Watching the #Newsnight grilling Labour over the 'racist' jibe is poor. Very poor. It's not 'divisive' to state Reform are racist. They are. Numbers of their councillors have been sacked for this. Farage's response was pure Trumpian gibberish, which makes him looks disingenous. Analyse that instead

Farage's racism was noted when he was barely a nobody But sure, he's not a racist. 'Farage, who earns his living as a City commodity-broker, is a man who often used words such as "n*gg*r" and "n*g-n*g" in the pub after committee meetings.' (Oct 1999) #newsnight www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/...

awww did the poor ickle rabble rouser get scared

I just peer reviewed a journal article that cited a “hallucinated" article ostensibly authored by me. Needless to say, I recommended rejection. #academia #academicChatter #commsky

Nigel Farage, 3rd September to U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee ● "Free speech is under assault in Britain." ● Free speech laws are "a sledgehammer that misses the nut" because they censor opinion. ●"At what point did we become North Korea?" He asked. 27 days later:

Plus pointing out that he’s using every single Trump rhetoric / phrase. So dull that he is a predictable copy cat- today’s is antifa. Poundland Heritage/ Tufton street plagiarist. Nothing new/ positive/ original everything he says is been said before.

I think Labour should make more of Farage’s Russian links #newsnight

Why show Farage on #newsnight? Can’t we have a day off him?

why am i not at all surprised about this?

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

At Bristol City vs Ipswich- a lot of diving by Ipswich players

“Don’t call racists racist” says racist.

Is Farage a Racist? The consensus among his political opponents and a significant portion of the media and academic commentators is that his rhetoric has, at a minimum, stoked racial tensions and normalized xenophobic discourse in British politics. Make your own mind up

When David Lammy says Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth, he’s referring to the fact that teachers from his school described him as a Fascist and recalled how he marched through a Sussex village singing Hitler Youth songs. Sounds pretty flirty to me.

Who wants to see a video of Nigel Farage calling Nathan Gill a “decent, honourable man”?

It is being reported that UEFA is actively considering banning Israel. We must act NOW to demand this happens. E-mail Britain's Football Associations to demand they push for genocidal Israel to be banned from UEFA and FIFA: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/banIsrael

No country in the history of the world has ever prospered by deliberately lowering the educational attainment of its citizenry. No other country in the world today (not even Trumpist America) is proposing to do so. Suggesting the UK should do it, systematically, is a marker of deranged idiocy.

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."

Tony Harrison died on 26 September. The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 published nearly thirty of his poems over the years. He will be much missed. The most famous of those poems was ‘v.’, first published in our pages forty years ago – a fearless, state-of-the-nation epic. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

'So there you are, with immigration stopped and even being reversed by Mr Farage and his chums, in a health service that's now in a state of total collapse, the economy in a tailspin, pensions and house prices plummeting, and your kids & grandkids becoming economic migrants to other countries...' /6

'While you're applauding those things, may I just hope – and I'm looking at you over-fifties here – may I hope that you are not forced to applaud from a hospital bed which you are more likely to be filling quite soon. Because you may have heard that the NHS is run by immigrants....' /4

'While that happens, will you applaud the severe economic decline that comes with it? Will you applaud your kids and grandkids not having jobs? Will you applaud the closure of schools? Will you applaud the shrinking of pensions that can no longer be afforded?' /3

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte: 'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

A fascinating new piece in @theconversation.com Dr Mark W Post explores how linguists have traced thousands of modern words back to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) – a language spoken up to 8,000 years ago but never written down. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhmhnaee TLDR 👇 #langsky #etymology #protoindoeuropean

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Indefensible policy and Reeves is incapable of defending it.

Richard Tice with his Reform chum Nathan Gill, who has just admitted taking bribes for spreading Kremlin misinformation. What could be more patriotic than that?

It's glaringly obvious that Nigel Farage is a Russian asset. All that talk about Russia's hybrid war on The West? Nigel Farage is part of that war.

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Literally had this conversation with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social last week. Podcast out later today! An immigrant is a doctor, a care worker, an academic, often a member of our armed forces. But sure, post pictures of young men on rubber boats.

Well, the UK doesn't like its own export strengths, so no surprise the political parties don't like their own voters. All part of the transition from traditional economic models that is now over 40 years in the making and still denied.

If anything this is worse for the Conservatives, whose distaste for the managers, professionals, local worthies and (shiver) yuppies who used to vote for them led them to shedding sixty-odd wealthy seats to the Lib Dems. Like a divorced dad shredding his nice suits. 7/n

Labour seem to hate their own voters. You know whose voters would be cool though? People who voted for Reform, or who want to do so now. That’s the ticket. That such people might disagree with almost every value Labour MPs and voters hold dear? Well that just makes them cooler. Hard to impress. 5/n

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

I dunno about the rest of you, but I want my cardiologist to relax and rest rather than spend her off-time picking litter and sweeping the streets.

Guilty of accepting bribes from Russia. Farage so much as farts and MSM are discussing farts at length... But they've buried this bombshell. Surely Farage needs investigating? Will any journalists question him?

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Any words on this? A fairly important story rather than wittering on about 'Keir Starmer's throat', I'd argue, Nick #Newsnight www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two Reform councillors suspended in conduct probe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA

"We should not cut young people off from opportunities that my generation took for granted." Standing ovation for Reeves promising "as well as making it easier to trade with Europe," to secure "maximum economic and cultural opportunities through an ambitious agreement on youth mobility." ~AA #Lab25

NEW! In Liverpool for Labour Conference... Starmer is concentrating on Reform but Labour shouldn't mistake their threat on the right, even in Leave voting heartlands. Our new analysis w/ @martamiori.bsky.social explains: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

'Ed Miliband said of Elon Musk: "He called for the overthrow of our government. He incited violence on our streets. His platform, X, promotes disinformation. He’s a dangerous person". Asked if that meant the government should leave X, he said: "It’s possible".' 👏 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

- Introduce Proportional Representation for General Elections. It is not a perfect system either; yes, it too would result in plenty of Reform seats; it can be very messy (see the Netherlands, for example). But it nevertheless provides a crucial protection layer and it is so much more democratic.

The US provides the most advanced case of what that can lead to. It is worth remembering that Farage could not even bring himself to criticise Trump's comments on paracetamol. I strongly urge everyone *not* to assume that this type of escalation cannot happen here - it already is in some areas.

Nevertheless, this is how *every single key policy* in the UK has been shaped over the last decade. Why do we accept that policy in the UK is being made in this way? Let me say this again: being pro-immigration is the most pro-UK policy approach there is.

My dentist is German and I know how hard it would be to get another NHS dentist if she left.

... of implications. The question really ought to be something like 'Having fewer immigrants in your local community will mean fewer care workers, fewer dentists, fewer bin men, less tax raised for your community etc. Do you support restrictions on immigration?' It is the job of politicians ...