It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Proof, too, that how you are towards trans people is compelling evidence of whether you are a good quality human being.

17 November 1904 | A Polish woman, Maria Pantuczek, was born in Krzyżowa. In #Auschwitz from 7 July 1942. No. 8506 She perished in the camp on 25 October 1942. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Voight’s an anti-democratic authoritarian madman.

Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.

"This week the woke right took to saying that people who are black aren't properly British" complains Danny Finkelstein. No, Danny, Douglas Murray, who you patronised, promoted and admired, has been saying *exactly this* for over a decade. archive.ph/2025.11.12-0...

If Finkelstein had an ounce of courage/moral fibre, he'd attack Dan Hannan and Michael Gove for this sub-BNP racism published yesterday in the Specator. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Full-on, unapologetic racism, not dog whistle but bloody foghorn, is now mainstream on the right.

Had a flashback to an Andrew Neil speech in favour of Brexit where he said that trade barriers would no longer matter because the 4th industrial revolution would mean we'd all zap weightless intellectual property to each other and just locally 3d print everything solid that we needed.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Morning.

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

The murderous little piece of shit who kills Washington Post journalists, right? *That* crown prince? That’s the one you’re honoring, yes?

15 November 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Elisabeth Margaretha Turksma, was born in Utrecht. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Not the main point, but turkey only became the main Christmas dish for ordinary Britons in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, if families could afford a bird at Christmas it was more likely to be goose (which, unlike turkey, is actually native to the British Isles).

Important to remember: If the worst of the Epstein stuff had already been released, there would be no reason for Trump to keep fighting it. If he’s trying to stop it, there’s a reason why.

Scotland's Missing Forests 120k views in a week. Wonder if Scotgov gets the message. Barren-looking land, even overgrazed & burnt grouse moors, can support natural woodland & biodiversity. This is the story of two pals who went where politicians fear to tread www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...

Ah yes & the scuttling off to get absolutely annihilated in a KGB villa happened directly after an emergency NATO meeting on the Skipal poisonings. Bet Russia couldn’t believe their luck when that gluttonous idiot became foreign secretary…sure they got all the info they needed.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

So true.

Paging Hunter Biden to the MTG tiny violin phone.

I did not have sexual relations with that orange

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

Every single media lawyer I have spoken with this weeks agree that the BBC is doing exactly the right thing in admitting a mistake without admitting liability.

At last, a fearless @thetimes.com enquiry into the Institute of Economic Affairs’ economically disastrous effects and Policy Exchange’s pernicious legacy of division? No, just an attack one of the few think tanks that did not shape Labour’s toxic inheritance. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The Resolution Foundation should take this as a sign of support from the editor of the Times that they haven't chosen to send out one of their credible, economically rated writers, but someone who's actually run a similarly-redistribution minded think tank, and former Tory candidate to boot

She really is a terrible person. Every time she says something she exposes her cold, black heart. www.thepoke.com/2025/11/15/k...

Boris Johnson is heavily implicated in dealings with Russia's influence over Brexit Brilliant article here ⬇️

If I came from a family that has held a seat in House of Lords for 7 generations and used it to protect their vast empire from Tax and Inheritance Tax. I probably wouldn't be complaining about free bus passes for Senior Citizens. You'd look ridiculous.

Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Anti-fascists outside the hotel shouted at the Patriots: "You can't even have a game of five-a-side". Other chants include: "I'd rather wear a skirt than be a Nazi" or "Tenconi is a mini Mussolini"."

"There are many many more of us than you!" A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again. We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention

It's easy to forget, amidst the amusement at Seb's frantic and futile scrapping for a Tory seat, that he is a complete imbecile www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Matt Gaetz's OAN producer Vish Burra deleted wildly antisemitic tweets and videos he shared earlier today, which showed a "Scheming Room" with a Star of David that depicted Jews as cockroaches who burned and ran when exposed to light. I've asked OAN president Charles Herring and Gaetz for comment.

"I've gotten pulled into the Brexit thing this morning with Nigel, Boris and Rees Mogg." Then, in what appears to be a reference to Theresa May, Bannon tells Epstein "The guys are trying to move on. may today / tomorrow…" 2018. As Gill took the bribes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK comment: "Nigel Farage has never been in a meeting with Steve Bannon, Jacob Rees Mogg and Boris Johnson." But separately? But we know he met Bannon, who also advised Johnson and Rees Mogg. So this doesn’t mean Farage wasn’t part of the plot to topple Theresa May

A lot of the anti-BBC commentary this week has omitted to mention that: a) Trump himself lost a defamation suit (against E. Jean Carroll) b) Trump was fined in 2023 for bringing a frivolous claim against his political enemies on.ft.com/3XA1qnW

If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

Congratulations to our newest Green councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!

What the BBC *should* do is await a formal response in reply to their letter. Or they should simply wait to be served with a law suit. And take local (ie US) law advice. Only then will they have the further information to make a rational decision on the merits of the case. >

But James Johnson did a poll showing 700k+ people were going to leave? Surely that wasn't complete and utter obvious bollocks?

Renewable energy has lefty vibes and so we are going to gut it in favour of AI which is right-wing coded if significantly less useful, and reliant on the energy generation we're going to fail to deliver now because: see start of this sentence. Still, how owned are the libs?

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Late to reading this, but it's a fabulous breakdown of Trump vs the BBC.

His response on timing is also vague: "probably sometime next week". As such, nothing substantive has changed at his end: no further legal correspondence, no suit has been filed. Not even an exact new deadline. Just an off-the-cuff response to a reporter's question. But. >

NEW: Tony Hall, who Tim Davie replaced as BBC director general, leads calls for the end of political appointees to the BBC board. PLUS - the Guardian learns Robbie Gibb has the power to unilaterally commission research on bias that worries him. Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...