One of the ironies in the age of micro-targeting is that a single unifying narrative/message is more important than ever.

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"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

The Starmer loyalists - a small but noisy group which seems, against all rational expectations, to exist - told me off for this, and demanded I wait til Friday when he would obviously be doing this. "The right was correct, immigration IS bad," was not quite the line I was looking for, if I'm honest.

To be quite frank, as someone from a country that has ID cards, I'm still against this nonsense from UKG because the very point of an actually useful ID card is that it is physical and you can keep it in your wallet.

Let me get this straight: A Labour government is in power and obsessed with ID cards whilst turning hostile on migration The Republican party is in power in the United States Tony Blair is getting involved in the Middle East *Welcome back 2005*

Sinister stab-in-the-back myth in some Remainer circles on here (having never seen it on Twitter, I assume it's come from Facebook) that Commonwealth voters did Brexit. (In reality, there are only a million 'Commonwealth' voters, and black Britons and British Asians voted 3:1 and 2:1 Remain).

The UK is not a papers, please society. It is a 'can you navigate a Kafkaesque thicket and/or get someone from a middle class occupation to sign your papers please society'.

Maybe all those features about how innocent the flag-raising movement were should have given more prominence of the very clear intention to promote the far right and intimidate minorities.

After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

I have had a large number of people say they simply did not understand the extent without posting the actual examples. Hence my approach to doing so It remains the case that compelling evidence of just how much we are tolerating has yet to wake up those with actual responsibility and power yo act.

formally launching my "Burnham is a symptom not a solution" take if your Labour party finds itself turning to Andy Burnham and going ohhhhhh should we maybe go for him instead then that means your Labour party is feeling poorly and must be tended to, don't ignore the Burnham warning signs

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Get yourself the only Commodore/Amiga emulator you'll ever need.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

He's the Prime Minister. He can get news cameras at any point. "Oh, he's making a speech four days late" is not a defence.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

You know, if I were, say, an ambitious Labour Culture Sec minister I'd be reading the riot act that certain news orgs have been soft soaping Tommeh supporters and haven't prominently reported any of the racist abuse I've seen documented.

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.

It's a YEAR in and the Starmer/McSweeney machine is briefing against the most high profile Labour mayor outside London like he's an enemy This is "why are you hitting yourself" territory

I’m not going to rant endlessly about this but Labour came into power on a vague ticket to improve northern rail connectivity and over a year later is still wondering what it means on.ft.com/4pAIfaJ

My car gives me an overheat warning. Swiftly I eject the warp core, the smouldering battery sliding and skipping across the street, straight into the storefront of a nearby cafe and starting what would later be called The Great Fire of 2034.

But, somehow, politics returned.

There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.

Worth a read by Ben Williams, on why Liberals should continue to argue against digital ID cards in the UK. Ben is the sort of Liberal who can properly articulate both the principled and practical issues at play here - we should all take note. #StillNO2ID

Paracetamol claims another victim.

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Average American train station if paracetamol caused autism (/s)

This is really dangerous territory for Farage. He's being pushed towards crankery by the radicalisation of online support.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

The contrast with Australia feels increasingly stark. A certain kind of British liberal has long been somewhat smug about Britain being "better" at multicultural norms than Aus but I think it's fair to say the lines on the graph have crossed over now

My son found a swastika drawn on our road the other day. In one of the most left/liberal constituencies in the country.

What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales

I cannot stress enough how much, to nerds who remember, stuff like this feels like 2000 and the era of completely unprofitable tech companies valuations going stratospheric because of dot-com bubble fever

Add to this that for ethnic minority Brits the PM and government being perennially Missing In Action during a rising tide of ethnonationalism IS personal, it is not some academic polling issue! The government has the megaphone to draw the line and say "No, thus far and no further"

This is IMO why you can't understand Morgan McSweeney's approach to politics without reference to Liz Kendall (whose campaign he managed) getting 4.5 per cent, a contest from which he basically took the lesson 'don't try and argue for something, ever'.

Fucking hell, Keir Starmer lost Dan Hodges

What's incredible is Stephen is being remarkably restrained here in the face of "the last days of old twitter" level intransigence

is this arbitrage

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

I am so annoyed on behalf of the many bright people in science and medicine that have had to spend the day talking about paracetamol/acetaminophen and how it doesn’t cause autism. And I’m even more aggrieved for everyone with autism who is being subjected to the destructive ableist discourse.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

At some point the AI boom in the US starts looking like Enron Level Accounting™ "NVIDIA will use it's inflated valuation to invest in an inflated OpenAI which will in then pay an increasingly inflated Oracle which will then buy more NVIDIA chips..."

This is the consequence of Starmer’s hitherto reluctance to challenge Reform and their morally-abhorrent nonsense. His cowardice and political stupidity has contributed to Reform thinking they can propose a policy as ghastly as abolishing ILR for those who already possess it.

"Paracetamol abolitionism becomes a partisan/culture war issue in America" was genuinely not on my bingo card for 2025 AND YET

The era of "2015 election, '16 referendum, '17 election, '19 election, COVID interregnum, year of three PMs and 4 chancellors, 24 election" has a LOT to answer for: particularly that a big chunk of the political class & media coverage seems to have forgotten that... the business of governing IS news

The Labour Party has a tradition of antiracism campaigning. It’s supposed to be in the party’s DNA. That they cannot say it’s just straightforwardly wrong to alarm families who choose Britain to live, work and raise children in is a total moral failure.

Hmmm why is there such a discrepancy in the media coverage of reform and Lib Dem party conferences

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.