New research by Best for Britain and YouGov shows: Farage is most vulnerable on the economy. @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: “Identifying the messaging that is most likely to persuade those Reform voters who remain persuadable is absolutely crucial.” https://bit.ly/46KmaOm

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

"We are fully embedded in Merseyside life: we work full-time, pay taxes, run a business, and own our home, but after Reform UK's announcement about scrapping or undermining ILR, families like mine are now fearful”

👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 Well done MCB

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

Free-market reformer needs a bailout.

The biggest takeaway I got from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's book the Unaccountabilty Machine was POSIWID. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does," a concept coined by Stafford Beer 1/n

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Again the Mayor of London shows leadership and values in calling out extremism, rather than responding with a tame a bureaucratic claim the proposals are unworkable.

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

This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.

The follow-up post is the best part.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Physics is a subject in which UK universities are world leaders Sadly, our politicians & university senior management are not world leading There is no sustainable funding for a subject that underpins technological advances www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just a cosy little human interest feature chatting to people who went to support a far right racist criminal thug What on earth is the BBC up to?

Moskowitz: "We just heard there were no riots on the right. We're literally sitting in a building where there was a giant riot by supporters of POTUS. We also heard only leftists have said Trump is a Nazi. In 2016, the current VP said 'Trump is either a cynical asshole or he's America's Hitler'"

This is leadership - speaking out and providing reassurance when people are worried This is patriotism - being proud of our country and the people who make it what it is

If Trump wasn't in the Epstein files, Kash Patel would be happy to say so plainly. His evasiveness says plenty.

Farage's Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage: "Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve." Farage has two ex-wives.

This is Trey Reed. He was found hanging from a tree, with broken limbs, at Delta State Uni. Sept 15th, 2025. Local police declared his death suicide, so no further investigation... #treyreed #justicefortrey

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

If we do not act to both celebrate and defend our democracy, rights and rule of law now, this could be the UK by the end of the decade. We've been warned.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Read every word of this thread. Far too many people are not taking seriously the violence that Musk is encouraging.

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

This may be true but this morning a govt minister failed to denounce Robinson when given a chance & said Musk's incitement to violence was "bizarre" & "inappropriate". Bizarre & inappropriate is going to your mates wedding dressed only in your pants. Inciting violence should be condemned.

I still can't get over this dreadful interview. Starmer's statement today needs to be read remembering that No 10 chooses which minister goes on the Sunday interviews and No 10 gives the minister the lines to take. Kyle was literally speaking for the PM and the govt when he said this.

"The Pride of Britain" Fox - Charged under the Sexual Offence act for an upskirt photo on Twitter Hopkins - Detained in South Africa for spreading racial hatred and deported from Australia for breaching Covid Tommy "10 names" Robinson - Serial convict

A lot of us are dragging Clive Lewis for this, but I think he should be taken seriously (also see this from David Renton) open.substack.com/pub/davidren.... There is a big political difference between "a crowd of racists" and "a crowd of people who have been brainwormed into accepting racist ideas"

Urgent deputy leader update: some CLPs told they must have 5% members at nomination meeting. Not required in 2020 nor agreed by procedures cttee. Because GC delegate nominations not allowed, challenging esp for large CLPs esp in person esp at short notice/no warning. One already disqualified.

All the sudden these people believe in content moderation and foreign disinformation!

As I say, it really does demonstrate why political leadership on racism matters - a non-trivial chunk of people will follow where leaders of their big party move. Heath and Wilson proved that in 1968, and Starmer and Badenoch are proving it in 2025.

Not that anyone in politics listens to research, but there is a bucket of research (including some excellent recent studies) which show exactly this. Voters listen to leaders and respond to what they say.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

It took the govt less time to express condolences for the murder of Charlie Kirk - an American racist- than it did for them to comment on a far-right rally in their own country.

Musk incited violence and a govt minister said this was "bizarre" and "inappropriate" No, bizarre and inappropriate is turning up to your mate's wedding only in your pants Calling for political violence is dangerous and to be utterly condemned.

The FT says Musk's comments inciting violence were "denounced" by the minister. They were not "denounced". The minister called them "totally inappropriate" which is what you say when the you ask the bar staff for a pint and it comes in two half pint glasses.

When asked what it said about our country that so many turned up to a TOMMY ROBINSON demo, Peter Kyle said, the first thing it told him was free speech was alive and well. Farage has gone on the record saying he doesn't agree with Tommy Robinson but a Labour govt minister can't say that.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Will be the budget, I think. The duopoly of Starmer-McSweeney not understanding “don’t sack Lucy Powell, a well-liked and impressive organiser”, “don’t blunder into the Epstein row”, “the old right + depressed Blairites is not a sufficiently broad frontbench” will faceplant over child poverty.

Jaw dropping. Did the minister say anything about Elon Musk inciting violence in his live streamed speech to the crowd? Did he say anything about the racist rape of a Sikh woman reported yesterday? Anything about the increase in racist incidents?

The Prime minister told an ethnic minority newspaper, Eastern Eye, in late July that he recognises his responsibility to speak out if the status of minorities in Britain is questioned by a surge in racism

This x 1000 👇🏾

Peter Mandelson briefs the Times that convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein couldn't really have been a paedophile because the girls he paid to have sex with him and his billionaire mates were "mostly" adults

I'd like to know why facial recognition was deemed unnecessary here.

Free speech news

The mistake many will make is to let the far right protestors take all the blame. Yes some are racist, drunk thugs. But they’ve been emboldened by mainstream politicians and media who have profited from racist, anti migrant, anti Muslim narratives. Now they’ll be ‘disgusted’ or distance themselves.

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇