Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.

Today, Trump claimed not to know who Peter Mandleson is. An obvious & egregious lie but one which highlights why the regime is so keen to silence anyone telling the truth. On the current trajectory, he will soon be able to claim that he's never heard of Melania without any pushback at all.

A powerful post written by a doctor at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9. The government simply must step up. It cannot be only left to Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats and the other smaller parties to speak up against this racism.

There’s really no reason any UK government accounts should still be active on Twitter. Its owner has openly called for the overthrow of the government.

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

Two time divorcé and right-wing extremist Nigel Farage opines on stable families, LOL.

Ed Davey is calling for this too

Done. By the way.

I have reported to Police Please report him as well Leader of ukip (Nick Tenconi) making a Nazi salute and dancing to a far right disco tune outside asylum seeker hotel yesterday Search for "report a hate crime" I have prepared a cut and paste report. Here it is 👇 sharetext.io/127aefb8

I stand with Diane Abbot. A white man (starmer) banning a black woman BC she dares to define racism as an exclusive black person experience is really the highest form of racism. #IstandWithDianeAbbot

"If you look at what Boris Johnson did, I'm not advocating it, he just took the whip away from 25 Tories and had done with it. Now I'm guessing from your facial expression, you wouldn't go that far" Starmer: "No... disciplining people to be united is going nowhere"

"Even when [Glasgow] was the second city of the British Empire, affluence had never softened it because the wealth of the few had become the poverty of many. The many had survived... & made the spirit of the place theirs. Having survived affluence, they could survive anything." William McIlvanney

Rees articulates 12 warnings from the rise of the Nazis: spread conspiracy theories, use them & us, lead as hero, corrupt youth, connive with elite, attack human rights, exploit faith, use enemies, eliminate resistance, escalate racism, kill at a distance, stoke fear. Trump's ✔️✔️

Wes Streeting has bagged another £58,000 from sources connected to the private health sector since taking over at the health department. But what do his backers expect in return? goodlaw.social/lvf8

"We claimed the right to freedom of speech in this democracy for ourselves, and above all expectations our appeal was heard." Goebbels, 1930. Quoted in Rees (2025), p 103.

Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who previously sat on the health select committee, called on the government to “overhaul its procurement processes before another disastrous contract is signed with Palantir.”… democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

Sliding doors: imagine how things would be now had Rebecca Long-Bailey and Rory Stewart won their respective leadership races 5/6 years ago.

No, this isn't the US. This is the UK. The police have their man - Sir Oswald Muesli - in Number 10, and they come up with this terrifying perversion of existing law to further remove human rights. Starmer is already implementing and encouraging fascism. #FuckLabour observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Call me a hypersensitive Jew, but Starmer’s “island of strangers” comment immediately reminds me of British turn-of-the-C20th antisemitic rhetoric grounded in the Wandering Jew trope. It formed part of a racist moral panic then, and it does the same job now albeit largely against different groups.

A favourite photo, worth putting up today: I took it at the end of two weeks in Charing Cross Hospital after a major operation. Both here and not featured are/were folk I adored from the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Somalia, Italy, Slovenia, Antigua, Poland, Nigeria... Island of Strangers, pah.

Don't blame the advisors. Don't blame the speech writers. Starmer is a barrister. He is a KC. He knows how to work the rhetoric. He knows what he's delivered. This is deliberate provocation. But, why?

Not surprised by white paper on immigration. There's a long history of restrictive Acts by both Cons & Lab. What is curious is Starmer's use of DELIBERATELY provocative language, I suspect to assuage faragists while 'owning the libs' on the left. He MEANS to create division. This is populism.

This is what satire is meant to be: bitter, cutting, furious. Starmer deserves every enraged word of it.

Fuck P̶o̶w̶e̶l̶l̶ Starmer & his sickening vitriol. Support a charity that stands unapologetically with some of the most vulnerable & marginalised in our society. Support a charity that proudly says 'AYE WELCOME REFUGEES'. Support @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social ❤️🫶 www.justgiving.com/page/amy-mci...

My wife is an immigrant. And she's a GP. Without immigration there would not be a single doctor at the practice where she works. Go to hell, Starmer.

Was Starmer’s speech this morning racist? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

Forget about “Island of Strangers”, this country risks being an island of over 90s if Starmer goes the reform way on immigration

I migrated to UK when I was 20. Had lots of jobs, got through university, became a professor eventually. Spent time in the senior civil service, doing science policy. Paid quite a bit of tax. I would like to apologise to Keir Starmer for the incalculable harm I have done to our country.

My husband has been employed since he arrived in the UK, paying UK taxes & NI, but until he got permanent residency he had to pay extra to use the NHS. New applicants will have to pay extra to use the NHS for 10 yrs despite paying UK tax & NI. How dare Starmer say they're damaging the UK.

So they’ll be deporting any UK-born citizens who fail A-level English, then. Right?

The “strangers” now to me are Labour Party leaders. I used to admire and support Labour politics as a force for social justice and humanity. It is heartbreaking to know that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social no longer represents my values. 1/n www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

IOW #starmer is not only stupid and spiteful, he is completely out of touch with the electorate. guess what will happen at the next general election...

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

How nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !

UK government lied about sending weaponry to Israel. substack.com/@palestinede...

Ben Wallace has a left-field plan to get Trump under control... …Threaten to nationalise his golf courses.

Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, is on trial accused of attempting to eliminate competitors and maintain monopolistic control of the social media industry through its purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp

An obscure office of the federal government that NASA has relied on to safely land astronauts on the moon and robotic probes on Mars is facing pressure by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to cut its tight-knit team by at least 20%, people familiar with the mandate said.

Don MacKinnon is one of more than 1,400 complex surgical patients on a waiting list at the Orthopedic Surgery Centre, or OSC, a 56-bed stand-alone clinic operated by Alberta Health Services at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

Scottish councils hit with over £500 million bill for PFI deals. PFI (Private Finance Initiative) and PPP (Public Private Partnerships) schemes were brought in by the Tories in the 1990s and expanded on by Tony Blair’s Labour Government. www.thenational.scot/news/2506966...

🚨 Conservative Peer Helped Firm He Held Shares in Land £58 Million Covid PPE Contract Newly-released documents reveal the peer also helped a “generous and loyal supporter” of the Conservative party secure another £93 million PPE contract bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/c...

Um... Peer who led government NHS review failed to declare shares in health firms Lord Darzi’s undeclared interests in four companies included $500,000 of shares in US-based healthcare venture. Starmer's 'changed' Labour party ARE going to privatise the NHS. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A government minister was asked if he could live on £70 a week. It was while he was defending the government's onslaught against disabled people. @torstenbell.bsky.social's response was beyond belief.

Yeah, don’t think I’ll be travelling to the United States anytime soon!

There's something very Cromwellian, very Roundhead, about Starmer, is there not? I really don't think I'd be surprised if he cancelled Christmas or Yuletide for safety's sake.

Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail. He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his ‘Patriotism’.