If you really want to ‘put the Christ back into Christmas’ make refugees welcome.

Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult. Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Faro street furniture inspired by @richardmortimer.bsky.social

cc @tef.bsky.social

Excellently written evisceration of the current US failing government and its security strategy from @nilsgilman.bsky.social "it is merely the loud, defiant rage of a senescent power that refuses to adapt to and make peace with a world it can no longer command."

We can debate each word he said, but I will leave you with this joke currently trending in Europe: “In war between Russia and Ukraine, United States surrendered first.”

This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...

This is v good …

Sometimes it is very obvious. Poverty is a lack of sufficient income. Increase income.

I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.

Well, I am someone at risk of being called a “fucking Paki” and often have been (and worse). And I disagree with Shabana Mahmood. Funny how those who are normally against “playing the race card” are happy to do so when it suits their political needs.

A patriot, ladies and gentlemen. 🇬🇧

This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr... Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social Follow and subscribe to him if you don’t already

Confidently Wrong marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.

Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...

To be clear, if you think that 'objecting to someone who looks at this mural and goes "can't see the problem" is some kind of smear, congratulations, you are a racist!

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

Labour have evidently descended to dog whistle lying. It’s deeply disappointing. Really poor. No better than Reform. Unsupportable.

...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...

"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...

Turned on the Asylum Policy statement - deeply depressing. Labour back benchers largely standing up to support this demonising of asylum seekers and immigrants more generally. They should be deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves.

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health. The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition. The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.

It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Probably too much to ask but I'd love to see @davidallengreen.bsky.social's 'could' turn into the Beeb's 'will'!

Grief, I knew his logic was probably shall we say, unique, but don't go to Vegas to play poker professionally Mr McSweeney There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included) Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar

In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Oh, I see. So it's "How would it work?" rather than "What the fuck are you talking about, you racist ghoul?"

@rentouljohn.bsky.social yet another example of how the Labour govt, as supposed centrists, are miserably failing to challenging the Overton Window shifting to overtly racist policies being a reasonable position.

I’ve got blog posts from about 2008 saying this man is a fascist lunatic with a mind full of big strapping lads in combat armour, barbed wire and crowds of weeping civilians being driven through streets, and I said he needed to be shunned like a leper. Well, we didn’t do that, and here we now are.

Sometimes it is worth stepping back and reflecting on what is going on in the media at the moment - the political environment and the disruption. Imagine telling anyone a decade ago this would come from the Pentagon in 2025.

The latest rumour is that Labour policy has eveolved to react to concerns on both sides of the debate; Starmer to announce that all immigrants will be told to go half way home.

Great post. You should all read it. Especially if you thought the Patricia Routledge 'life thoughts' piece was cute. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

RIP Patricia Rutledge comic genius. youtube.com/watch?v=T-iD...

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time for a cheery read! #thecomingapocalypse

#Wigan elects first #Reform councillor into a previously very safe @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ward 1,391 votes to #Labour candidate's 970. If Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social continue to lean into Reform's view of the world, Lisa Nandy can say goodbye to Parliament at the next election.

An Autocracy of Dunces open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

October = active monarch month #DanausPlexippus #bugsky

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Man Utd

Avanti train to London, no spare seats, loads of people standing in all carriages, shop not working and the bins are overflowing with rubbish. Quality service. #nationalisethetrains

Not sure Labour members will appreciate being told, “history will not forgive us if we do not use every ounce of our energy to fight Reform,” when they’ve been waiting despairingly all summer for No10 to do exactly that 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...