"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased. Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

I don't think so. On moral grounds, our relationship is now with them as individuals, and bad behaviour in the UK doesn't justify bad behavious in Europe. I also suspect that the courts wouldn't allow actions against Britons in our communities. The risk is of course rabble-rousing by Vox, say

The build-up of rhetoric against Europeans settled in the UK and the attacks on the Brexit deal on residency must be worrying for our citizens there. This kind of thing tends to start with loose talk by the opposition and finish with been been bundled into vans. 1 bsky.app/profile/sund...

In Pokrovsk, russians are shooting civilians. The first photo shows man carrying a wounded woman in his arms because her legs had been shot through. She had apparently crawled along the street before he found her.

It’s absolutely hilarious watching Austrians, in 2025, wake up to the fact that the complete political class of Austria is deeply incompetent and corrupt. It required 3+ years of inflation and consumer prices skyrocketing for the people to go "Whooahuuuhh?" Before that it was YOLO all the way.

For many Brits who have made lives abroad, the mere possibility of this becoming UK government policy makes moving back a hugely risky prospect. Who’d want to invest time and effort settling back in Britain while threats of expulsion are dangled over the heads of non-British family members?

Portland has fallen!

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

BREAKING: In addition to parties and politicians, activists, journalists, opinion makers, and essentially everyone who has ever expressed their critical opinion will be banned from running in elections and holding offices. 1/2

I know Badenoch has given up on them anyway, but I do think this kind of statement, the tone, is the kind of stuff that really turns off those middle of the road tories that I know who care about good government, sound money and the like. It's just a bit....childish.

The guy who sells poor people really cheap medicine is the bad guy now?? 🙄

the PSOE does and has been legislating in that direction as well as successfully managing the economy. the right and the far right together are miles ahead in the polls

The far-right doesn't always have to win. Chega had a less than stellar set of results in yesterday's local elections in Portugal. It failed to win in just about all its targets.

Today, the EU’s Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising enters into force. From now on, political ads – notably both online and offline – will have to carry a transparency label with key information about why people are seeing the ad, who paid for it and how much. 1/

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

The consequences of today’s Russian strike on the Kyiv region.

Everyday is a step closer to the ideal policy: universal basic pints

Any analysis that treats Trump, Musk and the rise of Corporatist Fascism as some weird historical aberration is fundamentally missing the point. This is the inevitable, unavoidable and entirely predictable endpoint of the sociopathic winner-takes-all economic system we've been building since the 80s

In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...

El Gobierno sale airoso del Congreso al salvar el decreto del embargo de armas y la ley de movilidad sostenible Por @arvaldivia.bsky.social 

Como destrozar a tu rival político con solo 2 palabras:

You get the sense that, despite everything, Kemi Badenoch is living her best life.

What on earth has happened to the Tories? This wouldn't have been acceptable in 1965 let alone 2025. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.

Been to Manchester central complex many times for conferences and rarely has the main hall been so light on outside exhibitors. Lots of padding with empty stands put up by central party

As the escalation cycle ratchets upwards in the US every time an ICE unit commits an even worse act of violence against civilians the UK Conservative Party will be asked whether this is the outcome it wants. The most revealing thing will then be which Conservative figure answers with "yes".

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers. Clown ideology. 🤡

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

The sheer brass neck.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

I'm old enough to remember when well-connected journalists and analysts assured us that Brexit would ensure a generation of Conservative dominance

There are many reasons for the lack of supply and they are repeated the World over. Airbnb being more attractive to landlords, government price caps on property rentals, the fear of occupation by a non paying tenant etc buff.ly/bezWrx6

Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

💔 Yesterday's Russian missile strike on Dnipro killed a man who had only been married a week and a half ago...

Funny how suddenly so many on the right now see hurty words as a problem, and how suddenly expansive their notion of incitement has become.

I would like to see Matthew Goodwin walk up to Maro Itoje and tell him he’s not English

Can't disagree with Gavin Barwell. It's high time the right in this country cleaned house. They won't though, because this is what the right have become. The likes of Barwell are very much a minority.

Bullet casings collected from the scene were engraved with the words "has enough time passed now that we can collectively admit that the Barbie movie wasn't that amazing"

'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.

200000 people have died in the latest episode of the Sudan civil war with 25 million facing starvation. No protests