Flagmania is racist bunting and we all know it. Poppy-policing is more of the same menacing ‘patriotism’. “Those who oppose the UK’s emboldened far right need to speak out” not cower before Farage and the Daily Mail Otherwise what *exactly* are we remembering? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-f...

Reform/Tories hate the Employment Rights Bill as it gives workers a bit more control over their lives. They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high “being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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-...

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker? It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal. Something very dangerous is building here.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise. Insufferable. (iPaper)

Progressives & moderates both made the case that they have the antidote to Trumpism. And it worked. Populist autocrats aren’t popular, but progressives need to work together to defeat them - not get trapped & defeated by their differences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Farage “knows he has to moderate his tone and get across some budget details. But attention to detail [isn’t] his thing and responsibility bores him”…and makes a bore of him. His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm. WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny. His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so. (iPaper)

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.” Farage - the foghorn of failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Always be wary of politicians insisting that the only way to truly “take back control” is to remove our rights and freedoms. We lose our protection from abuses of power while our country loses trust and influence on the world stage. That’s not control. It’s weakness. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it. But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread. Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favor the pre-Brexit immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU." Even among Reform UK voters, more wish they could go back to pre-2021 migration rules! ~AA www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Farage is due to make a speech today about his new economic policy.. (having been laughed out of the room with his last one)… Let’s just take a quick look at his ideological track record… And then put all his ideas straight into the shredder. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The world is not X or Spectator parties. Reform and Tory politicians seem to think brazen racism is their meal ticket. In a country that’s far more tolerant and decent than they are, that needs to be an election-losing strategy. It’s up to us to make sure of it. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Compare and contrast. Absentee MP -v- his constituency. Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood. He really couldn’t give a shit. He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream. (iPaper & BBC)

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018” God, failure is tedious… www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now. Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him. But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say… through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social “He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none” Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage has removed the normal definition of racism instead.

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Ah delightful. Danny Kruger on #r4today telling us that Pochin ‘clearly meant something else’. I don’t think so Danny. ‘It’s concern about DEI!’ - also no. ‘Nigel has concluded she’s not racist, so she’s not’ - v much not how it works. Insulting to all of us that they churn out this ugly nonsense.

He thinks we’re stupid. He relies on it. He’s relieved the media nods along. He needs the racist vote. But has to seem ‘respectable’ to persuade others. He’s angry with Pochin because she exposed what Reform really is. A party that doesn’t like seeing black or Asian people. A racist party. (Times)

Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves… They are the ones who are failing us. Not these people. Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Farage: epic grifter

Farage, Jenrick and all your miserable, cowardly backers and apologists… this is on you. Do you have any “legitimate concerns” about the inevitable and terrible consequences of your hatefulness?

Calling someone racist has become the bigger sin than actually being a racist - in my piece below I discuss this phenomenon of “slurification” and a few ideas of how we can push back.

“Racist incidents rising across health and care services”. Utterly shameful. But this is what happens when politicians normalise anti-migrant rhetoric. Truth is our health, social care & prisons would collapse w/o immigration & that is a “legitimate concern”. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Racism has become thoroughly detached from “serious” politics” It has been reduced to language. So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters. It’s an ugly, cynical deceit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh dear. There is no difference. Both Tory and Reform are peddling racism for votes. Pochin *and* Jenrick were racist and twisting yourself into an ugly knot to try to claim otherwise is just a collapse of your own dignity as well as your morality.

Except Pochin wasn’t expressing “legitimate concerns” about migration. She was being racist. And if you cynically try to pretend one is the other to give cover for racism, then that needs to be called out too. Pochin is a racist. Philp is a racist. Who’s next?

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.

Sarah Pochin is a racist. Reform is a racist party. Her ‘apology’ makes no difference to that. Trying to claim your words really meant something else is not an apology. It’s a lie about who you are and what you think. So, she’s a racist. And, for all our sakes, that MUST be a shameful thing to be.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

This man is a deeply mediocre grifting spiv but sees himself as a mighty political figure. Only in a country where the media has given in to sensationalism rather than scrutiny and politicians have become shameful cowards could naff little Nigel’s ego be this absurdly, delusionally huge.

A neat summary of why Reform will only ever fuck it up. Idiotic spending without any care about priorities or any clue as to whether they can afford it. Flags before social care or education or anything people actually need. Farage clown-cars crashing all over the country. (iPaper)