These disgusting bigots now see fit to crawl out from under their rocks and show their true faces. Showing you just how bad things have got.

It's been many months since I concluded that the UK government and its ridiculous 'regulator' would do zero when faced with Musk's obvious and malicious targeting of the UK. And that therefore the radical right could change everything. (1/2) news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The last 24 hours have shown us what Britain is truly up against: a small phalanx of hatemongers who despise Britain so much they want to drag it down into the same filth they live in.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

The sheer thirst for hate, violence and chaos displayed by many of the Vastly Online is terrifying.

Possibly the biggest fraud of all in the Extended Brexit Fake-O-Verse. You could be paying for him to sit in the legislature for decades to come.

Nine hours later, I'm looking at a cancelled train on the way back and I've got to wait around in the cold for the next one. Which is running late. 🇬🇧

In case you missed it yesterday, Britain's main upcoming problem will be that immigration will be far, far too low. Politics may have gone mad, but reality is an unforgiving thing. We need to start encouraging people in and paying them to stay. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Now sitting on the floor in the vestibule. After 11am in an apparently developed society. And I'll be sitting on the floor of a late train tonight too. Crazy. 🚆 🇬🇧

First train ran late. Missed connection. Second train is late. Toilets inoperative on station. Every single day is like this. One reason people think Britain is falling apart (it isn't) is the pitiful state of its public infrastructure.

Immigration to the UK is absolutely cratering in a way we've never seen before. Falling like a stone. We've got to attract far more migrants, or we're all going to be dressed in rags and scrabbling for leftover coal in spoil tips. Desperate need to increase immigration. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

ICYMI last week, my reaction to the govt's Skills White Paper is that it's bitterly disappointing for universities. It will make a very bad situation worse. This is a Last Word really, because IMHO large parts of the sector have crossed a red line and can't be pulled back in their present form. 👇

It's been clear for a long time that X-Twitter is a direct and deliberate threat to UK national security - perhaps one of the most serious we've faced for decades. Nothing was done, and nothing will be done.

Don't think many normal, well-adjusted voters with real lives have clocked yet just how fast parts of the political class have started pandering to out-and-out and overt racism. When and if they tune in, there's going to be real trouble.

Money is short and unlikely to start flowing soon. Academic professionals are exhausted and demoralised. The public is not that interested. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, explores the decline in HE.

Still waiting for blanket coverage and platforming of Plaid Cymru and a flood of thinkpieces about progressive Britain - the vast majority of mainstream, liberal, modern and outward-looking voters who loathe Reform. Won't happen. Most of the media's not interested. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next train is... late! 🇬🇧

1. Bus stop suspended 2. First train really late 3. Second train on time (!) 4. Third train cancelled 5. Not another for nearly an hour 6. Every single day is like this.

Wow, it's getting dark quickly - the perfect metaphor both for this Parliament and British politics more broadly.

My reaction to the Government's White Paper on Post-16 Education and Skills. As it pertains to universities, it's a total botch that somehow manages to both raise fees and hack everybody off. The worst of all worlds, a bit like the rest of Labour's offer. Do have a read if you're interested. 👇

So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

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At some point some elements of the Right will return to power in the UK. Unless they radically change course that will mean a vast movement of peoples and the biggest changes we've known since 1945.

The once-great Conservative Party is going to go into an election pledging to deport literally millions of people, in a revolutionary upheaval that will transform almost every aspect of national life. Yet there's a collective shrug. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Very good from m'learned colleague on just how bad the Post-16 Skills White Paper is for universities. 👇

Let's face it, the speed at which the immigration debate is moving, Britain's unhinged Right are going to start attacking dual citizens within weeks. To which my reply is: Donegal and the Irish West are beautiful mate, now none of us are welcome you can do one.

Will comment on the Post-16 Skills White Paper at some point as a kind of Last Word on universities. But to be honest Chapter 3 on Higher Education is of such shockingly low quality - so full of muddle, holes, failed nostrums and wishful thinking - that there's little point.

Sunder is doing great work here exposing (1) the convulsive, revolutionary and un-British change some Tories are putting forward; and (2) the laziness and incuriosity of the media class which - as in the US - will totally fail to stop them.

Britain's problems in one capsule. If you pay to go to a posh private school and Oxford and do History and marry into wealth you can say anything, do anything, smash anything, fail anywhere. And people will still lap up what you say and nod like donkeys. (1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

There is nothing more important in British public life than defeating Farage and making sure he gets nowhere near any actual power. Nothing. Doesn't matter who you are. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.

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One of the reasons I've stepped back from commenting and writing so much is astonishment and some disgust at what people are getting through their phones. I don't have any answers, and tbh 😬😱💀

Reading this by m'learned colleague, and the nostalgia for 50s Britain is a crock. Much of the country was an exhausted dump. The Potteries were described as 'seven miles of concentrated ugliness and dirt'. Stoke was full of 'old clay working, old coal dumps, canal and industrial waste'. (1/2)

Coverage of Badenoch's speech was one of the worst examples ever of Westminster Brain and Lobbythink. A litany of nonsense applauded by a policy elite that can't even think three moves ahead. (1/3)

Toryworld has shown today that it is fundamentally and utterly unserious, and many journalists have gone along with it - in part cos it gives the story some more legs and a new turn. Very depressing.

Spectator email comes in and shows why Britain is so screwed. (1) No research curiosity, e.g. on First Time Buyers in this case, (2) focused only on the next electoral cycle, (3) London-centric. Not worth even reading any more.

Everything is upside down now: bad is good, left is right, night is day. So it is, no point commenting further. 🤷‍♂️

Yet again Badenoch has shown how the state and the policymaking community hate the young and listen only to the old. And some observers lap it up. We can't go on like this.

I just cannot comprehend how a massive bung for older rich homeowners, at the expense of sicker and younger people who have to bear all the cuts, is seen as some sort of 'win'. Britain has become a grotesque and narrow place indeed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just examined a great PhD in Edinburgh and about to leave for Down South. Totally buoyed up by the thoughtfulness, innovation and engagement displayed in the discussion. Then came out and looked at that disgraceful speech by Badenoch. Leaders totally unworthy of those they purport to lead.

Today's Badenoch speech has shown the Conservatives to be living in a fantasy land - without detail, without deliverable pledges, without a clue. It was totally disqualifying, yet many commentators are welcoming it. In those circumstances UK public policy may be unsalvageable.

Reaction to Badenoch's speech is everything wrong with Britain's policymaking community. Mostly couched in terms of the politics and her survival. Nothing on the utter garbage of policies that would leave us in an even bigger mess. UK policymaking may be irredeemable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

This is who Robert Jenrick is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...