Wholly unsurprising that racists refuse to say that other racists are racists.

I spent yesterday with my 96yo father who lives in a care home not far from Katie Lam’s constituency. His carers are overwhelmingly from South Asia or Africa who have I hope IRL. They look after him brilliantly. 1/

This is Mick Barton, the cost-cutting Deform leader of Nottinghamshire Council. He's planning to spend £75k on flags on lampposts across the county because it will “provide a feel good factor”. Not SEND services, not youth clubs, not even pot holes. Deform are not safe with your money.

Official numbers of prison releases in error. See the pattern? See on whose watch the system began to fall apart?

At last! A BBC news report that managed to point out the prisons are in such a state that there have been over 200 accidental releases this year. The reason for this? The Tories came close to crashing the criminal justice system altogether.

I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Very much looking forward to the front page headlines in the right wing press about the word “enemy” being removed from evidence in the China alleged spying case UNDER THE TORIES.

"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

The govt’s approach to the grooming gangs inquiry is so half-hearted, confused and unfocussed that this morning, for the first time in my life, I found myself agreeing with the appalling Robert Jenrick. Can there be a more damning indictment of a govt than it being wrong and Jenrick being right?

If a Labour government with 400 seats which has nailed its colours to the masts of planning reform and the green transition can't steam roller people like this and their ridiculous selfish BS objections, then what on earth is the point of it?

Man, I miss living in times where bombing a fishing boat in distress would have triggered an investigation and consequences instead of a smirking “what are you gonna do to stop us?”

😏 Private Eye

‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee

At a time when the criminal justice system in this country is on its knees, when victims are having to wait years for justice and when defendants who might be innocent are under a cloud of suspicion for years, hundreds, probably thousands, of court hours are to be spent prosecuting people for

Will somebody please explain how “Nobel Peace Prize” can be mentioned in the same breath as the name of a US President who has ordered the murder of nearly 30 people on boats in international waters on the grounds that there is said to be intelligence that they are drug smugglers?

Trump’s role in halting Gaza’s suffering was driven by self-interest. Will that be enough for him to finish the job? | Kenneth Roth

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

One has to worry about American diplomacy when Witkoff praises the UK’s “vital role” in the Gaza peace deal while Huckabee says Bridget Phillipson was “delusional” for suggesting any such thing. It seems unusual, even under Trump, for a US ambassador to refer to a UK minister as “delusional”.

Shocked beyond measure. Max Kendix: Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending. 1/

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

The Tories need to stop mimicking Trump. It won’t help them. "One only has to look at Trump’s America to see what happens when a government, led by a narcissist with an authoritarian bent, decides that he is more powerful than any court of law" https://bit.ly/3L1y8LX

Nobel peace prize for Trump? He wasted months trying to find a way to make money out of the horror in Gaza. Only thought seriously about peace when Qatar was attacked. Then came up with a plan v similar to Biden’s, that stands a chance now not cos of Trump but cos Israel’s entering election year.

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

Bondi also wouldn’t answer whether she’d seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged they’d seen. She must resign.

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

What a surprise! After 14 years of Tory government there’s nothing left for local authorities to cut.

Why is none of this Trump lunacy reported by UK mainstream media?

Is there a little known Amendment to the US Constitution that prevents members of the press from asking the President tough and follow up questions? A "What the f*ck are you on about?" a "Why do you lie all the time?" or a "Are you bonkers?" would be very welcome.

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When these two are such cosy chums it’s a sure sign that autumn is making its presence felt.

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

According to Farage, calling racists racists imperils their safety. Free speech? As if he cares.

The terrifying thing about this is that in the USA “enemies of our country” will soon come to mean “people Trump doesn’t like.”

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

Ex-Reform Wales leader Gill has just pleaded guilty for doing exactly this. ⬇️ Will anyone in the UK media ask Farage a few questions on his next week of media rounds? Thought not. Boat based Belly tickles incoming. bsky.app/profile/nick...

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

So yes, UKIP/Brexit/Reform are all largely the same party Brexit/Reform is literally the same party Yes, Gill was very much Farage’s guy in Wales The bribes happened during his time as Brexit party MEP with Farage This is 100% Reform’s man 12/14

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m often told that they had to stop midnight masses on Christmas Eve in my home town because of the number of drunks that would wander in and spout nonsense before being evicted. I wonder will the UN General Assembly survive this.

Who’s going to tell him that it’s time to go? Imagine if Biden had rambled on like this.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

I keep wondering how Trump would have been portrayed on Spitting Image and whether it would have caused a Diplomatic Incident.

Genuine question : has any previous President of the USA openly said, as Trump did at the Charlie Kirk memorial event, “I hate my opponents”? To me it seems astonishing, but maybe I’m just a drippy left wing liberal softie. Or maybe Trump is the least suitable person ever to have been President.

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Farage and his ilk will claim to deplore this, but they are the ones fanning the flames.

“I forgive Charlie’s killer, because the answer to hate is love” says Mr Kirk’s widow. “I hope he gets the death penalty” says Trump.