This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I mean, tbf, being traitorous unpatriotic shills who take Russian money is surely baked into the Reform brand by now

I'm generally quite ambivalent about the concept of ID cards. Sometimes I swing ones way, sometimes the other but the point about the correct context seems very hard to escape. Not for the first time, the UK takes a commonplace idea from elsewhere without really understanding why we're doing it...

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember so many polls being done about who would win a general election if it were held tomorrow at any other point when it was four years out from a GE ? Who is commissioning these polls? What is their purpose? Justification for wall to wall Farage coverage maybe?

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The sheer hypocrisy of this. You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election. I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis. I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers". The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland

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Brilliant! 🏆

I know this is not the most important point but there's must be millions of Tylenol images out there. Why does anyone need to generate a crap AI one just to slap some vaguely amusing text over it? To be clear, there is no suggestion @edwardarowe1.bsky.social created the image ...but someone did.

That's not OK!

Per John Stuart Mill in his Chapters on Socialism, the three main sources of wealth are luck, vices like "hard-hearted, cold-fisted selfishness" and sycophancy, and "downright knavery."

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

The rapture!

To be fair to Nigel, the safety of Tylenol lacks the unimpeachable and exhaustive scientific basis he normally demands from say, a wildly erroneous CPS figure for how much immigrants "cost" the UK that was so embarrassingly dumb even the authoring think tank withdrew it.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

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TRUMP: HAS HE CHANGED POLICY ON UKRAINE? Marco Rubio and JD Vance have both echoed the same sentiment: That Trump lost patience with Russian intransigence over ending the war and that he recognises it’s hurting Russia. The phrasing of that approach interesting because it shows Trump’s concern is

Nice to the the Lib Dems getting coverage again. A rare treat in this media environment. One notable missed opportunity: rightly pointing out that LDs would get slaughtered for openly suggesting they might get into gov't but missing the opportunity to explore why Reform get a free pass on that.

This is Paul Alexander, one of the last people who had to spend most of his day in an iron lung. He died in 2024. Vaccination meant others didn't get infected with polio. Vaccinations work. youtu.be/gplA6pq9cOs?...

I think the difficulty we face is that data is no longer persuasive (if it ever was). People no longer fear the diseases because we don't have constant reminders of what they can do; the longer it goes on, the easier it becomes to fear the vaccine more than the disease. Antivax starts with fear...

Yay. Let's give the claims more airtime and broadcast them to a population that has been gaslit into mistrust of the very expertise we're using to challenge the claims. What can possibly go wrong?!

'Today, Nigel Farage said that all mice are gay and they're from space. We ask experts whether there is any truth in the claims'.

The evidence in favour of 20 mph speed limits is overwhelming, cheaper insurance, less emissions, less car crashes, it saves the NHS, Police and councils money. But Gary from Port Talbot's commute now takes 42 minutes instead of 40 so it simply must go.

Well, that's one way to liven up the evening... 😳

When this Hard Right insurgency eventually runs out of steam and gets put back in its box, there needs to be a full public enquiry into the media's role in stoking the fires. It won't happen though, because eyes will then inevitably turn to the role mainstream politicians played in it.

By saying he trusts Andrew Tate or a taxi driver over experts, Nigel Farage flatters his audience and pushes the idea that how something feels matters more than whether it’s true. He wants people to value projected authenticity over accuracy. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Even if diplomacy limits governing parties, if non-governing UK and European pro-democracy parties had any cojones, they’d be running attack ads of Trump’s UN speech saying “This is who [domestic far-right party or party leader] is supported by and wants to be like here.”

A nationalist utterly colonised by foreigners.

we really do need to worry about what Reform might to do to our medicines and vaccine regulation if they get into power christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-vulner...

I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story. That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.

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As I was saying…

This makes a lot of sense. Philosophically, liberalism has never sat comfortably on the economic axis that defined C20th politics or the social one defining C21st politics. A party built on liberalism struggles to define itself in those terms but comes into its own as the very antithesis of fascism.

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Dear US Evangelicals, You're still here. That means either it's all bullshit or you aren't real Christians...

To answer @mrjamesob.bsky.social, Charles should send Andrew on a trade mission to the US to get him out of the way and where I'm sure he'll enjoy all of the Epstein coverage...

Honestly America, you've got an absolute fucking moron for President being advised by a heroin addict telling you not to give your kids the medicine that has helped kept you alive all this time. Sort it out cheers.

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Major policies that have impact on life and death “based on what I feel”. Even the Taliban base their views on an illusory (in my view) higher power. Trump is completely primitive.