Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

I've said this before, but the next election will be the most consequential of my lifetime. Fascism v political norms will be on the ballot. If you don't vote for whichever party is most likely to stop Reform in your constituency, you share responsibility for what happens next.

100k or more marching for a violent racist, the head of X live-streamed in to incite a violent overthrow of the government. And that same government can't find in itself the decency or even the instinct for self preservation to call this out. I despair.

'I decree today that life Is simply taking and not giving England is mine, and it owes me a living But ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye' (Morrissey/Marr, 1984)

And I wonder if this cycle then becomes BOTH the result AND the source of the politics we see. If progressive or left-leaning voters make ourselves, essentially, impossible to please and very easy to lose forever, doesn't that make it rational for parties to compete for right wing votes? 6/6

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Honking endorsement for Farage, Johnson et la, without a moment’s reflection that 10 years of UKIPified Tory govt created the mess they’re railing about — booming benefits bills, bond market routs, immigration surges, trade slump and investment slumps. Bring back Boris and Nadine! That’ll fix it. 🙈

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

@paulmason.bsky.social summed up the dangerous situation in which we now find ourselves:

the #newsnight discussion on AI in UK HE could not have been more trite if it was generated by AI - really disappointing 😮‍💨

This is England. They don't hate. They don't rage. They don't riot. They stick together. This is England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We are now at the stage at which alt-right posters utilising social media are a threat to Britain's race relations, public order and potentially even national security. Still the Rip Van Winkle of the UK state does sweet f-all.

But most of the one-in-five do speak English. They missed that bit in the dash for clicks. Night.

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Social democracy is about joy - enabling people to live and love a full life in technicolor and widescreen. About offering light, building up hopes for the future. The moment it is about the past, still less getting into a defensive crouch about the present, it ceases to be social democracy.

Getting Starmer to talk the language of Blue Labour when he sounds so totally and obviously inauthentic doing so is utterly ridiculous. Everyone knows he doesn't believe or feel what he says. It is entirely counter-productive. It repels both Reform-leaners and the centre-left.

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Talk to people in focus groups about Broken Britain yes they mention the big stuff, struggling NHS, the cost of living but also how the state or private utilities seem to go out of their way to make life harder “you can’t speak to anyone” - that drives populist backlash and the appeal of chainsaws

The memes have been great.

If you’ve ever had a toddler, you can probably guess where this conversation is “headed.” 🧵

#DLD is a risk factor for word spelling difficulties. #Bilingualism is not. #research #language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The end of NATO and of American friendship with Europe is so seismic that you cannot blame Starmer, Macron and other European leaders from doing all they can to prevent it happening. But at some stage, they will have to accept in public what they probably already know in private. It's over.

She can then carry on fucking off. Then fuck off further.

Suella Braverman has written this: "For Englishness to mean something substantial, it must be rooted in ancestry, heritage, and, yes, ethnicity." As someone who, like Suella herself, has very little "English" ethnicity in their DNA, I would like to say that Suella can, to put it bluntly, fuck off.

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

What I find most frustrating about this government is that it does not understand just how much it needs its friends, both at home and further afield. It seems to have absolutely no understanding of the relentless hatred and stream of misinformation it faces, and the damage it will do.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social please stop interviewing this lunatic!

Could you please speak Lisa Nandy - the BBC are actively trying to undermine our democratically elected government. We've had enough!

Re-post if you stand by Jess. @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social

Funny how all the men outraged about grooming gangs are silent about Dominique Pelicot, Conor McGregor, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew or Johnny Depp. Almost as if they’re just co-opting the rape and abuse of women to be racist isn’t it? Yeah, it’s exactly that.

The government’s weak response to Musk simply highlights its unwillingness to use the power of the nation state. This already *is* a diplomatic incident. Wake up!

A few years before the Nazis killed her, Etty Hillesum wrote this: Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

It’s here 📗 the Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)

Busting the myth of delayed language development in multilingual that persists with many practitioners despite strong empirical evidence to the contrary: www.habilnet.org/bilingual-ch...

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

Like, sorry. I’m not going to associate with people who don’t want people I love to exist or have civil rights. Fuck that shit. I don’t owe them my time or my eyeballs. There is nothing to “debate”. I don’t debate someone’s right to exist. Period.

The brutal, vindictive Tory cuts to Sure Start have done more harm to more people and to the UK as a whole than any small revision to the IHT treatment of farmland ever could. You would never know this if you watched the television news.

No news outlet should use the word 'controversial' about these appointments. Nothing about them is controversial - unless you believe in chemtrails and you like making antisemitic claims about Covid-19. There is no 'controversy'.

If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers. RT and reply to this post and add each other. No fun speaking to yourself.

Each new Trump Cabinet announcement is the Grand Opening of a new circle of Hell

Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehabilitate himself to disastrous effect. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1882...

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As a British citizen who was born abroad I would like Robert Jenrick to stop and think before spouting this. Fed up with this nonsense. Being born in the UK is not the same as citizenship. We all know this. Stop treating citizens differently.

Priti Unsuccessful... #Tories

On the other place, Elon Musk makes up around 1 in 2 of the top 10 posts I see... I mean, come on, we know he's made it his own personal ideological playground but this is ridiculous (and irritating)