Updating my LEGO White House

This diatribe against Zack Polanski is dripping with condescension and hypocrisy. This is why the dinosaur class of journo-politics is on its way out.

The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has some choice words… …for a PM who aggressively inserted racially-charged accusations into a local safety issue, seeking, seemingly on personal whim, to override well-informed local law & democracy mechanisms, and risking public safety.

I see Nigel Farage is back to claiming he "predicted" the war between Russia and Ukraine in the EU Parliament, when in fact he spoke AFTER the annexation of Crimea, to defend Russia and claim it was all the EU's fault. I did a full fact-check, with clips, here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Bloody brilliant 👇

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

This is great

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

She insane. Her mind isn't impoverished, it's scrambled.

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In other news leaving the EU is now about to crush our steel industry because we left our main export market after Farage told us it would be wonderful for British industry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite. It's madly irresponsible. Our politics is stained by dishonest, deceitful, self-serving politicians and Jenrick is the worst of all the snivelling little shits.

An entirely sound and eloquent, cogent rant.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

I don’t think that the United States military murdering Venezuelans at sea is getting anywhere near the attention it should

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Truly so.

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

Looked for the context in the original article, assuming it must somehow help, because surely a sentence that bad couldn’t get past a reporter and multiple editors. Check for yourself: the context doesn’t help. Jesus wept. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Complete silence, not a single clap when Pete Hegseth ends with, "We are the war department" and walks off stage

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

That Farage reaction in full: "mY fEeLz aRe HuRt sO i DeMaNdZ aN eLeCtiOn" 😂😂😂 Who cares, you Putin-loving public-school grifting ponce? Just because the air is coming out of your tyres, doesn't mean you get to demand that the race start four years early. F-off back to Florida.

“Please clap.”

Since forever, I can't full screen a Youtube video; it crashes to the top of the feed. And when are we going to be able to zoom an image with the mouse wheel? I often can't read the text in embedded images. (Win 11) Love the architecture and principles of BS. But I'd really love these fixed.

[Narrator's voice] But nobody was having a good time, and nobody wanted to applaud the horror and shame.

So, let's see if I've got this straight? The world has changed enough for Labour to go back on their bedrock promise not to raise taxes. But not enough for them to scuff out their red lines on Brexit, the single most damaging drag on the UK economy. Idiots. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

I find it terribly conflicting that his R4 programme can be truly fascinating, but politically he is so incoherently obnoxious.

This is such an under explored argument. A contributing factor to the Windrush scandal was a lack of free way to establish a persons identity and legal status. Voter ID was so bad because of a lack of a universal free way to establish ID. Universal ID can be a protection.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

For quite a while I've accepted the 'flatter and mollify' approach is probably better in the long run. No more. He's clearly deranged, in so many ways. Let's stop doing that please.

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Danielle Pletka, commentating on @channel4news.bsky.social Like watching an animated Instagram filter. Because, that's pretty much what it is. She is 62. Raises some interesting philosophical questions, people distorting their own physical presentation for television appearances.

Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

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.

Honesty and class @iandunt.bsky.social

If you need a demonstration of how GMB often descends into Susanna Reid and Andrew Pierce supporting each other's crap while Kevin Maguire is trying to get a (truthful/factual) word in, this is it. Susanna Reid is contemptible and should be fired. Pierce should be left to GB News. #ShutdownGMB