It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade. https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

"Hence the urgency of implementing now the second part of the Conservatives policy - the encouragement of re-emigration." Wait - that's not @rcolvile.bsky.social below (though it's what he's arguing). It's Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

The Royals, The Mail and the Nazis

And in so doing re-enforces the sense in which the current bout of flag-flying isn't a symbol of shared belonging but a political, and, here, an explicitly party political, statement.

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

"The report found families had about $17,000 less disposable income annually in 2024 than they did a decade ago, in 2005."

WHITE HOUSE: LIKELY NOT BE AN INFLATION RELEASE NEXT MONTH

Given that the British Library has been the infrastructural home holding up Marxist writing since quite literally it’s inception, I think it’s basically incumbent on all attendees to Historical Materialism to go to this and show solidarity

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

The problem with running everything on the basis of a Final Battle with Reform at a 2029 GE, decided by Reform curious swing voters, is that in the meantime Labour will lose every other election until then to liberal left parties more strongly opposed to Reform - eroding Labour’s 2029 capabilities.

If you don’t remember the flour massacre this is a story about it- Anwar’s husband was killed while waiting on aid www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Love to live in the Anglosphere. Seemingly the worst version of capitalism on literally any measure of human wellbeing you can find. And with the progressive half of the electorate represented in the electoral system by "better things aren't possible" centrists.

Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result: PC: 47.4% (+19.0) REF: 36.0% (+34.2) LAB: 11.0% (-34.9) CON: 2.0% (-15.3) GRN: 1.5% (+1.5) LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2) GWL: 0.3% (+0.3) UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

According to The Spectator - I’m the person that bothers Piers Morgan the most. Green membership doubled, record polling & Piers bothered - I’m delighted! But we're just beginning. Join us to keep the movement growing and keep bothering Piers! Join.greenparty.org.uk

I was in Portland a week ago and there’s just literally nothing happening. It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s not a perspective thing, it’s reality versus a world Trump is inventing in his head so he can seize dictatorial authority

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, w/ @emmapengelly.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Israeli forces have carried out massive bombing operations southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report from the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oiwpck

For Palestinians, a line on a map can be the difference between life and death. BBC Verify found Israel is controlling more of Gaza than agreed in the ceasefire deal. Israel said anyone who crossed its "yellow line" would be “met with fire”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

When the guy says "you only take orders from a pedophile rapist piece of shit" you can see the words hit.

Another day. Another clutching of pearls hit piece. Today courtesy of the Times. I'm not sure if the Daily Mail or the Express are on the rota tomorrow? You know what to do: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Something is happening in Brighton & Hove! 3000 members last week. 3500 members today. And more than 100 people at our monthly meeting last night! There's never been a better time to get involved. join.greenparty.org.uk

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour. Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson unable to tell trans woman which toilet she should use https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/bridget-phillipson-trans-student-asks/?utm_content=1761204000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Horrific. I can't even quote from this article for how wicked this is. None of this should be happening. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...?

it's just so so mad and evil, as I pointed out yesterday! Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

And in fact this has been Conservative policy since March. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

"So, here’s my solution: think of a weird looking animal, find out why it looks weird, tell you why it looks weird. Cool? Cool." This week I have also written about the hammerhead shark.

Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:

I’ve got blog posts from about 2008 saying this man is a fascist lunatic with a mind full of big strapping lads in combat armour, barbed wire and crowds of weeping civilians being driven through streets, and I said he needed to be shunned like a leper. Well, we didn’t do that, and here we now are.

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club. This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim. Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social has made a career out of using the trauma of survivors of rape and sexual assault for her own political ends and advancement so this does not surprise me in the least.

Labour making an absolute arse of themselves yet again. Shamefully incompetent comms management to end up with abuse survivors calling for the resignation of a minister over a letter.

I would simply look at who has benefitted from two decades of relentless, screaming racist panic with politicians and commentators issuing fiery denunciations of The Liberal Multicultural Left for spitting on the working man, and then begin assigning blame very harshly indeed.

“When an emergency sitting was called to (basically) nationalise a steel plant at Scunthorpe to save 2500 jobs, the [House of Commons] was packed. When about 14,000 people have left or been laid off in less than a year from one of this country’s biggest sectors, that gets a parliamentary yawn.”

One reason why the government is in a mess is that “is that true tho?” doesn’t get anywhere near enough weight against “what do the public think?”

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

Yep! I know some people want the comfort of believing constitutions can be a form of magic that stops bad things from happening, but they're entirely dependent on political actors behaving in reasonably good faith and will always break down when, with sufficient political power, they don't.

Pretty amazing that the main left party won’t speak up for anyone’s rights except fascist football hooligans and maybe poisonously reactionary newspaper columnists and billionaire crackpot authors - and that it is *extremely* belligerent in the defence of both - but here we now are.

The 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Keynote Speaker: Chris Hedges Don't miss it. youtu.be/MGqtPIR8rFU