The vast majority of those voters are over 50 and most of them are authoritarians. There are a lot of authoritarians!

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

What's the point of holding the biggest international event in the world in the US if the host nation can pick your squad? This tournament is going to be a farce!

Funny you should raise that. The Sikh community used to be held up by Brexiters as a kind of 'welcome and well behaved contrast to muslims'. Now they're 'just other non-whites' to Farage.

I think "Henry Nowak protestors" (Telegraph) seems a very inappropriate label for these violent scenes, dishonouring the murder victim + ignoring the calls of his family not to do this. "Protestors throw bricks and bottles at police in violent rage after Southampton murder" would be much better.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

BBC doing this too. "Police pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protest" smears an innocent victim again Try "Police pelted with missiles after Southampton murder" Inappropriate to call it a "Henry Nowak protest" when his family explicitly call for it NOT to happen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need to put pressure on our politicians and media institutions to leave X. We need government to hold Musk to account too. It's really not pretty what is going on there and it's long past the point when it was OK to indulge it.

Farage has spent years trying to avoid associating his parties with coked up racist thugs and Restore have panicked him into forgetting why.

This attitude *does* also come from Muslim organisations. You must be wilfully ignoring it.

once again, big round of applause to RMT for going on strike when kids have GCSE and A-Level exams to get to. Really classy.

Rubio: “Determining the national interest oftentimes requires us to make pragmatic decisions. “Sometimes in foreign policy, the choices are not between a good choice and a bad choice. 1/2

Marco Rubio: “We remain the world's sole global superpower, the most powerful country on Earth. “We have the largest economy, we have the most powerful military ever known to man, our dollar remains the reserve currency of the world. Our language is used extensively throughout the world.” 1/2

The pilot of the F-15E Strike Eagle shot down over Iran on April 3 was also aboard one of the three F-15Es downed by a Kuwaiti F/A-18 in a friendly-fire incident less than five weeks earlier.

Still a stalemate in the US-Iran talks. Iran's Deputy Inspector of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Brigadier General Mohammad Jafar Asadi: “We have repeatedly stated that we have not yet revealed all our capabilities. We possess many options that we will utilise if necessary.”

Reform UK’s only strategy - whipping up racial division. Badenoch’s actual quote on TV today: “I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters.” They’re never going to get out of the gutter.

I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

Farage engaging in precisely the form of shit-stirring that Henry Nowak’s family implored politicians to avoid.

!!!!!!!

He’s such a sucker.

What I like about this is the suggestion he was hiding his opinions while at Ofcom.

Don’t usually post podcasts before listening to them but will make an exception for this one.

Shame is an underrated political weapon.

I think this is the biggest problem Americans unleashed in the world with Trump, this bigots are no longer afraid to show their true colors for everyone to see. We really need to make this people hide in shame again.

After doing an intensive period of research etc etc turns out “the sneering attack piece” was a joke on Have I Got News For You. Looks like we’ve found the new thinnest-skinned person in the UK. What a Loser. GB News are typically apoplectic though.

NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, fashionista, said when interviewed “moi loves it quand mes amis come to chez nous, la conversation is très intéressante et nous have beaucoup de fun, mais moi is curieuse about la combinaison de la chaussures et de la chaussettes. Moi has never seen ça en Vogue.”

My main worry is everything is such a mess that Restore get to like 15% in national polls and everyone gets even more racist in response.

We can always print money but then you just pay the bill through inflation. No free lunches.

Every word. Powerful piece. 👇

Ok so don't borrow from them then, that's fine. Do it all with taxes, knock yerself out

A very perky #sophiefromromania this morning back seat driving on the way to the park where she was a bit too frisky with the shy collie and her owner. But she still gets a #bigbreakfast

👏

The only times I have been is when people to whom it matters have assumed I’m Jewish (which I’m not, either by religion or family history).

I haven't, but my Irish mum definitely was from when she came over to England in 1948. It got better over time (perhaps more visible targets?) but never fully went away.

I have never once – to my knowledge – ever been on the receiving end of racism. I wonder how many non-white British of the same age (60) can say the same.

Hegseth: A "true friendship" is developing between the US and Pakistan. India will be excited to hear that.

Iran has rejected the US demand to surrender its enriched uranium stockpiles, the NYT reports.

Jews can’t be British on this basis - someone should ask Lowe about that and what it might remind him of

For instance I don't think a Burnham government would have cut winter fuel allowance (and if it had done the u-turn would have come much faster). Probably wouldn't have tried the PIP cut either. But it would have made different bad decisions. Because all govts do.

I get why people say this but it really wouldn't. All governments are dsyfunctional but they're all dysfunctional in different ways....

Does Iraola have a northern accent and like pies?

Rupert Lowe here trying to apply objective criteria to the classical racist mode of 'we can tell just by looking'. It's always the policy detail that gets them.

The curse of purism

Exodus.

Extraordinary testimony to the Millburn Report about sleeping habits

The discourse gets worse from Reform

It is clearly bonkers that no one has released the Russia Report or done anything to at least highlight this I don't think the Government have any idea how many normally sensible people are getting radicalised at a very fast rate online

He'll be referring to the biggest *national* trade partner, which is indeed the USA (last time I looked). Quite an old eurosceptic tactic.

The Tice tactic below is a very old one (pre-2016, pre-2000) and yet some still don't understand it. At least try to understand your opponent. You'll be better armed. (Best of all, learn how to argue *their* case convincingly.)

This is great news.