The Guardian/UCL have conducted an in-depth study of all of the immigration debates in parliament over a century. It shows sentiment more mixed, more negative today than in the past. (Though also that parliamentary sentiment historically is more pro than con) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Lowe has got elected on a different less overt agenda (Reform 2024) and is now introducing a form of overtly prejudiced politics beyond anything in parliamentary politics this century - further right than the BNP in the content, and - that he would be v unlikely to have got in on

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

"My simple golden rule would be that candidates and parties should never say anything in pursuit of voters from one group that they would need or want to conceal from another group of voters". www.easterneye.biz/uk-election-...

This Green use of Starmer-Modi resembles a leaflet that Labour put out in Batley in 2021 about Boris Johnson + Modi. The party was heavily criticised for that. I think the lesson is not to pitch to voters from one background with messages you can't show + defend to voters of every background.

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Wrote this back in September, and it is holding fast. Reform's sickeningly racist policies announced this week are far worse than anything we have seen thus far, but they are also enabled by Labour's own shift to the right with attacks on marginalised groups. 1/3 www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir...

Most people in England & Wales are not Christian, and it’s axiomatic to a free society that religious beliefs - or the lack of them - are irrelevant to civic participation. Britain is a pluralist, not a Christian, society; and this is one more reason to fight Reform UK.

‼️🚨Exclusive from @theleaduk.bsky.social’a @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social Reform UK will take no action against their deputy leader in Lancashire after he reshared social media content calling for a Labour MP to be shot lancashire.thelead.uk/p/lancashire...

“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.” Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination. www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...

One of Labour's political challenges is that those things it has done that is popular tend not to be well known or high profile to the general public A Reform threat to repeal employment rights is therefore a significant political opportunity, if they can seize it.

Reform are copying the Nazis again! ... The Nazis also banned trade unions in 1933 – and forced workers to join a single regime-led union called the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront or "DAF"). The first thing the DAF did was make strikes illegal. #RefUKkers

There are key issues about the principles - such as stripping permanent status from non-European migrants. But a news report should at least reflect that the figures are very much contested. (They are simply absurd). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Yusuf had earlier told BBC Breakfast that Reform had "modelled a total of £2bn a year for this programme". This is just a totally absurd number - by an enormous factor - for what is proposed, and neither the reader nor the journalist appears to know that.

This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BBC is lost

Unsung Britain represents an 18-month investigation into the lives of the 13 million working-age families across the poorest half of the country. Read more 👉 buff.ly/7WcqrbQ

Platner: We are all beginning to realize — right, left, Republican, Democrat — we are just there to be exploited by a small group of people who, in some ways, are kind of running the world for their own benefit. And the Epstein files show that in glaring fashion.

Full of admiration for what Emma does in threads like this one. Read it, it’s interesting.

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

A man noted the renewed efforts of Labour canvassers: “They’re sending people into mosques lately.” A woman quipped, quick as a flash: “They must be desperate if they’re doing that.” Notes from a @moreincommonuk.bsky.social focus group in Gorton and Denton… www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

If you are not driven by your ‘values’, they’re really not your values are they? This sounds so inauthentic- the only value appears to be winning votes. And when a strategy to do that doesn’t work, then rethink.

They didn't 'let it slide', they embraced it, took it further and actively adopted right wing racism as their root to reelection. They got elected because everyone fed up with the right wing, nasty, corrupt Tories and then decided to emulate the Tories. The most stupid political party ever?

What does it even mean by “push hardline immigration but not holding back attacking Farage??” “look Farage is not hardline enough?” The mind boggles on how to attack Farage if what you are trying to do is to emulate him .

Interesting to see this line confirming in passing Morgan’s responsibility for a horrendous and damaging immigration policy…

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

For this weekend’s long read The fights Starmer has started to pick with billionaires and and the hard right - and whether a brutally honest, wholesale revaluation of why Labour won in 2024 is the thing that could revive their fortunes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring 10 billion dollars from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can therefore use the funds as he wishes. #bullshit #8647now

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

Denzel Washington, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed" "If you do read it, you’re misinformed" "What is the long term effect of too much information?" "One is the need to be first" "Not even to be true any more"

Lady in white, "Andrew Windsor was followed around by protection officers at all times" #BBCQT "The royal family would have known what he was up to many years ago" "The royal family aren't blameless in what Andrew has been doing over the Epstein scandal"

SPOILER ALERT: The Epstein Files say that Trump sexually abused and raped children. He only thinks he's "exonerated" because Bondi has told him the million references to him in the files have all been wiped.

When we topple the Trump regime we should claw back every dime his family pilfers from the U.S. Treasury. Include all the fines & restitution he allowed fraudsters to get out of paying via corrupt pardons. Costing Americans billions. Stop MAGA now.

Blimey. Remember how Bannon promoted the Tea Party as a reaction to the bank bailouts in 2008 His pal Jeffery Epstein was give $7bn in bailout money Socialism for the rich craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Why not get the royal family to fund it?

Jenrick has no qualifications to be chancellor. I'm not surprised he wants the OBR to check his homework. He knows what happened to Kwarteng and Truss when they didn't.

We’ve all had enough of politicians lying to us, right? Reckon on that we can all agree Which is why I’m absolutely buzzing for this legislation that would criminalise lying in politics …”punishable by up to two years in jail!” GAME-CHANGER news.sky.com/story/hillsb...

This interview is a prime example of how to interview fascists. 👏👏👏

Trump’s “Board of Peace” includes 27 countries — 11 are authoritarian states: Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kuwait Peace by authoritarian regime — from the same folks who dismembered Khashoggi

"One rotten royal" Here are some others: Edward VIII Hitler loving antisemitic nazi George Vth bullying arrogant boring snob William IV activity defended slavery George I - prob sanctioned murder of wife's boyfriend and locked her up Henry VIII mass murdering psychopath I could go on

more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed

Is #bbcqt now the Robert Jenrick show? Just what % of the time so far (the last half hour) has he been talking)? Appalling lack of effective fair and balanced chairing from Fiona Bruce on BBC Question Time

“Keir Starmer is reportedly refusing to allow Trump to send US bombers to attack Iran from British bases, including Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands. That is said to be the reason for Trump’s latest attack on the Chagos islands deal” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Good to see Blair acknowledging the partnership with and giving credit to Gordon Brown.

I am baffled by Blair’s presence on Trump’s “Board of Peace”. When you’re responsible for destabilising the Middle East, leading a war resulting in 100 000s deaths - lacked experience then, ignored experts, didn’t consider consequences. Why then, do you think you’re qualified for ‘peace’ now?

In the opening of part three of the Tony Blair story, Alistair Campbell talks about seeing Blair troubled in a room, an absolute picture of the ‘isolation of power’. My, perhaps naive, question: why did he isolate himself? Why not work collectively and collaboratively?

choose your fighter

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.