Our for lunch with some friends, one wants to send his son to Dulwich College and the other has rediscovered his Catholicism. That there are some good Catholic schools nearby is coincidental. God I feel old.

Cameron hugging huskies feels a very long time ago

I want to live in a flat in a Victorian mansion block

Is Comey going to suffer the indignity of the perp walk?

Literally a traitor. Not a word I’d ever use lightly.

Apropos of nothing. There’s no “statute of limitations” in the U.K. see also “pressing charges” or “taking the stand”.

If the length of this parliament was a football match, we’re not even at half time yet

First thought, was I know I'm tired but I didn't realise I'd slept for 3 years. This is an absolutely crazy way to use and report polling. It should not be getting this kind of priority at this stage in an electoral cycle.

People who end up in the CJS often have quite significant mental health challenges that public humiliation is unlikely to help with.

The reason Trump hstes IKEA is because its stuff has a rather understated look and is nowhere near vulgar enough for him.

It’s grim but at least Jenrick loses his seat

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state. Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

“We’re not a papers please country”. Things you need some sort of papers for. 1. Voting 2. Working 3. Opening a bank account 4. Renting somewhere to live. 5. Applying for a driving licence When you need papers to work or put a roof over your head, it feels like that ship has sailed.

Lack of ID cards is not the reason for the shitty state of our roads

Might not agree with the last sentence but the rest is spot on

This makes me sad for some reason

When I was a kid I was told ld that swans were dangerous and could attack you. Is this true?

Going on this site at this hour, you sometimes wonder if people have had one or two too many.

As others have pointed out it’s long been argued that strict immigration laws are necessary for good race relations. But is there any evidence of this or is it just something that politicians say?

Oh charming!

These people are beatable. Just have to really want to do it and take the fight to them. By the end of this week they will have supported deporting *permanent residents* and possibly killing kids too.

Anti-racism and anti-fascism norms are breaking down. Failure of the mainstream to speak out against them is encouraging this sorts of extremism.

Everybody knows that the Bakerloo line needs extending but we’re too skint so we’ll just bring out a bus route and call it the Bakerloop

Weird, in a way, that one of the most consistently socially left-wing journalists on this platform is an FT journalist. I know it’s not exactly a right-wing paper but the FTSE is literally named after it.

As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.

Just a former cabinet minister to the right of Nick Griffin twenty years ago. No biggie.

statistic of the day

Cattle

What intrigues me more are the falls in non-acquisitive violent crime. Do people drink less? People just more peaceful? Less socially acceptable? Eg domestic violence or hitting kids as a discipline tactic.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say actively love but maybe John Lewis and British Airways. But I think they’re more middle England than Tory.

I remember when it was insinuated at the height of the MMR panic that Leo Blair hadn’t had the MMR jab. Tony and Cherie refused to answer as they felt it wasn’t anyone else’s business. Cherie confirmed years mater that he had. Kind of feel it should be asked if Barron had it. For different reasons.

Legal BlueSky I have some up to date SQE2 study books that I happily won’t be needing and happy to give away to anybody who can come to South London or pay the postage costs. Please share.

Can Jimmy Kimmel credibly go back.? Won’t he self-censor or won’t people think he is? Suspect it will be like Gary Lineker returning to the BBC after a backlash only to leave soon afterwards.

Satire is mocking the powerful. Not a small minority that already faces significant challenges.

And look what push alert just popped up

I have a friend who’s a dual national. When you renew a British passport they ask you to send off any foreign ones which she didn’t want to to. I told her it’s as an additional check. She said she didn’t want the government knowing that she had another nationality. Today I’m starting to understand.

How long before Labour MPs condemn Reform’s “remigration” plans? Don’t all speak at once.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

Hostile, and plain false, media reporting, coupled with continuous anti-immigration political rhetoric, is feeding an increasingly dangerous environment for many of those who work in the migration sector, including serious threats against us and our organisations. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some months ago Lowe went from deport criminals and those here illegally to saying that migration needed to be ‘reversed’, which Farage is now endorsing. Don’t get why it’s not contrary to people’s sense of fairness to tell people who were told they could stay here permanently that they now can’t.

The party leading in the polls wants to deport *legal permanent residents*, many of whom will have been here for decades or maybe even their whole lives. The days are getting darker in every sense of the word.

Nigel Farage and Reform are running almost as scared as Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives. Reform is an unprecedented threat on the Tories’ right flank. But Reform and Farage are under pressure too: from Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. Farage is running rightwards, and fast.

It would only apply to migrants, meaning that Farage’s children get to keep their German passports.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

This is horrific.

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Why is my British passport also written in French? To be clear I have no problem with that but genuinely curious as to why. Because it’s the nearest country? If there is to be a second language wouldn’t Spanish or Chinese Mandarin be more logical?

She. Is. A. Disgrace.

Kick. Her. Out.

In just one day 1. The President has pressured his AG to bring a baseless politically motivated prosecution 2. The Homeland Security Secretary has been filmed accepting offers of bribes 3. The Secretary of Defense has restricted the ability of journalists to report *unclassified information*