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2016: Nigel Farage - "Vote Brexit to secure our borders" 2026: Zia Yusuf - "Vote Reform to secure our borders" We are being treated as mugs #PoliticsLive

Most of us in Britain aren’t Christian in our beliefs, practices, or identity. The only basis for national identity in our country is around the shared values and institutions of our plural society. Christian Nationalism is a divisive dead end. humanists.uk/2026/02/23/d...

My favourite Concorde story: A lawyer I know was then very junior, on a big inheritance dispute case. Transatlantic family. Their client discovered the other side was flying to London, with the intent of clearing out some very expensive art from the London home...

BREAKING: Australian PM Anthony Albanese has written to Keir Starmer expressing his government’s support to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from the line of succession

What’s our most important policy you’ve never heard of? Let me introduce… Universal Basic Jobs (for young people). jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/universal-...

He was pleased he upset her , he does seem to have a problem with women .

Just over ten years ago I wrote this on what we could do next after accepting Britain is not a Christian country. Ten years later we're back arguing over the basic premise and the party leading the polls is threatening to take us backwards. We can't allow it! andrewcopson.com/2015/12/acce...

#Humanist values are the answer. @humanists.uk @newhumanist.bsky.social @humanismedu.bsky.social

congratulations to all our Winter Olympics medallists, especially ex-prince Andrew, who won gold in the skeletons

Doesn't look like this story is going to have a happy ending for Andrew.

Claims that Britain is the midst of a 'spiritual revival' are fatally undermined by a wealth of evidence. The British Social Attitudes Survey, YouGov's British Election Study, and even Church of England and Catholic Church data all point to the same thing – decline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don't mistake the promotion of Christian nationalism as merely a dog whistle to anti-Muslim voters (though it is that foul thing too). Many of these guys really believe in a re-Christianised state and society. Bad news is UK's existing Christian constitution gives them an easy way to do it in power.

If we want to inoculate ourselves against future Christian nationalist takeover then we need to take action now: end the heritage Christian parts of our state, from church establishment to Christian privilege, and build a inclusive national culture on our shared values and institutions.

"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries

Nigal Farage is setting out his migration plans, which would involve retrospectively removing permanent UK residency for hundreds of thousands of non-European people, arguing this the only way to defeat a "really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism".

Anti-abortion theologian James Orr, appointed Reform UK’s policy head on Tues, sees asylum seekers as “invaders,” diversity as a “debilitating weakness” & the Ukraine war as a “regional Slavic conflict.” He’s tight with Jordan Peterson and obsessed with stamping out “wokery” on university campuses.

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

Hard working royals earning respect for our country through their unique soft power. God we are so lucky to have them. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

I have nothing of value or interest to say so here is an idiot in a box

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Nominal Christianity below half at the 2021 census, for first time, more due to no religion than rise in minority faith England + Wales Christian 46% (-13) No religion 37% (+12) Muslim 6.5% (+1) Hindu <2% Sikh 1% Jewish 0.5% Wales: no religion 46%, Christian 43% www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Our poll shows that the constant drum beat against immigration by right wing media and politicians - has gaslit the British public, who think immigration is still rising and that small boat crossings via the Channel are the main route. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

So then... here's some good news!

“I’m not swimming 100 miles again because you think you can smell blood” From the new Private Eye, out now.

There was a critical mass of normie (left/centre left) UK journalism / politics twitter moving across here en masse in a weekend, with lots of starter pack action. Not everyone stuck around and not everyone quit X, but it's given UK bluesky a v different feel from American bluesky.

The importance of good surveys - with random samples: the much reported resurgence of religiosity in young adults evaporates in the face of good data…

first rule of politics don't fight with martin lewis, one of only three universally beloved national figures alongside a fictional bear and a nonagenarian wildlife presenter

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate says. He previously argued that being born in the country is not sufficient to make a person British. Right wing regimes always destroy workers rights. Reform preparing for ethnic cleansing, making people stateless.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say

Kemi Badenoch getting irritated and talking over Martin Lewis as he calmly tries to explain why her student debt plans will only help the richest graduates

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves always said it was a ten year project. They’re not even 20 months in yet. Yet 63 manifesto pledges are completed or on course in just those 20 months. That is seriously impressive. fullfact.org/government-t...

Zia Yusuf says Reform will outbid Trump by proposing largest ever expulsion people with permanent status [over 250k] since 1970s dictator Idi Amin threw 80k Asians out of Uganda + deport over a million other more recent legal migrants too. Despite rhetoric of control, its a recipe for chaos+cruelty

Quite the scenes on Good Morning Britain as Ed Balls tells Kemi Badenoch her student loan interest plan will only help the richest ex-students. After she insists he's wrong, GMB bring on Martin Lewis to back up Balls' argument and tell her the plan makes no sense.

But it's not "a cheap stunt." Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too. It's expensive flying to the Maldives. Where did he stay? How long is he staying? How much did it cost? Who picked up the tab? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

A number of months ago, many Americans online—myself included—began telling foreign nationals to stop coming to the United States (for now) for their own safety. The events described below are exactly why. Stay away from America, friends. Don't come here.

Zia Yusuf is speaking at Dover tomorrow morning (11am) in his first speech as Home Affairs spokesperson. Reform have briefed the Monday newspapers with some of his remarks The Independent has some details + initial responses here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour is rising to the generational challenge of properly supporting children with SEND. We will set out our vision and ambition for a schools system where every child can achieve and thrive. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Today's adventure took me to The Headington Shark. Things like this make me happy.

Did a dog write this?

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity. Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

Any sign of this on BBC or Sky News? Maybe the Daily Mail? Thought not. ‘Annual retail sales strongest since February 2022’ www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

@reformexposed.bsky.social @andrewcopson.bsky.social Reform are laying on the Christianity in the their campaign leaflets