I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

I knew there were going to be some horrendous takes throwing blame for yesterday's terrorist attack and trying to use it as a political weapon. I was actually surprised, maybe I shouldn't have been, that the Home Secretary took less than a day to get involved.

The Chief Rabbi using a deadly terrorist attack to talk about the "unjustified demonisation of Israel" (just for doing a genocide!) is really dangerous

I'm going to be honest, while I know exactly why these people are doing it, I genuinely think their strategy of associating Jewish people *specifically* with the ongoing Palestinian genocide is a horrendous strategy that will imperil the safety of ordinary Jews in the long term.

It's one of the definitions of antisemitism to erase the distinction between Jewish people and Israel. To talk about "humanity" whilst using antisemitic murders as a bludgeon to try and silence protest against a genocide is something else.

does no-one stop to think how insane it is to suggest it’s dishonourable to the memory of two murder victims to protest the blockade of relief for a man-made famine

More chaos for Reform in Wales - after their former leader was convicted of pro-Russia bribery

There is one job in media that *really* pays. Reactionary grifter whose entire purpose is to launder the most unhinged views of the right in a format that makes them appear centrist and legitimate. From Rogan to Weiss it's the easiest cash in town.

From social media to cloud computing it's about time Europe got its arse into gear and started hosting things itself. Because even the best silicon valley has is being bathed in toxic American tech bro culture every day and we need to plan a future fee of it.

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

She's *so* bad at this. There is no massive demographic of brits who believe Climate Change is a hoax and is waiting to be tapped into by the Tories. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a spokesman for BrewDog said 'this is the one thing we didn't want to happen'

Thinking of the families of the people killed in this awful antisemitic attack, all the worse for it being on one of their holiest days.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

False claims - including this one - circulate on here and on Meta’s platforms. But it is strategically brain dead for the government not to be trying to move politicos away from X, where this stuff circulates straight into political commentary freely and where the owner hates and opposes you.

Actually, yes, if you consider toilets to be a safe sanctuary away from trans people and the presence of a trans person in one to be so horrifying you need to bring in legal to ban it you are the very definition of transphobic

Oh I see the latest Starmer fan cope is that the speech was the real him and the policy is something others do and he’s not across the detail

Remember the deal was: you give up collective bargaining and provisions to protect you through unemployment or ill health, and you gain cheap goods, social mobility and maybe a house? And now everything is expensive as fuck, the public realm is visibly degraded and about ten guys own the world.

He is *so* good at this

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Given that the Sumud flotilla was approaching Palestinian, not Israeli waters, it is entirely up to the government of the State of Palestine whether they are allowed in. The UK recognises the State of Palestine. Ergo, the UK must demand that the Israelis respect its right to control its borders.

To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

Starmer didn't even make it a day from calling Farage a racist till returning to implementing Farage's policies for him www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sinn Féin has lost contact with senator Chris Andrews, who was aboard the Spectre as part of the Sumud Flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, some of vessels of which have seemingly been boarded by Israel tonight. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

‘Scrapping indefinite leave’ to remain is to the immigration debate what ‘climate change is a con’ is to the climate Same strategy, same playbook Needs to understood as such

"Fees were then scrapped in 2017 after the supreme court ruled they were unlawful" Oh damn, so the government can simply legislate away Supreme Court judgments that they don't like? That's interesting...

Labour - on the side of only the workers who are backed by JK Rowling's transphobic cash www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

That would be the anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, landlord MP still earning for 200 hours of work as month as a lawyer, ally of Corbyn given a more powerful position in the party than Zarah Sultana

by the time your first point about the definition of Englishness is resting on 'the American census', the worms are driving the brain

Good. This is an important victory. It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

Apparently 5% of Reform voters think they are racist.

I think criticising the fact that the statue of Dr Elsie Inglis was designed by a man in what seems like a bit of a stitch up after that man designed half the statues in Edinburgh is valid. I don't think criticising it for not being "feminine" enough is. Women are allowed not to be feminine.

The November budget is going to be key to whether Starmer is capable of surviving next year. Because although his comms operation seems to have woken up - no one outside the political bubble pays attention to conference speeches. Far more do pay attention to the budget.

🚨BREAKING 40 years ago Margaret Thatcher abolished rent controls in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament just passed a Bill introduced by the Scottish Greens, which will allow them once more! This will keep rents affordable and offer safety and stability to renters. 🙌

🚨MSPs have just agreed to my @scottishgreens.org proposal to lift the cap on Council Tax for second homes & empty properties. Scotland has 15,000 homeless children, but 21,000 second homes and 46,000 empty homes. This is a problem we can solve by 'encouraging' second/empty home owners to sell.

Keir Starmer hiring a speech writer to buy him time with his own membership not to organise deposing him until he gets pasted in the elections next year. Shame said speech writer was apparently locked in a room isolated from his entire ministerial team declaring war on that same membership.

You should have a word with your home secretary mate she’s introducing free forced labour for migrants

Yes.

We don’t want empowerment months and remembrance days. We want our healthcare.

Great to have the Independent with me outside Labour Party Conference! Always great when a journalist sees lots of Labour members & councillors asking for selfies and what the defection process is! 👀 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

This isn't some smart tactical messaging move. It makes them look like tone-deaf buffoons, loathed by effectively everyone. www.theunpopulist.net/p/democrats-...

Labour are confusing 'decisions which Labour members do not enjoy or dislike' with 'decisions anyone outside of the Labour party likes or welcomes', I think. www.ft.com/content/f776...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

So Trump has announced a plan, and Netanyahu has announced a deal, and they're not even nearly the same thing www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

This language is not vague. It is a call for the party of government to forcibly prevent trade unions from abiding by the position unanimously voted for by their delegates. For Women Scotland and their allies are enemies not just of trans rights, but of the entire trade union movement.

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

speaking of spousal visas, the 10 year requirement is a domestic abuser's charter

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?

"Vote for us to implement Reform's policy platform"