“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

We are the loyal foot soldiers of Kingswinford & South Staffs Labour and we're here to tell you that order will be restored soon ma'am *clicks heels*

👀 Autopen president #2?

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

You know, I'm getting the impression this #MorganMcSweeney chappy may not be a genius after all.... BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

I remember when Republicans were beside themselves that the Clinton Foundation took donations for non-profit purposes from the Saudis and other countries AFTER he left office, noting it posed a conflict of interest because Hillary could still run for office in the future.

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

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dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 Hmmm Trump up's his compensation claim to up to $5billion - same as amount raised by licence fee Trump interviewed by GB News Trump spoke / met with Farage last Friday Farage is a large shareholder in GB News who benefit if BBC collapse Hmmm

Hungary to divert its €1.5M share from the EU Peace Facility to Lebanon’s armed forces instead of Ukraine’s. FM Szijjarto told his Lebanese counterpart that Hungary’s national security interest lies in Middle East stability, not arming Ukraine. (Noelreports)

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce Saturday that “the era of permanent protection for refugees” is over in the UK. She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”. Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also, after a decade of Brexity "Europe get lost“-patriotism, it is bewildering to see people being so susceptible to what is blatant foreign Intervention. What ever happened to sovereignty?

you end up as Schrodinger's refugee, as the Danes call it. On one hand as a migrant you have to integrate, learn the language, raise your kids as British, etc. On the other from one day to the next you may be sent "home" to a country your kids have never known.

Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If Turnip starts to loose Indiana, he's in big trouble. Here's the latest on redistricting. ⬇️ "Indiana Won’t Gerrymander for Trump" 😮 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I sure hope the judge lets discovery go forward on vindictive prosecution while she deliberates unlawful appointment. Otherwise, we’ll never find out the full facts. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

This will backfire massively, blowing a hole through which @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Greens will stroll through, taking many Labour supporters with them. Stupidity on stilts.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zac Segal, Boston U runner and Young Republican alerted ICE to a car wash in Allston MA which had immigrants working - he said they were taking US jobs. ICE raided the car wash. All detained had legal status according to their lawyer. Segal was born and schooled in London. 🙄

Why are Republicans in the House and Senate so afraid to bring Jack Smith before their committees to testify in public under oath before the American people? Isn’t that what MAGA wants? Don’t you want to “expose” him? What’s going on here?

OK so I have now read my second mid-1970s protein study - this time by actual proper scientist - where manatees are mentioned as potential foods of the future. Is it just... because they're called sea cows, or did the manatee have some sort of 1970s moment I don't know about?

Shutting up the truth-sellers is a tactic of authoritarian government. It is never a tactic of democracies.

"The president has determined that pigs fly, and only the president can determine if pigs fly."

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

When my hometown of Sumter, SC is mentioned, I need to set the record straight. 1. That plant was initiated under Biden, not Trump. 2. It's tied to EVs, which Trump calls a hoax. 3. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will kill thousands of EV jobs. Facts matter.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

DOJ Barbie: "CA’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights & mocks the democratic process,” “[Gov Newsom]’s attempt to entrench one-party rule & silence millions of Californians will not stand” (TX ok tho) (And then she collapsed under the weight of her hypocrisy🙄)

The fabulous team @ducu.bsky.social outline in this blog 26 good reasons for voting YES in the ballot: durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y... Let's get staff a seat at the table again, because it's clearly not working without us...

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Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing. 💪 #cdnpoli #uspoli bbc.com/news/article...

Maura Sullivan @maurasullivan.bsky.social Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social JoAnna Mendoza @mendoza4az.bsky.social Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com

* technically not a u-turn _yet_

The irony of Danny Kruger accusing the BBC of left-wing bias when Reform UK - with just 5 MPs - gets more airtime than the Liberal Democrats, who have 72 MPs. The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.

It can be decades after a conflict ends for a country to even start to be considered "safe". Many refugees may never be able to return due to long term trauma. Mahmood is specifically talking about leaving vulnerable people in limbo and fearful for their futures. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Of course the right wing attack dogs at the misnamed Office for Students will do nothing about this speech being banned. No swingeing fines for UCL, unlike University of Sussex which banned no one. Revolting hypocrisy, which Labour will ignore for fear of upsetting our rabid press.

Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.