"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can’t believe you’ve forgotten. Brexit initially emboldened the racists and it’s been getting worse since then.

Meantime Nigel Fraud chuckles into his cocoa as the BBC does his job of sowing division and discontent in every broadcast, creating the conditions for a nasty country governed by a very nasty party that will not solve any problems. #r4today #wato

The likelihood is that most Reform/UKIP voters are the ones claiming benefits and the ones struggling to find jobs because they left education at 16. “A thief thinks everyone is a thief” (I don’t have a problem with people claiming benefits if they’re in need)

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

I am certain there are many solutions that fall squarely between "ignore" and "carry every brain-fart that occurs to Reform, live and uninterrupted, from their own studio, however long it takes". ~AA

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

For the “London is a s*^%hole” brigade. Why yes, I have come to a world class concert for £18 at the @wigmore-hall.org.uk just half an hour from my house.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money. The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid. 🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX

I’m on a walk for my mental ‘elf and this exquisite late-flying common blue (Polyommatus icarus🪶) pinged very good dopamine in my noggin. It might do the same for yours if you’re scrolling…look at her/his little face, her tiny furry robin’s egg blue jumpsuit (💅) & truly gorgeous underwing. I mean…

Absolutely right. 💯 agree.

Guys. I think I may have solved the mystery of why Labour are despicable about immigrants.

Polanski schmolanski

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Oh do fuck off with your tips for being calm Radio 3. How about you stop Radio 4 broadcasting Reform propaganda every day first.

BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.” Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?” Fuck you, BBC.

Trump & crew on their ‘great deal’ state visit reminds me of that scene in Mutiny on the Bounty when Hopkins gifted the natives a Trunk full of Poundland crap in return for everything they wanted #wato

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

Thousand of anti-Trump protesters march through London www.channel4.com/news/thousan...

My favourite placards from the Stop Tramp March

No immigrant caused hikes in the price of energy, water, food, banking, insurance, internet; decline of manufacturing, lack of social housing; PFI; potholed roads; climate change; lack of skilled labour; crisis at universities. Neoliberalism did that Why is Labour not countering Reform narratives?

Private Eye

The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

Wait a minute, where is Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to defend our free speech?

Surely he must have noticed how odd it is that there are no crowds thronging to welcome him. It’s eerily quiet.

What shall I put on my placard?

After this weekend, I'm leaving X. Follow my work stuff on Instagram @nicolakellywrites. I'll mainly be posting there. www.instagram.com/nicolakellyw...

Keir Starmer's silence on immigration is allowing Farage to seize the narrative - and it reeks of the desperation to cling on to power.

WTAF WATO! You basically allow a right-wing columnist to conduct an absurdly favourable vox pop on the "Unite the Kingdom" march. Why don't you do your own homework? Get one of your own journalists who attended to reflect on it. Absolutely pathetic.

Chris Mason on the phone to Farridge after #wato. “Was that alright sir? Anything else you want me to add for #bbcpm?”

Did I miss Starmer robustly criticising the violent racists marching in London at the weekend? He must have said something, right?

I was gardening in the cemetery today, clearing some bramble. An oldish white chap comes past, begins to chat, says the reason the cemetery doesn’t look as nice as it used to is because those in charge are not Christians. It is, of course, a multi-faith cemetery. My life.

Les barrières du trottoir du Grand Rex ont été ôtées alors qu’il peut y avoir foulé sur ce trottoir : c’est parce que la rue Poissonnière va être très bientôt piétonnisée.

“Flags is it?” Ha ha who did this? Bravo!

Violent crime plunges 13% in London. In 2024, London had 1.2 homicides per 100,000 residents - lower than New York at 4.0 and Toronto at 1.7. Homicides in London are also lower compared to most north European cities such as Berlin (3.4), Brussels (3.2), Paris (1.4), and Copenhagen (1.5)

"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."

There are 20 restaurants & cafes & 9 bars in the House of Commons. These are heavily subsidised - a pint of beer costs £3.50. 9 bars in a place of work seems absurd. The subsidies shield MPs from the reality of the outside world & should be withdrawn immediately. Indeed the bars should be shut.

"The politicians and pundits who crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends." @jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One for @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social maybe?

Firstly this is not Ed Miliband’s shutdown. Labour won an enormous mandate from the public for a manifesto that included no new drilling in the North Sea. Secondly, no new drilling is not a shutdown.Thirdly the industry are trying to BS us. buff.ly/izNfdWN

Since when were you allowed to bring smelly burgers into the Proms? (Not the Americans fyi)

I’m at the Proms. How do you know there’s an American in the audience? You’ll hear them.

Omg @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social I was just warming to this guy then he blaned asylum seekers into it. As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social says It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital.

No one minds the @philharmonie.bsky.social copying the #proms #bbcproms - it’s great idea - but I strongly object to that random apostrophe in “Prem’s”. Whyyyy?

The BBC say that they are justified in their biased Ref UK coverage “as they got a bigger vote share than the LibDems”. If the BBC is raising a flag for PR it should say so upfront. LibDems: 12% vote-share, 3.5m votes, 72 MPs. Ref UK: 14% vote share, 4.1m votes, 5 MPs.