Fair play to Sadiq Khan. To live rent-free inside the head of the president of the USA is a massive achievement for any Mayor of London.

Yes! This! I want Labour politicians to be honest obsessed with carpet bombing reform. I want true, deep, passionate hatred for that party and all it stands for. I want “if Reform declares war on hell, I will have good things to say in the commons for the devil.”

Whazzup MYCENAE let’s party like it’s 1180BC

This is so obviously correct and was the case in 2017 when settled status was something to apply for rather than register, a weird fact that signalled the direction of travel - people legally living in the UK had *to reapply*.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Absolutely right. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a repudiation of 75 years of integration. It’s a betrayal of the Windrush generation. It’s unfair and it’s un-British.

Excellent column (not *solely* because it reflects my own views and experience quite exactly) bsky.app/profile/step...

Not a bad spot for a bit of a morning run

An ICO report? In this economy?!?

Ultimately the American right's conception of free speech has devolved into "the right to say slurs". This is why they can talk about free speech with a straight face even whilst cracking down on political dissent

Tired: D because it's where the best food is from Wired: A because you know you'll miss a roast dinner eventually Inspired: A because you can get all the international diaspora cuisine you want in the UK and it'll trigger another round of cultural essentialism from the yanks

This was intentional and obvious to everyone bar a few at the time; it was the right’s great project to align with the US.

NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."

Amol Rajan: Do you condemn Musk's words on Saturday? Jacqui Smith: "Absolutely I do. Those words were wrong & they were dangerous… For Elon Musk to talk about violence in our political system… is wholly unacceptable." Good to hear a minister speak out at last. This should have happened much sooner

From past practice, one can presume police are reviewing footage and will be dragging a few thugs from their beds in the coming mornings. Perhaps the HS and PM should go for a photo opp, like the do with other raids.

The kids are fine. Reform has just been absorbing the Tory over 50 vote. And the fash are deeply unpopular throughout. It’s just no one is calling the fash fash from a government pulpit

This is also a sensible take. To stay on Twitter but remain morally clear though, the government must more clearly explain why it’s staying - and also unequivocally name what EM and SYL want as a violent fascist takeover and say that’s bad

The government should have left X after the riots last year. It must do now.

Fundamentally, this needs to be called out for what it is by Government. Whichever Cabinet minister is on the Beeb tomorrow needs to absolutely name this as the fascist movement it is. Otherwise, what’s the point, tbh

I think we should start using the term "long gamergate"

This has been the case for a while! Gamergate is the foundational moment for modern so-called conservatism, with its concurrent obsessions, transphobia etc

Bank named for 40% of French Republics (c. 84% by time in office) in trouble after lending to Tricolor.

It's funny how when Twitter was wildly left-of-centre, everyone except maybe Owen Jones *knew* it wasn't reflective of the real world. But now it is X and wildly right-wing, that instinctive knowledge has just dropped away

My honest opinion on Russia attacking Poland is that for every drone that violates Polish airspace we should send one K1PL tank and one ATACMS to Ukraine. Condition is the Ukrainians have to name them like “The Orsza” or “Free Chechnya” or something

When the Turks downed a Russian Su-24 in 2015, the US deployed — clumsily — F-15s for border air patrols. This time around APKWS armed Strike Eagles in Poland make a lot of sense. Using Dutch F-35s and Patriots for these target drone equivalents isn’t an ideal cost exchange. APKWS is our best option

This is the second time since I’ve been a Labour member that the leadership has hid and even endorsed the racist side during the periodical media event of hot racist summer, the first being the IHRC row under JC and the second this. It’s beginning to feel like a trend ngl

(Extremely) critical support to Radek for calling out the collaborator Incidentally, the weird Law and Justice fangirling of Orban has been untenable for years but is now effectively impossible

Polish general entering a NATO meeting with the miraculously saved tsarevich Dmitry IV: „I have a cool idea but you probably won’t agree.”

Been to worse places tbf

Pretty here

looking for a new leftist movement ask the leftist co-leader if their movement is based or tankie she doesn't understand pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is based and what is tankie she laughs and says "It's Your Party, sir" join it's tankie

The interesting question is ‘who is the most left leaning Labour MP capable of getting 80 nominations from members of the PLP’? Because that’s the next deputy leader.

A deputy leadership election? In this economy? Oh you’re spoiling us

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

Yeah, this is an absolutely lunatic way of handling public finances. Is there really no way of changing it or is this another stupid thing we’re just stuck with?

Thruppence: Old Twitter had the juice because it had mad people like this (ethics of cocaine vs bananas, baby) *AND* decent normie stuff like sports. I can’t use BlueSky to check the Świątek result, for example

The replies to this thread of James's slightly prove his point. Lots of aggressive disagreement, which whatever, but also people who *actually agree* with James being obnoxious for no real reason

See, also, Reform wants to fund the Taliban.

Being at uni and obsessing about certain events meant I have a bizarre memory of the centre of this city Unzoomed #591 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

(I think Vance being President would be worse)

Two things: it is both 1) absolutely a moral imperative to be opposed to this against anyone, because civility in politics is a good in itself 2) a viability centre-right is a long-term good for the state, and it’s in the interest of the centre left to safeguard its arguable rebirth

On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.

Keir Starmer can solve the small boats crisis, if he has the courage (on a serious note, it absolutely is an entirely foreseeable consequence)

Opposition: if elected, we will create the Torment Nexus Government: our opponents are simply not up to the logistical challenge required to create the Torment Nexus and their plans aren’t even costed Media: Here’s how the Torment Nexus might just work

Longtime Labour member, so not neutral, but agree with the below entirely. I think there’s more than enough time to turn it around. But it will involve a change in mentality from “baha, what will piss off the whiny liberals more” to “how do we keep the largest section of our coalition together”

One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.

Lads we’re in the good Europe again

I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.