"Brexit will allow the Parliament more legal autonomy to legislate and regulate independently at the cost of making Britain measurably poorer" would have been a much more accurate and honest framing of the choice facing voters.

Not that it is a fucking outrage and utterly the opposite of British sense of fair play and justice. He has an instinct for bloodless responses.

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models. #Creepy #BoycottMeta Article: www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

I still find the ‘no-one is listening to us’ bit hard to take. It feels as though most current politicians aren’t listening to anyone *except* these people.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

The Supreme Court is clearly off the rails, and talk of expanding the Court is increasing again. I talked to @leahlitman.bsky.social about everything SCOTUS for my newsletter

I see that Reform UK have said they will completely scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain for all migrants. On the 8th September I lead a debate on this and Reform didn’t even bother to speak. 1/5 hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works." Entirely untrue. Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Shame SHAME on SKY & BBC. I absolutely blame them for quite needlessly allowing and aiding this vile piece of 💩 to spread his petrol and light the fires to the ever widening field of view Sky and BBC provide.

The gunfire killed Robert DeCesare Jr., 59, at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua….Two others received gun shot wounds. Several others received other injuries including lacerations.

.@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.”

I like that. “some might reasonably say: “Brexit Boats” “Farage ferries.” “ReFuk returns” Consequences, consequences.

This should be an opportunity for the other parties - Reform's proposal is extreme, violates basic fairness norms, and would threaten millions of people who have made their lives here and played by the rules. This approach should be condemned as nasty, unworkable and contrary to British fair play.

'I don't feel safe in UK': The Hong Kong pro-democracy people who are exiles in the U.K. with £100k bounties on their heads “I have to change my route every day, I have to look over my shoulder every day“ said Chloe, now 20 years old. news.sky.com/story/i-dont...

My instinct is to write to my MP but maybe we should write to any local Reform councillor and explain what will happen to the Health service when my partner(Italian doctor) and huge number of his colleagues leave. We need need to attack at the base. It's bloody awful

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU" - maybe call them Brexit boats?

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals. Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team. So proud.

Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law. Farage is a traitor.

"Once you start talking about mass deportation, you are dehumanising its victims, disregarding individual experiences ... and on a slippery slope to a dark place where the rule of law does not apply." Labour's recent changes to indefinite leave to remain already make the UK prohibitively difficult

Where Reform is headed is very much in line with the new right, that in order to save western democracy it must be destroyed. Patriotism as nihilism. Culture wars to become real ones. Very dangerous stuff.

A celebration of journalists' outsourcing critical thinking to whatever presentation politicians serve up. It's NOT inevitable, Sam. You COULD apply some judgment, instead of pretending you are an infant looking at different things dangling from a mobile above your crib. Or is that too much work?

Two days left to sign a petition to stop airport expansion in the UK. It has over 10,000 signatures so the government will have to respond: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

She points out that the Philippines has a written constitution modelled on the USA, with 3 separated functions of state. Duerte collapsed the institutions within 6 months. The longer you take to fight for them the harder it will be to win them back.

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

With the UK government expected to imminently recognise Palestine as an independent state, our poll finds the public tends to back such a move by 44% to 18% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

We agree with Ed Davey. And we are working with lawyers on possible action against Elon Musk and/or X for terrorism act offences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kash Patel wants you to believe the Bureau of Prisons’ decision to move Epstein’s co-conspirator to a minimum security prison after her interview was… a coincidence. His false testimony is an insult to the intelligence of the America people.

I believe the media are complicit even proactively enabling Reform to gain prominence with the aim to put them in power.. Because whereas they fact check, pull apart and challenge Labour, LibDems, Greens etc they regurgitate Reforms unfunded #PlasticPolicies verbatim without question or challenge❗️😡

[I noticed that both PMs of Canada and Australia have accounts here, and used them to announce their recognitions of Palestine, but our PM doesn't and didn't.]

When decisions are made about important issues such as climate policies, the process matters at least as much as the pursued outcome: if we leave all the decisions to the de- or unregulated markets and technologies, then we might not be solving the right problem.

What I learned from my graduate daughter’s job search is that kids now make hundreds of applications and employers automate the first few rounds of selection in response

Presumably some of this is AI making job applications much easier rather than a genuine like for like increase in the number of applicants? on.ft.com/42H4Yrs Retail and hospitality chains sound alarm over UK jobs market

Genuinely pains me to say so, but at great cost to my personal brand I will admit that I agree that most English people have not gone insane over the past decade, but that English media and political parties absolutely have. A great number of English people remain decent and, crucially, normal!

That’s the teenager market cornered for political “shaping.”

Had to be a straight lift from Murdoch's trashy New York Post - and sure enough, the author ". In 1998, he moved his column to the New York Post, where he remains today..". On-line commenters have derided the article.

Funny that the thought leaders of Reform have such a fondness for foreign climes. Particularly for their funds.

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’.

That time Michael Crick shredded Theresa May for celebrating Nelson Mandela now, but not supporting him back then

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

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.

Utterly absurd. For instance I know one couple - one Iranian, one Greek who have lived here for forty years under indefinite leave to remain permission. They spent their adult lives here. worked. Paid taxes. Bought homes. Had children who live & work here

Whoever wrote this @washingtonpost.com editorial has no understanding of military affairs-- and has not been reading two decades of the Post's coverage of the war in #Afghanistan: ♦️There is no way to hold #Bagram without the cooperation of the Taliban, or a Berlin Airlift level of resupply. Brief 🧵

They're also doing very well on the Isle of Wight 🐿️https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/19/red-squirrel-population-thriving-on-isle-of-wight-and-could-almost-double-study-finds

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Times has gone to the dogs entirely which is all you can expect when the Editor, Gallagher, was previously of the S*n and Telegraph. Only fit to line the food waste bin.