Petition for public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics: As suggested by @nickreeves.bsky.social, quoted in this article, it does seem that there is a particularly high proportion of Welsh signatories. Presumably because of Nathan Gill.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Ed Davey has u-turned on Lib Dem support for a Mansion Tax and has used Tory rhetoric in his response to the budget. If you don't feel he's speaking for you, if you're worried about direction our party is heading, please sign our open letter to Ed from grassroots members: radicalassociation.o...

Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.

Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics. Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics

Clip of Zarah Sultana's pre Your Party conference rally, in which she calls to "nationalise the entire economy". Source: www.youtube.com/live/GafgqNb...

"Figure 1 shows the overall methodology" Figure 1:

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

For the past decade, conversations around autism shifted from focusing around curing #ActuallyAutistic people to accommodating and accepting autistic people. We now live in the RFK Jr. backlash, which shifts discussions around autism toward prevention www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...

This working paper from Stanford Institute of Economic Research is damning of Brexit. Some of the economic cost was incurred by the process itself. 6-8% GDP is a lot to be caused by policy. Half that would be a lot.

OK FINE 01. Empire Strikes Back 02. A New Hope 03. Return of the Jedi 04. Rogue One 05. Revenge of the Sith 06. Force Awakens 07. Attack of the Clones 08. Solo 09. Phantom Menace 10. Holiday Special 11. Last Jedi 12. Rise of Skywalker

Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --

WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Cede land controlled by UA Halve AFU AFU loses categories of weapons No foreign troops in UA Russian to be official UA language Formal status to Russian Orthodox Church in UA I suspect that ceding land in Donbass also cedes prepared defensive lines.

Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!

I would add that Labour's position: increases the salience of an issue owned by Farage endorses the Farage world view Morally, practically, politically dismal.

"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t." open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

The current Palace of Westminster was built 1830-1876 after its predecessor burned down. So which tradition is being kept: the current building, or having to build a replacement after the standing Palace of Westminster burns down?

A chart from "The British General Election of 2024" (out soon!) which is relevant to this debate - here's what voters wanted (black line) and what they though Labour (red) and Cons (blue) would do on tax and spend during the campaign. Higher figures = "put them up". Some important lessons here 1/?

Thanks to months of pitch rolling, the Labour government has now effectively told anyone paying attention that income tax rises are necessary, but they’re not going to do them because they’re politically weak. Let’s see how that plays!

If the "special relationship" means anything it means that US and UK intelligence communities are intertwined. For UK to end even some intelligence sharing is a significant step.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

FindOutNow has long had higher numbers for Reform and (to a lesser extent) Green than other pollsters. Thread:

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility. He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

WATCH: Lord Heseltine pressed on Reform "equivalents to the fascists in the 30s" comments #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwvHPRQSGNI

Miller here begins to claim that the President has "plenary authority" in the context of deploying the National Guard onto American streets before clamming up mid sentence.

*gasp*

This was inevitable, and I very much doubt it will be the last such incident. I've yet to see any convincing argument why mandating parental control standards wouldn't provide at least as much protection for minors, and they wouldn't have the same risks of ID theft, blackmail etc.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured. Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

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?

One final point - Europeans from countries with universal ID (most of them including many post fascist and post communist state) almost always find the British debate over it bizarre and irrational. Maybe that’s because…it is?

I strongly suspect a significant part of the concern expressed about immigration (that is driving Reform) isn't about immigration per se, but the impression that control of the borders has broken down. More a fear of lawlessness than of foreigners.

Ominous theintercept.com/2025/09/25/h...

#ActuallyAutistic journalist here! I have spoken to #ActuallyAutistic people for my pieces about RFK Jr., Trump and autism. Here for @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Here for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Alien: Earth thoughts: Entertaining but implausibly silly. Too many characters blundering, excessively convenient abilities. Undoes the major Alien cosmic horror theme that some things are unknowable, unexploitable and uncontrollable.

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

I do not envy the position of responsibility of those who must decide, in real time, how to respond to this.

Stepping over lines, pushing limits, trying to do just enough to get an Eastern European NATO member to say they’ve been attacked and ask for assistance, so then Trump can ape Russian propaganda, refuse to send US forces, and everyone sees the NATO Charter has been rendered just a piece of paper

Today's @britishfuture.bsky.social report presents new evidence about public attitudes to asylum - which are not irredeemably hostile. It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too

I have yet to hear any reason the "Your Party" MPs didn't join the Greens. Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.

In London, hate will never win.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

"Extended air defence zone... within 150 to 200km of NATO borders... in cooperation with Ukraine" The idea of a no-fly-zone over western Ukraine, away from Russian air defence, has been knocking around for a while.

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy