Sunder is being very polite. More bluntly, the Home Office is lying.

Going to be fun watching them try to figure out a way to say "oh we didn't mean dual citizenship with a white country" without sounding like massive racists.

So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture. Western liberal democracies in 2025.

Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.

I'd recommend a visit to Bastogne in Belgium and the scene of the Battle of the Bulge. One of the last big battles of WW2, where US troops destroyed the remnants of the Wehrmarcht making victory inevitable. The gentleman is a fine example of the courage of the US army.

Last week we learned, definitively, that the UK right will defend anti-Semitic language and behaviour from right-wingers. That should matter politically. Sadly, it doesn't. I think this makes the stand so many in Labour took against anti-Semitism in their own party even more admirable.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.

Put that on the paperback

What really strikes me is their utter inability to see how this sort of language is not just morally wrong, but very clearly helps their opponents.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸 (sadly, without credit)

This is neither said, nor fully appreciated, nearly enough. We talk about what security guarantees we can give to Ukraine - it's Ukraine currently guaranteeing the security of free Europe, when literally no one else is. And all they ask is the necessary support to be successful in that objective.

If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn't immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again.

Drinks for the England side during the 5th and final Test at The Oval in August 1926. No water carrier in a high-vis jacket sprinting on every five minutes, not even a blazered 12th man, but a waiter in full black tie. Standards

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’ Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’

Apparently people are once again asking who's at fault here. We can improve road safety dramatically by revoking the driver's licence of everyone who thinks it's the cyclist's fault.

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our parties have become on a super-rich few. It reinforces the belief that money talks loudest in the corridors of power. The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations. www.ft.com/content/db73...

White privilege. Remember that? Well, white privilege is not seeing an endless selection of inadequate racists being given platforms to say you do not belong here. I cannot imagine the distress this contemptible shite must cause. Shame on the platform providers. May they rot in hell.

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

Most of the quote tweets of Reform UK's tweet are too fluent in Glasgow's other favourite language (🤬) to share, but this one from the Education correspondent at The Scotsman newspaper is a favourite...

Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.” Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds. Give me a break.

Home Office inadvertently bans historical research about the Dunkirk evacuation.

Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?

"So, what is the main point in your country's political calendar where the government sets out its foreign policy agenda?" "Strangely enough, it's a dinner hosted by the temporary, ceremonial head of the second-smallest local council in the country." "Makes sense."

When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

My extremely simple heuristic for the current political system is that until you can go food shopping and think prices haven’t increased / things aren’t expensive etc don’t expect any material political continuity.

A proudly anti-woke president.

What a profoundly nasty person (also we seem to move ever closer to a reproduction of Orwell's description of Winston Smith's trip to the cinema, as the audience cheered images of people killed in the water "then there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air")

Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal. I would mention libraries, but…

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

I guess it's just easier for politicians and media to do a process story. But not doing the hard yards of taking the time to understand and explain complex issues is how we ended up where we are today. No, the UK economy is not a household budget. FFS!!!

There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.

Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?

"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process." A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive

Amusing thread by BBC Verify fact-checking the BBC political editor.

Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!

Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?

Why did Steve Witkoff kowtow to Putin so completely on Ukraine? You maybe didn't know he has received millions in investment from a former advisor to Vladimir Putin's sovereign wealth fund. Yes, I know. You can't make it up.

When Badenoch is asked about this she will get very defensive and very angry.

"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down" uk politics in a nutshell