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Imagine a 100+ seat majority in the hands of even Wilson and Callaghan, never mind Attlee, Blair or Brown. Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

No-one is going to switch to Labour because of this cruelty. Farage will be vindicated because the ECHR is back in the news & the economy will suffer. There was another way. We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Beautiful ….and much needed today. ❤️

Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters. Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?

This …is utterly appalling. Putting vulnerable refugees in permanent limbo will not stop the boats,will do nothing for Labour’s ratings, serves no one but the Faragists and embeds instability which the far right love. Lose forever. 😡

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

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Just catching up with #Strictly. Lewis and Katya’s dancing is worth the BBC license fee all by itself 🔥

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

What a stitch-up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

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Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr. Shared on their X. #CelebrityTraitors

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

Taith Cacen Nadolig: mae yn ei tin traditional rwan tân amser icing yn Ragfyr! 😇

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

All power and a full recovery to Samir Zitouni, the absolute best of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard. If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller. But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment

The naked racism on display from the usual suspects over the train stabbings is outrageous. You'd think white Brits had never committed a crime. Ian Brady, Fred and Rose West, Myra Hindley, Peter Sutcliffe, Harold Shipman and countless others would all pass the Matt Goodwin test of Britishness.

Steeping of the fruit day 😊

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ECHR was drafted by British lawyers at the behest of Winston Churchill following the horrors of WW2 & the sacrifices of so many to free a continent from tyrany & buchery It's a corner stone of why we say lest we forget Remember that when you go supporting foreign funded Farage

Not necessarily a good thing, then. "Net migration will fall very sharply....Furthermore, emigration will continue to increase....Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes."

Nos Calan Gaeaf Hapus, pawb! 👻

I read this Ian Dunt piece just after reading Chris Clarke's paper, link below. Have you seen it? I would be interested in your take. bsky.app/profile/warr...

'When people are asked what matters to them personally, they point to the everyday realities of their lives: their economic and social situation at a local level. Yet politicians and the media continue to construct immigration as a matter of public concern...'

This!

"Reform is fundamentally an English nationalist party. The more people think of themselves as English rather than British or something else, the more they were likely to vote Reform in the 2024 election." (Source: theconversation.com/why-did-the-...) #Caerphilly #ReformUK

My sort of book! ❤️

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Reform very unhappy with the coverage they got from Welsh media. The message is clear: the far-right can only succeed when they enjoy the fawning treatment that English media provide.

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

Very sorry to see Jimmy go 😢 #Strictly

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

There's been over 250 erroneous releases of prisoners in the past year, yet the only instance of this making the top story is the one that allows the media to give another good stir to anti-immigration feelings. Typical! #r4today

Labour are never going to be better placed than they are right now to make meaningful changes to people’s live. Stop talking about messaging or attack lines on other parties and make “One party at either side of the M4 mean something”.

Fine and moving column from Caitlin Moran

This seems a cataclysmic misreading of what has happened from the BBC. Not good.

It is really important that the BBC do better. The Mason piece conflates an 83% Plaid/Reform vote as a "none of the above" view of politics, that is mostly Reform in England, but has a competitor in Wales Key here is a Welsh majority are *very* unfavourable to Reform bsky.app/profile/sund...

Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest) Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics