Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

“I worry that all this forms a pattern of attack against all evidence, a concerted war on science. It seems a sort of Endarkenment, a deliberate attempt to return people to a state of not knowing what to trust, in which The Leader’s Word becomes the only source of truth.”

To my Lord Crew’s, and there dined alone with him, and among other things he do advise me by all means to keep my Lord Sandwich from proceeding too far in the business of Tangier.

At my office, inditing a letter from Tom to his mistress upon his sending her a watch for a token.

It is my content that by several hands today I hear that I have the name of good-natured man among the poor people that come to the office.

1824: Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays there is little pomp about them & much luscious sweetness. I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them, neither can I possess discrimination enough in Criticism to distinguish the different merits of either. Both are...

1776: Fine young clover & fine turneps about the country.

Newspaper headlines that are questions are just clickbait, and are a complete repudiation of journalistic responsibility.

They've known it for years.

Today's daydream: www.french-property.com/sale-propert...

Not difficult to forseen "Nigel works for MAGA, Ed Davey works for you" being the line at GE 2029

Just seen a good 'meme': yes, Frogage is MAGA - Mostly Absent Grifting Arsehole... 😁

There's never enough milkshake in the yard... 😁

Sir G. Carteret told me how in most cabaretts in France they have writ upon the walls in fair letters to be read, “Dieu te regarde,” as a good lesson to be in every man’s mind.

To my brother Tom’s, where Mr. Cooke expected me, and did go with me to see Mr. Young and Mr. Lull in Blackfryers, kindred of Tom’s mistress, where I was very well used, and do find things to go in the business to my good content.

1776: Wasps still go into the hives. Gathered-in some of the early pippins: fine baking apples.

Most corrupt administration in history. And they're just getting started.

GMB has given extensive coverage to the Trump/paracetamol/autism story. Guests have rightly said how wrong it is. But after a while, I worry about the extent of this coverage, recalling the adage 'if you're explaining, you're losing'. There's one headline: 'Trump talks bollocks on Paracetamol'.

Did the pharmaceutical makers of Tylenol not pay the #MangoMobster enough money?

If the BBC is getting rattled by a politician, then that politician is doing something right... Mason has shown his true colours. #EdDavey

SSSSSSQQQQQQUUUUUEEEEEEEAAAALLLLL! Pant-wettingly excited... #TheMandalorianAndGrogu #StarWars www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1...

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

1824: Very ill & did nothing but ponder over a future existence & often brought up the lines to my memory said to be utterd by an unfortunate nobleman when on the brink of it ready to take the plunge: In doubt I lived in doubt I dye / Nor shrink the dark abyss to try / But undismayed I meet -...

With Sir J. M., Sir W. B., and Sir W. P., by coach to St. James’s and there with the Duke. I did give him an account of all things past of late; but I stood in great pain, having a great fit of the colic, having catched cold yesterday by putting off my stockings to wipe my toes.

A central cause of UK economic stagnation is chronic high skilled labour shortages. If the UK stops allowing migrants to bring dependents, as Farage has announced, migrants will simply choose other countries that do, and the problem will worsen. Reform UK's nativism will economically cripple us.

RefUK are simply the political equivalent of the #ShockJock - the more extreme their pronouncements the better, just to trigger and set the news agenda, and rile up their easily-manipulated fanbase without the slightest concern for reality. Report it as such.

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

All the checks and balances that were supposed to prevent a Trump were dismantled in 100 days. And we don't even have those checks and balances. I worry that political insiders, who already think it's all a game, can't see how fragile it is.

... that's not the point, is it. The point of Reform is not to govern. It's the campaign. It's to drum up grievances and convert them into donations and votes. It's impossible to actually DO this stuff. And that's a bigger danger to democracy than the policy...

Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man. Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3

Yes, no longer ever 'small boats' but always #BrexitBoats - laying it all firmly at Farage's doorstep. His Brexit, his fault.

This has to be a moment of reckoning. Broadcasters must focus on the practical consequences and make them clear. It would be utter, society altering chaos. That should dominate the approach, as it would coverage of any other party's policies.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Lib Dems announce plans for a new Energy Security Bank to fund insulation schemes, solar panels and other green investment - funded by a windfall tax on the big banks

1776: Much barley out round Basingstoke: some standing: & many fields of oats. Green wheat up.

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

Now he’s firing people for… not being able to get innocent people fired? Because there’s no actual evidence to support it?!

Trump is cancer. There, that's the bloot.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

As the Elephant & Castle development creeps inexorably towards completion, the abject horror of its sheer, unbridled hideousness becomes ever more evident... An already fairly ugly bit of London made infinitely more ugly by petty, talentless, unimaginative pen-pushers.

It really is the beginning of the end... I want to walk away from everything that traps me in this country and live on haricot beans in a hovel in Limousin...

"His answer was curious, claiming he didn't know Lord Mandelson – despite them meeting in the White House last week, for a start." Chris Mason here proving what an utterly pusillanimous and pointless, pathetic excuse for a 'journalist' he really is. IT'S A BLATANT LIE! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this last year, there being great want of corn in Paris, and so a collection made for the poor, there was two pearls brought in, nobody knew from whom (till the Queen, seeing them, knew whose they were), which were sold for 200,000 crownes.

Never, ever, ever gets old... 🤣🤣🤣

“The problems in the UK are all because of the small boat illegals…”