Could hear a loud Palm Sunday procession - of Christians primarily from Nigeria - from the street about 20 yards away. (That should cheer up Mr Jenrick at least)

Time to clear out these deadbeat dinosaurs. They're all just different versions of latter-day John Cleese

Guz Khan nailed it straight after the first accusations of family voting. bsky.app/profile/snig...

If a few hundred tax dodgers drive tractors into central London the BBC are always there asking about their " legitimate concerns". The opinions and concerns of people who are worried about fascists destroying our democracy are not of any interest.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

The Minister simply sent the analysis of a net lifetime cost (www.gov.uk/government/p...) without answering the questions about whether the government's reforms save any of this or not Real answer much closer to nil than to £10 billion - but not known if gain/loss www.politico.eu/article/uk-l...

Stella Creasy asked 3 straight questions that govt is simply refusing to answer (!) - When do fiscal contributions + fiscal costs arise? - What impact does that have on the fiscal rules for 5 years? - How much would the proposed delay save (or not?) questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Into Trafalgar Square they kept coming, wave after wave of marchers of every generation and from every part of the country, as the trombones played ‘Give Peace A Chance’.

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

This is pure Alan Partridge.

MattGPT?

Sorry, last post about Goodwin - this is objectively very funny indeed.

Its a genuine problem that to explain whats happening with the techbros, with Trump or, indeed, with the Strait of Hormuz you sound like a total dooming nutter to normal people. No idea how you break through that

There is an unofficial soft ban on Pakistani students. Only about half of student visa applications by Pakistanis were accepted Q4 of 2025. Lots of universities have stopped all recruitment there because they don’t want to breach the tougher compliance rules and lose their sponsor license.

And there it is

Too late as always. The propaganda effect is complete. Thousands of voters will believe that Muslim men’s coercion swung the vote and corrupted “our” democracy because false allegations were reported. This is how right-leaning media have rolled the pitch for Reform. news.sky.com/story/politi...

When we say Trump and his ass-kissers are fascists, this too is what it means: all of us will be judged by the colour of our skin and what’s between our legs without any limits imposed by law or policy. “Ending DEI” is fascist-speak for white, patriarchal supremacy.

Greater Manchester Police statement: "We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting."

Oh, for a moment there I thought he was talking about the Earned Settlement policy..

😂

Good to get an expert view

This principle of "abuse" - discriminates against all Afghan women on their national group characteristics, not as individuals - does not accept that a genuine fear of persecution under the convention should count as a genuine fear of persecution, if you were already in Britain as a student

If you watched the fascist cranks hanging their flags across the country and then the greatest far right mobilisation since before WWII last year, why wouldn’t you think now is your hour of power? When the televised government reaction was “Haha, I love the England flag too”.

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

The Fair Work Agency launches in April & has the potential to reshape labour market enforcement. We support calls for: ✅ Proper resourcing ✅ A firewall from Immigration Enforcement so migrant workers can report abuse safely and ✅ Transparent enforcement data www.trustforlondon.org.uk/fwa-briefing

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

📢Calling Employment Solicitors or Barristers who want to make a difference to people in precarious work We're looking for a motivated solicitor or barrister⚖️ £38,000 - £40,000 FTE Permanent Full-time (37.5 hours per week) or part-time London / hybrid www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Bridging visas mean that workers whose immigration status is insecure or dependent on their employers can report exploitation without losing their immigration status. This is a cornerstone of being able to access rights

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: The Pope is against the war, but I don’t hear the opposition parties saying that the Vatican is on the side of the Ayatollahs.

President Trump has called mail-in (postal) voting "cheating" Yet in this week's special election in Florida, in which he had a vote, he voted...by mail. Something he's done at least once before. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

supreme accidental comic timing in Commons just now during PMQs: Keir Starmer: “there is only one party leader who has shown he will say anything, no matter how divisive, if he is paid to do so” Speaker (calling the next question): “Nigel Farage”

Oh, my god

‘The Danish miracle’

Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.

So it turns out the hero voters are out of touch with their own concerns

Big row developing between two of Reform's leading public figures:

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Why bother funding a political party when you can instead fund the media ecosystem that is pulling Britain ever further to the right and receive zero scrutiny? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Join us: 28 March, Park Lane, 12pm togetheralliance.org.uk

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market. $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else. They made huge gains. Unusual.

MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access

Lots of chaotic unintended consequences (many women lose status,children disadvantaged, racialisation) arise from taking a broadly popular set of rights & responsibilities & contributory intuitions, adding some tough headline optics, & rushing it out with v little knowledge of complex current system

So it has begun

The Labour govt is proposing much more sweepingly regressive reforms on settlement& citizenship than Thatcher 1981 Act or anything since. Transitional pressure of 2021-24 is not a credible reason for Britain to introduce toughest unsettlement timelines of any democracy for refugees+ migrant citizens

Nobody understands this about the government’s settlement reforms. People think it's 10 years for most & 15 years for care workers But its 15 years for all midskill roles, whatever the salary, if not a graduate job role classified at RQF level 6. Lab technicians, data analysts, hotel managers