This week's post: Farage and the BBC mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara... On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.

//The military set up loudspeakers at the Israel-Gaza border to blast his words into the territory ... the prime minister’s office said the Israeli army would take over the mobile phones of Gaza residents and Hamas operatives and his speech would be broadcast live through the mobile devices.//

I saw Jun Li's Queer Panorama earlier this week, in which a young gay man in Hong Kong searches for connection, tries on different identities and finds love. I found it funny, melancholic and ultimately sweet and low-key hopeful. Hope it gets a wider distribution www.hkff.uk/full-program...

I'm ready for the Age of Elmo, t.b.f.

Bravo!

Ghouls.

who could have possibly predicted

How is 'impugn' not a word, @nytimes.com?

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

His son's an "expat" and we're all immigrants.

Numerous other examples. Some perhaps lesser known and didn't get enough attention at the time. Such as this one. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This cannot be stated enough.

Quite apart from everything else, and that's a lot, Trump and Vance are the epitome of 冇家教 (shakes head in Canto aunty).

A towering figure from a less dumb time

He has Sadiq Derangement Syndrome. Oh, and he didn't even say thank you.

Don't take Tylenol -- DRINK! --- and don't give it to your baby --- DRINK!

I mean what he's saying is bad enough but the way he's saying it is just unbelievable.

Does Tylenol work for verbal diarrhea?

Life imitating art imitating life

萬事小心

Politicians need to say that it's not just impractical or impossible. They need to say it is wrong.

This was drummed into me as a child. It is in my bones.

American Lei Feng.

So much wrong with the world. And also mince pies in September 😞

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

Absolutely disgusting.

Satire is dead.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Quite. @nujofficial.bsky.social and @fpalondon.bsky.social should protest this in strongest terms if they haven't already.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

A succinct argument, made in good faith, the opposite of the phenomenon it critiques.

Clerkenwell, London.

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

He'll be talking colour revolution next. We've seen this before.

People who've toppled dictators and jailed multiple presidents.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

About to watch Ten Years. 10 years after I watched it in YauMaTei. 十年 十年人事幾番新

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

Better late than never.

Thank you. Now, over to you PM, cabinet, leader of the opposition and all other parliamentarians.

The Prime Minister has left it to the Home Secretary, a brown Muslim woman who is a constant target of vile racists on Musk's weaponised platform to condemn violence against police at a far-right rally in which Musk called for the overthrow of the government. But no condemnation of racism itself.

Appalling. As is the government's silence.

This is a great 🧵and this post is spot-on. Describes what made me feel so uneasy about those Jubilee debate/performances, including the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social one.

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

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Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Evergreen.

Mmmm-hmmmm, when you look to China as the model for trials. Yup 🤔

Dabinderjit Singh, the lead executive for political engagement at the Sikh Federation (UK): "The current racist political environment is driven by populism and created by politicians playing the anti-immigration card who are unashamedly exploiting those with right-wing and racist views."