unbelievable Tory FCO under Dominic Raab & Liz Truss didn’t tell Home Office about El Fattah’s Jew-hate - a matter of record in European Parliament for years. Ditto No 10 when allowing Starmer to gush over this horrid person. London glitterati also look fools @patrickwintour.bsky.social

In 1950 manufacturing was 33% of U.K. GDP. Today 9%. Sir James Dyson alas is part of the political history of ruling elites in U.K. with its dislike of social partnership that has preferred financial to industrial engineering. Pity he was given a free puff run on Today

Weird. Twitter X seems to have made my X a/c go bonkers. Only person I can follow seems to be JDVance whose tweets are just silly. Don’t mind losing rightist racists but it still useful to know what journo friends are posting

Macron, Sanchez EU leaders and EU itself has criticised amazing US ban on anti-hate campaigners including 2 Brits from entering the US. But has Starmer or Foreign Secretary Cooper or said anything defending UK citizens? @patrickwintour.bsky.social @meghillier.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social

There is so much amazing Trump stuff. He is letting go of 200 years of rule of law democracy in America. Latest here www.theglobalist.com/trumps-disgr... @fredcnoonan.bsky.social

New UK Ambassador named to US by Starmer, Christian Turner, is first in decades w no professional experience of Europe. He’s been a dip in Arab world, Pakistan, but irrespective of Brexit UK ambo in DC is top European one and Turner has no experience @fromtga.bsky.social @labour4europe.bsky.social

Some excitement about a new chief at Unison union. Worth noting a) just 7 in a hundred members could be bothered to vote b) union represents employees paid for by other workers via taxes. If new leader tries to end Labour government for ideological reason she won’t be thanked

Trump triumphs in Chile where far rightist son of German Nazi who emigrated there becomes president. Jose Antonio Kast is anti abortion, wants to close border with Bolivian, praises General Pinochet, admires Georgia Meloni, break relations with France over human rights.

Tomlinson claims to be sure Suella Braverman shares his wish to ban Badenoch, Patel & Shabana Mahmood from parliament. That is delusional + borderline defamatory re her party leader! His post was about 5 people I named, as an example of his general point. (His ally Lucy White named Sunak + Patel)

Philip Stephen, best political editor of FT has an Irish mother and has really dug into the London-Irish tangle. Looking forward to his talk and questions in this event

The establishment moved swiftly to silence David Lammy but he speaks for so many when he says Britain will only get poorer if we continue trade isolation politics open.substack.com/pub/denismac... @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @tombaldwin66.bsky.social

Zarah Sultana on BBC1 Laura K this morning repeats word for word, comma for comma, the Putin line on Ukraine. It's all warmonger Starmer's fault apparently and Zelensky must go. No idea the new Corbyn party was going to adopt appeasement as its foreign policy

MoS hysterical story on Starmer going to Czechoslovakia in 1986 to help build a monument to Nazi anti-Jewish atrocities. Vaclez Havel in full flow then as communism crumbled from within with loads of Brits like Tom Stoppard, Tory peers and professors going there @tombaldwin66.bsky.social

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to publisher Herbert Putnam

Labour has become the party of, by and for university graduates. This explains consequences and suggests solutions Liberalism can win back the working class. Here’s how Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics PublishedNOV 29 Ft

Sir Keir Starmer Wants Growth—Perhaps He Should Learn Spanish @denismacshane.bsky.social @socialeurope.bsky.social lhttps://www.socialeurope.eu/sir-keir-starmer-wants-growth-perhaps-he-should-learn-spanish

Terrific @philippesands.bsky.social on R4 on aftermath of far right taking over Chile using military to organise putsch 1973. It is granular detail of individuals fighting for justice that is important and fascinating. It is why Trump and Putin and Bandenoch-Farage hate ECHR, international law

News summary this morning Your Party expels socialists ahead of founding conference Your Party figures back petition demanding ‘no expulsions’ Battle for future of Your Party as leadership witch-hunts left Your Party: fight the ban on socialists! | Workers' Liberty

To read with @johnmct.bsky.social in today’s CityAM on what Labour is really up to

The pro-Brexit Times and Daily Telegraph tell the truth: Brexit has been bad, very bad for Britain url:https://encompass-europe.com/comment/the-pro-brexit-times-and-daily-telegraph-tell-the-truth-brexit-has-been-bad-very-bad-for-britain @denismacshane.bsky.social

Metro UK’s biggest Readership paper splashes on foul Yaxley-Lennon smear against Gary Lineker photographed with a young woman in Mexico. The Yaxley Lennon aka T Robinson innuendo was clear - Lineker a DOM. Woman was his daughter-in-law out w Gary buying medicine. YL/TR is a true Musk slime ball

In NS @ethancrofty.bsky.social argues Blue Labour influenced by Catholic social teaching on “lower immigration”. Politely suggest he checks Popes Francis and Leo . Liked Maurice G over many years but idea he gets politics is ????

Behind £wall but given TB close to KS if he’s saying MMcS is now a problem not a solution that’s v interesting

Once again BBC flagship Sunday show has 3 out of 4 speakers anti Labour and ex civil servant who is neutral

Good turn out for Labour in Pimlico with ⁦David Lammy ⁩ and councillors led by ⁦ Rachel Blake MP ⁩for Westminster and City of London. Doorstep response OK not really enthusiastic about any party especially but sense cautious HMT policies needed to overcome wretched inheritance from Brexit Tory PMs

Nicholas Sarkozy conviction for massive corruption upheld by France's top court. Unlike Britain France avoids sending pensioners to prison for non-violent crimes so he'll serve 1 year sentence tagged. Compare UK justice failure to deal with Covid or Russian corruption of Tories

Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan Threatens Europe by @ZakiLaidi @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/jdvryLG yes but will Europe do about it?

observer.co.uk/news/politic... Two MEPs close to Farage named as being investigated by Met over taking money from Putin

observer.co.uk/news/busines... Bill Keegan fighting fit and writing so well in this column as EU politely shows Johnson Brexit to be incompetent and ill thought out. Buy why are Labour so timorous? @labour4europe.bsky.social

Qui bono? Who benefits? The answer, when you look closely at the 28-point peace plan, is not Ukraine, not Europe, not ordinary Americans, but the Russian and American oligarchs who have been negotiating behind the scenes writes @anneapplebaum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

observer.co.uk/news/interna... Some ministers have got uncritical hots for Denmark. This might give pause for thought

Farage gets major billing in NYT. Farage Cult leader in EP is now what most know about the cult

Great but why dies my bill for heating keep going up?

Should Johnson, Hancock and Cummings go on trial for unnecessary deaths of 23,000 fellow citizens?

Should Johnson, Hancock and Cummings go on trial for unnecessary death of 23,000 fellow citizens?

Nuremberg utterly compelling. Not about Göring or Nazis. It shows how political hate ends. All should try and see it

Is Shabana Mahmood making distinction between welcome immigrants like her parents + unwelcome refugees today?She was born in 1980 after Anti Nazi League etc had repelled Powellism, Monday Club’s call for repatriation. But had Powell won she would have been born outside U.K. @stephenkb.bsky.social

My father came here 1940 to carry on fight against European nationalism after being wounded as a Polish officer when German nationalists invaded. He became British + died as a result of war wounds 1958. Under Labour’s new policy on refugees he would be dead before being Brutish

From NYT: "Poland's admission to the EU in 2004 supercharged growth, providing enormous amount of money to rebuild roads, railways, airports. Access to the Single Market caused a surge in foreign investment, industrial development, and an exchange of knowledge and talent". @labour4europe.bsky.social

Really? Telegraph editors, journalists given up old traditions of rigorous news reporting especially foreign to promote anti European, anti-immigrant, pro Trump Farage-Brexit Tory Weltanschauung. GBNews and DTel presenters/columnists interchangeable

Countries with a wealth tax Argentina Belgium Colombia France Italy Norway Switzerland Interesting Italy, Argentina with populist rightist pro Trump governments have wealth tax @rachelblakemp.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social @meghillier.bsky.social @pollytoynbee.bsky.social

My father arrived 1940 to keep fighting against European nationalism after being wounded as a Polish officer when German nationalists invaded. He became British + died thnx to war wounds 1958. Under Labour’s new policy on refugees he would be dead before being British @rachelblakemp.bsky.social

US private equity firm Redbird gives up efforts to buy D Telegraph. Paper’s rabid hostility to government as well as Europe and its endless Farage puff propaganda has done huge damage to its reputation as mainstream right paper of record. Heading down same hill as Daily Express @pressgazette.co.uk

I am sure Nigel Farage will be delighted at Gdn comparison with Giorgia Meloni, who moved from far-right Mussolini-heritage politics to PM of Italy The way she did this was to ditch her hostility to the EU. She found fault with Putin. Right now, Farage is where Giorgia Meloni was 15 years ago.

Erdogan out-Putins Putin as Turkish prosecutors seek more than 2,000 years of prison for Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul and candidate to be president. He’s standing for Labour’s sister party CHP. So far Starmer has not called for his release from detention. Sad @emilythornberry.bsky.social

Good old BBC putting on now on Armistice Day “In which we serve” one of best WW2 films which Donald Trump, the Neville Chamberlain of today’s Europe could not even begin to understand nor his fellow travellers trying to destroy the BBC

In Metro U.K.’s biggest circulation paper main comment by Bill Curtis who writes: “Mr Farage and his ilk don’t want a “fair BBC”. They want a dead one. “They want a privatised hollowed-out broadcaster run by hedge funds and headlines.” Compare This young journalist with most of commentariat

Nick R listed controversies like Trump coverage, Gaza, trans v feminists, but did mention Europe where BBC promoted Farage non stop since 2010 (30 QT appearances with none for anti Brexit MEPs) and no coverage of the damage Brexit has done to U.K. economy by its economic/biz editors

French MPs vote yesterday limits on sick notes to stop working. As with stealing ideas from Denmark on controlling migration can U.K. government learn from Europe on dealing with problems chez nous?

Since beginning of century Danes have decreed that no bride or bridegroom can settle in Denmark under age 24. I suggested this for U.K. when a minister and 20 years later finally a government willing to learn from Europe