Very poor/implicitly hyperpartisan reporting from @lbc.co.uk - a) uses pejorative term ('handouts') b) leaves the false impression that migrants in general receive 'handouts' (rather than those legally resident/contributing for five years) c) omits the deportation element of the policy

France will recognize the State of Palestine today

Separation of church and state going well

If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.

“Threatening to revoke the settled status of millions who already have indefinite leave is morally wrong, beyond the legal chaos it would cause — it undermines the very idea of belonging in this country." @sundersays.bsky.social on new Reform UK proposals www.britishfuture.org/reform-attac...

rare good news these days:

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Just like they did when Farage announced Reform's mass deportation plan at the end of August. The problem is that this is all so impractical, as if really it's all rather legitimate

It's a racist lie, all of it, every word. The claims it is based on are false in fact, and repellent in morality. Merely having said it out loud without being unanimously howled down marks another moment of shameful descent for us as a nation.

As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed). migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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So many people here on indefinite leave to remain have been here for years, have built lives here, and many paid thousands of pounds to the British government for the privilege (not to mention their contributions to the state in tax!)

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

May this Rosh Hashanah, a time that represents the creation of the universe, bring renewed energy to our fight for a different reality for everyone, Jews and Palestinians, on this land.

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women. Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10th, marks the deadliest global attack in 16 years and the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Raised almost a whole trip for 16 people since I shared yesterday- would love to raise another one today- they have 80 families on their list and it’s been by far the cheapest way to get people moved out of Gaza City which has become so so dangerous

My thanks to @prospectmagazine.co.uk & @aloner.bsky.social for getting this piece out into the world. Please read the full piece here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-... I welcome any & all constructive feedback, and am grateful for anyone who takes the time to read this. ❤️

As Israel's ground offensive in Gaza City escalates, Shaina Low of the Norwegian Refugee Council warns civilians are trapped, forced to choose between staying under bombardment or fleeing south.

"Do we want to feel like we are in the right, or do we want to save democracy? The choice is ours" @monicamarks.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on the choice facing America's left in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...

The origins of the “Waitrose effect” !

This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.

Appreciating this headline

NEW: Bernie Sanders becomes the first Senator of the United States to label Israel's war on Gaza a genocide.

World leaders have failed to act [on Gaza] over the past two years, said a the statement from the 22 humanitarian leaders. “Facts are ignored. Testimony is cast aside. And more people are killed as a direct consequence.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This would be about Donald Trump's right not to be upset or offended by the truth. That is not the intent or purpose of the malicious communications act. I am struggling to get the police to bother with actually unlawful racist harassment though.

If the Tories had a different leader and any kind of strategic plan around rebuilding a centre-right vote this could all be quite helpful in getting rid of some of their most destructive influences. But they don't, so it's just adding to their woes.

As Trump pays us a visit, @diane2v.bsky.social writes for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the central cruelty of Epstein's birthday book, a "catalogue of innuendo from the world’s most powerful men, immortalised in leather, as if misogyny were a collectible" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)

This does not meet the threshold for a 'malicious communications' charge. There is no foul language and there is no threat of violence. My expectation is they will be released without charge after being harassed by the arrest? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trying to cheer myself up by thinking of future films exploring the McCarthyism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Reupping this by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social in honour of Trump's visit www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/684...

My review in our 30th anniversary edition of two very good but deeply disturbing books, by Laura Bates and @sophiegilbert.bsky.social

Badenoch: "I think he was saying, if people are violent, fight back" What the leader of the opposition says is not true. Musk called for *pre-emptive* violence. He wants people to begin the violence. She says it would not "de-escalate" to reject this!

Keir Starmer tells his Cabinet that scenes of police under attack at a march "led by a convicted criminal and egged on by a foreign billionaire calling for violence" sent "a chill through the spines" of British people. Says UK in "the fight of our times" against "toxic division" and "we must win"

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government must recognise and respond to a "increasingly visible tide of racism" . He acknowledges trans people feel less safe today than a decade ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A Israeli soldier who was attached to the GHF "relief" operation, and was ordered to shoot at the crowd: "The officers would shout at me: take them down, take them down. I shot 50-60 bullets per day, I stopped counting the kills. I have no idea how many people I killed, lots. Children". Haaretz.

Particularly poignant clip of people fleeing Gaza City this evening past "Souvenirs from Gaza" shop sign. The shop is here: 31.520628, 34.442153 on Omar Al Mukhtar Street. Source: www.instagram.com/stories/majd...

A protest by Mi-Neged, a groups of Israelis in the UK, against atrocities in Gaza. They are banging pots and pans and are holding banners saying “Israelis again a the genocide”

What a thing. First-person POV footage as a Gaza City resident rides through what was the promenade. No blood, no weeping families, just: what it looked & sounded like last week, w/ pauses to highlight details: a water tanker, boys carrying aid parcels, etc. [1/2] 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I urge you to read this entire piece by @arashtehran.bsky.social, but if you refuse to do that, at least read this little bit rather than shooting from the hip based on the text of the post below alone.

👀"His proposed solution to the social care crisis was in part to encourage family members – in particular, women – to care for ageing relatives themselves rather than outsourcing their care to the state, even if it meant being unable to continue with paid employment." @rmcunliffe.bsky.social

Egypt has similar fears

EU Commission to propose Israel sanctions on Wednesday