Healey wins and Benn out. It's 1980 all over again.

The Guardian gets with the programme www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Re-reposting. Fail to address this, and you might as well have left Starmer in Downing Street.

For those of you that ever wondered what scares the shit out of him: #FabFord

That must mean Burnham has agreed to a big rise in defence spending, otherwise why would Healey take it.

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His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect

Andy Burnham is suggesting "honesty" in UK politics. OK, I'll start.... -Brexit has made us much weaker -Well-organised immigration is a boon and not a bane -big money in politics and our media is destroying the UK

Well, this didn’t make me feel good. What the hell? Why aren’t they in jail?

Genuinely can’t say enough how happy I am they lost.

Oh please please let them. The banter heuristic of them having to apply for visas to leave their village alone would be worth it.

Imagine being such a preening self-obssesed narcissistic cunt that you make Infantino look graceful.

When the entire world hates you... #DeliverUsFromtRump #BlueWaveNov26

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Trump delighted to see a black shirt

If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade

Too soon?

Fewer boats, but larger ones (average 66 people) with number of people down 45%. Larger = more dangerous. Detection is 99-100% Method & reduced scale (20-25k/year in 2026) where UK controlled route of 25-40k for EU returns guarantee (joint patrols; save every life asap) could cut by 75-90% by 2027

Small boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.

I meet people every week when out vox popping who are completely convinced that small boat crossings are rising exponentially. They aren’t - they are falling substantially. Journalists and politicians have a duty to get this message across. Some are mendacious, others just incompetent.

On why I didn’t like Andy Burnham’s speech open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

It seems increasingly clear that, unless domestic opposition mounts and/or international pressure increases dramatically, Israel is going to try and seize Gaza and much more of the West Bank in the very near future. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hegseth wants the US military to be more Spartan, which does unfortunately involve being beaten up by the Persians

Sunday 19th July 1992 - Sunday 19th July 2026. Paolo Borsellino "I never asked to deal with mafia cases. It happened by chance. Then I continued to do it for moral reasons. The people around me were dying."

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Andrew Tate, being arrested in Miami, wearing an outfit suspiciously resembling the one my wife Bunty wore to meet the girls for a meal in town last weekend…

This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue

Defending free speech, they say. So we can assume the White House will have no objection if the Spanish players unfurl a banner saying “Trump is a paedophile” after the final whistle tomorrow.

I reckon everybody has something that brings out the puritan in them. For me it's not drink or drugs or smoking or teenage social media use, etc. It's the astonishing spread of sports betting and prediction markets. Just seems really bad for individuals and society to turn the world into a casino.

So Putin did try to interfere in US elections Just like Putin orchestrated Brexit in the uk Funded it, bribed politicians to enact the Brexit Russian foreign policy

Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?

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Kier Starmer rn;

Iran has suspended the Memorandum of Understanding, accusing the US of violations, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said. He added: “We are busy defending our country.” Everything back to square one. Trump has nothing to show for the misery he’s inflicted on the world,

If I was going to do this, first sack Mahmood who is hopeless. Then lift all caps on foreign students and invest in the university sector. Shamelessly steal US scientists, bring them in and help them create startups. Target this at universities in the regions, not London, not Oxbridge.

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It’s genuinely stupid. If this is how government operates now, we’re done as a functioning economy and democracy. Bye bye prosperity and investment.

Fuck me, but this is the worst reason of all.

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

Messi clapped in the White House as Trump bragged about bombing Iran. You know who to cheer for on Sunday www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

One day, somebody in government will notice what the net migration level is hesding to. The fiscal forecast (£24 billion) was based on average net 235k to 2026-29 but that is at least 100k too high, costing £13 billion, or double that if want to reduce immigration visas further.