Starmer: "... we cannot win as a weaker version of Reform ... , we can only win as a stronger version of Labour" So replace the current Home Secretary with someone who isn't performatively hostile towards immigrants. Take a leaf out of Spain's book, where they welcome immigrants.

Everyone is waiting for the Republicans to do something. They won't. You, the public, must act. You have the power the oligarchs and the régime fear. Go on strike. Bring Trump's régime down, Miller, Vance, the Republican party, the whole damn lot.

1/14 Every time someone proposes funding public services, the bond markets get wheeled out like a loaded gun. Hire more doctors? Markets panic. Run a larger deficit? Punishment awaits. This argument has dominated UK politics for 40 years. It is a bluff. 🧵

25th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else?

I hope Trump said thank you. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Sorry for anyone affected by the violence in the Middle East and that sympathy extends to Isabel Oakeshott and her family. Perhaps this experience will help her reflect on the fear and suffering of millions of people who suffer far far worse and are obliged to flee famine and war.

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

FarRage and Goodwin (Badloser, geddit?) show by their graceless and baseless comments after their loss in Gorton and Denton that they really don't like the country they live in and the people they live among. They should emigrate.

Osborne, Cameron & certain Lib Dems have a lot to answer for. All problems you see today from pot holes, to waste dumping, sub standard housing, rise of food banks is all because they decimated public funding while selling off infrastructure too. They need their day in the court of accountability.

I propose a new word - tantrump.

Careful, Donald. Remember what happened to the Queen... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rats and ships? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

Queuing at the pub? Now I know that this country is finished. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I wonder where these people get their information... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A reminder that Thatcher's "government as household" analogy traps us in a degenrate narrative that will always end in austerity.

Meanwhile Charles and William are laughing all the way to the bank. The Duchy knew about the radon problem before agreeing the lease. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Its a new year and I'm already sickened by this weak govt's take on what is effectively a human tragedy - people embarking on unsafe boat journeys in search of safety and security - former human rights barrister Keir Starmer you can do better -the shame is on you www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Kemi B: "People who hate Britain should not be welcomed into our country." OK, let's deport Farage then. What does he like about the UK? I suspect even the pints of ale are a pose, and he drinks claret away from the cameras.

Thank God they didn’t claim an extra £10 in Benefits or they really would be in trouble!

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

So Corbyn who is a renowned fighter against discrimination is tarred as an anti-Semite by the UK press, whilst Farage singing about gassing Jews and being an overt racist is treated by the same press as banter. Every wrong in the UK summed up in one juxtaposition

Half-heartedly following the Your Party debacle you become aware that the 'left' constantly issues tests of ideological purity, elevating issues that, while not unimportant, are very far from most people's concerns, thereby sabotaging itself from the outset.

A lot of the problem is shit life syndrome - poverty, stress, inequality. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Will Border Force be extracting gold teeth? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Listening to Radio 4 and the reporting on people seeking asylum is factually incorrect on multiple levels, including overstating channel crossings in comparison to other routes to seek asylum. No wonder people don't understand the situation when the media reporting on it is so poor.

"The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing." Harold Wilson, 1962. So with the latest anti-refugee moves, it is nothing. Morally empty, politically inept. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/ The government has plenty of money. Here's my explainer. A short read. Some extracts below 🧵

Well I've been complaining to the BBC about biased coverage of asylum seekers but I didn't expect Davie to resign over it.

Reform…

Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

Samir Zitouni...the courageous rail worker who put the lives of his train's passengers before his own. You can hear the weeping and wailing of Nigel Farage .....

Who runs the economy? The OBR? The bond markets? And whose economy is it?

Huntingdon train stabbings: driver-only trains anyone?

Looking forward to receiving stacks of apologies from the countless listeners who insisted the train stab perps were migrants...bet Farage is gutted he can't make capital out of this atrocity.

🚨 Here’s what Farage Doesn’t Want You To See…👇 him and Nathan Gill saying the same statements about Russia 🇷🇺 #Brexit #putin

Now that me and Andy M-W are equals, please can I have a house in Norfolk and an annual stipend from Charles? I've never met Maxwell or Epstein.

How deep does racism go? Racism is the only explanation for the contrast between Homes for Ukraine (supported community hosting, right to work) and the treatment of refugees from Afghanistan, Sudan etc (hotels and disused camps, no right to work, no recourse to public funds).

On #bbcqt last night, "academic" Matt Goodwin was ignorant of the published research showing that migrants, and especially undocumented migrants, are in general more law-abiding than the settled population. Fear and division get more clicks and votes.

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king. Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy. Long, long overdue.

Which politician or journalist will have the balls to say that the Epping Forest sex offender is not typical? Research shows that irregular migrants are more law-abiding than regular migrants, who are more law-abiding than the settled population.

Labour's response to the far right is a feeble "Yes, but..". Those who want a strong "No!" will look to the Green Party.

Reform local councils - dire politics, top-class entertainment (for those not directly affected).

Over the last 1000 years, have a guess at how many of our 61 monarchs were born here with parents and grandparents who were British. That’s 50 kings and 11 queens. How many could claim just two prior generations of English stock? One. Elizabeth II. Bloody foreigners eh?!