NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.

As ever, @tuc.org.uk, gets an important point across with clarity. We need more of this.

Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…

A total and utter hero

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

If this is what local journalists can find out, it’s quite embarrassing for the mainstream media considering they seem to just parrot Farage’s bullshit.

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

Reform MP Sarah Pochin not in the chamber today for #PMQs it must be because seeing our faces makes her mad…

Farage’s lack of knowledge & assumptions about our experiences as victims & survivors of grooming gangs proves he should not have a platform to make decisions about us or our input.

The same sentiments will be coming to you soon from a Reform and Tory MP

Is "it drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people" "racist or realist" asks Robert Peston?

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

Stole a penguin, jailed in Singapore, now Aberdeen sporting director This has to be best football story ever on the BBC website Click the link for the full story www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Indeed. An advert with 10 people in it, 9 of whom are white would under represent minorities. But according to the way Grok has done the calculation, that very advert would over represent minorities. This analysis is deliberately innumerate.

This is a good example of the "very clear" rule of political interviews. When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.

His comments conflate Black and Asian people with immigrants. Two things: 1. Many Black and Asian people were born in this country 2. Some immigrants are white. Conclusion: his concern about immigration only relates to Black and Asian people. Which actually is racist.

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

He knew this question was coming and had plenty of room to devise an answer that avoided criticizing Trump but signaled the UK's approach under a Farage government would be saner, more legal and in line with basic human decency. It's telling he did none of that.

The Sky interview on Nuneaton high Street in the Summer a perfect snapshot. An Asian businessman expressing his concern with flags etc, a group of youths racially abusing him, and a white shop owner demurring to comment at first then saying "yes it's worse since Reform". She is the silent majority.

Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest) Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics

Really good report on the by-election. This bit needs blowing up and hanging in No 10, particularly in the offices of the PM and Morgan McSweeney.

Shows how media culture much more personality-based that now having a big political argument in mid-October (due to a 'rising star' interview by a junior whip in the Sunday Times) about a Bill to deport 3 million people proposed 5 months ago by Shadow Home Secretary Philp + Lam in House of Commons

Tory policy would deport about 5% of the UK population. "This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."

NEWS! Party where politician was convicted of taking Russian bribes now accepting untraceable crypto donations newsthump.com/2025/10/23/p...

Not surprising given the disinformation era we are living in, but the Aston Villa story appears to have given rise individuals getting considerable airtime as representatives of supporter groups that didn’t appear to exist until the story blew up. This type of thing quite dangerous.

The Established Church needs to find a voice on this kind of dehumanising depiction of men, women and children who have come to our country, being spilled all over the place to say the only thing that has human value is a salary above £38k and thst any foreigner who ever earns less must get out

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.

"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."

Starmer: “It doesn’t get easier from here”. One month later, easiest possible opportunity to prove he meant what he said: “No, that’s too hard.”

“What if we grudgingly did this but in a way that pissed everyone off?”

Legia Warsaw banned from Villa Park due to violence Frankfurt fans are banned from the Napoli game in a few weeks due to violence Away fans are banned at every Old Firm game due to violence. Barcelona banned from travelling for one game due to racism. All in the last 2 years. #AVFC

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Well, well, well. Even Macabi Tel Aviv FC don't think it is a good idea to sell tickets to their own fans for the Villa game. news.sky.com/story/maccab...

The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.

Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public

The chances that Robert Jenrick *literally* went to "more than a few football matches in the away end" at Villa Park *in the 1980s* (ie, before his 8th birthday on 8.1.1990) are vanishingly small to non-existent. (He may have been in the away end at Villa Park as a child or teenager in the 1990s)

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.” This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US. But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Trump on free speech latest

Badenoch is the perfect leader for a party that has retreated into fantasy. thecritic.co.uk/one-...

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight