Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

I will never be able to understand how some people can love their country *soooo* much that they actually want the rest of the world to believe it is a total shite-hole full of absolute bastards who’ll mistreat them appallingly, abuse them, and forcibly deport them if they come there.

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. https://bit.ly/485lgN4

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees

The cruelty competition: This is what we are witnessing here. Who can win votes by being seen to be more cruel to a bunch of generally poor and vulnerable people? It’s heartless and regressive strategy that is eventually most cruel to the heart of this nation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They want to know why racism is rising? This is is why. This.

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?

Brexit detonated our economy and our politics. Since then, our country seems to have lost its mind, veering off to the right, reawakening the racism genie, ruining itself to try to hide the dishonesty and snowballing damage of it all. And now Farage could be PM ffs. Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...

The irony of Danny Kruger accusing the BBC of left-wing bias when Reform UK - with just 5 MPs - gets more airtime than the Liberal Democrats, who have 72 MPs. The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.

Excellent piece by a survivor of the Sarajevo snipers who Britain took in as a child refugee.

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

Hot take: Generation designators (X, Millennial, Y) are dumb, and about as reliable a predictor of character, as the Zodiac. It’s just more tribalism that keeps us divided

I don’t want McSweeney sacked because of this briefing ‘war’. I want him sacked because he’s steered Labour down such an awful, xenophobic path and paved the way for Farage in number 10.

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CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

So, #ChildrenInNeed day tomorrow. Time to break out this classic once again.

How we do pensions and retirement income in this country is predicated on a few assumptions, one of which is that old people have minimal housing costs and/or security of tenure. It's not happening anymore, and will get worse. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-other-...

Hope we’ll be seeing the phrase “Billionaire Sex Offenders” become as widespread as “Asian Grooming Gang” and that white working class salt of the earth heroes will emerge to deal with them and protect our children etc etc

The BBC made Nigel Farage. Let that be the end of any nonsense that the BBC has a left-wing bias.

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).” How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!

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i am very aware that there is plenty of instability in other European countries too, especially France Right now. So no need to @ me. But Starmer has a huge majority and could just get it together. And Europe could really use a stable UK right now.

On a more serious note: British politics have been in crisis mode for ten years and this is a real problem whatever your politics. It undermines trust in government and democracy, fuels populism, and makes the UK an unstable partner at a time when the geopolitical situation is very dangerous.

Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense

The orange dotard’s fatuous demands to the BBC are going to be very effective in increasing support for public broadcasting in the UK (and increasing its reach in the US). I assume the BBC’s response will apologise for the mildly misleading edit, and politely ask what reputational damage it caused.

Says the bloke from a party that has been using anti-immigration rhetoric, doesn't really want a Youth Mobility Scheme, doesn't really want Erasmus and doesn't want Freedom of Movement. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Yes, because people have been enacting vicious anti-immigrant policies and using rhetoric echoing Enoch Powell, suggesting immigrants have done incalculable damage to the UK. Who might that have been?

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

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"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy This should be the end of his time on the BBC board

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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.

I can believe people musk has paid to fluff him up or i can believe reports on the team at space x who are paid to jangle keys in front of him so that he doesn’t get involved in any technical decisions

The great British tradition of subvertising continues apace with this from @everyonehateselon.bsky.social - trillionaire bellend indeed.

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...