Every newsroom should have an immigration correspondent.

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

First of all, it's problematic to try to force fit acts of terror into a "left wing" and "right wing" category as these are very simplistic. But if we are going to use those two bins, Islamist terrorism is usually right wing terror, not left wing terror.

Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave." Might be good idea to check again.

Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents. It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text. Ofcom should rule uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

It's rarely noted that the 'once great' qualities of the Times were seriously eroded soon after 2022 when the law changed: www.theguardian.com/media/2022/f...

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Living. Working. Paying taxes. Contributing. This is a desperately poor editorial.

Authors have to worry about quoting one line of a song lyric in a book but this is apparently fine

Everything connected to Tommy Robinson will always be funded by crime and corruption. It’s simply who he is.

I think we should call racism, racism, frankly

Thanks for letting us know, Kemz.

this is actually extraordinary and a lot of it's been done just by asking people to drive basically any car produced since 2007. almost no cars later than that (and some earlier) comply with ULEZ - it's not forcing everyone into a Tesla, it's incredibly basic improvements

Along with everyone else, I call bollocks on this. The median voter wants this crap called out, and won't be voting Reform in 100 years.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

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The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

I think this might be a problem of not knowing what a median is

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

Time for this reminder:

As a sidenote, there is literally no reason why a person who identifies as English /by ethnicity/ has to be white.

Most people in Britain would not agree with Elon Musk and Rupert Lowe that "racist" has become meaningless. It is important to use it accurately - to be clear about what is not racist (being concerned about high levels of immigration, the quality of integration) and the racism we must exclude.

Amazing nuggets in the PPE Medpro High Court ruling The company was incorporated on 12 May 2020 and referred to the Covid "VIP lane" by Michelle Mone *the same day*, despite having no track record in manufacturing PPE Who could have predicted that anything would go wrong?

The Hillsborough Law when passed will be the biggest protector of democracy Britain has ever seen. No more lying on the side of buses, no more cover ups of VIP lanes. The bill is : Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025 It’s worth understanding its reach. This is massive.

Very good thread from Sunder Katwala here.

"Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?" is an example of high-level outlets like Radio 4 preferring 'gotcha' questions in political interviews. This question has a premise and inference about what racism is, much narrower than the one which the BBC needs to apply to itself

This very good Sun editorial of 2014 - saying it is not racist to be worried about the high levels of immigration, but it is racist to be prejudiced against all Romanians, because they are Romanian, was about Nigel Farage making an overtly prejudiced argument ("you know the difference")

"Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?" was Nick Robinson question CRED cited evidence showing candidates with an ‘ethnic-sounding’ name had to submit 60% more CVs to get each interview than another candidate with identical qualifications www.britishfuture.org/racism-exist...

It is for Farage to explain why he differentiates in ways that has this discriminatory impact. He can't just be doing it because there is a treaty: he is willing to break + leave treaties (and he has to leave international agreements + change the law to strip the rights of Indians, Pakistanis)

Its wrong & indecent to remove the status of people told by the state that this is their permanent home. Farage made it more discriminatory by deciding not break promises to the Europeans here before Brexit (80% white, from majority-white countries) but will for 430k people, mostly black + Asian

Inference of Nick Robinson's question - "Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?"- is its common sense could only have a racist POLICY if you are racist yourself. Many may intuitively see 'racism' is solely intent, but involves rejecting institutional *policy* can discriminate

People with ethnic minority name + similar CV less likely to get an interview. Much more likely to be unwitting + subconscious discrimination not overt prejudice that explains most of that An institution that doesn't monitor + try to change this does have a discriminatory policy, whatever intent

Windrush scandal has discriminatory impacts towards black people in their fifties, sixties + seventies. Home Office staff did not know the history of citizenship in this country. "Institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race” means pattern of discrimination isn't spotted

Nick Robinson asks "Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?" Macpherson definition: racism not only simply intention - but discriminatory impacts too. Farage policy on ILR discriminates: he protects Europeans but threatens those from Commonwealth countries (India, Nigeria)

A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’ Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Keir Starmer shows that he is up for the fight – why that was the best and most authentic speech that he’s given as PM. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

hardly anyone will watch Starmer's appearance at Labour conference today but it was probably the best speech he's ever given he clearly signposted what he stands for - a diverse, tolerant, decent Britain - and how be believes progressives are in an existential fight with the populist right

Surprisingly, WaPo: "The Pentagon’s top generals and admirals listened with little visible emotion as Trump spoke, according to pool reports. Laughter occasionally followed a joke, but Trump’s attacks on former president Joe Biden were met with silence."

No, they’re not. They’re not better than this. I respect the hell out of you @JeffFlake, but you should know that by now. C’mon my friend. The Republican Party is no longer the party you & I served in. And it won’t be, ever again.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

As UKIP MEPs, Farage & Gill were repeating exactly the same Kremlin talking points Gill just plead guilty to accepting Russian bribes for this reason. Why are the media not chasing Farage? The evidence is all there, on tape.

Absolutely right from Streeting. But then government/Mahmood need to make crystal clear this applies to people who have arrived since 2021 and are working in NHS/care right now -and that government is not going to change the rules and leave them at the mercy of a future Reform/Conservative govt

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."