I tried to have a convo with a no small boats person on insta. She said why don’t they stay in France I explained She said we have to look after our own first eg homeless ppl I said I agreed more should be done for homelessness that’s why I donate to & support Crisis She called me a do-gooder

I was researching the membership for each party for my show & visited their websites. To become a member of Labour you have to confirm you’re a British citizen or have been resident here for more than one year. I clicked through on Reform’s membership portal and it looks like you just need £25.

Obviously I’m no fan of Trump but I am here for the word ‘bragadocious’.

See also the flip from "hypothetical trans women in bathrooms" to "no women should be able to access safe abortion" *something that seemed impossible in Global Britain just a few years ago.

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.

The original story Farage claptrapped about on air this morning was from the Sun more than 20 years ago (they subsequently had to retract and apologise). They’ve now run it again, off the back of Farage’s comments. It’s a self perpetuating circle of xenophobic gubbins.

Hahahahahahahahaha ‘When it comes to science I don’t side with anyone’ said Farage, in response to a question of whether he sides with conspiracy theorists or scientists. I know it’s very scary that he could be PM but sometimes you have to laugh at the Orwellian nonsense of it all.

@london.gov.uk is a really good mayor. Not a perfect mayor. But most of us who actually live here think he is doing a good job and like the cut of his jib, which is why we keep voting for him. That’s the relatively unshocking non-attention-grabbing, truthful counterpoint to Trump’s total gubbins.

Let’s hope the public see it for what it is.

On average Americans pay £480 per month for private healthcare. People should think about that before supporting a policy to deport immigrants with indefinite leave to remain, which would decimate the nhs overnight.

If it was a Muslim country where they’d just had a massive ceremony to celebrate a self appointed preacher who said women should ‘submit to their husbands’ and the president had just told pregnant women they weren’t allowed to take perfectly safe pain relief it would be condemned by MAGA/Reform.

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

Reform voters are apparently censoring themselves. What TF is it that they want to say???

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Which is exactly how Trump won. He told people they were worse off, crime was up etc under Biden when the opposite was true. The feeling is more important than the facts.

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

Just to say that I think that people misunderstood that this was a sarcastic response to Reform saying they would force people who get British citizenship to keep renewing it in order to stay here legally.

All the people who hate the agenda of the ‘mainstream media’ are going to be furious right? RIGHT?!!

Here’s an idea - politicians have to apply for a licence to practice politics, renewed every 5 years. If you are found to have been a key architect of a disastrous decision which has made the country measurably poorer, that’s one of the criteria through which the licence can be revoked.

Excellent point. Why are people reporting on what national policies Farage ‘wants’ to do as though it’s remotely relevant - he has 5 MPs

Tory MP on radio this morning claiming 9 in 10 British people oppose recognising Palestine. I’m confused as to where he got this ‘fact’… yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

If Andy Burnham becomes Labour leader his reported priorities would be taxing wealth, building social housing and scrapping the two child benefit cap. All this competing who can be the most unpleasant to foreigners looks genuinely pathetic by comparison.

Godwin himself said the one exception to his law is Trump.

Just to say I don’t have lip fillers but if you do I don’t judge you at all. It’s your face and your choice. It’s just annoying because the figment of the lip fillers I haven’t had is used to diminish my opinions & achievements. Equally if I had had them I’d still be the same person so….

Recently @eliothiggins.bsky.social appeared on the Democracy For Sale podcast discussing how our information ecosystem is breaking and what steps we could take to rebuild it: youtu.be/ZPSvAS2W3cc?...

My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.

“Of the 7-11 year olds I saw, around 80% said they had seen something online that had scared them, freaked them out or they thought they were too young to have seen. Many told me this was via YouTube Kids, which theoretically has filters imbedded to prevent this kind of user experience.”

This week I delivered 22 social media workshops to 7,000 young people aged 7-18. Here is what I learned - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

OH NO NOT AN ‘OBSESSION WITH DEMOCRACY’.

Today was my 5 year anniversary on lbc. In that time I have quadrupled the audience in a notoriously tricky Saturday evening slot. I’m immensely grateful to everyone who listens, calls or texts in. I always describe us as a community of people who enjoy thinking. ❤️ 👂 📻

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 20th September) - What does the implosion of Your Party mean for the future of Uk politics, esp on the left? - Is Britain stuck in the past and unprepared for the future? - Are digital ID cards really a dystopian nightmare?

Will be chatting about the implosion of your party and what's next for the left with the wonderful Natasha on @lbc.co.uk at 6pm this eve!

The brilliant @zoegrunewald.bsky.social for the I paper today …

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Britons support recognising Palestinian statehood by 44% to 18%

Why not just get behind the Greens?

Lots of reaction to my interview with Labour MP David Pinto Duschinsky on lbc last Saturday - here’s a snippet. Back with you tomorrow from 6pm….

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.” I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this

My brain is trying to make a pun relating to Macbeth along the lines of ‘Burnham wood is coming’ but I’m very tired so if someone else could take that ball and run with it all us Shakespeare nerds can have a wry chuckle.

There are lots of reasons to criticise the Labour government. However the main points of criticism coming from the rw press appertain to policies their predecessors put in place, the repercussions of which are still being felt, but which were ignored at the time. Asylum hotels, for example.

More news from the country lecturing us in the U.K. about how we apparently don’t have freeze peach…. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

See also - threatening American citizens with ‘exile’ if they don’t have the ‘correct’ response to the death of the Charlie Kirk.

Don’t know what to say anymore. People are still denying it but in times like this all you can do is cling on to the truth….

Freeze Peach latest…

Musk vs facts…..

Hahahahahahahaha

Far right trying to pretend there were three million people at their Racist Pride march yesterday using AI photoshopped images of PARIS is sending me 😂😂😂😂😂

An excellent question just posed by Adil Ray on insta - the speeches yesterday proclaiming ‘Islam is the problem’ in our society - the tearing up of Islamic scriptures and Palestine flags - if this had been any other religion would politicians not have been lining up to condemn?

So just to recap - elderly people in wheelchairs holding signs = National emergency. 110k people in central London at the behest of a far right activist with a history of racism and being encouraged to commit violence by one of the world’s richest and most influential men = totally chill.