No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism. The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us. The Greens say enough is enough.

Calling out Reform’s racism will ring hollow while Labour offers watered-down versions of their migration policies. We can only prevent a Reform-led government if we do not allow migrants to be scapegoated for problems created by the super rich.

This is Brownhills, where Jenrick was speaking from. About the lack of integration. www.expressandstar.com/news/local-h...

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The thing that is really being "replaced" is money. Things we owned - infrastructure, property, land... - are being handed over to foreigners. That's how we are losing our country Brexit made us poorer and speeded this up. Those selling our country deflect & distract by pointing at brown people.

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad. I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI. It’s destructive to the environment. It’s destructive to artists. It’s destructive to humanity. It steals from us and churns out slop. Just stop.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

They really should. If they had to wear them people would be more informed about what they were voting for. And they might be more careful about who they take money from.

Earth at night viewed from space.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here. Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

Thanks, Donald Trump! Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed at least 55 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn, despite US President Trump’s calls for attacks to cease to secure a ceasefire deal, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/9te3dv

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

So true and as relevant today as it ever was. Such scary times with the toxicity of British politics at the moment

Miller has Fascist Hissy #3 today after another court ruling. This one from a judge appointed by radical left marxist Donald J Trump.

And this is just a small sample of the scams and the grift!

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

The Battle of Cable Street. A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text. 1/ On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street. #TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

Full rainbow tonight over Paris. Extraordinary.

BREAKING: Despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks on Gaza, at least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1zszvd

Great to chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this week on @lbc.co.uk about my new book: VIP Lane & ITV doc: The Covid Contracts The UK wasted £10bn on PPE We were the only country on the planet to set up VIP Lanes during the pandemic Link below👇 📖 ➡️ viplanebook.com 🎥 youtu.be/uB58NJi63Co?...

🔴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

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Thanks so much for this Doc - exactly what Justin was talking about in pub last night (and to be fair he did say he'd seen it somewhere!). It's brilliant x

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“To be honest, I think things are worse now than in 1979,” he says. “Clearly, there was a lot more racial violence then than there is now, but it’s coming back. What’s worse now is that the rhetoric of the extreme far right is not too dissimilar from the rhetoric across the political spectrum.”

It’s not “un-British” to march today. But it is British to protest with sensitivity and empathy. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

Reminder: British voters still don’t know who gave £850k cash for a house in Clacton where Kremlin gobshite r🐀t keeps his slippers next to a suitcase of rubles. #ukpolitics

Kennedy sacks yet another senior scientist from NIH who refuses to back him on his attacks on vaccines and anti science approaches

Comedian goes to Saudi Arabia - and beyond!

Absolutely bizarre. Trump takes credit for a judge blocking HIS OWN PLAN to cut $34 million in funding for counterterrorism in New York.

Stick this in your oil pipe and smoke it Donald Trump.

Diwali on the Square returns next weekend. As division continues to be spread globally, this free, family-friendly, inclusive celebration will once again unite people of all backgrounds in the heart of London. It’s free and everyone is welcome. www.london.gov.uk/events/diwal...

moscow spews Goebbels-style projections daily: “Ukraine invaded russia, NATO plots to attack.” Maybe the West should return the favor and start calling russia weak by choice, indecisive by habit, more worried about polls than national security.

Morning fellas Quote of the day

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.