Some people might say that this joke was predestined to be terrible!

End of a fucking long week. Absolute solidarity with all migrants, but also all those working to find ways to combat the rampant xenophobia and racism of this government and protect migrants' rights. We're all knackered, and unfortunately that's what Labour is banking on.

You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.

The government promised “consultation” on moving the goal posts for those already on track for ILR in 5 years and changing it to 10. This question is that “consultation”. Deliberately poorly phrased. Unclear. Designed to confuse and misguide. Performative deliberate cruelty.

The latest in the Labour move to the right comes in the form of this monstrosity. Pulling out the rug on everyone on a worker (Tier 2) visa who was told they’d have ILR in 5 years. This unfair shift in the goal posts will screw over more than a million people who paid for their visas…

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

A big privilege of working at a school that’s as old as ours is the stories. The legacy. We lost 65 Old Boys in the First World War. Around 150 in the Second World War. Today, especially, we remember them

When all the lovely data centres are built we’ll be able to use ChatGPT 24/7 while we die from dehydration.

My husband is an immigrant. Labour are trying to extend the period to be eligible for ILR from 5 years to 10, costing us thousands of pounds on top of the more than £35k he's already paid to be here in student fees, visa fees and NHS surcharge costs

Turns out democratic socialism can be pretty fucking popular. Who knew?

Dear journalists: if you call me about “mustard gas” based on a sandwich, I’m going to make it my mission in life to embarrass you for decades. STOP CALLING ME OVER THIS ABJECT BULLSHIT

Only people who have only ever known peace and safety; who have zero sense of the chasm that yawns beneath us, would pull stunts like this. Like the generals who plunged us into WW1 because they wanted baubles like their granddads.

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.

Nada, an Oxford plastic surgeon, told me stories of children in Gaza suffering wounds, which without care will lead to life-changing injuries. I pushed the Government to work to establish a humanitarian corridor from Gaza to the West Bank for those injured to access treatment.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Middle aged first world problems. Do not bloody FaceTime on speaker without your headphones on the train. No one else cares that your friends baby is overdue. It’s none of our business.

Farage: epic grifter

These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

A message from the players to all Wednesdayites 🦉

It’s all been about racism, from the start. Not about sovereignty, not about Brussels, not about controlling borders. All about racism. It still is.

Hey who's that on WW2Podcast today? It's @lmbd1418.bsky.social !!! ww2podcast.com/ww2-podcast/...

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies." Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration. #Peston

The US isn't even a proper country anymore. It's just a dozen billionaire donors in a trench coat.

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.

Large crowd in Eugene, OR! #nokings!

#NoKings Miami!

And a regular reminder: #democracy in #Europe stands as long as Ukrainian infantry stands.

The cybertruck is a massive men's rights win. Finally a car that she won't take in the divorce.

A practical case for immigration.

To enter the ballot box is to choose between two visions of Britain. Either the Hate Thy Neighbour politics of Farage/ Jenrick/ Blue Labour - or the Britain you live in and love.

School trip to visit HMS Belfast. Love a bit of Royal Naval nerding with a view

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Miller, basically: "How dare you evil, America-hating communist antifa insurrectionist domestic terrorists call us bad names. And if you scumbag cockroach enemies of the state DO call us bad names, any violence that occurs anywhere in the country is your fault."

Two reasons this is wrong. The most important one is that it’s evil to change the rules on people once they’re already here and have been following all the rules as stated. But also it’s just idiotic and self-destructive to mass deport a couple of hundred thousand care workers.

If Labour supporters are going to insist on this then they need to give us a reason. Why should I help them when they are making the life of my husband exponentially harder because he’s on a visa? No. Labour need to realise they need to earn support. They don’t just get it based on what they’re not

I’d have more confidence had the Home Sec not announced Reform-Lite immigration policies yesterday. So easy to talk tough to conference but Starmer is such a disappointment as PM.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and hangs out with ducks in a duck pond, it’s not an insult to say “you know what? That’s probably a duck”, even if the duck itself objects to being called a duck.

Yup - that “volunteering” and “contributing to your community” has the distinct sound of “we want you to do shit for free for us to prove you’re allowed to stay in this country despite the fact that we will have fleeced you a minimum of £12k for the privilege.”

Stop press! #shabanamahmood fails ‘Life in the UK’ test on both content and language. Speculation rises as to where and when she will be deported.

Last time I checked it’s not “volunteering” if you’re made to do it. I assume everyone will be made to do this? No? So what do we call forced labour with no payment?

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.

This man is ignorant. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle.