I asked this question because I think whether the government acts to mitigate this possibility is key to whether it can pass this policy

Their majority came directly from a huge popular vote AGAINST years of right wing governments... and their takeaway is that we want the hostile environment we actively rejected. Utter deluded fuckwits.

"It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks our institutions, our media, and the pockets of millions.” @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.

If Shabana Mahmood wants to talk about what's 'tearing Britain apart', let's start with billionaire tax evasion, the cost of living crisis, overflowing prisons, sewage spilling into rivers and streets full of people sleeping rough

It’s apologising season. The audience for BBC output in the US is just over 40 million, not 77 million as I said. That’s the figure for the Americas as a whole. But the BBC is indeed the second most trusted news source in the US.- later.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

What will Mike Johnson's new excuse be for not swearing in Grijalva?

These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest. They don't need to be in these positions anymore. They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage. Demand more and better, folks.

The corruption never ends

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

🤣This guy does these impressions so good! Trump swears so many Black folks love him. Just one of many lies from that fucking bigot.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Imagine being so infused with wokeness that you actually believe children should not be deprived of food by the depraved. If you think children don’t deserve to eat, GFY. #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1

This is the sad simple truth ⤵️

This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected. An act of self-preservation. If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago. They didn't. www.ft.com/content/a7d6...

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles de Gaulle

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Labours admission on brexit being a disaster: The equivalent of seeing your kitchen on fire but deciding to just go and watch the TV instead of dealing with it, because it was your racist neighbour that started the fire and you don't want to upset him.

The report—titled “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime”—was authored by Francesca Albanese, the UN’s human rights expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It accuses the UK Government, under Starmer’s leadership, of playing a “key role in military collaboration with Israel”.

The bombshell report from the UN’s human rights expert on the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, says that the government lied about spy flights over Gaza being about hostage rescue, that the UK played “a key role in military collaboration with Israel."

Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide. The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵

Are the right ok? This is next level of "journalistic* " slop. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Local government isn’t “boring bureaucracy.” It’s social care, housing, libraries, leisure centres, youth clubs. When these vanish, communities fracture – and people notice. When local government breaks, so does trust in politics itself.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I realise you're a very busy man but please could you create a "starter pack"?

The old political duopoly is dead. Both the Tories and Labour are polling consistently below 20%. Reform are killing the Tories and the Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid are taking the progressive vote away from Labour. New progressive alignments are needed and most of all we need a fair electoral system.

This isn’t just an ‘obvious stupid racist thing’ 🙄 if you don’t see the enormity of a senior opposition MP coming out with stuff Nick Griffin would have been embarrassed to say then you’re not paying attention. Starmer had plenty of time to team up with Tommy Robinson against West Midlands Police 🤬

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames. Reported just 12 minutes ago. Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks. Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.

Happening now in Gaza!!!!

7 million people joined together & marched in the USA No Kings Protest making it the largest in American history! While other countries joined in our movement such as 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇦🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇵🇦🇵🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧🇦🇺🇩🇰🇮🇸🇻🇬🇳🇱🇯🇵 & many more It is not about the people in power. It’s about POWER of the PEOPLE! #DefendersOfDemocracy

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Portland, Oregon. #NoKings

As the richest guy in the world, Musk could leave one hell of a legacy. He could solve world hunger or build Carnegie-like centres of knowledge. Be the kinda guy whose name lives on for all the right reasons Instead he's chosen to stoke race hate, wreck twitter and appoint himself Wanker of the Age

This makes no sense. 1. Brexit is at least two things: Being out of the EU and being out of the Single Market. 2. Both of these can be reversed. 3. To blame a reversible problem for your harmful economic decisions, while still refusing to reverse that problem, is the behaviour of a fool.

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random. It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing. Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

Linus is right. Release the Epstein files!