The Kubrick stare is a technique used to portray insane, evil or unstable characters

For no particular reason, here's the Best UK Politics Meme Ever

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Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Also shocking and outrageous is to do this through an amendment at Report stage in the Lords, with no consultation and neither the Lords nor Commons getting a chance to scrutinise it during committee stages. Peers would be very entitled to vote any change down.

Always follow the money.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Ian McShane. 83 today. I met Trevor Horn in our local chippie. Orson Welles had died and so, was I available for a voice-over? youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

Brexit debate hasn't gone anywhere in the past five years. The golf club analogy is probably older. If you stop paying membership fees, you'll be asked to stop using the amenities. It's not punishment. It's how clubs work. The problem is that you thought you might be the exception to the rule.

At this point it does make politics look kinda like a big cosy club right? Like, you can’t fault someone for saying bad things now.

Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.

2 1/2 million in a week. Well done Keir. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This is a real concern. My mate in NHS Occ Health has seen quite a few o/seas frontline NHS workers who were laid low by overwork and stress, and had to take time out. Something which would now likely count against them. Still, no worries, doubtless Australia will accept them gratefully.

A long thread🧵, but well worth reading. All of it.

I truly wish all immigrants could stop work for a week. I don’t think it would take much longer than that to change everything. /endPS

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'The Most Special Agent', the first episode of Joe 90, was originally broadcast on this day in 1968.

imagine being a consultant doctor here and having to go out litter picking to be given your citizenship lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Monday morning. I've got a cold. Sniff sniff sniff. 🙄

Squirrel levitating over the peanuts to protect them from the Blue Jay 🤣 #birds

Come on - whatever you think of Starmer (not much, in my view) this is a non-story, confected nonsense, and a distraction from things which really matter, like his immigration pronouncements and clampdown on dissent.

'In 2023, his foundation gave over £52 million to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has promised another $218 million.' 2025 Tony Blair Institute celebrates as Keir Starmer announces mandatory digital ID cards.

Terry welcomes John Peel and Tony Blackburn to the sofa.

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79. American citizen.

That's not true They're also standing for racists too

Blood on Labour's hands. Keeping safe and legal routes closed is a choice that Starmer and Mahmood make every day. Nobody would die in the Channel if those people could get to Britain by train, ferry or plane instead.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Before getting too excited, check the detail. These are *optional* cards, not mandatory, and after concerns that blocked a serious plan, the system is provided by the state without private company involvement. That would be a scheme even I could back.

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Yet again: to this government and the voters it’s inexplicably trying to appeal to, working in car factories = proper work, working in universities = elitist woke nonsense. And this despite the fact that the vast majority of Labour MPs went to university. Absolutely absurd people.

I think it’s revealing of the current trajectory of the UK political economy that universities are told they will be allowed to go bust despite employing significantly more people than JLR, and being the engine of many local economies.

Young migrant found dead on beach in northern France

Don't look a gift donkey in the mouth etc. (Except that most/all of the potential replacements are pretty hopeless too.)

Not led by donkeys ?

Ponders... 🤔

And same goes for Oracle. Especially in light of Ellison's recent comments on a citizenry subdued by surveillance.

Young woman who rallied for liberties in Iran is now 'looking for freedom' from ICE detention

Useful for them to include the error margin, if that's what the funny line on the bars is. The Greens, Lib Dems and Tories are essentially neck and neck. 🤔

Yes and funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison who gave Blair £257m and is allegedly in line for the contract to run the digital ID system.

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

Really? Why can't they bring back Gordon Brown to replace Rachel Reeves instead? A hugely underrated Chancellor.

This petition has only added 21k in the last hour.

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Actually, this petition is a bit strange. We didn't have ID cards before 2010. What's that about? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...