No mention *anywhere* on the BBC front page of Reform’s latest policy. I guess the deep dives into the details will be along later…?

This is because X is radicalising its user base… and many of them don’t realise it.

When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

No mention *anywhere* on the BBC front page of Reform’s latest policy. I guess the deep dives into the details will be along later…?

You can really, really detect this in the centre-right -> actually-right drift in clean tech, energy and carbon removal people who still spend 100% of their time there (mostly US) They speak in 4chan memes and they've subsumed the terminology and language of techno-fascists, it is really wild

This is because X is radicalising its user base… and many of them don’t realise it.

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

The President, at a nationally televised event, just talked about how much he hates half the country & wants bad things to happen to them. This will barely make a blip in news coverage this week bc our press long ago decided that Trump gets to be as divisive as possible w/o criticism as a treat.

Trump: "I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them" So glad all his supporters have spent the past week talking about how the left are so uncivil. So glad all the shitty centrists of the world have spent the past week saying the left needs to reach out and be kind.

"And of course, we'll need your most solemn sparkler display. Ideally something that would pair well with the Village People?"

Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.” Again, this is a memorial service.

"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

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lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

the requirements to succeed on new media platforms are almost precisely the opposite of what successful experts… have trained themselves to do: maintain an institutional tone of formal detachment & stay ruthlessly on-message at all times.’ @noupside.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.

This is good but he should say it in front of a TV camera! takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

"Today, in 2025, the norm has broken down. Too many thugs and racists feel as though they have been granted permission to behave terribly" - James O'Malley's blog

In which, remarkably, while talking about the fiscal bind, and even after Jeremy Hunt goes on about acting in the interests of the country, no one brings up the TWO NI cuts carried out largely if not solely for narrow party political ends. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

And, like, that’s in addition to the clearly impeachable worse-than-Nixon coverup of the Homan bribery investigation. Two—count them: ONE, TWO—worse than Nixon things JUST TODAY.

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

Also, remember that at this time the administration is targeting a ton of perceived enemies because they may have made a misstatement (or maybe didn't really) on a mortgage application to no actual benefit. “For my friends everything, for my enemies the law”

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Freedom of speech is under attack on both sides of the Atlantic, from the same people who hypocritically call themselves "free speech defenders". Make no mistake, if the British far right win power they will follow the example of their American brethren. My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social.

It’s called Blue Labour for a reason.

The woke mob are, once again, trying to stop Maurice Glasman having sex with his wife

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Your Party (July - September 2025)

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

Wrong wrong wrong. X's algorithm and pay-for-play was already shrinking audiences and collapsed click-through to links. It hasn't been a level playing field for a long time. If you want to play poker when the deck is stacked against you, it's your right, but don't lecture others for choosing not to.

This just isn’t true. My audience is bigger here than it was after 15 year in twitter, and, for mostly better, they are real people, not bots and sock puppets. Do I wish this place was bigger and more ideologically/tinalky diverse, yes. But also we are not fueling Musk.

Yet more evidence that Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" software will try to kill you. FSD will drive straight into the path of an oncoming train, ignoring flashing red lights at a railroad crossing. Elon Musk's dangerous and defective software has no place on our public roads.

Nothing is more embarrassing going on right now than all the pundits who made their careers whining about cancel culture trying to explain how the fascism they helped usher in is really just the same thing on the other side ... if you squint just right.

The problem is not their ideology. Ideological compromise is necessary. The problem is that the current generation of leadership never wanted fighting Trump and cleaning up after him to be their main job. They have no stomach for the style of politics that is now necessary.

I am paraphrasing what someone else said on here. I can't recall who. What Kristol/Never-Trump conservatives have in common with Sanders/AOC Dems is that neither bloc was shaped by/allied with the Dem establishment. So both blocs see Jeffries/Schumer as ineffective and say that bluntly.