Not so long ago the Conservative Party would have seized upon the notion of deporting Ukrainians and Hong Kongers and extracted a heavy political price for it. Instead the position yesterday from CCHQ was that Farage is "once again copying Conservative ideas."

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Morgan McSweeney planning Labour’s 2029 election strategy:

"Prime Minister, what do you think of Nigel Farage's plan to feed all migrants into a wood chipper?" "Well clearly Nigel has not taken into account that existing wood chippers are too small, and he hasn't considered the financial and logistical issues in getting extra-large ones"

Farage saying he will scrap indefinite leave to remain really ought to be (but probably won't be) a wake-up call that there is no such thing as "addressing" or "fixing" immigration, certainly not to an extent that will satisfy the far-right, as they will always just move the goalposts further right

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

"If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel losing his job wait until you hear about [thing we've all been talking about nonstop on here for a year]!" Literally no one here needs to hear this. Bluesky is collectively plugged into current events at a level that probably isn't healthy for its users.

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

Just remembered I put £5 on Man U. Any suggestions on what I can get for £7.50 to cheer me up? NB I don't really drink

COME ON TREV!!!!

So we spend nearly £90 million to bring in Gittens and Garnacho, then leave both on the bench and bring on Tyrique George, who they tried to get rid of in the summer and only failed because they were slow with the paperwork? Absolute shambles of a club

Guys now Mount is on the pitch you really need to not lose this. You cannot let that Judas get a W

Ok I'm pleased to know this is a nightmare and I'm going to wake up any moment now

Should have known Sanchez’s relatively good form would need an appropriate course correction and boy has that been provided 💀

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Didn't even clock that I'd got my first slightly needy text from a deputy leader candidate’s campaign yesterday. Begun this deputy leadership election has

I think Obama very clearly wants to be a party elder on Mount Olympus, keeping his powder dry so when he hurls down a thunderbolt it has the most impact/salience but not exactly surprised to see that strategy crumble if other party leaders aren't pulling their weight

Your Party: *nothing, doesn't exist yet* Everyone involved in Your Party:

Oh hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about

You know what? I can't stay silent on this anymore: I disliked Charlie Kirk. In case anyone from MAGA sees this, my name is Arne Slot and I am the head coach for Liverpool Football Club

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

People should be pretty worried about this bullshit. Antifa is not actually a group and they absolutely know that. That means they are going to be able to stick the label on anyone they don't like and hit them with terror charges.

ah, well

Did Sanchez tell Gusto to fuck off after that goal?

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

Whatever your views on a wealth tax, the guy who wants one and a harder line against racism seems like a more gettable voter for a social democratic party than his "Lizard people in pyramids control the World Economic Forum" (or whatever it is they believe) parents, but what do I know?

I increasingly feel the biggest challenge for left-leaning parties is how to stop people becoming utterly fucking mental.

Blows my mind that there will be people in Downing Street saying "this is definitive proof that we need to be even more socially conservative and make even more empty promises!"

The other day when I said that people sometimes use “Zionist” not to critique an actual ideology but as a code word for “Jew,” a lot of people on here got mad at me.

“Can you imagine a government without Paul Ovenden?”

To paraphrase: "This is bad. If he had to resign for that, what happens if anybody gets hold of MY racist WhatsApps."

The Press decided Biden was senile when he mixed up the similar sounding names of the Mexican President & the Egyptian President. Trump saying that 90% of Americans died last year is fine though.

I think the worst part about the government’s spinelessness in dealing with the far-right is just how alone it makes you feel. The government making it clear that your fear of violent far-right mobs is not important, while the concerns of those mobs are their priority, is a tough pill to swallow

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Oh for goodness sake, Chelsea

Omfg Caicedo and Garnacho, take a fucking bow!!

Garnacho coming on. Well, this should be interesting

The worst possible message emerging in British politics is "We'll tolerate jobless serial criminals if, and only if, they are being racist".

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

Fox News host chats about how to kill the homeless. I must've been radicalised on this platform to think this is not good.

Lost in the discussion of how Charlie Kirk "did politics the right way" are the lives of the two victims assassinated at Florida State University by a member of Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, in April 2025.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

It’s like the ‘identity killer’ sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look: “On one occasion he left a series of unconnected numbers next to the three-letter word ‘MOB’, so we’re looking into the possibility that there may be connections with organised crime”

hahahahaha every day I feel like I'm losing my mind