First, they came for the puppies, but I did not speak up.

1/2 Torturers also say this. 2/2 Different point. By this logic Vance himself should stop complaining all the time. Everything has been handed to him, and yet he’s a grievance machine.

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

Big "Hurrah for the blackshirts!" moment for the Express.

Tonight in #WestCork

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Having looked at the Daily Mail, we can see that Farage and media allies saw this day coming and had their lines prepared. Which does not make any of them true or even reasonable opinions. Good to see them being called out, but this needs to be sustained for *years* if necessary.

Lovely piece

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

I don’t love the “feud” framing, as much as I do appreciate the mayor standing up to Trump. Sadiq Khan is not feuding with anyone. He was the target of a vicious, racist attack and is standing up for himself and others.

Thalidomide was not approved by the FDA. In the UK, the Thalidomide debacle led to the creation of the medicines act and setting of standards for evidence and review of risks and benefits of medicines. The case he's citing is exactly why experts approve drugs, not politicians and journalists.

Happy equinox to all who take pleasure in tracking the earth’s movement through space and time!

I think we may find that the media commitment to Reform, immigration hatred and the rehabilitation of Tommy Robinson intensified significantly after J D Vance ‘visited the Cotswolds’.

Tthis is well wirth your time if youre leading change in a turnaround school. Advice and intentions won’t cut it - you have to prove over and over to everyone that you’re serious. substack.com/@ebithomasj/...

I love this- something positive from my son @samfr.bsky.social , talking with the new director of the @theifs.bsky.social , a long-term colleague of mine, @helenmiller.bsky.social !

The idea that reading comprehension is a set of generic “find the main idea” skills has been so damaging. Excellent stuff from @suchmo83.bsky.social

Excellent. Clear, precise and offering practical steps to improve a flawed offering.

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

This exchange says it all.

Agree. This is a misdiagnosis that does not fit the evidence at all well, and one which gets in the way of useful responses

Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

110,000 would have been peanuts for an anti-Brexit march. Two were over 1 million.

“On the advance” The thing that worried me the most when I covered a far right protest the other week is how happy they were. Because they believe they’re winning

Well, at least we now know who’s giving Tommy Robinson money to buy flags

A quick reminder: if you read something you love, don't forget to write to the author to thank them for it, and tell them why you loved it.

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians buff.ly/rTfNmFC

What I lived through twenty four years ago today, yesterday. To me it's always yesterday. heatherburns.tech/2023/09/11/t...

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

Torn between thinking it’s right that she goes because standards in public life are important & the DPM has to be above reproach, and anger & frustration that you just know pretty much nobody on the Right would do the right thing in the same circumstance.

It will come back to bite them. She won’t be gone for long.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

I have questions. How much tax did Nadia Zahawi underpay? How much did he end up paying? And did he resign? Most of all, why is the double standard doubled when it’s a woman?

😱 This is why people say American democracy was an illusion all along.

I mean, for all we know, it could have been a bunch of liberals on holiday?

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Thinking of colleagues and friends starting back today. Inset day generally a relief to get over. The best bit is the kids coming back and how happy and excited they are to see each other.

Some saying it’s ok if we become a non-reading society. The thing about non-literate cultures is that they perform enormous feats of memory in order to retain cultural knowledge. We’re whittling down attention spans to seconds.

The media across the spectrum did a bad job of context last weekend, by reporting aspirations of a massive wave of protests as a fact. The earlier prediction that the injunction to empty the hotel would see protests grow proved wrong. We don't know if the new verdict will. Don't assume, do report

If you’ve been granted asylum, you’re no longer an asylum seeker. BBC seems to have swallowed the government press release here - embarrassing stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.

It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.

In the archives we still have the letters and application forms for deported Jews' property

This seems appropriate. It is just a piece of cloth … then blind your conscience to the end.

New Article

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death. Vaccines don’t cause autism!

It’s just such vacuous bollocks. You’d have to be a long way up your own alimentary tract to pretend that a) you don’t break the law, b) you didn’t plead guilty, c) Starmer was directing the courts. They all know this but the idea is to keep repeating it until it is‘fact’.

It’s amazing how no one ever points out the reason we can’t return asylum seekers to France (or the EU) is because of Brexit. The same folks who said we could take back control, are the same folks who didn’t mention this particular consequence of such actions. Funny that.