1. "Boriswave" is an invention of the online extreme right. 2. Those people came here legally, paying huge fees to do so, to fill essential roles. 3. They won't get ILR unless they apply, jump through hoops, & pay more fees. 4. The Times is reporting on them as a criminal burden on society.

This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.

Fucking hell. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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I've been listening to Jonny Greenwood's score for One Battle After Another all day. It's so great.

Birthday Santa brings me Ferrero Rocher every year.

Yup, this is how to make the growth happen. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

One battle after another lived up to the hype.

Getting the reverse rainbow in Connections is one of life's simple pleasures. Connections Puzzle #840 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

This is the right message from Starmer, but I don't understand why it took him a week (and presumably multiple focus groups) to say it.

I'm halfway through (it's on Disney+) and it's excellent and enraging.

Suppose I should start making my migrant dinner. It's Wednesday, so it's swan and chips night.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

If someone who's getting raptured has an original Eames chair, can I have it please?

If you agree to the interview with Chotiner, you're already sunk.

I'm not ready to turn the heat on at home yet, but I've got my little fan heater going full blast in the office today 🥶

I love how no member of our supposedly left-wing (LOL) government will push back against Farage's plan because it's morally repugnant, but instead complain that the math is wrong (while probably drawing up plans to do something worse). Is there a limit to how cruel the UK can be to immigrants?

Guarantee that the people who love to complain that immigrants won't integrate support this idiotic policy that makes it impossible for immigrants to integrate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

As if the Home Office would ever miss a chance to make life more miserable for immigrants.

Uh, you guys? www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Look who came with

Tell me again how it's students who are the real threats to free speech.

Thank god someone has finally written this! www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

YOU DON'T HAVE A VISA, BELLY. #tsitp

I didn't get a chance to read this yesterday, but goddamn it's as good as everyone says.

They never complete the sentence, ie "...educators and students must face ideas we find offensive, such as the claim that Black women lack the brain processing power to fly planes or serve on the Supreme Court or that gay people should be stoned to death." Pretty telling that they don't!

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

This was EXTREMELY popular when I was a kid and I haven't thought about it in years. I think I should make it in tribute.

You were lovely, Hubbell.

My guess is until my fellow GenXers start reaching retirement age. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For "reasons", here is a Wikipedia article about how the Tories in Canada suffered an electoral collapse in 1992, and were eventually taken over by a party to their right. This new party won the federal election three years later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_t...

I had to wear socks today and I am FURIOUS about it.

Three months and she can't order breakfast in French? #tsitp

Uhhh....this seems bad? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

It's almost like young people are interested in institutions facing up to their history in a frank and nuanced way www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Just got an email from Labour, begging me to rejoin, and this trans-supporting immigrant says LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL.

Remember, STATUTE LAW and NHS rules REQUIRE trans people to live as their preferred gender FOR YEARS, IN PUBLIC, to prove they deserve legal or medical transition. This makes that impossible. It is exterminatory.

But thats not the problem. The problem is that watching Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper declare their wild, heretofore unexpressed, passionate love for flags and bunting is like watching Mr Bean eat peas with a fork. It’s Jacques Tati meets Veep sketch levels of inauthenticity.

RIP to a real one. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I'm really glad my parents took me to Disney in Florida and California when I was a kid. They're still magical memories for me. But I'm really, really glad I don't have kids of my own, because Disney is only for the rich now. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

This is outstanding. Righteous anger at what this country has become.

I'm sorry, why in god's name does it take literal years to draw up plans for a reservoir? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don't threaten me with a good time.

It is in fact wild that the actual experts on migration, i.e. service providers, caseworkers, advisors and migrants themselves, are the only people who Downing St is ignoring on migration. Everyone else has a Legitimate Concern, except those Legitimately Concerned.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

Again, how is our current government any different than what came before? Spineless, racist, cowards.

At least someone is saying it! ❤️