The lacklustre Lib Dems need to stop the stunts and step up their defence of liberalism at a time when it is under assault. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/ed-d...

“I think we found an answer to autism. How about that? Autism - tomorrow we are going to be talking in the Oval Office in the White House about autism.’ Ominous from Trump at Kirk’s funeral www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I think we found an answer to autism. How about that? Autism - tomorrow we are going to be talking in the Oval Office in the White House about autism.’ Ominous from Trump at Kirk’s funeral www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s fanboy wants to round up for deportation people granted settled leave to remain on the basis that they fail to earn what he considers to be high enough wages.

After last week, ministers should know this: a huge rebellion is coming if they mess with SEND and we will fight for our children’s rights - spot-on by @johnharris1969.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s fanboy wants to round up for deportation people granted settled leave to remain on the basis that they fail to earn what he considers to be high enough wages.

The lacklustre Lib Dems need to stop the stunts and step up their defence of liberalism at a time when it is under assault. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/ed-d...

And this country’s leaders lecture us about freedom of speech… www.bbc.com/news/article...

And this country’s leaders lecture us about freedom of speech… www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency’ - worth reading this piece from Knowsley by Kirsty Major www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘I went home, to one of Labour’s safest seats, and it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency’ - worth reading this piece from Knowsley by Kirsty Major www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grotesque

I’ve written him another letter, asking why he’s only saying this now, almost three years after Alice Litman’s PFD report raised the issue and why he’s failed to respond to correspondence from me on at least six occasions. Broken hearted my arse. Covering his back more like.

Opinion | "Our political leaders must defend this great multicultural country and all its citizens from an insurgent far-right rabble," writes Ian Birrell. Read more: trib.al/ZS7peMl

Danny Kruger wrote the hug-a-hoodie speech for Cameron, says 'a purely punitive approach to crime & disorder cannot work' and argues 'love is a neglected crime-fighting device.' Sorry to see he's joined Reform, a party flirting with the hate-fuelled far-right. But it's a significant political move

Could @eddavey.libdems.org.uk outline the sanctions he is proposing against Musk?

Tommy Robinson’s mass far-right rally should be a wake-up call to real patriots. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tomm...

Tommy Robinson’s mass far-right rally should be a wake-up call to real patriots. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tomm...

The United States stands again at a bloody crossroads with this alarming surge in political violence - but there is one big difference between today and the 1960's in terms of its leadership. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/char...

The United States stands again at a bloody crossroads with this alarming surge in political violence - but there is one big difference between today and the 1960's in terms of its leadership. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/char...

Opinion | Do America's current leaders have the wisdom to soothe the wounds in this unfolding American tragedy? Sadly, I fear not 🖋 @ianbirrell.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/qIswrth

Nigel Farage writes this in an article tonight about Charlie Kirk’s horrifying murder - just days after he was hugging and hailing a woman at his party conference who urged people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.

Nigel Farage writes this in an article tonight about Charlie Kirk’s horrifying murder - just days after he was hugging and hailing a woman at his party conference who urged people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.

Shame on the Royal Opera House as it strives to bring Russia in from the cold, ignoring the Kremlin’s atrocities and bloodshed in Ukraine www.rferl.org/amp/ukraie-r...

Opinion | Words are not enough, especially from a Labour government being so frighteningly sluggish in beefing up British defences. Those Russian drones buzzing Poland were a warning that we ignore at our peril 🖋# @ianbirrell.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/EpjpUAt

Shame on the Royal Opera House as it strives to bring Russia in from the cold, ignoring the Kremlin’s atrocities and bloodshed in Ukraine www.rferl.org/amp/ukraie-r...

We ignore the Russian drone attack at our peril - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

We ignore the Russian drone attack at our peril - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

Inside Reform's conference, it was even worse than I feared - my ⁦@theipaper.com column on seeing how Farage's party is flirting with the far right, stirring up a sense of national emergency and shifting closer to an extreme form of ethno-nationalist populism inews.co.uk/opinion/shoc...

Inside Reform's conference, it was even worse than I feared - my ⁦@theipaper.com column on seeing how Farage's party is flirting with the far right, stirring up a sense of national emergency and shifting closer to an extreme form of ethno-nationalist populism inews.co.uk/opinion/shoc...

Inside Reform's conference it was even worse than I feared - my ⁦‪@inews.co.uk column inews.co.uk/opinion/shoc...

A warning from Norway: wealth taxes drive away rich people and ambitious young entrepreneurs, making a country poorer. My @unherd.com report unherd.com/2025/09/weal...

Fire off a racist, expletive-filled tweet urging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers and you get cheered on the stage at Reform’s conference as a ‘political prisoner’

‘It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra at Reform’s party conference.

Lush is a British retail success story that employs 12,000 people in 27 countries and, unusually, gives employees a voice in running the company. But this sneering buffoon thinks it should close for showing sympathy to people in Gaza enduring war crimes

Free speech? Not with Reform UK and Nigel Farage…

Just landed in the weird world of Reform UK’s conference to hear the racist historian David Starkey calling on Farage to impose a state of emergency if he wins the election. ‘I do not want to burn Angela Rayner alive’ he adds bizarrely.

Almost everything Trump does puts a smile on Putin's face - now he is cutting back support for frontline democracies bordering expansionist Russia www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255

Jenrick critiques Powell on politics/popularity, not principle. This doesn't make much sense. Powell was popular 70% to 20% in 1968 but mobilised a climate of fear for migrants and minorities who faced a surge in racist abuse towards non-white minorities.

How the super-rich profit from Britain’s chaotic children’s homes: special report by @ianbirrell.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255

Adults with learning disabilities are dying 20 years earlier than other citizens - and almost 40% are avoidable. This is a scandal taking place in Britain. But most of our media and politicians ignore it while focusing on their dismal tribal issues www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Adults with learning disabilities are dying 20 years earlier than other citizens - and almost 40% are avoidable. This is a scandal taking place in Britain. But most of our media and politicians ignore it while focusing on their dismal tribal issues www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Why does the British army need to outsource its training of soldiers (let alone to an Israeli defence company)?

‘We are aligned on a lot of things’ - Polanski after his victory, talking about Corbyn. Enough said

The Greens have elected a leader who wants Britain to pull out of NATO at a time when Russia is waging war on Europe. He will fit well in alliance with Corbyn

Yes, this smarmy creep sucking up to Putin at a Chinese showcase for autocracy is the elected leader of an EU country....

Georgia is sliding into Russian authoritarianism and Europe seems to have forgotten it...

Could Andy Burnham replace Keir Starmer as prime minister? My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/coul...