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Are things like this, all happening on social media, mostly under the radar, the reason I hear ordinary people talk about Keir Starmer with such vitriol like I've never heard before? @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @restispolitics.bsky.social

#DoctorWho fans will breathe a sigh of relief that the Disney hiatus is over, whatever the longer term future may be. If something can be worked out, perhaps the 2026 special will see Ncuti return (saved by Bad Wolf herself) and lead us into a proper new series (or is that new new new series?

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

I appreciate that the Green Party is going through a massive surge of support. But anyone with any sense knows this is actually a dangerous moment, as new members vastly outnumber long-term ones, and thereby end up as something else entirely.

In any sane world, the President of the United States posting an image of himself wearing a crown, flying a plane called "King Trump" and depositing, erm, brown fluid over "No Kings" protestors would surely be grounds for censure or impeachment. That it won't happen justified the real protests.

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

Love seeing all the mahoosive protests across the US for #NoKings.

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head: "What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question" "What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years" "But it doesn't create a future path for them" "Maybe that can come"

Lord Heseltine, "If the Conservatives want to be reelected they have to appeal to the centre ground of British politics" "And the rhetoric we're beginning to hear in some parts of the Conservative party is not designed to do that"

A century ago, in the 1920s, the rise of Labour split the Liberals in two, pulling social Liberals to the left and pushing economic Liberals to the Tories in response. Are we seeing the Tories finally splinter, the fringe off to Reform, so the liberal Tories head off in the other direction?

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DOoRY-h... Seems to me this is an important point to remember.

Well this should be scary to any business or organisation. BBC News - 'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

Daleks are intolerant of many things, but dairy isn't one of them. (Egham Tesco after today's rehearsals at the Lit) #DoctorWho #Egham221125 @jackreeves.bsky.social

To be clear, I don't endorse calling anyone "idiots". But it's certainly idiotic.

I thought these Right-leaning justices were supposed to be "originalists". Is there some "originalists" interpretation of the Constitution that the power of the purse *didn't* belong solely to Congress?

I’ve had a number of arguments on here along these lines: “ID cards work fine in Europe, why not here?” They *do* work in Europe, but *not* as immigration enforcement. If Labour want to push them for other uses, then please make that case. For immigration enforcement? It won’t work.

The case for ID cards as a way to make white, middle-class respectable citizens’ lives easier is a very different one to that for immigration enforcement. #JustSaying

I know this may be counterintuitive, but those opposing ID cards don’t need to make a case against them. The converse: those proposing them need to make a case for them.

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Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

We already have unique Identifiers for the NHS and HMRC. Unnecessary to add another. It won’t fix anything. Most enthusiastic supporters are thinking of small (population) Eu countries and those I’ve seen are also white. I’ve also experienced first hand how Singapore uses/abuses its ID cards.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I do think we could all do more to promote Bluesky though. Have met lots of people in last few weeks who hadn't heard of it

Daisy Cooper, "The approach of these turquoise Tories will destroy our environment, destroy this booming sector of our economy and it will destroy our energy independence" "The only person who will be left smiling will be Vladimir Putin as he pets Nigel Farage on the head and tells him: good job"

I'd take that.

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In 1976, Marvel's Daredevil comic creators Marv Wolfman and John Buscema came up with a story in which the villain The Jester hijacked a supercomputer that could create fake moving images from copying old movies. He used it to create fake news. 50 years on, this is the real world:

I wish racists would just admit to being racist. It's so much quicker than saying "Immigrants don’t work… apart from my GP, my nurse, my teacher, my cabbie, my IT guy, my plumber, and the woman at the corner shop"

So is any leader in the Labour or Conservative Party going to speak up for the majority who like the country we have, who want the tolerance and respect the history, or is it just about the votes of racists now?

I suspect not only Lib Dems, but quite a few others, including Labour supporters, will strongly prefer Ed Davey's response to that of No.10.

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

The guy just … tweeted it out

Immigrants are a net good and more people should be saying so. Signed, an immigrant.

Fascinating article. Problematic for the new party that so many of its supporters seem to enjoy factionalism as a hobby

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

"When the BBC approached councils, the info we were provided about the condition and reason for homes being empty covered only around 13% of their [long-term empty housing] stock." Remarkable stat from my colleague Gerry Georgieva's empty homes investigation... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Anyone else remember this?

Rotherham man mistaken for fraudster by AI software - BBC News share.google/HUpTjE15aPZC...

"Yet the BBC has now issued a reassurance to Doctor Who fans worried about the future of the show: “the Tardis is going nowhere”." Not sure that is an optimal state for the TARDIS TBQH

The US Republican Party has finally closed the circle. The leader of the party of the Great Emancipator criticising marking the history of slavery.

Friends! I have a lot of you to thank for fact that The Works have sold out of the massively discounted copies of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" online. Apparently this means they've sold ~ 2000 copies! The book is still available at the stupid price of £3 or less in their physical shops and on Amazon