I haven't even had a lovely weekend, I feel like I need another week off to get me rested and relaxed enough to go back to work. A four-day working week would go down well right about now.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Three or four days ago: "Starmer is going to announce a new plan to fight Reform with progressive policy" Now: "New rule: everyone in the country has to join the fascist thugs in intimidating and dehumanising foreigners and also set things up for the TERF Stasi"

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

If Starmer put even half as much effort into fighting the far right as he does into pissing me off, Farage would be a fading memory by now.

Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed” The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Has there ever been a political movement so pathetically insecure as right-wing American nationalism?

This is Australia but holy shit

I mean, this is a great idea in theory. But does Starmer actually understand what the word "progressive" means? I've not seen much evidence to support that idea lately. Having his ministers go on TV to gleefully appease fascist thugs certainly ain't it.

Imagine hating women *so much* you refuse to diagnose autism in women for decades and then when it turns out to be an inheritable genetic trait and your own statistics imply men are responsible for passing it on you invent an entirely new reason to blame women for it! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm glad Kimmel is coming back. However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment. ... wait.

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

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The worst thing about racists on the march is they don't just leave it at the march. They take it home to their communities, feel bolder, and do real harm. Labour need to understand that appeasing wannabe fascists always has consequences.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

I have known someone like this. @snipethesorrow.bsky.social's father was a delusional and abusive man, and although he died before AI got really pervasive, he had someone with him who would validate every one of his wild ideas. Telling him he was really great and smart whatever daft shit he said.

"Stop worrying about the value you're getting from giving us all your money, just keep shovelling it in for us. It will be worth it - trust me - but if you need proof it just shows you don't deserve it!" Where have I heard this before? Ah, yes, evangelical megachurch preachers.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I studied Computer Science at a Russell Group uni then took a job in software, where I've worked in at great benefit to HM Treasury for over 20 years. I can count the things I learned at uni of direct benefit to my job on one hand. Kyle is a worthless, valueless waste who shouldn't be in govt.

If Peter Kyle could just sod right off and leave the public sphere forever, I think we'd all be better off. Probably including Peter Kyle; it can't be good for the soul to be this wrong about pretty much everything pretty much every day.

"Oh but the UK government can't just tell Trump to fuck off, you can't do that kind of thing in politics". If we have constructed a system in which it is deemed impossible to reject fascism, then that is a system which must be dismantled. Not 'should be dismantled', *must*.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

"beloved highway" fundamentally not a civilised country

Was thinking about this the other day...whatever happened to all that rage about having to wear masks....

Monument Valley 2 is free on the Epic Games Store this week!

Couldn't we just... make it a crime for public officials to lie about *anything*?!

If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.

As a family in Lincs the actual facts about migration are quite relevant, thank you! The most generous interpretation of this is "the BBC management decided to whitewash and validate the bigoted views of racists in a vain attempt to avoid criticism" - and only racists would defend that. Peston.

Apart from anything else, UK politicians of the centre and left should all realise that there's massive kudos and traction to gain from attacking both Musk and Trump because the vast majority of Britons absolutely loathe them both.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."

I try very hard to avoid politics on this account. But I am so fucking sick of EVERYONE coddling racist, white morons. These ravist morons gave us 14 years of tory rule, scored a once in a century own goal with Brexit, and they will vote Reform into power. Economic grudges can’t justify racism.

A thug at the far right rally called for Prime Minister Starmer to be assassinated. Things don't get better from here if we don't change the national conversation. Labour need to shift their anti-immigration policies and rhetoric - stop feeding this movement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That is not how you fight fascism. Fascism is about identity, anxiety, fear and emotion. It has nothing to do with the migrants.

Almost any other person who became so ardent about the Great Replacement Theory as to advocate, legitimise pre-emptive violence due to the inevitability of political conflict + interethnic civil war would be banned from the UK, as Martin Sellner of Generation Identity was in 2019 by the Tory gvt

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Sure, I have no problem believing that such people exist and don't want to *think* of themselves as racist but... well, they're either incredibly stupid or at least a *little bit* racist. How else do you justify joining a white supremacist march in the middle of London?

i do think something that genuinely irritates me is the smol-beanification of the far-right members along with a withdrawal of any sense of moral agency. clive's friend doesn't *want* to be racist. but he has no issues considering other people attending the march as comrade. what do we learn here?

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Simply put, as needed as it is to see Starmer calling out the racists now, he also needs to stop emboldening the far right by continuing to push policies and political rhetoric which actively undermine the rights and safety of the very marginalised communities the far right attacks. 4/4

He needs to stand up for trans and non-binary individuals, and counter the hate and violence they face, instead of pushing through legislation which further removes our rights and treats us as "lesser than". 3/4

If Starmer is serious about condemning those who are ramping up racism and hate then he also needs to back it up by stopping pandering to them. He needs to confront and challenge anti-immigration rhetoric not pass policies which embolden. 2/4

Took his time, and shame it took 150,000 marching under the banner of the far right to prompt it, but, under current circumstances, at least he has finally said something against the use of the flag to drive hate and division. Needs to be more than just words though. 1/4 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the result of Reform MPs railing against pylons and solar farms. Food companies are here because so much agriculture is, move them elsewhere and your shopping gets more expensive. Reform is threatening food security because racists are also NIMBYs. www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men. The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

We jailed and deported Abu Quatada for less