Dorking to East Horsley #SlowWays yesterday, Easdor2. Beautiful (steep) walk through Surrey countryside.

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He is missed.

It didn’t exist as a concept, as my colleague Dr Bonnie Evans tells us in her book — it’s open access - read it for free: doi.org/10.7765/9781... That doesn’t mean that the combinations of human characteristics that we today refer to as autism didn’t exist.

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

The BBC dutifully quote the figure and the only qualification they apply is that the figure is "contested". It's not "contested", it's wrong! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate change, Russian planes in NATO airspace, genocide in Gaza. No, no. Small boats and as you say forins. As you know, the majority of the UK media is promoting this every hour of the day.

Farage doesn't care about facts, his supporters don't. The majority of the British media don't when it concerns Reform. Facts and evidence are only required if it's left-wing political parties, the Greens or Lib-Dems.

Why give this credibility Farage is an asset of Putin, the oil industry and US nutjobs He has specific roles - disrupt democracy, disrupt and slow the transition away from fossil fuels and disrupt and slow support for Ukraine He has no interest in being in parliment, running a party or being PM

Farage reckons kicking legal migrants out of the country will save "£234bn". So I did the sums, taking into account % of immigrants vs natives who are working, paying tax, claiming benefits, average salaries etc. If Farage is right about immigrants, then natives would cost Britain £1.92 trillion.

Odd how quiet it’s gone with MSM over Farage’s dodgy house dealings in #Clacton clouded by a blanket of his lies.. Have MSM lost interest whether he avoided stamp duty❓🤔 So it only matter if it’s Angela Rayner in which case the media furore is deafening.. but as it’s Farage it’s hush so schhh 🤫🤫

Chris Mason should certainly not be abusing his opportunity to interview the leader of the third largest parliamentary party to throw childish insults at him because his feelings are hurt

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France, 92mm of rain in 90 minutes. This is looking more & more like the new normal. It’s going to be interesting to see how crops fare in these extremes. From +40°C to underwater within a few weeks isn’t great for them. Starvation looks inevitable.

The Guardian article says this will effect 'tens of thousands' - over 4 million people have Settled Status in the UK, and millions have ILR - if he scraps both then 5 million + would be affected, not just tens of thousands

Nigel Farage becoming more extreme on immigration should be understood and explained in the context of Elon Musk switching his allegiance and the X algorithm from Reform UK to Advance UK and Tommy Robinson.

what a leading US economist said (Wolff). Other countries, feed, look after and educate their ppl. They come hear as migrants and work straight away. All those upfront cost born by another country. Immigrant r a gift. Immigrants/siblings run US top companies: Nvidia, Tesla, Palintir. Jobs made Apple

Which is how you do it, rather than saying the plans are unworkable and unfunded. The "fight of our times" isn't looking to be much of a fight at all.

THe is who runs the BBC now move allong nothing to see here

The BBC is is reforms foghorn just incredible , any one seen Lisa Nandy ?

This is my new favourite analogy for mainstream parties' problem with the radical right! If you're a mainstream party, you can talk about other things! If you're the government, you can talk about *and do* other things *and* you get to set the agenda, at least to some extent, much of the time!

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There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

The extra biblical belief in a rapture held by MAGA folks is all over TikTok. It's slated for tomorrow. MAGA blame leftists supposedly under Satanic control for current events. They will be exclusively saved from humanity's self destruction or the apocalypse. This is driving political choices.

Nandy has done absolutely bugger-all since she was appointed. Before a couple of days ago I hadn't seen/heard her for months and now I can't even remember what she was saying on Newsnight. She looked like she was being held hostage.

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We might ask ourselves why the hell everyone in a position of power is bending over backwards to appeal to Reform voters, but not to appeal to anyone else.

Starmer is a spineless failure,watching the caravan of tax dodging racist grifters run rings around him wiping up hate and division with lines and bullshit. The dumb fucks who are thinking of voting for reform will just hear send them back and jump for joy

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Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.

Thanks for speaking up on this Charlotte! Hugely disappointed that the Government response to deporting permanent residents like my dad (who's worked here for 30+ years) amounts to "sure Nigel has a point, but the problem isn't as bad as he says".

This is "mass deportation" being talked about for people here legally, settled into communities, who have done nothing wrong but have simply made the UK their home - our friends, family members, colleagues and neighbours. Utterly vile.

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

This is exactly it. Brexit was the trailer for what Farage wants to bring to the U.K., and he has pretty much got away with it. It’s incredible really. Why wouldn’t he want to push for even more?

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.

This has to be a moment of reckoning. Broadcasters must focus on the practical consequences and make them clear. It would be utter, society altering chaos. That should dominate the approach, as it would coverage of any other party's policies.

It would signal the the de facto end of nearly all immigration to this country, from those coming to work to those who come for love. It would crater our economy, tear up relationships, remove status from millions of European, result in endless legal battles and leave us as an international pariah.

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.

A lie is a lie. And a stupid idea is a stupid idea. There's far too much chasing around discussing dumbassery and not enough pointing out that it is just ill thought out bullshit designed purely to grab headlines.

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

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Now all we need is for Britain to ban bottom trawling across supposedly protected waters

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