You have to admire the chutzpah of the BBC’s response to the Trump lawsuit www.ft.com/content/d2a0...

As a teacher, this is the best article I have ever read. Glad someone is talking about this arrant nonsense!

Peacemakers by Margaret McMillan. Genuinely, I think about this a lot.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

BBC News - What are Reform's plans for Thurrock? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Dig up some trees in the dead of night and then defect to Restore Britain?

there does seem to be something of a pattern here www.ft.com/content/2c3a...

It is just one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed

The perpetrator was found guilty of carrying an illegal knife. The murder weapon was a 21cm/8 inch large knife. (So his defence it was lawful to carry due to his Sikh faith rejected as false). He also wore a small ceremonial Kirpan knife around his neck. Media reports seem to conflate these.

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

We've worked really hard to bring in effective and evidence based policies to reduce deaths and serious injuries on our roads. It's great to see another year of figures that suggest those policies are having a positive impact. There's still a lot more to do, but it's great to see this progress.

The UK was right to recognise the State of Palestine. But recognition means little unless Ministers protect the territorial basis of that state. With E1 tenders opening on 1 June, I’ve urged the Foreign Secretary to make clear UK firms must not aid illegal settlement expansion.

I am going to be queuing up outside Yeovil Waterstones the night before for this one!

It's the *Green Party*. What were the Times expecting?!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say he isn't actually sorry.

@lauraphillips.bsky.social Incredible BBC report just now on Afghanistan. This, Dear England and the Lucy Worsley doc I have watched this evening all the BBC at its best.

Tempting to write off the Restore polling as sample bias etc. But my feeling is its real Even in Bristol we're encountering them on the doorstep. People coming back from Makerfield think 7% may be a underestimate. They're all over Facebook in particular and showing up in national polls Its real.

The correct answer is Wells.

findmypolitics.com?e=-28&so=-47... Yes, that's about right.

Does that include the £5mn?

Bobson Dugnutt, The Viscount Dugnutt. (List of new Tory life peers in the UK)

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.

My friend and her family are leaving due to the rise in antisemitism and indifference they’ve seen from this country. Disgust, contempt is how I feel towards the cowardice that has allowed this poison to spread. But mostly I’m just sad. We are allowing a community to be hounded out of their home.

In America, these are elected positions, like dogcatcher, or coroner.

I agree. Quite a few self-proclaimed progressives I know keep saying to me, "we are allowed to oppose Israel", and I have to keep reminding them that they wouldn't deem it acceptable to ask Muslims about the Twin Towers when they are sharing experiences of Islamophobia.

Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.

Two local election candidates, for the Green Party in Lambeth, have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred. The legal threshold for that is quite high: the Guardian reports some of the content which may cross it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Keeping seeing posts that the "Corbyn playbook" is being used on Polanski. But attacks - whatever the motivation - only work if there is some evidence of a problem. Telegraph et al tried it on Sadiq Khan + it never stuck because there's zero evidence of Khan or those around him being antisemitic.

I worry that the lesson some people on the left learned from Labour's antisemitism problem was not "Let's never do that again" but "It was all a lie, don't worry about it"

It does. And the number of people replying “no it doesn’t because Israel/because Jews have media” or variations on those themes is pretty depressing, albeit unsurprising.

It’s a hard thing to say but it’s now obvious: Britain has an antisemitism problem. How deep, widespread and violent it is is something I am not expert enough to know. But I’ve been around here long enough to know that Britain now has an antisemitism problem that didn’t exist when I was younger.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

@gwr.com Hi, I have noticed that your trains from Yeovil Pen Mill to Castle Cary will often arrive after a recent train to Paddington from CLC, meaning it is not possible to use Castle Cary for connections to London unless you get significantly earlier trains and wait around.

Turns out Bismarck was wrong. Politics isn't the art of the possible.

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

Columnists in late August, 1588.

A short thread about King John. When John died in October 1216, contemporary chroniclers were not kind. ‘He was a very bad man’, said one, ‘more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women and because of this he shamed the high men of the land, for which reason he was greatly hated.' 1/

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4

Morally completely indefensible. Farage should sack Richard Tice immediately.

A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…

MPs must be given the chance to hold the Government to account and prevent the UK from being complicit in war crimes and breaches of international law. Air base access must also be withdrawn now.

This is a grave and era-defining moment for the world. Donald Trump is making wilder and increasingly concerning threats by the hour. If Trump follows through with this, Keir Starmer must immediately recall Parliament.

Ye gods, employee national insurance is such a stupid tax. Just fold it into income tax. Why oh why can't we have a sensible discussion about tax efficiency etc etc.

To be fair the policy of not chasing the polls has been a complete success

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

Happy International Women’s Day! The world has truly been blessed by the legacy of Queen Christie and the formidable women of Agatha Christie’s Poirot ❤️