Calling Reform racist isn’t slander. It’s maths. 20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused” Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough. But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both. app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Criticising Trump was deemed to be a terrorist act in the USA last week. Reform is now trying the same approach here, accusing Starmer of inciting terrorism for criticising Farage. In both cases, the direction of travel is towards full-on fascism. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Reform losing their shit over being told their policies are racist, so maybe they are too. What are you then? Cos ‘legitimate concerns’ don’t stretch to violent threats against immigrants, mass deportations or demanding British people be white. You’re whiny racists. Don’t blame us for your shame.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Starmer mentioned this in the speech yesterday. Would be good to see Labour remorselessly focus on it, force those on the right to explicitly distance themselves from it and those who state it.

Israeli quadcopters shooting children. And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day. Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children. And our government continues to assist it.

No. For even if the government cannot recover all its damages and costs here, this case is still a signal to current and potential suppliers that it is willing to enforce it contractual rights. And that is very valuable. Many government suppliers do not believe the government will ever do this.

Ugh This man This paper. Using the same rhetoric as Trump’s lot, jumping on the Kirk bandwagon to claim victimhood and cancel free speech if it criticises him. Farage incites riots on our streets, then acts all ‘poor me’ when his ugly racist ideas are called out. No one should pander to this shit.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Starmer needs to get a grip of the Home Office, otherwise he risks having a Braverman substitute in place. She was ridiculous - in the end she couldn’t process any asylum seekers and just put them in hotels, where Tory mates made millions.

My main response to this is that we had an all staff email go out today because one staff member spat at another one and told them that they had to “go back to where they came from.” Make of that what you will.

The ECHR is essential to safeguarding the Good Friday Agreement but Nigel Farage wants to walk away from it. 🚨 Hilary Benn MP: "I cannot think of anything more irresponsible. It's wrong, it's reckless, and we've got to make sure it never happens."

One of my favourite conversations I've had in a while. Really getting into what's wrong in the current moment, what the facts are that are being obscured by racism & lies, and what we should be doing about it Do check it out!

Andy Burnham on why he’s for rejoining the EU… …and why we need to call out Reform on Brexit. 👏👏👏👏

This is a must read/share thread that perfectly describes the cognitive dissonance that we've reached in this country when Politicians have conversations about "valid concerns about immigration" yet completely miss the root cause. Thank you, @tanjabueltmann.net for pulling this all together.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

If you require migrants to meet higher standards than the average Brit, whether that is in terms their language requirements, voluntary service, which isn't remotely "voluntary" if it is compulsory, or anything else then you have a system which is by definition discriminatory. One which dehumanises.

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

So fight them, stop dignifying them, aping them and accepting their framing of the narrative. Push back against their demonization of immigrants, explain why key services would collapse without them and flag up the immense harm Farage’s beloved Brexit has done. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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

"Once senior leaders use language like "invaders", it makes it much harder for those working in communities, Alf Dubs says

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

Fab idea, I’m on board - but it’s worth adding that fully rejoining the EU would do that, friction free access to the world’s largest single market and give that same right to people who are over 30. Something to think about, no?

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

That’s not ideal for megalomaniacal South African billionaire hellbent on destabilising the world because he’s bored.

I’m deeply concerned about recent racist attacks in our capital city.

I feel like a broken record. But this is the wrong strategy.

There’s been a mass walkout at the UN as Netanyahu delivers his address.

I cannot wait to see Reform comment about this on their hourly slot they have in the media. I’m sure they have a terribly good excuse just waiting to go here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The "no-one talks about immigration" line is so obviously nonsense. Not only is it one of the single most reported on issues in the media, it is also one of the most talked about in politics, with "immigration" alone referenced more than 1,700 times in the last 12 months in House of Commons. 1/

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

I defended Labour for 15 months. Workers’ rights and renters’ protections? Yes. But cutting benefits, parroting Reform, and calling your own side “the Left” as though you’re not? No. Which is why Ed Davey and Zack Polanski have an opening Starmer is handing to them.

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.

Billy Bragg on fire

Keir Starmer has lost me today.

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reading the Turkish submissions to a UN panel of inquiry into the Israeli storming of the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla in 2010 :(

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.

And the UK appears very keen to follow your lead. 🤡 Brexit vote in 2016. 🤡 Brexit is then a barrelling moronathon that we resolutely ignore. 🤡 And now - even though their big idea is a total shitshow - the brexity British MAGA party leads in the polls. Can’t teach that slavish devotion to failure.

So Tice is happy for his party to be anti-vax, anti-medicine, anti-science crank-central… cos conspiracy theory bollox for the pathologically ignorant = ‘free speech’ (aka actual experts make him and his fellow bellends feel stupid). Ffs. Such tediously inadequate dullwits.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

What a brilliant thread.