when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

London is also diverse. It's hugely multicultural, and it's a largely tolerant and welcoming place. Sure it has it's problems and the housing crisis is a big one. But the haters don't hate this city because of that. They hate it because it stands as living proof that multiculturalism works.

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

There were plenty of Nazis against Hitler too. Still fucking Nazis though.

Leaving aside that none of these political questions are any of CBSA's business and that declaring your personal support for Israel is not a legal requirement to enter Canada, I feel like this part is even more absurd given that said *95 YEAR OLD* also happens to be Jewish

Just a reminder for those who are now on MTG’s side, the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. They could just both be utter evil.

I completely disagree with the headline. Only in politicians’ heads is migration the issue they think it is. Maybe if they spent the same amount of time investing in citizens so that their lives improved, the whingeing of the populists would fall on deaf ears.

Enthusiastically entering into a competition to be shitty to foreigners is absolutely not why I voted Labour in 2024.

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's the logical end point of the duhumanisation of asylum seekers. They're not seen as people with agency, but as problems other countries / nefarious forces are dumping on us

Also, in the course of other atrocities in Yemen, his forces bombed a *school bus full of kids* with a U.S. PGM.

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Immigrants and migrants throughout the ages have been a wonderful addition to our our vibrant and cosmopolitan society.

No one would risk the sea in a dinghy unless there's no other choice. The media spreading the hatred & propaganda have blood on their hands. A campaign for safe routes would stop people heading into the water. (Alt text of the image/headline for anyone who needs it👇)

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

Oh my

Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

Team effort I’d like to think, but he would have got the flack if it hadn’t worked. youtu.be/hbR9-etyN6I?...

Remember my history teacher playing this scene in class as a depictions of "going over the top" That scene is unironically one of the best depictions of the pointless waste of human lives that WW1 was, regardless of it's actual accuracy.

Gotta say, Shabana Mahmood, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman have all confirmed my lifelong policy of having very few, heavily vetted desi women friends as sound. Far too many of the 'go to the parents' & 'sidle up to authority' types to trust them right off the bat.

A separate point but if I used “how much is this upsetting members of my party” as my only measure of a policy’s quality, I would simply start asking myself if I was maybe in the wrong party

Go on, Home Office, I DARE you. Remove the citizenship of a multiple gold medal winner for the UK. Lose all the immigrants you coopted to play sports for you and cover you with glory because guess what? You can't do anything yourself - not care for your elders, run your NHS, or place in sports.

People will do ANYTHING rather than read a book

Maurice Glasman celebrated Donald Trump's victory and MAGA; he also suggested Labour should make common cause with EDL. @labouruk.bsky.social needs to put him where he belongs - with Reform.

Blue Labour is the biggest scam: when they are not (able to) govern, they talk about their radical ‘tradition’, and when they are in government, they are just slightly more socially conservative Blairites.

'PPE graduates' is a sick burn from someone who *checks notes* studied history at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and became a political theory professor

The founder of Blue 'Labour' who is really just a *checks notes* Tory even Maggie Thatcher wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

So what happens next? Trump has given an implicit extension to his deadline: until "probably sometime next week." There will be pressure on BBC bosses to make a further concession. Perhaps there will be panic, or political interference. This is what Trump is good at, a master of his craft. >

Look at @wikipedia.org demanding money, claiming we're 'protecting knowledge' by donating while it quietly bends the knee to fascism. 3 years ago, the 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' rightly had the abolitionist lyrics. Today, those lyrics are gone b/c Wiki is scared. Amurrica. No money for you.

95 percent of Nuzzi's reputation for being 'brilliant' or 'talented' was cultivating a mean girl image that the dumbest people in media are suckers for.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

look we have fun on here going back and forth with our cousins across the pond but "i don't think the uk is a friend to this country" is one that should get you tossed off into the pacific

I am holding Spelling Bee not allowing 'alkene' - a perfectly legitimate scientific *common* noun - against it forever.

If you want shoulders covered and shorts past the knee, you need to say that. If you want no cuss words on clothes, you need to say that. If you want nothing that could be perceived as demonic imagery, you need to remove half the grotesques from your own building and THEN say that

I do personally believe that churches have the right to set dress codes for visitors, including tourists. But those should be set based on “what is respectful to the religion as practiced here” and not “what does a given security guard think might scare tourists”

Spain already welcomes migrants, recognising that with an ageing population, it desperately needs then. As a result its economy is booming. Labour says it wants economic growth but is increasingly hostile to migrants. Economic madness. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Gotta love how Tories & Labour use brown women to implement their racist, xenophobic agendas - don't have any illusions, Shabana. This isn't about you being capable or earning it, this is optics, so it's not seen as WP doing it. You're just Priti/Suella w/ a different label. Get a moral compass.

I am excited to see the gilt market reaction to this news. Think it could be quite bad. A big chunk of the recent gilt rally was predicated on Labour showing they could hike the big taxes if needed and….well I guess that idea is dead.

I love how Americans believe they're such revolutionaries and imagine they'll stand up to tyranny, but they're such adolescent cowards and cave the second it shows up.

It's even worse than that - Truss had something she was trying to do, a vision of how the country could be different. Admittedly it was batshit, but at least she believed in it. Keir Starmer barely seems to believe he's PM.

The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.

Yup. Started a loooooong time ago when treating others with respect was derided by assholes who called it "Political Correctness"

The silver lining to the current moment is demonstrating to all the skeptics that, yes, there really are this many creeps out there.

NYT is doing me a favour by blocking archive websites. It means I don't have to read full versions of it's simpering drivel any more. *Heads over to the BBC for better cover of the Epstein emails*