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This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social seems you owe @rory-stewart.bsky.social an apology on his Douglas-Home answer on the last @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Really useful to see how the BBC journalist feels compelled to try to normalise repellent views by attributing them to "people", and Heseltine is having none of it - it's just filthy, despicable racism, and everyone knows it.

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’ Via Sam Leith in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

"Does the ECHR stop states from controlling their borders?" No. The ECHR Court emphasises migration policies are up to states themselves. "But the ECHR stops the UK from deporting foreign criminals." No, it doesn't. Successful human rights-based appeals against deportation are very rare.

It’s not “un-British” to march today. But it is British to protest with sensitivity and empathy. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

It can simultaneously be true that A) ID cards are a terrible idea B) The Blair family are greedy chancers and C) There is no evidence of this claim, it stems from far right social media accounts & amplifying it is a lazy failure of basic fact checking, political nous and common sense by #hignify

Oh you stupid bastards. I did a thread on large calibre wounds yesterday expecting it to only be relevant to the attacker but nope, turns out Greater Manchester Police also prefer movies to numbers.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up.

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Dehumanisation as policy. It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will. It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades. news.sky.com/story/shaban...

This is what happens when your government joins in the rhetoric that presents people seeking asylum as a threat and says racist intimidators have legitimate concerns instead of roundly condemning it. Escalation Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers’ hotel www.bbc.com/news/article...

Obviously Labour voters have forgotten about the six years of austerity before Brexit

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Helen Morgan: "Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong. "It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works." Entirely untrue. Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

@katie0martin.ft.com I’m in the financial reporting game so was v interested in yours and @robarmstrong.bsky.social chat on DJT’s …..word💨s. Great pod. The highlight though was Katie’s “Long”. I’m a neat person, I do not miss my daughter living with me as much as I should 🤭

Cancelled my #Disney subscription and used the money to support @alexpodyssey.bsky.social instead! 👍

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

This is bad advice on an individual level: most entrepreneurs fail, and it's better to get a good job in an existing business. On a social level, entrepreneurship matters, but it's determined by access to finance, things other entrepreneurs do, market size, not 'drive'.

She’s not de Goede, she’s de Fucking Excellent. #NZLvCAN

Lots of people out there are not going to be comfortable deleting Disney+ because they have kids or whatever. I know a bunch of people are going to say they should do it anyway, but it won’t be all or nothing for many people, so here are some options:

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

Bluesky is still a tiny platform. Should the normies who use Twitter for, like, football or non-political stuff, be left to the far-right influencers, with no dilution from the non-fascists who remain?

Mad that there will be fewer arrests after this than when a bunch of pensioners and nuns stand quietly with a sign.

Kirk was a vile person dressed up in the usual RW politeness. He didn’t deserve to die but neither should the vile person who murdered him. But the US is going to US.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Exclusive: Peter Mandelson is facing calls for a standards investigation over a possible breach of parliamentary rules Comes amid ongoing questions about whether the Labour peer should remain a member of the House of Lords 👇 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead on.ft.com/3VfX9Fm

there’s obviously a lot of reasoned, careful arguments against this sort of attitude but also just, fuck off!!!! don’t talk about people’s work like that! don’t be so disrespectful!

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

We need to talk about the threat X poses to our shared values as a country. This is bigger than just one platform: it’s about the way our democracy is being reshaped by an engagement model that rewards outrage above all else. 1/7 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection. This is not who we are nor who we should become. Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

If you’re comfortable with a man calling for members of the public to assault trans people in bathrooms (which in practice disproportionately endangers cis women who are tall, large or gender nonconforming) then you can get on the list of people who actually don’t give a sh*t about women’s safety.

On the Rayner situation, I realise it's slightly different when you're the actual minister of gov, but I had a situation where I was stiffed by poor legal property advice too - as a journalist with over 15 years experience covering housing at the time. Erp. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Fairly confident Farage wouldn't be doing this if the government attacked him more, because he'd realise that asking Americans to harm Britain comes across poorly with the general public. Failing to act makes the government's problems worse.

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

Starmer ravages Farage: "The honourable member for Clacton is not here... he's flown to America to badmouth and talkdown our country. And worse than that... he's gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It's a disgrace."