As the Tories advocate mass deportations, the end of human rights and giving up on net zero, the silence of David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, James Cleverley, Tom Tugendhat and other supposed champions of the centre-right has been deafening and entirely revealing.

According to the Israeli far right the Board of Deputies is pro-Palestinian. Absolute lunatics

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

"It appears that the only people who ever have to apologise for Farage’s long history of racism, are the people who dare to call it out." open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Like Charlie Kirk, Bari Weiss shows that the only talent that really matters is the ability to extract large amounts of cash from right-wing billionaires and turn it into power. If you can master that one weird trick, the sky’s the limit

It's never OK for Dems to call political opponents authoritarians... but totally cool when these guys do it

Respect to the Barbican library for this display. Note 'The Hate U Give' - banned from a school after Tory councillor complained. Pathetic response.

Really not looking forward to all of the worst possible actors using yesterday’s horrific events to their own agenda. We can’t afford a vacuum for them to fill, or allow our pain to be used for hate. I can’t describe twisted evil of an attack on Yom Kippur. Your Jewish friends are not ok.

Too many to choose from... 'It's a perfectly cromulent word' 'Here's to alcohol. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' 'You'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel' 'I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch'

yep: if you wanted to design a policy that would drown more children in the channel, ending family reunion as a pathway to asylum would certainly be high on your list

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

Hi @morganj0nes.bsky.social. G8 to connect. Can u pls send me your piece on LM/Spiked? Would love to read it. Cheers!

“Milei is the template” - Kemi Badenoch.

So was *The Sun* ‘inciting violence’ against Nigel Farage in 2014 when its editorial described his racist comments on my show as ‘racism, pure and simple’? And would somebody who interviews these ghouls on a regular basis at least ask them this question!

It's a mark of the habituation of Trump's authoritarianism that a president can summon his generals, tell them they'll play a "major part" in a "war within", announce a force to "quell civil disturbances" & talk of using US cities "as training grounds for our military" - & it doesn't lead the news.

'The fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets.' Susan Sontag

The BBC’s complaints department seems to think it’s entirely ok to 100% elide “hate speech” with “free speech” (as Nick Robinson did) and that incidents of *actual* attacks on free speech, are an entirely separate debate, presumably for some other broadcaster to talk about

So, it's... ...Freedom of speech for all except the Prime Minister. ...Freedom of speech has no consequences unless they are bad for me. ...Freedom of speech for me to stir up division and discord, but not for you to challenge and counter it. Glad we've got that sorted out.

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

This was the central issue in our book on the history of Centrism. It's fascinating to see it being dramatised in this way.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

As heroic Moldovans ignored threats of violence and huge financial inducements to vote for being European, one of Farage’s closest political allies pleads guilty to taking Kremlin money for political interference. A reminder of what is at stake.

The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Intelligence and Security Committee to launch a new probe investigating Russian interference in British politics, after Reform’s former leader in Wales Nathan Gill admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Never really got the outrage about ID cards when they were first proposed 20 years ago and get it even less now that almost every single human interaction is mediated, tracked and authorised on a second-by-second basis through our phones, anyway. What do people think it would really change?

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Who could have POSSIBLY guessed that ID cards would be something that pensioners love the idea of other people having, but would actually find difficult to access and use themselves so couldn't really be bothered with in practice, and yet somehow they get BOTH those demands met?

Nail on head by Adil Ray, "If a Muslim extremist rallied 100,000 people we would be worried, but when Robinson did we say: they have genuine concerns"

ID cards are not a bad idea, as pretty much every other European country shows. But they are only ever proposed in Britain as a “solution” to illegal immigration, will cost a fortune at a time when there are other priorities, and inevitably there will be huge problems in making them work.

I'm coming back to @bylinetimes.bsky.social to head up investigations. Here's a major one with @peterjukes.bsky.social uncovering how Silicon Valley 'Dark Enlightenment' mogul behind Trump is systematically infiltrating British political infrastructure.

Finished writing chapter 3

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Something that I think is often forgotten is that in 2010 the Tories spent the election campaign denying they had any plans to raise VAT, then immediately did it in their first budget. The idea that you will always be punished for breaking promises on tax just doesn't stand up.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Wow. This is absolutely huge. After the attacks, Spain is offering direct military protection to the flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. So what now, Israel? Are you going to risk acts of war against a European nation so you can attack humanitarian vessels?

Absolutely this.

The true conspiracy isn't hiding in plain sight it's staring you in the face.

Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed” The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.

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."

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters