Apparently it’s only fascism if it comes from Fasch in Germany, so what you lot have in the US is just sparkling authoritarianism made using ‘Die traditionelle Methode’ of prosecuting people you don’t like, mass rallies, shutting down/taking over independent media and arresting people based on race.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

Let's have fully virtual students and tutors so everyone can just go down the pub instead and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

A plagiarism on both your houses!

Pretty much the prefect video for our times. They insist their tech is about to reach the level of self-awareness but it still autocorrects were for we're.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

I've looked for the Queen, but she isn't in today.

The two boxes Labour need to tick in 2029: 1) Do they have a record to run on and/or have global circumstances done them a solid in 2029? 2) Is their leader a plausible receptacle for the anti-Farage front

What Musk said in his prophecy of violence is a significant step worse than what Powell says in "Rivers of Blood" in 1968 Powell wants an extreme policy of remigration, ostensibly to avert his prophesised disaster Musk tells UK citizens to prepare for violence, to support violence & to take part

William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) lying in an ambulance having been shot by British officers during his arrest at Flensburg, Germany, on 29 May 1945. Photo by Bert Hardy. Any similarities between him and a certain crop of current U.K. politicians are purely coincidental I am sure.

Re your recent episode on flags… @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social @steverichards.bsky.social

More coverage of the tube strike in France than there is in the UK!

Obviously we all want Civil Servants to be creative and hard working. But this kind of language isn't what anyone wants to hear from their new boss. Indeed was prob only said so it could be leaked, which will further deflate morale.

FDA civil service union pays tribute to Angela Rayner for resigning so swiftly after messing up FDA leader David Penman: She "acted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service. She made a mistake &... she recognised that, and ultimately took responsibility for it"

Reform is not some unstoppable political force. It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change. Labour should spray these clips across the web. Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

You could read a book by actual #WW1 historians too… 🙏🏼 Four years of back breaking work went into our account of the opening weeks of the war @pikegrey1418.bsky.social

Racists giving a Nazi salute , London in 1980 by Chris Steele-Perkins. Feels like we are heading back to this.

Seven protestors took part in the protest in Ashford, Kent on Friday. Ht @edjennings.bsky.social & @oldsocky.bsky.social

Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.

1. Stop flirting with spiders 2. Decline entry to a lady spider if she comes to your door asking for a cup of sugar 3. A nationwide ban on sexy spiders

More concerned mums at Epping

Am I right in thinking that unless there are riots across the UK this weekend then various predictions will turn out to have been wrong?

Also a rhetorical retreat to what 'ordinary people' think relies on assumption and stereotype. No 'ordinary person' has a substack, or indeed posts on a microblogging site. It's enough to simply have your own opinion, and own that for what it is.

I don't want to be rude here, but this thread makes it clear that your issue is not with the specific terminology used for the period between the fall of the western roman empire and the high medieval period, but instead your feelings on modern academia. As a result, there is little point engaging.

Earnestness and sincerity, now, are the greatest acts of rebellion and your duty is to do them.

If you get married in England this is where you have to consummate it otherwise it doesn’t count and you’re killed for treason

The state of this field. All ten fielders around the bat. Makes you wonder what would happen if you put a modern batsman in. Could they power hit the field out? Or would the terrible pitches see them off after a few balls.

It would be nice if a journo could ask Farage about how his govt would cope, if it left ECHR, with the legal inevitability of all policing & judicial co-operation with the EU being cut within 15 day, incl the supply of any passenger information for planes landing from EU. If they land.

Meanwhile, Reform has spent £1,500 on this ad, selling "Farage 10" football shirts.

The Conservatives have spent around £6,000 on this Facebook ad over the last few days, claiming a win over the High Court decision to close the hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping. It's reached nearly two million people.

Hastings was famously resolved over a couple of pints.

Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules

If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

The failure of the centre-right to stand up against blood and soil nationalism is a big reason why we're seeing a rise in vicious racist incidents. samf.substack.com/p/blood-and-...

Lots of Telegraph writers ranting about Britain's spiral into despotism seem to have decamped to...the autocratic UAE. Via Private Eye

The Cameron-Osborne years offer an important reminder that it is possible to excel at the theatre of politics - to "look prime ministerial", to dominate the "media narrative", to project "competence" and to communicate a clear political "story" - while being strikingly inept at governing.

Yet another retrospective triumph for Cameron and Osborne.

One for @edzitron.com

Did a new one

Does providing kids with meals at schools increase their performance? This new meta-analysis addresses this question very rigorously. They find that school-meal programs in high-income economies have minimal impact on students' behavior, health, and education. www.iza.org/publications...

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

Britain In The Late 1940s Explanation: brilliantmaps.com/britain-i...

Policeman: Name? Woman: Cheryl Cole Policeman: Your FULL name Woman: (Quietly) Chernobyl Coleslaw