This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?

"The era of permanent protection is over" Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...

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

Come to our next meeting (online) with @carolinelucas.bsky.social The UK, EU & planetary health in a time of Trump. Wednesday 19th November 7 pm. Details & booking below. oxfordforeurope.com/events/carol...

Alarming that a former “independent” editorial adviser of the BBC was so clearly biased, lacked any credible methodology & had zero insight into his own lack of objectivity. Even more alarming that such a problematic attack can paralyze our national broadcaster. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is a brilliant piece. And it applies to the British Library as well as to our universities, the British Council & the BBC. Why do we continual trash our greatest assets? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses Right: What Donald Trump actually said. Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Beware the demagogic simplistic answers from those who foment chaos & exploit & amplify problems. They see no benefit to them in a common good. The NHS will be next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Listening to the gulping dishonesty Philp attempt to exploit the migrant hotel ruling for political gain (again) & god we have had enough of this polarized dishonesty. A problem their govt created & deliberately exacerbated in the run up to losing office. PR now. Fgs. #wato

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

I’m going to start a running thread to catalogue the examples of the Government refusing to use power to safeguard itself, and British democracy from the obvious right wing populist threat. Call it #WeimarStarmer 1/n

“Charles Moore made a comment on the Today programme this morning that only someone who had never worked for Corporation could make: that all its biases come from a liberal direction. No-rather the only complaints it fears are from a conservative one.” goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

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.

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

Losing both the director-general and the very obvious heir apparent as the result of such an orchestrated attack is truly existential stuff for the BBC. It’s also a *massive* challenge for Lisa Nandy, who has so far failed to impress anyone as culture secretary.

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Or to put it another way, both Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski will have reasons to celebrate if Labour introduce an ultra-hardline asylum policy modelled on an unpopular Danish government which is allied with the centre-right. Polanski will get more Lab recruits, and that increases Farage's lead.

The theory of change thus far has been: push systems harder and they will deliver. The problem is numerous public systems are fundamentally broken: - Criminal justice - Local Government - Housing/planning - Tax - Trade relations - HE - Childcare - Some benefits open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Joy and hope. Progressives can win so long as we don’t batter ourselves to bits over small differences. A much needed slice of optimism from @iandunt.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Anyway, stop talking about American politics and read my #CelebrityTraitors piece! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

An important week for #LabourAchievements. I’m especially happy with 2 new National Forests and the Gov working with Airbnb to help victims of abuse. Labour #FixingBritain

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Jenrick trying to make political capital out of an austerity crisis created by his own govt. The country doesn’t need your ugly division or your false anger thank you. #r4today www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker? It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal. Something very dangerous is building here.

Progressives & moderates both made the case that they have the antidote to Trumpism. And it worked. Populist autocrats aren’t popular, but progressives need to work together to defeat them - not get trapped & defeated by their differences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm. WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny. His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so. (iPaper)

Asylum must not be abused but nor should children be parted from their families. I will not give up.

My amendment to the Border, Asylum and Immigration Bill on family reunion for child refugees will be debated by peers either tomorrow or next Tuesday...🧵 1/5

This makes me think about immigration where Labour is making the same mistake. When will Labour choose to be honest about the bad economic and social impacts of reducing immigration? When it's too late? #LBC

You can talk about hard choices when you're the rock that stood against the tide. Less so when you're being swept along by the torrent, thrashing around for some argument to grab onto. This is the cost of politics by opinion poll: it's ruinous for good govt & ultimately for politicians themselves.

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

This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

Admit I was a bit blown away by this completely unexpected moment during our Unholy live show in New York on Wednesday @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

What a nasty small minded article about one of the most gifted and consequential people never to have become PM. And the problems with Reform go way beyond "the crime of wanting to reduce immigration"

Why far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...

The people have failed Brexit; it is time to dissolve the people and elect a new one.

A world without Keir Starmer: Is it time to change the Labour leader? iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

Major global travel and tourism group to quit London HQ and move to Europe because of Brexit www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.

If the govt wants growth to improve our ailing economy, it needs to reverse Brexit, or at least rejoin CM or SM, but it can’t because it said it wouldn’t, despite the damage it has always known was inevitable. “Make Brexit work” the insanity of British politics continues. www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

Quick! Today is the last day to sign the petition to protect brown hares from shooting during the breeding season & save their young from starvation. Please consider signing if you haven't already or pass on to friends & family if you have. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

Long past time for MPs and the government to get off social media platforms that endanger our elected representatives and undermine democracy and community cohesion in the UK.