Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

Some rehearsal shots from Our Town, with @welshnattheatre.bsky.social I saw it last night and it's incredible- try and get tickets if you can!

Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire. Farage needs a geography lesson.

“To you this is murder?” “Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.” She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward. Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸

“When I said ‘send the immigrants home’, I didn’t mean me and my family!” #trump

What does a Labour government ever do for you? Well here are 14 things they have done TODAY! How many can you say other parties even have the first clue about? 1. Upgrades to more grass roots sports facilities 2. 450,000 disadvantaged students to be supported by new AI tutoring tools 1/8

Sometimes I think all that wealth and power has sent Musk mad. But mostly I think he's just fucking evil!

Many thanks to Labour for acting on this! Pet owners to benefit from biggest vet sector reforms in 60 years! Following an investigation by the CMA into the veterinary market, the Labour government is taking action to make the system clearer, fairer & more transparent for pet owners, & staff. 1/5

Just sent out this free piece. The response to the execution of Alex Pretti reveals how we have gotten into this mess. The anger is not directed at Trump, who caused this whole situation. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

My girlfriend has kindly agreed to buy Matt Goodwin a house in Gorton & Denton.

What's he hiding under the glove?

SMEs told us defence procurement was too slow, too complex and too hard to navigate. We listened. That’s why we have established the Defence Office for Small Business Growth to help SMEs win more defence contracts. We're cutting red tape and backing British businesses 🇬🇧

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates: Applications closed Sunday. When did they select Goodwin?

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

If Matthew Goodwin is the very best Reform can muster for an eminently winnable by-election, the unfeasibly warm welcomes for the worst of Johnson & Truss's flotsam & jetsam suddenly make much more sense.

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

Trump says he felt worse about his thugs murdering a woman after he heard that her parents liked him. Which means that if they didn't like him, he wouldn't have felt as bad. Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

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Abolish. ice. 💔

Add TikTok.... Trump and Epstein

#MAGAEatsItsOwn... ALWAYS

Need to repost this, as it seems many people have seen the lies and misinformation Zack posted here and have believed him. But he shared was deliberately misleading...read on below to find out why...and please do share to make sure others realise it too.

All of us can find ways to stand up against fascism.

I am perplexed. The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill is in the Commons today. It will have all stages from 2nd reading through to 3rd reading today as well. And it's getting support from pretty much everyone from all parties... ...so why wasn't it done years ago? 1/3

Start your clocks.

I guess he just got lucky.

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.

Thousands in Swansea have been let down by an outdated leasehold system, leaving too many facing rising costs and trapped in homes they can struggle to sell. In opposition, Labour promised to end this feudal system of exploitation. In Govt, we are making good on that promise.

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

It will be an awkward first day for some!

Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

Lee Anderson has been lampooned after gleefully sharing photos of himself campaigning ahead of a by-election - in the wrong constituency www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nine years later, the BBC finds itself in league with an American network that is prostrating itself before Trump. Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/media-news 🧵3/4

CBS is not the network it was in 2017 when the two broadcasters agreed “a new editorial and news-gathering relationship”. James Harding, then the BBC’s director of news and current affairs, heralded a partnership that would deliver audiences “news that is reliable, original and illuminating”. 🧵2/4

As if BBC News did not have enough problems in its dealings with Trump as it attempts to have the president’s defamation lawsuit thrown out, now comes a fresh challenge in the form of the corporation’s official “US news partner” suddenly taking a sharp turn in the administration’s direction. 🧵1/4

I'd completely forgotten about that partnership with CBS. Bit of a problem now... www.private-eye.co.uk/media-news

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)

Yes! Labour are tackling ground rents associated with leasehold properties. Far too many people are seeing ground rents increase at extortionate rates - some doubling every few years! Here is the PM telling us more! 1/6

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Odd people join Reform. Even odder people seek election as a representative of it. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ice-...

But…former Tories should?

Call them 'Immigration Control and Enforcement'. Or ICE for short.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning