Great observation and good thread this. You would lose part of what makes the British Traitors British if the class divisions didn’t play out so sharply *but* the final episode would feel less brutal if they only let rich people play for charities.

I honestly wish that cancel culture was real. I want to live in a world where racism is completely taboo and any expression of racism leads to genuine material consequences and social ostracisation

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

I'm all here for Radiohead tracks on #Strictly. That was epic!

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Today, Nigel Farage is proposing a Bill for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. I will be voting against Farage and his disgusting politics that attack human rights and freedoms.

It's getting hard to keep track of these expulsions, defections, and suspensions...

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

The Lib Dems have tabled a censure motion, calling on Parliament to rebuke Sarah Pochin’s racist remarks and for Nigel Farage to withdraw the whip. Lib Dems urge the Govt & Tories to back the motion, saying "it’s about time the Conservative Party stood up for British values of decency & tolerance.”

Keir Starmer, "Shocking racism (from Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin) and it's the sort of thing that will tear our country apart" "And it tells you everything about Reform UK"

Farage is asked about another two of his MEPs, who made the same pro-Russia statements that Nathan Gill has now pled guilty to being bribed to make. "Opinions are opinions." Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him. Hmm. 🤔 ~AA

Honestly, I had been expecting this. But it still makes me feel so deeply sad, for someone like her to be taken advantage of AGAIN, by yet another group of men.

Farage: epic grifter

The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

LibDem MP Josh Babarinde

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

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Both Cons and Reform policy is to deport almost all foreign-born nurses who are not citizens! including those who are permanent residents now who arrived before 2019! Reform will exempt EU nationals here before Brexit but say they want to kick out anyone not earning £60k Tories: same, but at £38k

Absolutely bloody epic. I adore this band. #thelastdinnerparty #livemusic

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is excellent news - these bet shops ruin lives. Fred Done is saying 7,500 jobs are at risk. He could give each of those employees £100,000 and still have at least £250m left.

Reading a book from the university library and found this

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence… The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Because of course he is. 🤮

And we are too busy burning the planet with AI, ripping each other apart and killing each other to do anything about it.

New post just out: The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed. In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

A better answer: replace stamp duty with a smarter tax, that's fairer, doesn't discourage people from moving, and can't be avoided. I'll be writing more about that at the weekend.

One Small Step: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch, a leader unconstrained by reality.

Robert Jenrick quoted from his Mail on Sunday article in August 2025: "I certainly don't want my children to share a neighbourhood with men from backward countries" He's very, very racist. #bbcpm

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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.

Exciting developments in solar. Just read this fascinating FT article on perovskite solar panels – the next-gen innovation that's lighter, more flexible, and up to 20% more efficient than traditional silicon ones. Imagine panels turning everyday surfaces into power generators

Something significant people might have missed on Nathan Gill’s indictment for bribery… “conspired with Oleg Voloshyn, and with others” Maybe sentencing in November will make this clearer www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

Are Reform UK getting donations from a tax exile - or has this guy just failed to fulfil his promise to leave the UK? (As most of them do). Via Private Eye:

Here's Farage saying that he would 'pick up a rifle' - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

The only political party whose policies are in line with the recommendations made by Praxis. Lib Dems close. Everyone else miles away and actively working against our charitable objectives.

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

I was so distracted during my run today. Absolute scenes. #autumn