Telling that one of the accounts this racist Tory candidate was responding to was Nick Timothy. When does the big national debate about the anti-Asian racism crisis in the Conservative party begin? bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

I’ve been in several negotiations with Iranians. They are tough as nails. Even agreeing when to take a break, or the seating plan, is a battle. They fight everything until you reach a point where it seems a success that the meeting happened at all. That’s what they do. US is totally outmatched.

Rep. Ogles: "The next bill we're working with the White House on is to put more teeth in the denaturalization process so that we can start denaturalizing these people like Mamdani who came into the country under false pretense, and kick them out of the country"

”Let’s not have the old arguments of the last decade” only ever means “Our red lines are here to stay ... forever”.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

The Telegraph, where “vulgar” can still be used in the extremely pejorative sense of “frightfully working class”.

The ONLY news outlet to pick this up properly has been @bylinetimes.bsky.social My article on Farage’s prize draw shenanigans. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/r...

BBCNews fails to mention Orban being "right wing" let alone authoritarian, once in this article. Apparently Orban just "ran out of steam". Nothing about him dismantling democracy, politicising the courts & universities, or banning independent media. No mention of Putin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The name fooled a lot of people. For years, the BBC used Claire Fox as its "leftwing" voice on the Moral Maze, though her positions were clearly extreme right. The line-up was typically: hard right (Melanie Phillips etc), right, centrist and far right. Which is more or less the BBC idea of balance.

Your Party's entire Scottish interim executive has resigned en masse, declaring it "over" and saying they will start a new party instead. Says Your Party is not a "serious attempt to unite the left" and "cannot recover."

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations. Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

“[It’s] one of the weirdest parts of the whole AI bubble: the possibility of something existing is enough for the media to cover it as if it exists, and a product saying that it will do something is enough for the media to believe it does it.” www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really...

And in a joint venture with Germany have also created Docs, an open source alternative to Google Docs

Here is the reaction from French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. She repeats JD Vance's allegations that the European Commission interfered in this election. The reality is that unlike the 🇺🇸president, the 🇪🇺president never endorsed anyone in this election and carefully avoided commenting.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, like Trump, is also licking her wounds tonight after Orban's defeat. She full-throatedly endorsed Orban for re-election three months ago in a campaign video in which she appeared alongside Le Pen and Netanyahu. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Tisza now momentarily with a supermajority (135 seats). (This is a *live count* with 45.71% of the vote counted, not a projection. Some of the outstanding vote from abroad may be less horrific for Orbán.)

46% of votes in and Tisza now has a *supermajority*!

Nearly 30% of the vote counted. Peter Magyar’s ‘Tisza is currently projected to win 132 seats, one short of the supermajority.

2/ mmm this is sophistry adjacent. The common understanding on the reset said that yes the arbitrators will formally take the final decision, but they must refer any EU law disputes to the CJEU to provide. Reset agreements might also provide that they must be interpreted in line with CJEU case law

So… bsky.app/profile/ball...

Good. The wreckers have been setting the agenda for too long.

Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines. Research found that there was not a single collision. "The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife." www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...

So I see every MRP as “what would happen if everyone had no tactical preferences at all?” When we combine this with the knowledge that the party who generate the strongest tactical opposition is Reform, we should see such models as a ceiling estimate on Reform seats at current support levels

Well, I suppose one way to work around the problem of fatal systemic weaknesses is to recategorise them as, erm ... ”opportunities”.

Never tear up a deal before you have some idea of what you’re replacing it with. And make sure that idea isn’t based on a staggering sense of entitlement, combined with profound ignorance and a double shot of delusion. (Advice from a country that is still learning the hard way…)

You unspeakable monsters!

The very basis of quantum computing and quantum information theory was built on the PPAN physics that the government is now cutting.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is peak Trump foreign policy.

He has surrounded himself with people who are as stupid, as venal, as vain, as inexperienced, as ignorant of the world, as pig-headed, as incapable of assimilating facts as he is. And each and every outcome follows directly from that.

Trump on gas and oil prices: “Eventually, prices will go down. It may not happen immediately, but once this situation is resolved, prices will fall. “If you want to see the stock market collapse, let a couple of nuclear bombs be used — whether against us or anywhere else.”

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

It’s the 78th anniversary of Oxford graduate (with a first), bestselling author, Fabian, public philosopher, after-dinner speaker, parliamentary candidate, and BBC radio ‘Brains Trust’ personality Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad monumentally fucking over his own career by being done for fare-dodging 🧵

These are the NASA projects that the Trump regime are terminating. Some provide vital data to monitor the weather and climate of the planet. Many are already fully operational and are to be discarded.

A source close to Iran’s negotiating team says the US is making excessive demands, especially about the Strait of Hormuz, and is trying to gain in talks what it failed to achieve through weeks of war and pressure. Iran says it will firmly protect its gains. Source: Fars

- sagely strokes negotiation expert goatee - Hmm... ... with my years of experience and expertise I diagnose that the problem here might be how hard it is to talk someone out of a position that would net them huge leverage and the equivalent to 5% of their GDP in free annual toll revenue.

However incompetent you think the Home Office are, there is always another level that they can reach.

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

No it‘s not Trump’s Suez crisis. Stop comparing every crisis to the Suez crisis. Why is Suez all you can think about whenever someone fights in the Middle East? Yours exasperatedly, a historian.

Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.

Obviously we can't expect the Home Office to follow government policy on warming up UK EU ties... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What’s striking about the UK Brexit debate isn’t just that it’s wrong, it’s that people often know it’s wrong but say it anyway. Claims get debunked, conceded, then recycled because they’re useful. That’s not confusion. It’s a habit of dishonesty that passes for debate.

Per The New Yorker, the reorg “shuts down the Service’s nine regional offices and relocates its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City” where the “Service will now have, instead of a regional headquarters, a ‘state coördinator’ in the capitals of states where it has large holdings...

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Another excellent @monkemma.bsky.social debunk

I've just ordered @sarahobolt.bsky.social & JamesTilley's 'Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain'. It looks to be an important and interesting new book and I plan to review it on my Brexit Blog when I've read it.

And once again Labour goes further on anti-immigration policies than the last government. Based on the current failings of the Home Office, of which there are many, this is liable to have a massively negative impact and ruin lives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“So far I am not seeing the revolution in education,” admits chief learning officer of organization responsible for generating much of the hype about genAI in education www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/s...