IMHO.

I told my niece to leave the UK. There's no future for her in a country which allows people like Boris Jonhson, Nigel Farage, and politicians i6f their ilk to run amock.

My niece moved to London 10 years ago. Last night, she asked me if she should be worried that Farage would revoke her permanent leave to remain. I wanted to say 'no', that's illegal. But that's what Brexit did to mine. What's legal/illegal is whatever politicians want it to be.

JUST IN: A Trump-appointed judge — confirmed just two weeks ago — has joined the chorus of federal judges who say the Trump administration is likely misusing mandatory detention for people it is attempting to deport. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: House of Representatives to force vote on release of Epstein Files, in defiance of Speaker Johnson's attempts to silence them.

Isn't McSweeney erm… Irish?

Will there be a separate UK ID card - the 'Twat Card', maybe? - for Brexit and Farage voters?

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

I called it: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

I wonder whether this may also apply, mutatis mutandis, to Farage, or whether the contexts are simply too different?

She's (sadly) not Glasman McSweeney.

In Spain we have a DNI (full citizens) or a NIE (non-ES residents) card. Same size as a credit card, and as the health card you use whenever you go to the hospital or the Centre d'Atenció Primària. All you have to do is keep it safe with your other cards. No faff. Simple.

About 4 m people do not own a smart phone, many in the 75+ age group.

If Trump can happen - twice - then Farage can happen.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

Taking the path of Europe avoidance by following the Mediterranean Sea to avoid being arrested. Israel's Netanyahu is a coward and won't take credibility for the genocide of innocent Palestinian citizens.

1: Not everyone has a smartphone 2: Not everyone who HAS a smartphone uses it for routine purposes like this. 3: 2 is particularly true of people whose eyesight is getting worse as the larger screen is a major advantage And that's quite apart from the security aspects

“My biggest issue is the fact that Substack insists on actively supporting leading far-right activists and propagandists like Christopher Rufo, Curtis Yarvin, and Richard Hanania – not only platforming, but actively promoting them as important thinkers.”

This interview is so much worse than the headline lets on

I’m just going to say as someone who lived in London for eleven years and is currently seriously considering going back precisely because of the far right theocratic fascism of Trump, that he’s talking out of his fucking asshole.

i feel we dramatically overestimate the intelligence of the American electorate

Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency.

This would represent the worst living standards record of any parliament since detailed records began in 1961. 🔎 Find our latest analysis: www.jrf.org.uk/news/time-ru... 3/3

Our latest modelling on household disposable incomes after housing costs shows that by the end of the parliament 📉 - Disposable incomes will be on average £570 lower per year than today. - Families in the bottom third of incomes will see disposable income fall by £1,110 per year 2/3

We're on track for a decade of decline in families’ disposables incomes by the end of the parliament. But this is not inevitable. The gov can introduce targeted policies like investing in social security, and interventions in key areas like housing and energy. Listen on @lbc.co.uk 🔽

The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

So, that's a yes then?

Reform doubling down on the crank Trump-crazy paracetamol-autism stuff. MP Richard Tice to ITN reporter: “Are you a scientist?” They honestly don’t have a single idea of their own. MAGA’s Poundshop British wing.

I have had a large number of people say they simply did not understand the extent without posting the actual examples. Hence my approach to doing so It remains the case that compelling evidence of just how much we are tolerating has yet to wake up those with actual responsibility and power yo act.

Morning Bluesky. The Ukrainian air force has shot down a Russian Su-34 aircraft attacking Zaporizhzhia.