In my feed, this video is next to Kemi Badenoch's promise to create a UK version of ICE.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)

Is there really noone left who dares to say no anymore? What next?

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

OMFG

Don Flynn in 2002, in Tough As Old Boots:

New UT(IAC) President appointed: Mr Justice Lavender www.judiciary.uk/appointments...

Last year over 2000 UK Withdrawal Agreement beneficiaries filled out a survey for the BIE ICE project on their experience of the implementation of the WA as beneficiaries in the EU. We have now published a report on the findings. Generally, implementation is going well but bit.ly/4nEVXIe

I tend to think the whole point of human rights norms is that they should *not* take account of the lack of imagination or skill on the part of Governments in facing new problems. Indeed I can't see the point of having them if they are going to be changed to accommodate the despair of the moment.

Interesting comment from Lord Hodge in Joshua Rozenberg's substack email this morning. (I hope that @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social has seen the recent Bonavero report on press misrepresentation of ECHR cases in immigration matters, which is imho a hugely important piece of work.)

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

not a serious person

And presumably the Refugee Convention and ECAT etc too

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Once again, ideas which started on the maddest fringes of the far right are being normalised as the stuff of day-to-day political debate. Genuinely horrifying to think what might follow this into the mainstream by 2029

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Bold of Reform-associated people to go for the "yOu CaN't Be PrOpErLy EnGlISh" line while simultaneously complaining about being called 'racist'.

Pete Hegseth. "Basic training is returning to what it should be: scary, tough, and disciplined. Drill sergeants to instil healthy fear into new recruits"

my guess is many veterans would not appreciate this description of their service

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Meanwhile, here’s what Farage told Congress about incitement to murder: “What Lucy Connolly said..which was only visible for 3.5 hours, may have been expressed inelegantly, but it was a sentiment that was being felt by a lot of people at that moment, and it should not have been criminalised.”

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

New approach from Hymas post the Bonavero report (he was by far the most cited)? Go on at length about the judgment, and then slip in that it was successfully appealed by the HO.

'Boris Johnson's Health and Care visa'

let's hope so but sounds like it's all still in play inews.co.uk/news/new-rig...

As regular readers will know, I'm not exactly a fan of doubling the time to ILR but two things about Mahmood's speech. First, she is still keeping to the five years to ILR for some (I expect this will be £ or job related) and this from the FT is good to hear and I very much hope is true.

The ten year policy in particular is abysmal, as is the mandatory volunteering idea, which has the additional benefit of being absurd. You can imagine them thinking they're bring terribly clever and mapping a middle way. I suspect it'll just make everyone hate them.

Neoliberal pundits “Karl stop saying the Techno fascists are actively building a surveillance state inside the crumbling facade of America it’s doomerism” The techno fascists:

think this is basically correct on Labour's various immigration stances

'Others familiar with Wolfson review said they expected he would also set out a path to exiting the UN Refugee Convention and Convention against Torture, as well as ECAT, an anti-slavery convention overseen separately by the Council of Europe.'

This headline says it all about where we are on the rule of law. “Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

If you read out these Trump tweets like a Mark E Smith vocal delivery they’re actually pretty good.

Christ imagine having to talk to these people as part of your job and always be going hahaha Toby, you have the most excellent patter, very banterific, you're kind of like that guy from in the thick of it

This resonates for me - both my kids have been following the Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel stories blow by blow, while knowing next to nothing about what is happening in British politics. TikTok is the reason.

UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

And there it is. Time for UK to accelerate the huge task of disentangling its defence and security from that of USA. The world has at least 3 more years of MAGA. And no guarantee they will lose power in 2028.

Two headlines on the same day

'Expect to hear a lot more of that.' What I'd actually love to hear is a journalist or two (are there any left?) who will actually challenge this utter nonsense. We've never had uncontrolled immigration, we don't have uncontrolled immigration now. Why keep repeating the lie unchecked?

I've been to a wedding this past weekend, and bar one couple, every single English person who was married to a foreign national does not live in Britain because the Home Office made it impossible for them WHAT IS THE YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS? "OPEN BORDERS"? "MASS IMMIGRATION"?

Farage’s proposal to create a permanent underclass of migrants has 3% support. *3%*. If ever there was a golden political opportunity for Starmer’s Labour-whose support base let’s not forget is *pro-migration* - this is it. Is this mealy mouthed accountant language the best they can do?

Although conversely Labour believes it can't use this obvious line of attack against Farage, for fear it will annoy Trump into retaliation

DJT: I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: this business decision was driven by DJT: No I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: Unitary executive theory implies that DJT: I SAID I AM USING THE STATE TO PUNISH CRITICISM AND EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY

The Europeans are well aware of how unreliable Trump is but will try to manoeuvre him away from full US withdrawal from Europe until European states have made more progress towards rearmament.

🔴 ONU : Trump emmerde le monde. C'est la une de Libération ce mercredi.