Who thinks Farage isn’t a Russian asset?

As I physician and infectious disease epidemiologist I’d just like to note that this is absolute shit advice. All of it.

"Last year, reported incidents of hate crimes on the Elizabeth line rose by nearly 50%, and by 28% across the wider London transport network, according to the latest TfL figures."

Another little reminder: asylum seekers in the U.K. already have ID cards.

After the London march organised by Tommy Robinson + the epidemic of racist flag raising, Starmer's response is to accept the premise that too many people were allowed into the UK.

'we will counter the far right by becoming the far right' — a policy-shaped void writes in the telegraph

Starmer thinks he can reason with these people. But as Samuel Johnson said, “Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.” Telling them they’re right only helps Farage & “Tommy”, as you simply can’t beat them on an anti-migration platform.

The normalisation of the lie that we've had "uncontrolled immigration" is a key plank in the Farage platform. Given how many in the media can't even think about challenging it, I'm not sure how Britain escapes the downward spiral.

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

yeah. it's incoherent shit, but it's specifically incoherent *nazi* shit.

Nine months after Christmas…

The truth is Farage has 'hacked' the political-media system so is able to fill large chunks of it unchallenged. He has twigged its need for gossip, clicks and 'column inches', and so exploits this. The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.

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That's why ramping up the anti-migration rhetoric was so disastrous for the Government. All they did was raise the salience of their opponents' argument while doing nothing to solve the root issue. Especially when combined with actually *cutting* benefits and support for people in deprivation

what i find neat about this is i knew of other examples but in reverse an apron used to be a napron

Reform UK’s Arron ‘Pol Pot’ Banks. What the actual… www.ft.com/content/76a4...

you literally called Trump the second coming of Hitler

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Nowhere in DHS Cosplayer Noem’s statement would you know that ALL of the victims of today’s shooting were actually detainees. Not a single ICE officer was injured. Do we know the motive? No. Has that stopped Noem from leaping to conclusions & weaponizing the attack against political enemies? No.

A hugely underreported scandal. Those responsible still not adequately held to account. An important, but infuriating watch.

I’ve been genuinely wondering of late whether the big tech support of Trump and “anti woke” is simply because their moderation costs were getting too high. Now they just don’t give a shit. Can the EU show any teeth?

Seems incredibly unlikely that even the dumbest NYPD beat cop would prevent the President of France from crossing a secured empty street during a meeting of the UN Security Council without having very specific orders to do so. Trump is such a ridiculously petty little bitch 😂

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

I've known @SadiqKhan for over 30 yrs. He's a feminist, a socialist & an LGBTQ+ ally. I'm so proud he's our London mayor. For the record, he's as interested in introducing Sharia Law to London as I am - and that's 0%. Those who suggest otherwise are deluded, or have a v sinister agenda.

Some of us do.

It seems hopelessly naive to give Trump the headline, report it as comments and counter-comments, then add some downpage paragraphs saying it is simply false at the bottom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whenever you legislate for more powers, you shouldn’t think about what your government would do with them, but what a future bad (evil or incompetent - or both!) government might do with them.

In summary, all those people who are longing for a return to days gone by simply don’t realise they’ve never had it this good. (I blame the concept of inflation… we should just reset the value of the £ every year then they wouldn’t pine for days when a pint was a quid 😜)

I use this graph a lot.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

So thanks to a previous Labour government’s Nationality, Immigration & Asylum Act 2002 and their change in 2006, if a future Reform home secretary decided that deporting my naturalised wife and British-born kids was “conducive to the public good”, they could legally have their citizenship stripped.

I always tell people who have ILR to go for citizenship for the security. But not even that’s safe - at whim of a Home Secretary any naturalised citizen can have it revoked even left them stateless. And even birth citizens can lose it if dual nationals! commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

This was giving me deja vu from when I was reporting on Brendan Carr and Project 2025 last year. So I did a super quick review of his tweets and yeah he posts this creepy GIF of Jack Nicholson a LOT. Including to Brian Stelter multiple times

The judge said claims must be made in a “short and plain statement" and it is not “a protected platform to rage against an adversary". The filing is “repetitive" and "superfluous", contains "florid" allegations, and is “decidedly improper and impermissible." It’s just bully boy tactics. Stand up!

When you’ve lost Ted Fucking Cruz

Dutch late night TV has its take

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

please ENJOY this clip of Mark Zuckerberg *just trying to answer a video call* with the new 'neural band' Meta is shilling and failing miserably during a live demo You get a prize if you can withstand all 1:42 of this youtu.be/D97ILdUbYww?...

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Patel is completely unhinged