It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

Net migration will fall below 200k - perhaps around 160k - in the ONS figures being published on Thursday. Nb, this is January - December 2025. (It will not be so high an inflow as 160k inflow now but year to June 2026 stats not out until November). www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A 68-year-old man stepped outside at dawn in Kherson on 19 May. A Russian drone tracked him and dropped its charge. He survived with one leg gone. This is the "human safari" the UN has ruled a crime against humanity. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/19/r...

“First Draft: Islamophobes Can't Shut Up Even as Muslims Are Murdered at a California Mosque” 3 people were shot dead at the Islamic Center of San Diego, amid rising GOP anti-Muslim invective that has been left largely unchecked by the mainstream media.

The new First Minister of Wales has said the UK is not a union of equals and vowed to press for a further devolution of powers nation.cymru/news/uk-is-n...

Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era

I really do think people who like Starmer underestimate just how much of a battering canvassers took in the last couple of months and how that ripples through a party.

This will probably put me at the godless communist end of the Centrist Dad Spectrum but the delivery of competition to the British postal market and - very precisely - the removal of the Royal Mail monopoly is, I feel, one low key cause of people feeling everything has gone to shit

Xi privately told Trump that Putin might "regret" invading Ukraine — days before welcoming Putin to Beijing First time Xi has offered such an assessment to a US president, per FT sources. Trump also floated a US-China-Russia ICC alliance at the same summit. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/19/x...

Great to see ABC news doing this - that's Rebel News panicking because if everyone does it they no longer have a business model @news.abc.net.au

My notifications are currently dominated by a debate on potholes which can be summarised as "you get what you pay for". Those tax and spend trade-offs can't be escaped and no benefits crackdown, billionaire tax, or any other single measure will change this.

Labour’s lack of intellectual rigour has returned to bite it ft.trib.al/BrubijD | opinion

ten years ago today

This is not who we are. This is not who we have always been. This is Christian Nationalist drivel.

But what if we called this "Manchesterism"? Then it works? The problem goes back to at least 2016. But Starmer was of course supposed to be "change". Pleased in a small way at least the trade-offs I'm writing about are recognised. www.ft.com/content/1958...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Because of the overlap in right wing dickhead talking points you can always hit a birthrate freak with a “why dont you just replace the children with ai, arent you always on about it replacing people anyway“

I genuinely don't think the right has noticed the degree to which it has radicalised.

their stunned reaction proves how utterly disconnected from reality they are. they’re talking about something that’s literally destroying the job market and they’re surprised by the boos! turns out “hey kids wanna walk into this buzz saw” isn’t terribly persuasive messaging

Poorest region, by GDP per head, was North East, 28% below national ave, followed by Wales, 26% below. It will not have escaped your attention that these were places where the political earthquakes on May 7 were most intense. (£) www.thetimes.com/business/eco... By @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social

A Ukrainian FP-2 drone shooting missiles at Russian targets. Wow!

The government isn't forcing churches and community centres and town halls across the country to fly the Ukrainian flag. People are doing it themselves because we see a battle and we know which side we are on. There are lots of ways in which Reform is wildly out of touch with Britain.

My father in law, who was born and raised in Chios, Greece, laughed tonight when I told him the white supremacists on X were mad about the casting of the Odyssey movie. "We're not white. Why do they think we're white?"

Patel was disrespectful towards the graves of men who died fighting fascism, an act MAGA loves

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

'Rule Britannia' 'Unite the Kingdom' 'Account based in Thailand'... 🤔

She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. wapo.st/4wyzH7u

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Best moment this government has had was unleashing the police & courts on the far-right in August 2024. It was morally right, politically popular & played to Starmer's strengths. They disgracefully & idiotically allowed themselves to be spooked away from this by a right-wing press that nobody reads

I suppose families are a bit safer today, considering that most of the nation's nonces and domestic abusers are in London waving Union Jacks.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

"... MADE AAAHRR WIMMIN CRY ..."

Putin wants Lukashenko to fight Ukraine with only two questions remaining: direction and timing, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba says. Belarus entering the war is just a matter of time and attack direction, he adds.

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Another two gone! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Updated list: www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-m...

🤨 The newly elected Reform UK administration in Essex has removed the Ukrainian flag from outside county council offices, calling it a “proud moment.” Opposition leader Lee Scott warned the move could embolden “pro-Kremlin politics” locally.

This remains, quite simply, the best light switch ever made.

Essentially this... followed by Burnham's political career ending in failure. All because... Makerfield. bsky.app/profile/anth...

Pure slopaganda that previous generations in the UK would have viewed as a style that is too crudely American Cc @miyhnea.bsky.social

"How can you trust the Russians if they keep trying to assassinate you?" "I don't have to trust anyone, I have to get results." Budanov is my spirit animal.

When the real history of the last few years comes to be investigated, I think many will be surprised at how deliberate and strategic those Summer 2024 riots were - and how effective at taking out a very new govt's legs from under it. Planned and simply looking for a trigger event, would be my guess.

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Change is in the air. So let's all revel in the discomfort our language offers to those who seek to see us diminished, shamed and kept in line. Because those days are finally done, and they ain't seen nothin' yet ✍️ Stephen Price

Russia’s Nevinnomyssk Azot chemical plant in Stavropol region was struck. The plant is critical to Russia’s military-industrial complex, producing up to 1.4M tons of ammonium nitrate and over 1M tons of ammonia annually - materials used in explosives and ammunition production.

Can you imagine the volume and shrillness of condemnation we would be hearing, if environmental protesters or BLM activists were doing this?

Hardly the major news story, but Labour managing to literally have a by election to elect a man so they can elect him leader instead of considering any of the 180 odd women already in office is going to become a great topic for a politics of gender seminar one day.

Oh my god! They've actually automated the wallet inspector!

If a not insane way is found of resolving the American embargo of Cuba then all the Trumpian bullshit posting when the deal is done should be bearable