New research shows that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less. We must reject the division. Reject the hatred. And build a coalition of progressive voices that represent all. https://bit.ly/4gFEUCW

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands - Reuters

Ben Habib is committing Advance UK to repeal all laws against racist abuse and harassment. It sounds like he would legalise all current hate crimes against all protected categories [short of incitement to violence]. That is enormously unpopular once the examples are given as to what it legalises

This has been clear for every well thinking person for at least half a year... seems members of the Labour government are all blinded by being in power.

After the Brexit disaster Farage ally promises right-wing Bolshevik Revolution Cull civil servants it doesn't like Eliminate regulators Tax cuts for the rich Cut govt spending More power to corporations End ECHR Mass deportation of legal immigrants Will wreck economy/society archive.ph/OcxzP

32 years since the fall of Sokhumi. 💔 Never forget, never forgive! Abkhazia is Georgia! #russiaIsATerroristState

1/ On September 25, Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeals reviewed the case of Georgian citizen Giorgi Kinoiani. The defence petitioned for his release from custody, but the court rejected the request.

This is worth two minutes of your time... PLEASE listen to it...

Why would anyone want to give Farage's Reform any power? It's poison.

Labour are literally completely in hock to the worst companies on the planet and anyone stupid enough to trust them with digital ID or any other form of mass information/data gathering on the UK public is a danger to society.

Apropos Oktoberfest-Attentat (heute vor 45 Jahren)

Serbia is definitely not ready to join the European family!

We really need Starmer to say this, but what's the point when, in announcing the ID card policy (whatever its general merits), he frames it solely in terms of, precisely, the populists' "lies" & “industrialised infrastructure of grievance” about "uncontrolled" migration & asylum seekers? 1/2

Epstein’s contacts: “ far-right Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and on-and-off-again Trump supporter and mogul Elon Musk” www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

Human rights defender Greta Thunberg: "I am not scared of Israel, I am scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. What we are doing here is trying to show there is some humanity left. That there are still people willing to step up when all other means fail." #3E

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Worth remembering this when you hear Reform talking about swans, autism and ‘science never being settled’.

NEW: When Labour voters were asked why they believed things were getting worse for the UK, they overwhelmingly cited Brexit as the number one cause, with 69 per cent naming the decision to leave the European Union as the main reason behind the country’s problems. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

You'll never SEE this in or on the MSM in America. This is from British Newspaper "The Mirror". DERANGED INDEED!

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More broadly, *illegal* migration isn’t objectively a major economic or social problem in the UK. It has just become a political hot potato.

1/ Three years on from their mobilisation, surviving Russian 'mobiks' have been speaking of their despair and hopelessness at being forced to serve indefinitely in an increasingly lethal war. "We're not considered human beings; meat shouldn't have an opinion," says one. ⬇️

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.

"The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Poundland Reform DOGE are giving an entrepreneur whose firm invests in businesses that provide services for and work with councils or compete against them market sensitive data which she can use to boost her own bizs under the guise of “saving money” Great for her, shit for council taxpayers❗️🤦🏼‍♂️

Moments of Russian guided aerial bombs striking Ukrainian rescuers.

The scandal of using asylum seekers as cover to roll out digital IDs This is yet another policy disaster from Keir Starmer and Labour, we can just sit back and watch it unravel itself over the upcoming months

He is at least partly responsible for what happened 2 weeks ago...

Starmer has enabled the f/r instead of fighting them. He should have buried this poison but instead he has assisted it. This isn’t “strategy.” It’s cowardice. It’s appeasement. And it’s a betrayal of every generation that fought & died to stop fascism ever taking hold here. Just sickening.

River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WATCH: ICE agent VICIOUSLY shoves and tackles a woman who is upset after masked men dragged off her husband. Sickening. (From Elaad Eliahu)

Putin’s Propagandists Dismiss US Statements “When they point out, ‘President Trump is very disappointed, displeased and upset by Putin,’ perhaps Trump should be pondering whether Putin is disappointed and upset with him.” My latest for CEPA: cepa.org/article/puti...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is absolutely right, Immigration is not the issue everyone thinks it is, inequality is! Inequality is causing the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis. #TaxWealthNotWork

"As soon as those flags went up, something changed in the wind, something didn't feel right." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whether or not digital ID is a good long-term policy, the politics of it are that Labour just set up a battle with its own party and all the others, promising to achieve something this scheme probably can't, at an obvious actual and opportunity cost.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Disappointment at Starmer’s ID cards on ice… BUT… - concern about illegal immigration exploded because the far right wanted it to. - immigrants are not to blame for creaking public services. Govts are. - the hostile environment encourages exploitation. - don’t wave the flag in our faces. Be honest.

Here's a link to Labour's 2024 manifesto. It doesn't appear to mention rolling out a national ID scheme (which I think we can agree is a MASSIVE project). Yet Starmer's doing it anyway. If that's acceptable, why aren't introducing PR, or rejoining the SM, CU or EU? labour.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Grace too 👍

Keir Starmer has lost me today.

Dire framing. Strategically and morally bankrupt.

With Starmer making his active pitch to out Reform Reform today, it shows just how out of touch he is with reality. Labour can never beat Reform by copying them. They are losing more support to Greens and Lib Dems than Reform, and will continue to do so while they attack marginalised groups.

Still. At least everyone isn't taking about this 👇

The patriotic case for diversity would be honesty. Honesty about govt failure to invest in public services. Honesty about Brexit. Honesty about labour shortages. Honesty about the contribution of immigration. Just tell the fucking truth and shame the racists for the harm they do.

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

The Culture Secretary should be looking at the far right culture at the BBC, starting with Robbie Gibb and the others who have connections with GBNews. #Leveson2

The destroying of the Aral Sea often seen as the greatest ecological desaster in recent times. Lake Urmia is a new one. Next one is the Caspian Sea which water level dropping fast, since 2006 by more than 2m. By 2050 this body of water may completly disappear. www.meforum.org/mef-observer...

Latest @chrisgrey.bsky.social is about fascism in Weimar Britain. This is a good description of the issues with the George's cross flag protests. It is "enforced unity". Exactly like classical fascism: the unity of the people, biz, civil society and the military for the "nation" A 🧵