I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.

Farage is applying for a job. That job is Prime Minister. The only thing on his CV is Brexit. He campaigned for it for 27 years. So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS. If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.

Labi Siffre has issued Tommy Ten Names with a cease and desist order against the use of his song 'Something inside so strong'. Good man! I hope he sues him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

We’re against Starmer’s Brit-card.

Whether or not digital ID is a good long-term policy, the politics of it are that Labour just set up a battle with its own party and all the others, promising to achieve something this scheme probably can't, at an obvious actual and opportunity cost.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.

Had a conversation with someone the other day in which they, at different points, said the minimum wage was too high, damaging the economy + that immigration was bad because low pay for Brits. Where do you start?

Legal migration was not "uncontrolled". Why accept far right framing?

Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table @jondanzig.bsky.social eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/25/b...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Friends have been RAGING about this! Apparently- it’s being funded by Palantir + BlackRock - that way they can have our data! From being neutral about this,I’m now disgusted. I understand you’re against this too @richardburgon.bsky.social You’re not alone 🤬

Netanyahu: "Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not" Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39. Ignorant of Jewish history.

#booksky writing thought process

Is it "move to Dubai"?

There are quite obviously competing factions in Number 10 arguing about whether to be Reform-lite or set policy agenda / attack, and for today the former seem to have won. As far as one can tell, virtually everyone sane outside the centre thinks the latter.

I think of digital ID cards as akin to the voter ID laws passed by the Tories. It fuels a lie that there are a lot of illegal immigrants unfairly working or claiming benefits, and if only we had the instrument we could find them and stop them. Not true!

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Is the USA 2025?

West Berlin, 3 Aug 1960. Anhalter Bahnhof three weeks before being largely demolished. I post photographs taken on my Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publ.). #Berlin

“Sharia courts” are not legally binding in the UK. They only carry weight if both disputed parties *choose* to follow their judgement. It’s like a friend informally mediating a dispute. This needs to be stated in such debates because this inflammatory rhetoric needs to be brought back to reality.

Tice literally lives in a country (Dubai) that has Sharia Law as its legal foundation..... the man knows no shame

Billy Bragg on fire

We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?

Jeff Bezos was worth $194 billion at the end of 2024. He’s currently worth $231.5 billion as of today. It would take him just 17 days to see his net worth increase by $2.5 billion. https://www.reuters.com/world/amazon-pay-25-billion-settle-prime-deception-allegations-2025-09-25/

What a shambles. Apparently the new digital ID cards are compulsory only for people who have a job to ensure there is no “illegal working”. Can we imagine the additional work all HR departments need to do now?

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Sewage was dumped into the Mersey 1,900 times in 2024. Since leaving the EU, the UK has slipped on water and air standards while Europe pushes ahead with tougher protections. Add your name to demand higher standards for our environment: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

a story that gets bogged down in the details. peat fiction

Such a fun human being... "Go speak your language back in Mexico!"

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

"Throughtopia not Utopia" 💥 What Zack Polanski is managing to do here is to talk seriously about the frustration, uncertainty and angst that we're all feeling inside us these days. And what's remarkable is that he seems to be the only party leader doing that right now!

A close ally of Nigel Farage has said Bolshevik revolutionaries who killed Russian intellectuals “had a point”, called for the abolition of several UK regulators, and defended Liz Truss’s chaotic “mini” Budget www.ft.com/content/76a4...

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

1 in 9 Scottish species are at risk of extinction, including Scottish Wildcats. Every birth takes them a step back towards safety. These wildcats could soon join those that were released into the wild in 2023, and have since been spotted roaming the Highlands with their kittens.

This is a welcome shift but it should have been the strategy from day one. The rise of support for Reform is not really about immigration. Support for Reform is highest in those areas with *low* migration, but high deprivation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is great.

Book: 'The Assault on Truth' by Peter Osborne is dedicated to the lies & harmful effects on mainly UK society of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) .

Here's the director of @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social, Robin Wells, being slapped twice by an unknown guest at the Republicans Overseas dinner in Windsor last Tues during Trump's visit First part also shows fellow activist Kush Naker being dragged out by a TalkTV host bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

"The applicability of the Danish Social Democratic strategy to the political situation in the UK is not self-evident. Rather, it serves as a warning that you cannot win over anti-immigration voters without simultaneously losing those who are pro-immigration." ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

Still there 🤣

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

📉 Chris lost almost £10,000 in trade at the EU border. 🫂 His story is not unique.