"I just think armed resistance to military occupation and apartheid is futile, no I don't support cutting off trade with Israel or imposing arm embargoes or doing any boycotts either" is the exact same thing as "I support Ukraine but wish Ukraine would give up all of its territory for peace".

"The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix", writes @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social. Read their full piece now: https://bit.ly/4mWSYtp

"Are they [MRPs] any use to anyone at this stage of the Parliament? No! Do something more useful. Stop producing these polls. They're not magic." Expert pollster @psurridge.bsky.social reflects on polls and electoral reform Catch up on the discussion in full here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/ivRLHUb...

Latest stats on greenbelt land published today - I think people are always surprised by this map, which shows that the large majority of land across England is neither built up, nor greenbelt. Most of it's just ordinary, unprotected farmland. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity. They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

And, you know, the whole war crimes thing. So, so many reasons he should spend the rest of his life in jail - along with most members of this Israeli govt

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Aadhar was first introduced by Manmohan Singh..(not exactly a fascist!) and its main function has been to enable access to welfare/services for poorer Indians. Not necessarily an argument for digital IDs here but saying we can't learn anything from India is exactly what it sounds like...

@stephenkb.bsky.social calling out yet more racist garbage that fills the pages of our right-wing press these days.

I can absolutely guarantee that 1920s Stephen Daisley would have been writing the same article about Eastern European Jewish immigrants.

Yes, agree. As @gabrielmilland.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social have pointed out, it's exactly the same things people would have said about our grandparents. Exploiting the Manchester attack to try to divide our communities with this nonsense is appalling.

Opinion | Starmer has not prioritised growth, not really. He has done what British governments have been doing for over a decade: prioritising anti-immigration policy and focusing on growth only where it does not interfere with it 🖋 @iandunt.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/HHn51XN

I see @iandunt.bsky.social has done an article-length version of my Meatloaf post. It's excellent. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social "The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about" bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

If your entire argument for why Jews should be protected is not because they are human beings and deserve respect but that they have been "a model minority," then congratulations, you have actually implied that if they weren't, that would justify a mass expulsion.

I'd Do Anything For Growth (But I Won't Do That) www.ft.com/content/5ab6...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social "The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about" bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Our latest edition is out, with @omerbartov.bsky.social's magisterial essay on the history of genocide denial and how Israeli denialism over atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

I'd Do Anything For Growth (But I Won't Do That) www.ft.com/content/5ab6...

Genuine sympathy with Office for National Statistics on this. What's happened here is a bog-standard HMRC recording error on VAT which the ONS have been commendably open about. On substance, it doesn't change the outlook much as low VAT receipts always looked erratic.

You can't have a successful economy by kowtowing to bigots who want to close the country to the rest of the world. It'd be nice if a politician had the brains or guts to point this out.

Universities are the Right's explanation for why so many young don't believe in their conspiracies about globalists and Cultural Marxists, fantasies about Empire and the natural order of things, and reject Christian nationalism and ecocidal capitalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Growth is the number one priority of this Labour government." Oh no, not like *that*.

no words

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

We cannot accept this. news.sky.com/story/abject...

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

As Prof Portes implies - I am old enough to remember when offshoring jobs was seen as a bad thing.

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy. The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes a statistic is counterintuitive. This is not one: every adult in Britain has experienced greater interaction with people of different ethnic backgrounds over their lifetime As I say in this thread, this statistical fact is obvious in every aspect of our lives, & all of us know/feel it

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy. The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The politics of migration have shifted so far to the extreme right, the Conservatives and Reform now have a more hardline policy on deporting legal British residents than... the British National Party did in 2005

If you don't think that the Overton Window has shifted right in recent years ... here's Reform AND the Tories going beyond what the BNP suggested in 2005. They want to expel legally permanent British residents. Frankly I weep every day for what my country has become.

Anyone reporting on Conservative proposals on this topic should ask a) why Lam felt the need to make things up to justify them b) whether they have made their proposals/claimed their "savings" based on her false claims

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

Apparently, some progressives still believe working class kids should be told to stay in their lane when it comes to education, long before they're even allowed to drink in pubs.

The irony here is A) there probably *are* such schools (if you look at English skills *at entry*/year 1) B) those schools almost certainly outperform the national average by the time the kids leave! @samfr.bsky.social

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education" Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects [CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]