as.ft.com/r/26bbed23-1... Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee

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“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values” I just despair www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

Camden Council- Borough of Sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers. www.camden.gov.uk/borough-of-s...

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It’s disgusting. Several of my children’s school friends would have been deported under this regime. Most had families who worked hard, paid taxes, got their children to uni etc and they in turn contribute richly to our local community. Erm… this is in the PMs constituency btw .

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win

Educators against the 11-plus comprehensivefuture.org.uk/educators-ag...

Every word of this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our hearts are breaking

Labour peer Peter Hain in the House of Lords just now: "This Government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Al Qaeda and Islamic State...It is intellectually bankrupt and morally wrong. "Frankly, I am deeply ashamed. And that's why I support the regret motion."

Ayatollah Khamenei - 86 Donald Trump - 79 Benjamin Netanyahu - 72 Vladimir Putin - 72 Why are these old men determining the future of the planet? 🤦🏽‍♂️

We’ve joined several other UK medical organisations in urging Foreign Secretary David Lammy MP to take decisive action to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in #Gaza. Read the full letter: ow.ly/YElJ50W4eYT @rcpch.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk rcgp.bsky.social

So impressive- a lot for us to learn here. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Labour's attempts to blame rising small boat numbers on the weather are "pathetic" says Shadow Conservative Home Secretary Chris Philp In other news, here's Chris Philp, when he was Immigration Minister, blaming rising small boat numbers on the weather

“I hate the way that disabled lives recede out of view because other people are too squeamish to talk about them, and I want to confront that tendency. Mostly, though, I think Max is already a thousand times more interesting than anyone I’ve ever met, and I want to tell you about him.”

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

America has no allies in this trade war. Not the EU. Not Japan. Not Canada, not Mexico, not Australia. Not even Russia. OK, maybe El Salvador. MAGA wanted America alone. It got its wish.

Just enjoy the tariffs

Elon’s own AI bot is calling this illegal ⚰️

The email lady gets the last laugh on this, forever

Huge Survey Finds 94% Of Germans Won’t Buy A Tesla After Musk’s Political Antics 👏 www.carscoops.com/2025/03/germ...

Meanwhile over on X….

In January I spent 24 hours with Ukrainian combat medics of the Third Assault Brigade in a frontline field hospital. Their work is extraordinarily courageous - they are constantly targeted by Russian forces, in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Please watch. Please keep supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦

Diagnosis isn't really relevant either way to this issue as neither PIP nor incapacity benefit follow from a diagnosis but an assessment of capability.

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Agree with this- anyone who has had interaction with NHS MH services will know how stretched they are. It’s hard to get diagnosed at all so how can mental illness be overdiagnosed.

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity*** (and more overall). This specifically discriminates against people with mental illness, who generally score fewer points across multiple areas. It would be an absolute disaster. 1/3

The “speed at which they’ve operated” is down to ignoring or actively destroying laws and institutions. This is real “say what you will about Mussolini, but he made the trains run on time” territory. Very concerning that a leadership figure would consider this an appropriate thing to say in public.

Please tell me this isn’t true

Who could have predicted this?

If only there was some way of knowing why Musk is pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia..

The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

Trump plans to revoke "Temporary Protected Status" of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to US, per @tedhesson.bsky.social and Kristina Cooke of @reuters.com. More gratuitous cruelty. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Temerko was the guy who conspired with Boris Johnson to topple Theresa May. He also told Catherine Belton that a 'group of European businessmen' had persuaded Johnson to back Brexit. So perhaps not advice to be followed here

There’s only so much he can play that bridging/whispering role before he begins to look too close to a President that most Brits regard as either completely crazy or downright dangerous – or both.

Donald Trump's favourability rating among 2024 Reform voters has collapsed in the last two-and-a-half weeks (h/t @yougov.co.uk)

When Richard Nixon was recorded calling Pierre Trudeau "that asshole Trudeau" on the White House Watergate tapes, Pierre famously responded to the press: "I’ve been called worse things by better people." A great line, then and now.

JD Vance tried to berate Starmer for locking up people who used social media to incite race riots in the UK just a few days ago. Now the free speech champions have this to offer

Is this the same JD Vance who pretended to be so outraged at a leader supposedly disrespecting another country? Surely not.

Trudeau is absolute class.

If Trump, Vance and Mike Johnson were all to be in an Air Force One crash together then the President would be Chuck Grassley (as president pro tempore of the Senate). He's 91 years old and would still be the best option...

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social On Europe's strategy following the weekend conference and Trump's pause on aid to Ukraine. "The Great Crisis" (We've made this one free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-great-...