Last time people were guessing my age in-office, someone thought I was fifteen years younger than I am. That was two years ago & I'm still over the moon about it!

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The General has discovered a new green Twat Signal, lads. Oh, those replies. They're fewmin

Could someone smarter than me explain how the Greens reconcile their 'come one, come all' immigration policy with their 'build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything' housing policy?

“Full force” on American citizens.

Quite impressive to start making that Liz Truss data point look like it isn't the wild outlier.

Congratulations to England's Red Roses, the women's rugby world cup winners. A superb effort over six weeks and deserved winners.

I will think about this tomorrow.

The British attitude to ID cards should not be underestimated.

Congratulations to the Red Roses! World champions! What a result!

Drag is as much a part of British culture as fish and chips, so the right can fuck off if they start on this. I’m not on the other place anymore, and for that I’m very glad. #Strictly #SCD

So here we are with the horrible possibility that Nigel Farage could be prime minister and wants to ID people to round up and deport... ...and we currently have a Labour prime minister who wants to bring in ID cards Starmer needs to go - now

Two million - an a "NO2ID" campaign hasn't even started yet.

The leader of the far-right GB in Wales pleads guilty of having received RU cash to speak well of Russia in the European Parliament Imagine how many of them are actually there.

'Mr Gill told a Cardiff tribunal he had always done what Mr Farage "asked me to do".' www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...

This thread shows why I privately wonder if we should even dignify Farage’s latest vehicle with the name 'Reform UK'. It's the Nigel Farage party – a continuation of the Nigel Farage party that has existed for two decades. It's him, his lackeys, his policies. And when he goes, it goes.

While everyone is focusing on the Fabians the Co-Operative movement have free rein to plot their own conspiracies. Obvious black ops.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Well, honestly, I can't see what all the fuss is about. I, for one, can't wait to use my Brit Card to access the khazi, secure in the knowledge that only certified Brits of the correct gender will hear the blast of Rule Britannia that plays as I flush, having wiped my arse on union jack bog roll.

absolutely correct. It is in fact notable how scrupulously Rian Johnson tries to follow through everything set up by Abrams in the first movie and even picks up lines of thought from the prequels

Ok… Boomer? Most Britons don’t actually know what generation they are Generation Z*: 52% correctly stated their generation Millennials: 47% Generation X: 30% Baby Boomers: 43% *18+ yr old members yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

This by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on ID cards is very good And it also kindly links to my post setting out how an incoming illiberal government would not need to force through primary legislation, given what they could do with statutory instruments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

if nothing else it's v funny while ukgov pretends migrants have no ID or right to work checks that when you gain ILR, the confirmation letter doesn't say "congratulations" but "you’ll be fined up to £1,000 if you do not return your permit within 5 working days"

Talking Starmer vs Burnham, Liberal Democrat conference and all that on this week's FT Political Fix podcast:

I do think this has been a week in which new levels of 'why don't senior Labour politicians understand we can ALL hear them' have been reached. Why would Andy Burnham do a 'I'm gonna hike taxes on London and the south, you're all rich!' Why would Steve Reed use 'regional politician' as a putdown?

Have the Epstein files been released yet?

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Government ID card policy popular, I see petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo, one and a half, has begged Paige Thomas, 24, to give it a break after months of constant streaming has left it “exhausted and demoralised.”

It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience

Sign the petition here, if you haven't already: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Digital IDs are a terrible, dangerous idea for numerous reasons. But, even on their own terms, what's the gap they're supposed to fill? It seems many people don't realise that we already have eVisas. All migrants get this "digital record" of their status and permission anyway.

A story in three parts.

Morning Bluesky. Musk’s name appears in a new release of Epstein files.

I’ve always seem social media as like a pub. If you overhear people talking shit about you it’s your choice to go over. If they come to where you’re sitting & tell you you’re shit that’s clearly a different level

This time a year ago I was spending quite some time reassuring EU contacts that the UK government would decide to accept the youth mobility they were ruling out. I was right, but the cost of delay was greater EU suspicion and arguably elements of the summit package.

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats. Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

This is a thing that is genuinely harder for Keir Starmer than for Tony Blair, who was able in the run-up to 1997 give a bunch of “oh, I love traditional family value” interviews with the Catholic Herald and have no-one else notice. Equally, I think Tony would have had the wit to realise this.

At first, native Londoners protested. Many worked textile jobs and feared that the Huguenots, who were silk weavers, would undercut wages and take their jobs. There were violent anti-immigrant riots. But over time, the Huguenots actually *expanded* the British textile industry.

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We don't live in a world anymore where you can do one piece for the Telegraph and an interview with the Guardian + appeal to two different audiences with different messages. Anyone interested can see what you're doing.

Free movement or not I just can‘t get over the fact that he basically gives up on young people in Britain learning foreign languages. It is basically "we need to pull the drawbridge up because our young people are too uneducated to be confronted with the world“.

The so-called 'free marketeer' response to a free market proposal.

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