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Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Good.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Ed Miliband's message to Elon Musk: "Get out of our politics and our country."

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim. A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier. This does not happen often, and it should happen far more. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

I have asked Isabel Oakeshott if she really is trying to bring back the National Front argument about black footballers that most people rejected three or four decades ago, when John Barnes scored in the Maracana and the NF said black goals did not count, as he was not English

This the kind of message politicians need to send: When asked about Reform UK's plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain, Wes Streeting answered: "Nigel Farage says go home, I say you're home."

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

The govt should find 100 small things that piss people off & fix em, such as… Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change. What little fixes'd you want?

Reeves speech. Best bit? Sorry to be Grinchy, but "Let me tell you, there is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using £1 in every £10 of public money it spends on financing debt to interest" is pretty good. It will take endless repetition to drill home: this is not 2011! 1/

"We must call his scheme to round up and deport our French, our Indian, our Caribbean neighbours, who already have Indefinite Leave to Remain what it is: It is racist. I say, not in our country, not in our name, not in our time." Lammy's delivered a bit of a barn-stormer. ~AA

David Lammy pays tribute to Angela Rayner. Conference loves it. I always have respect for a politician who praises people not in an immediate position to help his career. ~AA

Reminder that Skinner is political strategy genius Dom Cummings suggested candidate for London mayor.

"Trump is intelligent – but doesn't have any knowledge. "We spoke about a hard border after Brexit. He didn't know if we wanted to build it, or prevent one... Leo Varadkar tells Lewis Goodall how Trump's mind works

“No confirmed information…?”🙄what on earth do YOU think might have attracted ICE’s attention to this man? Racist bastards.

Reeves pushes for EU youth migration scheme ahead of Budget

Thames Water continues to waste bill payers’ money instead of investing in real solutions to fix our failing water industry. Beckton is a case in point & the Teddington TDRA is another. It’s time to clean up our water sector once & for all. Read my comments in The Guardian here:

"I don't want a small minority with right wing extremist intentions to hijack our flag. That's not who we are a a British people." @munirawilson.bsky.social on reclaiming the flag for those who want to reunite and rebuild, not divide and destroy. #BBCQT

This is extremely encouraging. Reeves being deeply sound atm.

Gov. Gavin Newsom just dropped a new video for Yes on Prop 50 —

We’ve just moved into an old house where the carpet underlay seems to consist entirely of copies of the Times 1965-1970, and it’s kind of reassuring to find the headlines (arms sales to Israel, teachers’ strike, rows about some MP calling another MP a drunken buffoon) are so utterly relatable

This is a serious proposal by Merz – and one that could help move the debate on frozen Russian assets forward.

Hmm but the hat said he was right about everything

“Reform is adopting a policy of ‘national preference’ - the sinister policy of the far right in France. It starts with citizenship. Who counts as a citizen? It then shifts to dual citizens. Suggests they have divided loyalties. It ends up in very dark places, all about having the ‘right’ ancestry.”

"market" - yes, that's really what it is. Snake oil salesmen hawking their pointless or dangerous wares.

Yeah, Kimmel is back. And Trump made him much stronger. This was excellent. 410K views on YouTube in the first 30 minutes. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad? Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK. Superb thread.

Not saying policies should not be fought over. It's vital. But in a big-tent party one should expect to win some and lose some. My experience is that too many progressives draw red lines, based on one or two issues, which leave no emotional space to vote X however much worse the alternative Y is. 2/

Wait what the fuck am I reading did American liberals just win a battle

Mason knows that when Davey says “it’s almost as if” the BBC republishes Reform press releases, it’s clearly not a literal allegation. He’s a small and silly man with a very thin skin

Farage's proposal here would crash the economy. An economy already struggling as a result of Brexit. Not only are the numbers false but it takes rights away from migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for years. Many who have British partners and children born in the UK.

The Reform Party policy of abolition of indefinite leave to remain is supported by 3% of the public

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

In fact the doom loops are probably interacting. Brexit was a reflex against immigration via the single market, and trade/globalisation. It's made us poorer, maybe by 4%. The anger at that is powering the popularity of Reform's call for Brexit 2.0.

Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs. So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.

“I’m shocked you would make that claim” 😕🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏼‍♀️ Another one that hasn’t aged great. (Her condescending looks really seal the deal)

Please consult your outrage calendars for the correct type of fury to display, everyone. I want you all to be limbering up for poppy outrage, just a few weeks away now.

My amazing wife, @lucyprodgers.bsky.social, has both psychological insight and lived experience of severe fatigue - a blight affecting not only folks with #LongCovid and #MECFS, but myriad chronic and unseen illnesses... I know I'm biased, but well worth a listen! embodyingfatigue.podbean.com

I feel like this should pop up on everyone's computer screen or phone when they're about to start an argument online.

I think you are seeing dragons with which you are comfortable. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. What we have wanted and what was needed for years. Look behind the hostile headlines.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

Unpopular opinion: 1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning. 2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together. 3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now. 4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.

This is a big one. Supreme Court have been very helpful to Trump in allowing him to fire people but this one could have a serious economic impact. More worried about their stock portfolios or MAGA abuse?

Devon MP Steve Darling is urging ministers to act as Paignton Zoo, Dartmoor Zoo & Plymouth’s National Marine Aquarium face a “perfect storm” of post-Brexit red tape, rising costs & falling visitor spend. He wants an urgent summit to save Britain’s zoos & aquariums.