No wonder the North Koreans are cheering if they're going to share in the world's biggest Colin the Caterpillar cake.

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course. Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

for anyone fancying a blast from the past, the Rock 'n' Roll Years is on youtube

Turns out that a platform which incentivises the mad and the bad has limited appeal to those who are neither.

Call it hybrid warfare, gray-zone tactics, or whatever euphemism helps you sleep at night. But semantics won’t save you. It’s war. Russia is at war with you, dear Europe. Whether you like it or not.

Personally I'd like to hear what the women of Afghanistan think of Yanis Varoufakis.

Fuck me. Do you even know what fascism is? Or is it a word you just repeat because you’ve heard it on the radio?

Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference. FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.

FB Memories reminds me of the time those lads who were selling a bowl of Lucky Charms for six quid a pop got a book deal and produced the laziest 'Will this do?' thing ever published.

Rudolf Heß lived long enough to hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood on SFB Radio

“I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.” Kemi Badenoch, 2023 “In the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face.“ Robert Jenrick, 2025

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

Robert Jenrick only eats milkybars

And we can definitely save taxpayers' money by replacing all those cumbersome citizenship tests with the Jenrick Melanin Detector

"Would you like baps with that?"

I do take Palestine demos today as expressions of support for the October 7th atrocities, and I do assume the people attending are either clueless or active supporters. I do consider 'Globalise the intifada' to be inciteful, and certainly as outrageous as 'Gllobalise the nakbah' would be.

But the great thing about Robert Jenrick is that wherever he goes, he increases the number of white faces by two.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

How perfect.

Me on a date:

'You can do both.' To show respect for the victims of October 7th, James O’Brien asks that pro-Palestinian protesters pause their critique of the war in Gaza.

Today, we remember the victims of the heinous attacks by Hamas on 7 October 2023. The prospects for peace are more realistic today than ever before. This war can end. With all hostages released. And a chance for suffering to stop.

Jilly Cooper believed you’re reunited with your dogs in heaven – I can see her there now

"Of course, like around two-thirds of British Jews, I am a Zionist. What about the history of Jews in Europe would make me not see the case for a Jewish lifeboat outside of it?" 100 per cent agree with this excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Please share an ACTUAL fun fact, eg, La Roux is June Acland’s daughter.

"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021

Heaton Park synagogue, where my grandparents got married and where my father had his barmitzvah, is only safe if every church, mosque, temple and gurudwara is also safe.

To every "But..." comment posted today, I'm tempted to reply with "it started in 70AD"

*Britain's largest electric car manufacturer

“I am horrified by the decisions of the Israeli government, but I am also insistent that Hamas is not some benign agent of resistance. Because I know what they did that day”

'You know who else was keen to tell you about the "protocols"?'

Two years ago, we watched in horror those appalling scenes of Hamas’s evil terrorist attack on Israel.

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

On the two antizionisms thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

Meeting two potential American refugees from Denver…

Lovely message from the Queen

"Siri, show me a real life example of the idea of 'the survival of the fittest'."

Starmer captured here seconds before conducting a colonoscopy

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

The hate is spreading and behind it all is Moscow‘s chequebook.

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Good morning! America is still a free country, and Gaza has not been genocided out of existence. Shoes should be worn at all times, especially while traveling. The Fairness Doctrine is not coming back, and America is still not a member of the ICC. Also, Led Zep sucks. I will not be taking questions.

#Corbyn is a brexiter but he wouldn't say so openly - so he maintained a lukewarm presence and didn't campaign against. I called him out for it on the other place repeatedly, but the #Corbynistas wouldn't have it. If he'd been in favour and campaigned properly, it might never have happened.

It’s important to remember what was happening at this time. It was the best & worst. Vaccines had arrived. They weren’t as great as hoped, but they saved a lot of lives. And 3,000 people were dying daily. Yet, he wanted more infections in unvaccinated youth. He didn’t work in a hospital.

I’d honestly thought I’d heard every antisemitic conspiracy so I have to hand it to this bloke. I’m just left wondering where in the cramped shtetl my peasant ancestors kept their slaves?