Much much more of this from Labour….

It gives you an indication that Starmer’s speech was very good when Sky News are waxing lyrical about it @sturdyalex.bsky.social imho Kinnocks was better because Kinnock was and is one of the finest political orators I have had the pleasure to watch but this time we finally saw passion form Starmer

It’s an interesting approach @mrjamesob.bsky.social that criticising Nigel Farage makes people unfit for PM. So that’s you out of the running then 😂

#MosaicMonday Every time I go fishing near Rockbourne, I tell myself I must see the villa. Always after fishing, I'm too late and they have closed. This time, I fished Saturday so I could focus on the villa Sunday. I was not disappointed. Also a very special hypocaust I didn't stand in.

Important thread here

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social Sky News this morning have a video about Glasgow being the asylum seeker capital of the U.K. It is actually very good and is worth a watch. What isn’t mentioned though is asylum seekers make up less than 0.7% of the population news.sky.com/video/share-...

Watching Schwarzenegger’s Commando and thinking how much shorter it would be with the advent of mobile phones.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

A thought experiment for you this morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social what if a Labour MP and leader of a party in Wales or Scotland and had been appointed by Keir Starmer had just been discovered to have been taking bribes from the Russians since 2017 . What story do you think would be leading the news?

I’m sorry @mrjamesob.bsky.social but Sky News must do better here as a student of history this reads like a fluff piece for the Brown Shirts from a 1930s Newspaper(which one? 😉). By all means report what these people are saying but challenge it more forcefully news.sky.com/story/charli...

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.

This is worth reading @mrjamesob.bsky.social and should be top of Kier Starmer’s reading list on the correct strategy to use in the immigration debate. Spoiler alert he’s not doing it right now.

You meant the war between Albania and Abedijan right @mrjohncrace.bsky.social ?

Farage now swinging further towards the weirder parts of the Trump playbook @luketryl.bsky.social I don’t think this sort of nonsense is not going be appreciated much by ordinary voters

Remember MAGA will only offer thoughts and prayers to white people not to brown detainees at ICE facilities.

With Chris Mason calling Ed Davey a bellend and Beth Rigby accusing Davey to allow Farage to live rent free in his head there has clearly been definite pushback by the Reform supporting media on anyone daring to criticise Farage.

Why take Tylenol when you can gargle bleach, chase it with Hydroxychloroquine, and wash it down with horse dewormer? Add MAHA’s anti-vax obsession and you’ve got a death cult masquerading as a healthier lifestyle movement.

Sky cut away from the Lib Dem’s conference to cover that idiot Trump lecturing the UN. 🤬

I have a lot of time for Beth Rigby @mrjamesob.bsky.social but this analysis about Ed Davey standing up to Farage is ridiculous. It’s not neutral political analysis—it frames Davey as irrationally fixated, obsessed, rather than as a party leader. It feels more like ridicule than detached commentary.

Ed Davey calls for UK to import US cancer researchers hit by Trump cuts

We’ve heard this before @iandunt.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social but when the first political instinct of this government is NOT to condemn on the simple basis of the basic immorality of Reforms policies but just to say it’s economically unfeasible or won’t work I will believe it when I see it.

Let’s be clear @iandunt.bsky.social after Farage’s announcement today about abolition of ILR their next policy announcement will inevitably be to strip foreign born U.K. citizens of their citizenship and force them to apply for impossible visas and ban them from welfare and NHS entitlement.

The Tories are now accusing Teform of stealing their policies @mrjamesob.bsky.social I wasn’t aware retroactively abolishing ILR was now actual Tory Policy.

I don’t doubt the Lib Dem’s and Greens will publicly push against it. I also don’t doubt it won’t actually be reported.

Labour have regressed again @iandunt.bsky.social this policy is beyond disgusting and to be blunt Labour would today say if Reform decided to propose slavery as a policy that it would be economically infeasible.

Of course the hypocritical irony here @mrjamesob.bsky.social is that Farage’s wife would have had to follow the exactly the same path Farage is now wants to ban.

The next logical steps will be strip all foreign born U.K. citizens amd their rights and make them also apply for a ‘visa’. Then they wil exempt all non U.K. born people from not only welfare and NHS but minimum wage and employment rights and eventually human rights.

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social For once Reform is being truthful Zia Yousef - ‘A British passport will no longer be given away cheaply’ Reform Policy ‘Wealthy foreign entrepreneurs would also be allowed to settle in the UK, and would be given new “golden” visas’

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Wise words from @iandunt.bsky.social you just end up fighting pigeons on a chessboard. I deleted Facebook last month because of this realisation

Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

Je suis Kimmell

Everyone in America needs to read this article. Trump is using Hitler’s playbook. Thank god Trump is stupid, that’s why it’s taking him longer. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You can never appease a tyrant.

Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social the opponents of ‘cancel culture’ have so far cancelled Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. It’s almost as if they are hypocrites www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Free speech latest @mrjamesob.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/jimmy-...

Free speech latest @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.thewrap.com/center-for-a...

'Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke endorses Nigel Farage for Prime Minister of Britain.' www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/form...

You would think @mrjamesob.bsky.social that David Duke a former leader of the KKK endorsing Nigel Farage for PM would normally spell the end of someone’s political career but today Daily Mail would probably say the lynchings of black people are just ordinary people expressing legitimate concerns

It’s almost as if Nigel Farage is a hypocrite @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The two killings in question — the assassination of former MN House Speaker Melissa Hortman in June and the shooting of Kirk at a Utah Valley University speaking event this past week — elicited very different kinds of treatment from the White House. Sick. Twisted.😡 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social We now have the historical equivalent today of the Daily Mail gushing over the 1936 Nuremberg Rally. No challenge of the views. No condemnation of bigotry. No questioning of views. This is an appalling fluff piece justifying an appalling ideology news.sky.com/story/why-to...

Starmer - We need an antidote to Farage and Trump, not our own version of it. That’s exactly what they are doing. Starmer is not applying an antidote he’s continuing to spread the poison of the far right

"You say you value free speech and oppose social penalties for bad speech, but your actions show that you don’t. You value free speech for you and people who agree with you and oppose social penalties for expressing things you agree with." I wrote that over 5 years ago. Had these figures clocked.

100k at far right protest today in London and it’s all over the news. 100k Trans march in London in July and it barely makes the news @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Why did we not have this level of saturation coverage for the assassination and attempted assassinations of elected Democratic politicians @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Five Farmhouse Farage?