The British prime minister’s 'global talent task force' is working on ideas to lure the world’s best scientists, academics and digital experts, at a time when the US has moved sharply in the other direction on.ft.com/4pAwJfj

Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Olivia Rodrigo headline new ACLU letter with 400+ signers against government threat to free speech, citing Kimmel. Also signed by comedians including Nimesh Patel, Mary Beth Barone, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Holmes

There is no obvious limit to how far Trump is prepared to go. He wants everything. He wants everyone to swear undying loyalty to him. He is prepared to do anything to get it. “Anything” might currently seem unimaginable to us. It's time we started imagining it. 4/4

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

RFK Jr. said, “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away.” Then, he did. RFK Jr. is a liar.

ICYMI: watch this highlight reel from RFK Jr’s Senate hearings yesterday. What you heard is real. He was completely unhinged and disconnected from reality. It’s clear, Kennedy is dangerous and should never have been confirmed.

OMG, what is WRONG with him?

Fuck Charlie Kirk This 👇

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted". The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

Getting ready to go again, next year in June I’m planning a 450km (280 miles) solo from Húsavík to Dyrhólaey in aid of Irish Dogs for the Disabled. #IcelandSoloTraverse #Dogs4TheDisabled www.idonate.ie/DermotCosgrove

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

The COVID enquiry and last night’s ITV documentary shone light on a dark time - when billions of pounds of public money were shovelled into the pockets of private investors rather than public institutions - wasting existing expertise, wasting money, wasting lives in the process.

I find the politicisation of autism spectrum disorder extremely troubling. Paracetamol or Tylenol as it is called in States should not be touted as a cause of ASD before anyone has scrutinised the data they allege will show this. 🧪🧵

Jewish peace campaigners plan public fast for Gaza on Yom Kippur Jewish Peaceniks UK are inviting other Jewish people to join them in a public fast on Yom Kippur, which falls between 1-2 October www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Shots fired!

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This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Vote Reform UK Ltd, Get Tory Reform UK Ltd isn’t change - it’s the Tory party rebadged, in a lighter shade of blue northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Today is the beginning of Rosh Hashanah. Wishing everyone in Brent and beyond a blessed Rosh Hashanah. From my family to yours: L'shanah tovah!

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

They can’t be just for ‘immigrants/asylum seekers/refugees’. They have to be for everyone, or else anyone asked for one can just say ‘I’m a Brit, I don’t have one. This is a scheme which means we *all* have to have ID cards, and carry them in case we’re asked for them. 2/10

@anneapplebaum2000 on the current moment of political violence: For the first time, “we have a social-media system that encourages the most outrageous, the most extreme statements, and then rewards them financially.” #TAF25 Watch here: bit.ly/46lDaLT

"Sally Rooney says she cannot enter UK in case of arrest" Time to buy more of her books and order them in libraries! I love authors with ethics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.

Alternate link for those who might prefer one bsky.app/profile/inva...

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

Damn right — lock him up!!

Ka$h pledges to have the FBI devote unlimited resources to investigate every right-wing conspiracy on the internet related to the Kirk shooting.

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.

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

That is before you look at personal cost to those people directly affected, the lives destroyed, all to play to racists. There's nothing "legitimate" about any so called "concerns" which lead to supporting anything like what Farage proposes. It's out and out xenophobia and racism. No ifs or buts. 3/

It's often the case politicos, including me, will explain away growing support for Reform due to people facing deprivation and struggling. Maybe that was the case, but now? If you support Reform with policies like this you have zero "legitimate concerns". You're a far right ethno-nationalist racist.

Quiz: are you a political cult member? Take our handy quiz to find out if you’re a political cult member and have lost your mind on social media or if you are, in fact, the solution……..* By Juvenal @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

I wonder who funds the CPS? Cui bono? Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world | Colin Tudge 

📣 This is your reminder to #test. ‼️ Please keep sick & infectious children at home. As our supoort group posts start to see the reality of back to school without mitigations / air filtration young people are getting reinfected. #Infections #reinfections #education

you face prison because you keep committing crimes you daft twat

Good god I hope so

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...