To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.

Sen Chris Murphy, "You will be prosecuted for free political speech but let off for criminality if you're a supporter of President Trump" "That is Cuba, that is Iran, that is Russia, that is not the United States"

The need to explain complex ideas in simple language isn’t something academics can often lecture journalists about. But it’s obvious when researching media history that it’s a skill that has really declined across all British outlets over the last few decades.

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

The annual festival of “stop hitting yourself!“ aka the BBC’s commentary on Lib Dem conference.

Can't work out from this piece whether it's the coke, the fraud or the kicking of a police officer in the head that Liz thinks he's been unfairly demonised for. So I'll presume it's all of it.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

PSA: the new Downton Abbey film is possibly the worst film I have seen in my entire life. It is almost impossible to put into words how lazy the writing is.

If you happen to be at the Lib Dem conference I'm doing an event at the Marriot on our debt/growth problems at 8.15. And what else would anyone want to do on a Saturday evening?

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

I read the new Lib Dem policy paper on climate change last week*, and it is genuinely excellent. The proposals are credible and ambitious, and clearly informed by good quality research. www.libdems.org.uk/conference/p...

Thing is, while Ed Davey has unusual ways of creating publicity, the Lib Dem’s policies typically have substance and are workable. Meanwhile, Reform is often treated as credible despite its policy agenda being two elephants short of a circus. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is pure People's Front of Judea/Judean People's Front leftfootforward.org/2025/09/a-gr...

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

A U.S. attorney who was appointed to his position by Donald Trump in May will be out of a job by Friday because he refused to file an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, according to a new report.

Talbot and Branksome Woods, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA LD GAIN from CON 🔶 LD: 910 (32.4%, -2.1) ➡️ RFM: 791 (28.2%, new) 🔵 Con: 770 (27.4%, -4.9) 🔴 Lab: 170 (6.1%, -5.7) 🟢 Green: 165 (5.9%, -6.6) Well done to Cllr Dawn Logan and the team!

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Indeed. What they, and the Founders, could simply not imagine, is the absolute & total cowardice of everyone who swore oaths on bibles & now occupies positions of power under Article I of the constitution.

Glad that Gov. Gavin Newsom is up for the fight and understands the danger.

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

One guess: Mandelson will be *livid* at this answer. One thing that was briefed about last week was how close he was with the White House and how damaging it could be to sack him. Trump doesn’t believe in loyalty. Or at most he believes it’s a one way street.

Trump, asked about Israel/Palestine, calls on Hamas to release the hostages and does not criticise Israel whatsoever

The Time War The Clone Wars The Battle of Yavin The Butlerian Jihad The War of the Ring The War of the Five Kings The War for the Planet of the Apes 🤡

"We don’t have to speculate about what comes next," the analyst said ominously.

We will be in Bournemouth for the Lib Dem Conference from Sunday 21 September until Monday 22 September. Our first event will be an in conversation with Sir Nick Clegg on his new book on big tech, AI and political conflict - join us at 19:45 at Tregonwell Hall

Starmer at this press conference having to stand next to Trump and listen to this endless stream of cretinous bullshit on wars he's fixed. Beyond awkward. This government's brown-nosing to Trump and the US for less than breadcrumbs from the table is humiliating.

They promised a new way of doing politics but this looks an awful lot like the same old ego-driven clown show we’re seeing everywhere else tbh.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh: Your Party schisms before it even launches. Again. Looks like Jeremy Corbyn’s faction didn’t know about the membership launch today. Zarah Sultana notably not a signatory here.

This makes TIG/Change UK look like a masterclass in party organising. 😳

Bye-bye Atlantic Declaration, we hardly got to know you, hello Memorandum of Understanding regarding the Technology Prosperity Deal, there's every chance you won't last much longer... www.gov.uk/government/n...

Superb and alarming here from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Reform UK and his experiences at their conference: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

All those years of Michael Gove being desperate to be Home Secretary and now he’s editing ‘the alleged rapist/trafficker denies it so I guess that’s good enough for me’ pieces? Jesus

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

Morning everyone.

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

America. The bastion of free speech, lecturing the rest of the world. Hypocrites.

Led by Donkeys protests "Orwellian" arrests for projecting Trump/Epstein photos www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

People in Florida are painting rainbows 🌈 in pot holes to get them fixed quicker 🤣

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez told senators that she was fired for “holding the line on scientific integrity.”

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

Essential problem has been the primacy of politics over policy, which has led to a government that is really unpopular but hasn’t really *bought* much with its unpopularity: www.ft.com/content/6567...

ITV News point out that the four arrested for projecting images of Trump and Epstein on Windsor castle were not a security threat

If we give up our ability to tax and regulate the Tech sector. We become no more than a source of profit for the richest people in the world to extract our data, water and other resources. 2/3

So Starmer’s tariff deal with Trump was not what it appeared. And yet we’ve signed another one 🤦‍♂️ I’m in the Guardian explaining why the Tech deal is even worse. Handing more power to US tech barons is not the answer to our problems. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

MPs or researchers who really can't be arsed and just want to get across to the Red Lion? 😇 aiandpolitics.substack.com/p/stop-using...

There we go with that clamping down on free speech again. I am looking forward to J D Vance's angry intervention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...