Xi: "Green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time. While some country is acting against it, the international community should stay focused on the right direction." Who could he possible be thinking of?

Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."

Genuinely the first time I have ever had to hand it to Kemi Badenoch *Makes "not an anti-vaxxer" the first item in the credit column*

Americans have "Trump Always Chickens Out", in Britain we have "Farage Isn't Being Serious" - FIBS.

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

The man's a fraud. A Trump stooge phony.

Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism “I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”

Starting to look like a coordinated shakedown...

this guy www.bbc.com/news/busines...

BoE's Chief Economist Huw Pill is perverse in seeking *more* active QT for the coming year. He voted for Bank to sell more gilts than this year, thus lowering the price and raising the yield i.e. interest rate govt must pay. He would damage the economy & public finances. www.ft.com/content/e094...

State capture, not state of rapture.

Trump is stark staring psychopathic sociopathic narcissistic viciously, maliciously malign bonkers... & dangerous. Amerika, what have you done to yourself... & to the rest of us? To what depths have you sunk, Amerika? How much lower will you sink, Amerika? Because, for sure, he's taking you there

Some of us do.

1. Billionaire Larry Ellison is set to acquire TikTok's US operations. Ellison, the second-richest person in the world, is a Trump supporter and a vocal enthusiast of the surveillance state.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think people have confused 'rapture' with 'rupture' !

22 September 1908 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Iboja Balaz, was born. In 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz. Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

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.

Trump posted this, demanding that the US AG goes after his enemies more actively (obviously meant as a DM to Bondi). Then deleted it and reposted it with some changes trying to style it out as a public post. Then he deleted that and posted what a great job Bondi is doing. 😂😂😂

Governor Tim Walz, "If you’ve ever wondered how democracy dies, you’re witnessing it. This is North Korea style stuff" "And it’s being done because this is a weak, thin-skinned man who’s failing as a president" "All of the things he promised are not happening" "This is exactly what dictators do"

Statements from London Mayor and Lib Dem leader.

Today's paper edition of Daily Mirror - A fantastic diatribe against the Orange Man Baby - and the whole bloomin' absurd visit to the gilded prison at Windsor - by @kevmag.bsky.social Well worth a read!

"To kickstart the economy... use the power of Labour’s majority to rewire & restructure powerful institutions." @annpettifor.bsky.social criticizes OBR, Treasury, BoE policies as working against interests of the British people. In today's paper @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very interesting. So it was in particular thanks to Brexit that the last Tory governments greatly increased size of civil service. Paying less for EU admin meant paying more for admin in UK!

This is absolutely nuts

Well they BoE paid a little heed from my demand!

Labour is in a mess. My advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to restore the government as a transformative, democratic “big green state”, rather than a technocratic managerial one serving private wealth. In today’s Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

When you look at what Kimmel actually said, he didn't mock or celebrate Kirk's death, or suggest he had it coming - he was simply criticising the Republicans' response. ABC and other media cos queueing up to cancel shows over criticism of the government, without the government intervening directly.

"I can't help believing them".

Two notable shifts in position by London’s political leaders last night. 1) Sadiq Khan, following pressure from the Green’s Zack Polanski, describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “genocide” for first time. 2) London Tory leader Susan Hall denying the Tommy Robinson march had a far-right element.

So Charlie Kirk can say don't trust black pilots. Charlie Kirk can disparage single, working women. Charlie Kirk can say lives are expendable for the Second Amendment. But once Jimmy Kimmel makes a joke about Charlie Kirk he gets fired. No free speech in America anymore.

Irony is dead (a continuing series).

Who is Britain's Hitler in the Spectator's scenario?

The far right politics of McSweeney's Labour government in full view: getting the ancient Rupert Murdoch to join the world's oligarchs at a Royal dinner with the tyrant Donald Trump.

Where's Luis Bunuel when you need him?

Of course. By definition.

Bit strange to hear the Today programme interviewing the CEO of Newsmax like he's a public intellectual, then interviewing a Labour minister like he's a war criminal

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Please BBC News. Enough British self-abasement

A special performance of Huis Clos within the walls of Windsor Castle. No way out for the participants or audience.

The people say NO to the visit of the American president.,,

You gotta love Bernie..

Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think that this speech from US Fed Board member Lisa Cook (who seems to be innocent of the allegations made by MAGA-creep Pulte & Trump) is what has riled Trump & his ugly cronies. On the Fed's full employment mandate, promoted by civil rights leaders... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...