The kind of mindset that considers the deaths of untold numbers of people an efficiency saving.

“Forward Joe Soap's army, marching without fear, with our old commander, safely in the rear".

If daffodils could talk, these ones would have a few choice words.

Keep repeating. Most people are instinctively kind.

You don't want to hope too much but they are falling apart. Too many unvetted people who don't understand politics.

Strong sense that we're getting somewhere here. But these proposals are some of the most extreme anti-immigrant policies we've seen in decades. They'll need to be watered down very much indeed if they're to be even remotely tolerable.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid, we shouldn't be rewarding Donald Trump with this state visit" "Truth is, Trump has insulted our country, insulted our troops, undermined our economy with tariffs, and this illegal war with Iran which is putting up people's petrol prices, energy bills and mortgage costs"

The thing I can’t forgive America for is that there’s no particular hidden matter with this man. He overtly talks like a rapist and revels in his corruption and thuggery.

"The UK spent 75 years building something genuinely worth having: a track record of successful integration. And now a Labour government plans to blow it all up". This is a devastating account of the human impact of Labour's brutal policy proposals.

As of end‑December 2025, Ethiopia hosted an estimated 1.12 million refugees and asylum‑seekers, primarily from South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan. There are no safe or legal routes to U.K. who have cut overseas aid again to host countries of refugees

World witnesses unspeakable horrors. International community creates framework of international law to ensure such horrors never re-occur. Labour - LABOUR - minister suggests the creators of that framework were pursuing fairytales. There are lots of words for how this makes me feel.

"The UK spent 75 years building something genuinely worth having: a track record of successful integration. And now a Labour government plans to blow it all up". This is a devastating account of the human impact of Labour's brutal policy proposals.

No doubt this will happen here. And then give it approximately a month after post-war oil supplies are back to normal (if they ever are), and a whole array of politicians and pundits will accuse civil servants who work from home of being slackers.

I wish this monstrous edifice the fate of one of Saddam’s palaces, which it so resembles. www.ft.com/content/610e...

It’s a high-scoring thriller but Scotland still leading Wales 5-3. This could go to the wire.

Reminiscent of ‘No Deal’ days again. ‘If we don’t get what we want, we’ll make our own electorate suffer’.

it's come to this ... on its 250th anniversary, America is now begging the Royal Navy to help out.

Has there ever been a worse attack line than criticising the PM for chairing a Cobra meeting.

World witnesses unspeakable horrors. International community creates framework of international law to ensure such horrors never re-occur. Labour - LABOUR - minister suggests the creators of that framework were pursuing fairytales. There are lots of words for how this makes me feel.

"How we treat the most vulnerable among us, those with no power, no vote, no army, no lobby, is the clearest measure of what our values actually are, as distinct from what we say they are".

‘Don’t call me stupid’

Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

I woke at 5am this morning, distressed about the dangers to children lives as a result of 🇮🇱's new death penalty law. Had to write down my thoughts and fears. 🙏🏼 To @bellacaledonia.bsky.social for publishing so urgently. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Has a responsibility to uphold #childrensrights not just here but everywhere 📢

I dream of war crimes tribunals

This, on what the war means for us all, in plain English, is by far the best thing I’ve heard. Highly recommend it.

Truss well on course to nab ‘least charismatic traitor-in-the-making’ award for the third year running.

UK is now refusing entry to students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cameroon and Sudan because it now calls their right to claim asylum ‚an abuse‘. This contravenes the Refugee Convention.

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

“Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children”

'Reducing child poverty in England would require spending that might unsettle the Tory swing voters Labour need to hold power under FPTP'. Devastating critique of the pernicious effects of First Past the Post on all of us across the UK, by Stuart Donald. www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

The Government needs to back track rapidly - this is a profound mistake. It’s clearly not been thought through. At all. Again. Even by the cruelty measures of the Government (eye watering Aid cuts; ending family reunion) so favoured as deterrent (for which there is no evidence), it makes no sense.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

I do sometimes wonder how Reform are going to cope with all that defeat.

Shabana Mahmood should be made to read this over and over until she finds her humanity again.

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

This reminds me of when you travel in a developing country and they have different rates for locals and foreigners. Feels like a sign of severe economic decline. Also, let's be real here. We basically nicked all this shit. The least we can do is let them see it for free.

“El Fasher represents a moral and political failure of the international system designed to prevent genocide”. Truly one of the most harrowing things I have ever read. But it needs to be read.

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

This is vey welcome www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Missed this at the time, but this is so good in capturing that generalised sneer directed by some in Labour towards parties who dare to sound more progressive than them. At the Glasman/Mahmood extreme, of course, that sneer is extended to progressives in their own party too.

Even though it’s ugly to read I think publishing offensive remarks at the heart of a scandal is the only way you can understand the scandal. Euphemisms and paraphrases whitewash the offence

These comments have no place in Scottish society. They are typical of the prejudice spouted by Reform. Malcolm Offord and his ilk are unfit for office.

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride attacks the supposed "utterly misguided net zero obsessions" of the energy secretary Ed Miliband. Hard to see any difference between Reform and Tory rhetoric (or indeed much on policy) right now on climate. Both parties are desperate for replays on GB News.

Orbán is the most pathetically obviously corrupt little quisling - he’s almost a caricature of an autocrat clinging onto power. That this is the guy they’re going to bat for should embarrass everyone involved.

Today is the day Israel and Iran united in calling the American President a liar.

"By definition they're going to be instincts people". That's how Offord explains some Scottish Reform candidates' behaviour on this @mrjamesob.bsky.social clip. But the question isn't whether they're instincts people. It's what those instincts are. He knows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Cy...

Senior Reform UK members are reportedly exploring a US-style executive order approach to government. @sirjjkc.bsky.social examines whether government by executive order is a plausible model for the UK www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

"By definition they're going to be instincts people". That's how Offord explains some Scottish Reform candidates' behaviour on this @mrjamesob.bsky.social clip. But the question isn't whether they're instincts people. It's what those instincts are. He knows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Cy...

Fair enough. The ideological capture of supermodels is also why I had so much trouble dating then in my 20s.

Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "Trump is someone who will set the world on fire and then blame smoke caused by that. He has been wrong for 18 days of war. I urge everyone to call him out"