I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

The Russian military is not stupid: it "has become a military that is capable of both evolving during this war and readying itself for future, high-tech conflicts." They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.

What if China doesn’t invade Taiwan the way we expect?

Former UK Supreme Court President on leaving the #ECHR: “It would be a disaster for Europe… it’s one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation since the Second World War. The Convention put into language the rights everybody ought to have.” 🔗 www.scottishlegal.com/articles/bar...

Remind me, who was it Jack who crushed Weimar Germany's "Antifa" elements? This is the country of Omaha and Utah beaches. That saved western Europe. How has it fallen into this?

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Again, it's really important to understand that anyone who hates theatre, art and academia - three things Britain is still *really bloody good* at making - just hates Britain.

Literally exactly the same arguments were made by people trying to stop Jews arriving 100 years ago.

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

The thing is that even engaging with the issue at its crudest level and looking at long term salary prospects alone, it’s not true. English graduates do, on the whole, fine. The creative sector is a prosperous one. All the cliche reveals is the poverty of Badenoch’s imagination.

Who could possibly have seen this coming.

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

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.

My wider family: we have Irish, Welsh, an Iraqi Jew, Zulu South Africans, a Zimbabwean, English, North Americans, and an Iranian. We all have a hoot & think Nelson was cool, because we love each other and we live in a culture that allows and celebrates that Everyone needs to get their shit together

There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick. At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division. The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

This really needs to be said and understood. What makes it worse, if possible, is that it is not coming out of any genuine crisis or emergency. It is a deliberate attempt to whip up anger and grievance in order to capitalise upon it & in Jenrick's case purely to advance his leadership ambitions.

🚨🚨Just peering over my proofs to a forthcoming entry titled "Criminalisation of sanctions violations in a major #internationalsanctions encyclopedia forthcoming with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by stellar team of Dr @drclaraportela.bsky.social, @mirkosossai.bsky.social & Andrea Charron. 🧵

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges. The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

Everything is horrible, and politics is nothing but a cauldron of despair, but even within this Robert Jenrick sticks out for his unrelenting vileness.

Tory MP Robert Jenrick: “In the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face” Also Tory MP Robert Jenrick: “I was very clear that it’s not about the colour of your skin” #PoliticsLive

Robert Jenrick doubling down on his racism...

As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

"I wasn't being racist when I said that racist thing." Will we be shipping non-white people off to the Oxfordshire countryside because there aren't enough brown faces there, Robert? Or was this, really, about the fact that there were TOO MANY brown faces in what you expected to be a white space?

Can’t wait for @barristersecret.bsky.social to provide reasoned feedback to the grim Jenrick and his judges wig prop .

If you can't call Jenrick a malevolent fuckwit who can you swear at...

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

Truly disgraceful speech being delivered by @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social . Well down the road to fascism. #toryconference

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I mean, he literally said that drill sergeants should be able to get physical with recruits but left it up to their discretion not to get crazy or anything. This guy is the absolute worst.

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition. Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

"If the president tries the same kind of speech he gave last week at the United Nations .. the alarm inside that room will likely grow more palpable." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-to-ex... Quantico Generals Admirals #natsec #law

From Gene Fidell, a prominent specialist in American military law, some hard-headed advice for the Generals who've been summoned to Quantico. www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

The SecDef wants all service commanders and their senior enlisted advisors to come to Quantico on short notice. It’s difficult to understand why. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-qu...

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.