AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

with the old gods

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FFS, he's the PM

Bad Bunny Boricua Bowl www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Alf Dubs, a Labour party member for more than 50 years, accused Starmer’s government of using asylum like a “political football” while courting voters on the right of the Conservative party and of Reform.

Key problem with UK immigration ministers. Their decisions are based on a fantasy world, because they only really listen to senior immigration civil servants, who only hold those jobs because they refuse to acknowledge immigration reality.

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I first met Gerry when I was 16 and volunteered for Searchlight. Completely committed, enormously knowledgeable about the far Right, and open to work with any serious anti-fascists. I learned a lot from him. May his memory be for a blessing.

Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (1937-2026)

This hards hard. From 1973, strangely not on radio playlists open.spotify.com/track/1tPsPj...

When your Danish Hat Game acting clue is a Nazi salute and that covers Farage, Musk and Kanye.

Overheard, late teen, early 20s “ I think I’m just gonna write Mum a poem for Christmas”

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Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol

Mother Mary wearing a respirator to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands. Masked centurions with green vests labeled “ICE.” This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.

A key difference between past law enforcement raids & prosecutions that resulted in legal settlements and the actions for which Trump & Co. are demanding restitution, @radleybalko.bsky.social writes, is that the former subjects were jailed or killed—and the actions against Trump & Co. were lawful.

The Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4). That’s facially broad words. …

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what if Putin cares more about Putin than Russia tho

This is very basic stuff

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what have the Romans ever done for us? They brought the cats. hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o

“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards” Boo fucking hoo.

UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK

The great thing about this is the fearless interviewer. Imagine if all journalists were fearless seekers of truth instead of folding in the face of Farage's prickly blustering.

This idea that you can get by in the world with an app or by expecting everyone else to speak English - it's just daft. But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.

The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.

"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

I’d be more convinced that this was actually true had fossil fuel giants not spent the last decade since the Paris Agreement and 2 years since COP28 aggressively building out production infrastructure that will see a glut of oil and gas for at least 15 years more www.theguardian.com/environment/...

we can hope open.spotify.com/track/2XIr0K...

Home Office spent £400,000 for boy band to sing “anti-radicalisation” song www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Unsurprising Labour Govt has gone down rabbit hole of talking as if asylum-seeking can be ended. They listen to immigration officials, in a fantasy island isolated even from other civil servants. When Diane Abbott was Shadow Home Sec, she made no attempt to create an alternative policy. But…

Mahmoud has listened to same clique of senior Home Office officials who have advised for 30+ years that loud announcements of punitive policies will deter refugees from coming to UK to seek asylum. Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work. A history thread. +

"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational" 🤡🤡

This is every bit as good as people are saying. One of the most sensible pieces of analysis and linked policy proposals that I’ve read in a very long time. Two comments. Bus franchising requires ongoing revenue support if the aim is to provide a cheap and comprehensive network.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

That David Frost, Nick Timothy and others attached essentially zero importance to the Dublin third country removal system -- the result of over 30 years of UK diplomacy -- at the time of Brexit is fascinating. People with very limited understanding but infinite self-belief.

This hits hard. My grandmother had jewellery sewn into the lining of her coat when the family arrived in the UK on a small boat in 1940.

Part of the problem here is they keep hiring comms people from newspapers who know how to pitch stuff to their former colleagues - but these tricks don't work anymore.

This is also a point of widespread confusion, as Jonathan suggests. If the ECHR disappeared tomorrow, it would not change the fundamentals of who is allowed to stay in the UK as a refugee. bsky.app/profile/jonk...

Pretty confused discussion of asylum reform on the Today programme. The number of foreign national offenders able to resist deportation using the ECHR is basically irrelevant to policy on refugees. #r4today

The comments here that are questioning the history curriculum: WE LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL. I DON'T KNOW HOW PEOPLE MISS THIS.

Searching for the Holy Grail of British politics, No 10 think they’re Arthurian. Everyone else realises they’re Monty Python.

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Anti-imm right will share the Guardian article and decide Labour have a woke open borders policy; progressive left will share the Sun article and conclude Labour are thugs snatching jewelry from the desperate. Instead of persuading both sides the risk is you anger both and persuade no one.

Wow! Labour stoop to new depths of low... Rob quotes a🧵with article in The Sun for its readers about truly EVIL proposals to take "jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs" & an article by Mahmood for Guardian readers spinning *same policy* Labour's help for refugees.

Buried at the bottom of this story re China: “The tailored version of Apple Intelligence will use in-house models, along with a filter developed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. That layer would adjust the content at the behest of the Chinese government.”

Brazil nut PSA: One nut has more than minimum recommended daily amount of selenium. Don’t eat more than 6 a day: too much selenium makes you ill. ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/S...