Nighty night.

Gina Miller calls for the Swiss Option. www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...

Musk is effectively approving the murder of Jo Cox here

Exactly. The problem is the UK public doesn't accept the membership criteria.

Why don’t immigrant communities assimilate? No. Not like that.

At some point this is going to become a source of embarrassment for Reform. And with everyone in Restore seemingly hating him already (he constantly attacks them on Twitter they return in kind) he will be running short of options. Maybe he can run the EDL newsletter.

There's no attempt to try and cloak the racism now. (Also Lord Mayors don't run cities and he knows that.)

I for one am proud that @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social's student body reflects the diversity of our city - something that was not remotely the case when I was an undergraduate.

"Whisper it, but the Telegraph has gone full fash"

The Telegraph has been knocking on the door of White Supremacism for many years now, but it looks like they're now ready to cross the threshold.

The Telegraph isn't funny any more. It's seriously grim.

The lesson of this is the one we learned in the 30s. You cannot appease fascism; you must destroy it.

Net migration in 2026 will be the lowest since 1998 (< 100k) and it will be lower (maybe negative) in 2027. Only a sixth of people yet realise numbers began falling Goodwin says this about a refugee sponsorship plan + about not making care workers & other 2021-25 arrivals leave.

It was never really about numbers. It was never about facts. It never is.

Since the local elections, on average: Reform 26 (-1) Labour 22 (+3) Conservative 19 (+1) Lib Dem 12 (-) Green 12 (-2)

GB small businesses will from today face another charge for sending goods to the EU, of €3 per customs line in a consignment. Shein, Temu, and AliExpress are widely expected to find work rounds. Trade barriers mostly hit consumers and small businesses.

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

Small boat crossings 11,638 January to June 2026, down 37% on 2025 (BBC Verify)

Quite a few people in the Cabinet have IMV disgraced themselves in a way that should make Andy Burnham go 'nope, sacking you' and Reeves is very high up that list. Present at the scene of the crime almost as frequently as Starmer himself!

But yes, a complete mystery why white people would not be readily included in a scheme promoting diversity at an overwhelmingly white institution.

Nighty night.

● Farage received £91,200 from a gold bullion company for four hours of work in January 2025. ● That's just £146 less than his MP salary for a whole year. ● And people wonder why he's never in Clacton. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Obama's post-Brexit referendum interview on 27/6/16 [a 4-minute clip of it], in which he cites Norway as a non-EU member that seems to do fine and the UK might do well to follow. Unfortunately, we - cough 'we' - ignored his advice about hysteria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9S3...

Just caught up with the (Burnham/made-up?) idea of paying 0.48% property tax p.a. instead of council tax & stamp duty. I pay £4310 p.a council tax and would pay £35k stamp duty for a 'sideways move'. With a 0.48% tax, I'd only ever pay £4320 p.a. This is in Bucks. Yay. Am I missing something?

Interesting and sensible discussion

Afternoon.

I know this is the usual click ait nonsense, omitting various facts, but I do love the idea that you can save £40k over 10 years and that magically gives you a million pounds retirement pot and I assume a mortgage free home.

A travesty. What in God's name is the matter with her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I agree with all of this; it means changing hearts and minds and getting a solid majority of the population to understand it. That will take time; but as Britain slips further behind it will be an easier case to make. Sadly.

Far superior to most of what is written on the subject, essential reading for those in the UK on the pro-EU side. Though I'd add a preface, that the UK will always be negotiating with the EU, will not get special deals, and cannot deregulate to prosperity. The UK is trapped.

New Substack Post: 'On Rejoin' rolandmcs.substack.com/p/on-rejoin

How about you start blaming *some* of them? Any of them, in fact. Morning.

New Substack Post: 'On Rejoin' rolandmcs.substack.com/p/on-rejoin

Doing the student loan application thing again. This feels morally wrong: they are immediately charged interest on loaned money i.e. while at university.

Doing the student loan application thing again. This feels morally wrong: they are immediately charged interest on loaned money i.e. while at university.

Another very interesting post from @nixonsimon.bsky.social

We'll need to attract more foreign construction workers first.

The politics of place. The politics of somewhere.... and of Somewheres?

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

'There can hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.' – George Orwell Nighty night.

Unsurprising. I have been using 3 AI models for numerous technical issues for the past few months and typically catch them out making serious mistakes 2 or 3 times per day. I don't count trivial errors. Sometimes they are hallucinated facts but there are a worrying number of pure reasoning errors.

Ooh hullo...

There's been lots on the 10th anniversary of the referendum, but this by @zoegrunewald.bsky.social is especially good

Might be good if some of the people still taking him seriously realise what he's become.

In case you missed it 👇

Oh has Dom defected - sorry, I mean changed his direct debit - ?

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

Quite apart from Phillips' analysis being total horseshit, I really hate broadcast news/current affairs presenters sitting there brazenly editorialising with an American style "monologue". Unless it's a point of actual national consensus (terrorism, mass murder etc), leave that to the press.

@anandmenon.bsky.social talking about Rejoin (from 24:00). Much sense, IMHO. Right now, I only see Rejoin happening very slowly/incrementally: seek only a springboard to Rejoin: First, win the case for Free Movement; then move to SM-only; confront €uro etc. open.spotify.com/episode/0Xuy...

A populist claims his side holds all the cards. I've heard this one before. [Guardian]