Here is a practical change that would give more people the chance to do what the government says. Give temporary leave to those from high grant countries: single men currently in hotels would have both the right to work and the responsibility to sort out their own housing bsky.app/profile/refu...

The only way this 20 year thing works is if it actually deters. If it doesn’t, it just stores up more and more problems, more and more costs - lawyers, bureaucrats etc - in an ever-accumulating mass. And there’s no real reason to believe it will deter. Deterrence generally is overrated.

David Miliband's closing paragraphs in his Observer article today are quite ... striking.

‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform

Letter to my MP

I had no business buying a derelict cabin — but rebuilding it changed my life - on.ft.com/49stCRb Somehow found this mouthwatering. Lovely short article

Poor lad. 😓 www.bbc.com/news/article...

And people wonder why newspaper circulations are crashing....

Chris Philp, a man of pure style. #BBCLauraK

It's the third in a series of posts this year taking seriously the prospect of a Reform government. The first looked at how radical right parties govern around the world. The second at what their immigration reforms would look like in practice. Both linked to at the top of today's post.

New post just out: "The Reality Trap" On Reform's struggles running councils. What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

What a fucking sleazebag imagine being a junior female in the department while he was swinging his dick around.

Some Saturday night content for you…. the 18yo and his band Cassidy playing tonight.

The government plans to remove technical statutory basis for asylum seeker support. Govt says it want asylum seekers to work if they are allowed to. Their policy is asylum seekers can't work (but some can after 12 months). Govt don't plan to let asylum seekers work once case is 6 months old

Performative since none can work.

If only this were real. 🤣

I was twice reported for bullying.1st-a secretary all the fellas were scared of. She'd tried to chuck me out a room I'd booked& I refused. 2nd was a 6ft6 rugby player.I was 7 mths pregnant & told him he cldn't stay home when no mtgs. Had to come in office & help. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The detail is announced and published on Monday (with Sunday newspapers briefed on it). The Sunday Times says the 20 year policy applies to future arrivals

How does this help integration? What abt their kids born here? If pull factors were a thing, the Tory plan to never process would have worked. It didn't.

Federal agents began fanning out and arresting people across Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday, expanding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown to another Democrat-led city.

Leopards/faces...

It is a very good piece - especially on the importance of a healthy public sphere.

Wes streeting: Morgan, let me ask you a very fair question, what do you do successfully? Quickly."

It would be good if the next Reform Manifesto introduces compulsory turkey for Christmas Dinner. None of this woke rib of beef.

Went to see Nuremberg tonight. Really distressing at times but fascinating & gripping. Great cast. Not a foot wrong. Definitely recommended.

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Not the main point, but turkey only became the main Christmas dish for ordinary Britons in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, if families could afford a bird at Christmas it was more likely to be goose (which, unlike turkey, is actually native to the British Isles).

Vote Reform to get Compulsory Turkey Dinner. The Inspector Generals will be round to check and there'll be a hotline to report those unpatriotic veggies.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

this is so embarrassing I feel physically uncomfortable

I *believe* that my great-uncle James Guthrie (I never met him - he died six years before I was born) was the first westerner to record film footage of the 14th Dalai Lama. He also treated his peacock for an eye cyst...

Tibetan history is fascinating in general but 20th century Tibetan history, especially the period between Qing collapse and the PRC invasion, is a particularly messy mixture of modernity, tradition, cynicism, and genuine belief.

💥 “Left on Read: Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Shared the Texts That Ended Her Alliance With Trump — and They’re All About Epstein.”

An 11-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way to school on Friday morning during what the police described as a roadside dispute between two drivers on a congested Nevada highway.

This stuff is honestly so far gone now, it would take a political generation to rebuild. And none of the incentives in British politics are taking us that way.

Its not an either/or. Go after all of them.

As calls grow for the release of documents related to the late sex offender, the US president is fighting back by pointing the finger at prominent Democrats

Firefighters tackle six-storey building blaze in Glasgow

The stalled investigation into the planting of pipe bombs outside the Republican Party headquarters in Washington, D.C., the night before Jan. 6, 2021, has become another obsession of the far right that threatens the unity of President Trump’s coalition.

Well, quite.

There's the constituency of 'I just don't like visible and audible difference' which Labour can't appeal to. And there's the 'I don't like that this has measurably made my area worse by introducing an insecure, economically detached class of people', which this policy makes worse.

Labour's fear of Reform, 'the election is tomorrow' attitude means that they are completely incapable of going 'okay, but what are *actually* the consequences of refugee and asylum policy that people don't like?'

The only Ravenea moorei known to humanity was in grave danger — so a team of intrepid botanists had to go in search of another

Wow!

Undercover priest lays the foundation for later papal proclamations.

Venezuela Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “Be ready because an action could happen at any hour.”

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