.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Hostile, and plain false, media reporting, coupled with continuous anti-immigration political rhetoric, is feeding an increasingly dangerous environment for many of those who work in the migration sector, including serious threats against us and our organisations. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As I enter my late middle years I find myself thinking more about the nature of forgiveness, and how much more positive it would be if, rather than endlessly and desperately parroting the far-right, Starmer were simply to be trampled by geese while rollerblading in the Dordogne.

While Trump & Starmer laugh & joke at the royal billionaires banquet the number of poor US & UK people dying from austerity, deprivation, hunger continues to grow #TaxTheRich #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants #SocialistSunday

Who made this! 😹

I’ve written this for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on how Labour intends to show that loving our country does not - must not - mean hating others.

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Young people being slagged off by the sexually incontinent serial liar who fucked up their future with the biggest act of self harm in history.

Breaking: SCOTUS rules that the president of the United States in no instances must have to stand naked

“Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mind you, I don’t think being instrumental in causing huge harm to people makes you very popular either.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

The governments of Colombia & Panama have shown good sense by deporting this grifting bigot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Oq...

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

There goes the First Amendment.

Prof. Devi Sridhar The UK gov't estimates that ~34K people arrived by small boats last year. In a population of 69.2 million, they're not the reason you can't get an NHS appointment, have high food, fuel & housing costs & difficult job situation. They are a brilliant distraction & vote-winner.

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Until 2012 I went often to work in the USA. I filled in a form asking if I supported Nazi war criminals. It seemed silly: who'd write "yes"? Now Trump says antifascism is to be banned, nuance might be needed: something about it being OK to persecute gays, gypsies, & the handicapped; but stop there.

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment but it is funded by the super rich. Reform has an unusually high number of overseas backers with links to tax havens. Fossil fuel interests fund Reform, party will expand their trade.

The Stop Trump coalition protest, numbering a few thousand, paused outside Downing Street which was being protected by officers from Wales & Northern Ireland. They've now made their way to Parliament Square, where the first performer on the stage was Billy Bragg. BBC Yay Billy, cometh the hour ..

If you're in London today, then there's plenty of opportunities to show Mr Trump that he's not welcome. If you miss the march, then come along to the rally in Parliament Square at 5 instead and make some noise.

Most people are not hate filled flag wavers. Ok, folks might be upset by “small boats” (it’s queue jumping if nothing else & that sends Brits potty), but that doesn’t mean we want race riots or for the far right to sell off the NHS. Labour can win this, if they fight we’ll support them 💜🌹

Well done. If they are fined, I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to crowdfund. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can we just address the fact that the UK should not, under any circumstances, be detaining and forcibly removing victims of trafficking or torture to another country. This government is going to end up being the cause of death for already traumatized individuals. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

JD Vance goes to Munich and the United Kingdom to lecture Europeans on free speech and then addresses Americans asking them to inform on each other: "When you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out — and, hell, call their employer." The hypocrisy is the point.

Miller said he had been feeling “incredible sadness, but there’s incredible anger” and will be focusing his “righteous anger” toward the “organized campaign that led to this assassination, to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks”. (Guardian) Like who? Democratic Party? ACLU? Catholic Church?

Something to do with a stable door and a missing horse: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Encouraging: the odious Laurence Fox crawled from under his rock to back the far right marchers in London. With his support, they're doomed. In the Uxbridge by-election Fox lost his deposit (and declared victory). In the London mayoral election he was barred because he had only 9 signatures.

Progressive outlet The Lead have launched a petition to ban Elon Musk from the UK following his incitement at the Tommy Robinson demo. Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X... open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

Dear Labour, you made this problem. Now you want us to support the strategy with which you made it? There’s a way to get our support back: change your approach. Do something socialist, something positive. Stop the bloody appeasement.

So Bill Kristol(!!) can say the decent thing that so many elected Dems can't.

Sorry to intrude, but it's time to publicise my novel again. It's a comedy/adventure about bigotry & people-trafficking, two of my obsessions because our charity supports the displaced. The novel is set in Cornwall, where I live with enough eccentrics to give me a cast of entertaining characters.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Well, that was predictable! www.bbc.com/news/article...

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

"Katie Hopkins also spoke on stage after earlier appearing alongside Robinson, Laurence Fox and Ant Middleton at the front of the march near Waterloo station." Along with Musk and Bannon, it should have been called BigotFest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

It is always quite astonishing how true ‘patriots’ attack police officers to alert us that others do not respect our customs and have no respect of the police.

John McDonnell, "There's a choice.. Whether we have a country that stands up for humanitarian values.. Because the alternative is barbarism"

The absolute utter cheek of someone having an Irish tricolour at an anti immigration rally in London. Honestly they must be illiterate because they’ve obviously never been in the same room as a history book never mind read it.

Shame on you Mike Lee. Who is “they?” One 22yr old white young man from Utah is accused of killing Charlie Kirk. Who the hell is “they?” Shame on you. You are purposely inciting hate & division. Hiding behind “they.” Shame on you.

What Yaxley-Lennon describes as 'the silent majority' is in fact a noisy minority. #bbcpm

If you’re in the media and don’t understand that ‘unite the kingdom’ is just the British equivalent of the ‘unite the right’ rally you’re not well-equipped to cover this.

"Abbott and Sultana to lead counter-demo against Robinson's ‘festival of hate’" “It’s the far right who are the threat to women — the domestic abusers, sexists and thugs in their midst.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/abbo...