I have many differences with J Street, but they are absolutely correct about this. It is alarming to see so many American Jewish institutions act as though Mamdani is a unique threat to Jewish safety, while ignoring the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism by the current presidential administration.

Of course you should all be reading @prospectmagazine.co.uk's local government sleuth, the Covert Councillor www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/5464/...

And just like that, the Christmas sandwiches have appeared in Pret

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-...

A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism. “I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.” zeteo.com/subscribe

Elizabeth is an old friend; here's a gift link so you can read her words. They're not easy. But being Elizabeth, she decided to share her story "to give voice to Iraqis who have been tortured by the group." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

“Don’t forget that the worst thing you can be is a girl” New newsletter is out! with stuff on “feminisation”, Latvia, Russian post-feminism, the deepfake ecosystem and motherhood and writing, with links to stuff by @samanthaellis.bsky.social and others thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

"It is understood that Andrew will move to a property on the private Sandringham estate in Norfolk, to be privately funded by the king"

“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him....Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”

Bizarre double U-turn here... Politico: "Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp fired off an X post last night denying the Tories are scrapping indefinite leave to remain plans after Farage seized on Kemi Badenoch’s spokesperson telling reporters they’d been superseded by their desires to quit the ECHR"

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites" Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

Private Eye hits it every time @chadbourn.bsky.social

We have an answer (of sorts) on the Tory migration/ILR policy: the Chris Philp draft bill is no longer policy. BUT they cannot say whether or not ILR could be stripped retrospectively till the new policy arrives “in the coming weeks”.

According to multiple sources, more than 2,000 civilians — most of them children, women, and the elderly — have been killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan.

Halloween special on the @prospectmagazine.co.uk #podcast! I chatted with editors @aloner.bsky.social & @ellenhalliday.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, and "monstrification": 1/n 💙📚 🗃 #politics #monsters #monstertober #spookyseason #HAMH

It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day, and this time it's a Halloween special with @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social on.... monsters (complete with the requisite spooky sound effects) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

I’m just another middle-aged woman listening to the Lilly Allen album on repeat

🎥: @gershonbaskin.bsky.social, a voluntary peace negotiator in Israel, built a relationship with Hamas—and proved to be a key go-between for the ceasefire deal. He tells @aloner.bsky.social the inside story.

🎥: How did the ceasefire deal get over the line? @gershonbaskin.bsky.social tells @aloner.bsky.social the inside story:

The breaking down of anti-racism norms *in elite circles* in British politics is starkly at odds with the direction of public opinion on race.

'She's only sorry she got caught and called out'

🎥: @gershonbaskin.bsky.social tells @aloner.bsky.social the inside story of how the Trump administration clinched the Gaza ceasefire deal—and what might come next.

🎥: @gershonbaskin.bsky.social tells @aloner.bsky.social the inside story of how the Trump administration clinched the Gaza ceasefire deal—and what might come next.

Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

For those keeping track, it's now three days since I asked the Conservatives for (fairly basic) details of their policy on revoking indefinite leave to remain, eg whether it would include separating families and if it would work as per Chris Philp's draft bill. Despite several reminders: nothing.

Lot of people in Gaza are struggling to raise money since the ceasefire but they have lost everything and need to rebuild- there are still few other ways for them to make money in Gaza

Cons claimed in both May and in October they had proposed "new powers" to revoke ILR That is a misrepresentation: the bill simply strips anybody of ILR if they ever access any state support, or earn < £38k + says Home Sec can never allow ILR by discretion www.conservatives.com/news/conserv...

I am always being told that Labour is doing nothing progressive, that it doesn't care about people, has abandoned its roots. I disagree with some of what it's doing. But this is a radical step in supporting vulnerable women & children. It matters. www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/long-overdue...

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

It shows the value of “get a better communicator” in that Katie Lam is a better communicator than Kemi Badenoch. But it is also a problem if what you are communicating is bonkers.

My main takeaway from this is that women have ruined everything? www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Slightly confusing briefing with Badenoch's spokesman & a Tory press person on their/Katie Lam's migration plans. Here's what I could follow: • Tory policy on revoking indefinite leave to remain is "broadly in line with what Katie said" (they "haven't seen" her idea it's extended to EU nationals) ..

With thanks to Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, who thinks he is a sensible centrist, and Benny Gantz, who also sees himself as a sensible, moderate Israeli voice, who both voted in support www.timesofisrael.com/2-west-bank-...

"What happened to Epstein’s victims wasn’t their fault. They still had to, you know, parade their pain in the hope of even the slightest justice.” Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein FYI @aloner.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

This obsession with reaching across the aisle to people who want to tear your arm off will kill democracy. Find everyone who doesn't want to do that and work with them, there are plenty of them.

Not only do my earnings not meet the threshold (though I have quite enough to live with comfortably, thank you), I made the mistake of claiming jobseeker allowance for two or three months about 15 years ago, so that's me done... And that's before I even think of "stealing" my state pension!

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

A Nazi tattoo is not a "small skeleton in the closet" nor a "regrettable tattoo". It's a Nazi symbol and has no place anywhere near any normal politics. If this is OK, then we're not better than them.

Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.

A feature of British politics of the past decade is that a lot of policy doesn't receive serious scrutiny when it is presented (of the sort that Sunder is performing here)...

The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

A lot of people who have made a life here will be feeling this

Draft Bill NB: there are no exemptions for having a British spouse, or British citizen children, in the legislation as drafted publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...