Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

I see #r4today carries on with quasi news black out on the Mone story

Once again the Tories demonstrate the know the price of things and the value of nothing #r4today

Who could have guessed that a chainsaw wielding President who seeks counselling from his dead cloned pets through a dog medium would turn out to be an unmitigated disaster.

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I expect little can be done about bad behaviour in the police, because, while that's not the case for all officers, it's clear the job attracts a certain kind of toxic men. And how do you screen that? #r4today

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No, the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza isn't a "provocation" because it's not about you, Israel, it's about helping Gazan. But a people calling themselves chosen by god would have an inflated perception of their importance, I guess #r4today

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

“Hi, is that ‘We Buy Any Yacht?’”

Mort de la célèbre primatologue Jane Goodall, à l’âge de 91 ans

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Well, no so hidden really, since we get similar "revelations" every few months it seems

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

Presumably Grokpedia is going to be plageriased/canibalised version of Wikipedia anyway

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‘A succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.’ David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"We cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP Lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/ph6f

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Starmer calling out Reform's racism is essential. He isn't going to change the mind of those already voting for it, but by drawing a moral line in the sand, he might prevent more to join in. #r4today

Being depressed, Mr Robinson, is not just feeling a bit sad because it's raining today. Depression is debilitating. So, yes, it will prevent you from looking for work (let alone work at all) #r4today

Taking oil out of the North Sea is just as "ideological" as not taking it, Mr Robinson #r4today

Starmer: I'm reviewing the interpretation of human rights law. (It might affect one or two cases in this parliament.) Worst of all worlds - amplifying Reform and Tories whle giving them yet another target. #r4today

It's incredible that the US haven't found a mechanism to ensure countinuity of basic gevernment services while Congress battles it out on the budget. Those regular shutdowns don't make the country look very serious #r4today

Starmer may have finally made the speech everyone wanted him to do but it seems he is still a hostage (sausage?) of the right if he is still talking of diluting the ECHR to appease them #r4today

Trump's speech to 500 generals & admirals was unhinged, rambling, repellent--but it also laid out a clear, frightening new mission for the US military: to defeat the "enemy from within" in our cities. Will anyone in power resist him? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Weird how The Times had Farage's "shocked" reaction to Starmer's speech published before Starmer's speech.

Elon Musk, who hid his own father's sexual abuse of his family for years and was personally invited to Epstein's island, is calling a queer person a groomer.

I've done the whole "don't call them racists" bit. I've done the "here is why people believe Farage" bit. Done it for years. You know what I learned from that, it doesn't make a damn difference. The only way to combat growing normalisation of racism is by making people feel embarrassed to be racist.

OK but what do we mean by ‘stop reform’. You won’t win over their natural voters by calling them racists but that isn’t and shouldn’t be the goal. What we should be trying to do is stop people thinking their ideas are reasonable - with shame and condemnation. Moral standards are good, actually.

Boohoo! They've been mean to our boy!

Fingers crossed!

More trouble for the Met centred on Charing Cross police station (again): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #london

It is very surreal how different the ~ discourse ~ was a decade or so ago

Excellent from @zackpolanski.bsky.social So refreshing to hear a politician who actually answers questions, direct and to the point. And very sound, excellent answers based on solid principle too, not meaningless sound bites. No wonder Starmerites are scared of the rising Green Tide!

Emprisonné durant neuf mois et violenté dans son pays en raison de son homosexualité, un Turkmène de 29 ans a vu sa demande de visa humanitaire être rejetée par le ministère de l’Intérieur.

Right wingers always turn out to be the real snowflakes (whether they are delusional or opportunistic (or both) about it)

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

Fuckin yikes, man

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Epigraph of the book I'm just starting: "With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." - William Lloyd Garrison #booksky #amreading

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

Streeting frantically tacking left as he realises that cosying up to Palantir, taking huge bungs from private healthcare, and pleasing the TERFs with policies that are killing young trans people have made him a proper hate figure with the key leadership selectorate.

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French President Emmanuel Macron is on first-name terms with him and quotes him in his speeches. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has a direct line to him. His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.