I know he'll say anything but I was a bit sceptical - however you are right, he is on record as objecting to safety post-Dunblane - www.theguardian.com/politics/201... Unspeakable

Background on Lord Maurice Glasman

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

Very powerful. Use it.

“… an *active*, *vigorous* direction of this war.” Exactly. In circumstances like these you take the war *to* your opponents.

Epic style from Macron, good-humoured, but is assertive with Trump, treats him as an equal, even in New York, rather than caving in.

French President Emmanuel Macron phoned President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York intersection that was being blocked off for his U.S. counterpart's motorcade during the United Nations General Assembly.

Timeline serendipity

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

If permanence can be torn up by Reform for settled migrants, how long before it can be torn up for citizens? Read the Bear’s commentary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

The council has taken down the flags… a spate of race and hate incidents…

The alarming thing is, given a chance in government, they’ll probably implement measures even more extreme than this.

As well as trashing our economy the EU, or EU countries, would immediately retaliate. It’s the UK that would suffer.

Press release: European Movement in Scotland announces keynote speaker for its annual event | Martin Roche

Scotland has 32 local authority areas, also known as council areas, for voting and result reporting purposes. Every single one of these 32 areas recorded a majority vote to Remain in the EU. Scotland overall voted 62% Remain to 38% Leave. Westminster said NO

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

You deal with the far-right by fighting them, not copying them.

“Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Surely this should be at the Reform conference.

The big difference between Trump' first state visit and his second was this: On his first visit, he was desperate for recognition from the Queen. On his second, he demanded Charles and Starmer to kiss his feet. And they did. His malignancy grew in between, and the dynamics of power were reversed.

"In recent weeks, Reform leader Nigel Farage has learned for sure what he must have already assumed: that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."

Tip o'the hat to the great Pete Murray...former stalwart on @lbc.co.uk after extraordinary contributions elsewhere as well. Total professional, and lovely to report into his programmes.

Shadowing Reform has been a disaster … yes, for the Labour Party, but most importantly for the country. Labour could have confronted Reform’s racist ideology, but instead chose to copy it. In the absence of an alternative perspective, millions have now been indoctrinated with Reform’s racist beliefs

Instead of trying to salvage the Labour government, try saving the country instead.

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

Slowly, critical voices are disappearing from American media, under pressure from the Trump administration, and they present themselves as champions of free speech.

The shortlist of 6 novels for this year’s German Book Prize has been announced. The German Book Prize is awarded to the best German language novel of the year at the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair every October. More about the shortlisted titles: www.new-books-in-german.com/german-book-...

“The Overton window moves when there are no ideas to fight the ideas which are moving the window.” As the Overton window gallops to the right - Labour are finding themselves in the crouch position, terrified of their own shadow. Where is the fight back? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

Labour peer Maurice Glasman, who has been photographed with Steve Bannon, and praised Trump’s second election win, warned Keir Starmer that Lord Mandelson was hanging out with the wrong sort of people.

White supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the US. - The US Department of Justice has just removed a study showing it to be the case.

75 years ago, President Harry Truman warned about what would happen in America if extremists like MAGA took over. We are now seeing the worst of his predictions come true. #MAGAmerica

The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.

She might like to also examine some of the statements made previously by her government.

A good analysis of the Labour government’s issues here: Keir Starmer isn’t in charge, it’s Morgan McSweeney and other advisers. Keir Starmer has outsourced responsibilities to people at Number 10, and the people at Number Ten think they’re better than everyone else.

They must be using vehicles to bring the ladders they need. If they’re putting up the flags in town and city centres ( their preferred locations ) is there not CCTV footage showing the vehicle registration numbers, so these people can be traced and prosecuted?

They must be using vehicles to bring the ladders they need. If they’re putting up the flags in town and city centres ( their preferred locations ) is there not CCTV footage showing the vehicle registration numbers, so these people can be traced and prosecuted?

A strong, unified Europe is needed to stand up for liberal values in an era of “imperial ambitions and imperial wars” says @theguardian.com - they’re right! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My favourite writer. The author who had his books burned by the Nazis. So he had personal experience to draw upon.

The catastrophic Labour government is doing all it can, inadvertently, to drive the far right - by failing to address, or even exacerbating, economic insecurity, while legitimising anti-migrant rhetoric and policies.

Fifteen year old classmate of a friend’s daughter detained by ICE in our school district yesterday. Never came home from school. 15 year old girl. USA Today.

Three more - closely linked - items for Starmer’s ‘to do list’: 1. sack Morgan McSweeney now 2. stop listening to Lord Glasman and Blue Labour 3. get us on course to rejoin the EU (and yes, Keir, in your life time).

A government minister has said this morning that he’s not disturbed by a huge rally, led by a criminal and addressed by Elon Musk, who called for the overthrow of his government.

“A government that will bow down to Trump and to to racism will open the door to fascism.”

You can only pray that the Labour Party has a moral reawakening at this point, before it is absolutely, decisively, too late.

These people are not demonstrators, they’re rioters.

When hundreds of thousands peacefully demonstrated against Brexit, it didn’t even get a mention.

They’ve probed councils’ resolve with their flags on street lamps tactic… watch out for flag-themed parades in towns and cities next.