Do you have a source, because those are useful facts (the former more than the latter, given the HRA means human rights cases are mostly heard in UK courts - I think)
Do you have a source, because those are useful facts (the former more than the latter, given the HRA means human rights cases are mostly heard in UK courts - I think)
Here is a song for The Spectator’s Tate Brothers celebration. m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8TZ...
See also: youtu.be/484psuotV98?...
Which they would then use for every story where you attend or hear about, or react to some serious or sombre news...
Have no doubt it's contributing, but "driving" seems like a stretch based on that report & figure.
The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
I think the greatest achievement of the post war period was ending the idea "Great Nations" were how we create progress. The focus on a rules based system of international interaction is our greatest achievement, but overlooked & it's unravelling is bringing about a return to conflict & tensions
It's well-past time the EU acted on Hungary. It needs to be made clear that there is a choice to be made by countries of being in the orbit of the EU, or in the orbit of authoritarians like Putin or Trump. We need to show the benefits of international relations, not have them undermined.
Not in most of our names. Scotland is not special in that regard.
Anything about his lack of perspective & inability to care more about the wider cause than his role as a central figure in it?
Good gods, these people. We are quite literally facing a far right threat to our country & they are indulging in self-centred, self-serving in-fighting & navel gazing. We'd be better off if they stopped eating attention & airtime.
And not excusing the far right...
We ripped apart families & left parents to die because of racism stoked by the media 🤬
I remember hearing about how the Kinder Transport programme was passed in parliament. Apparently Britain was so anti-asylum due, in part, to the bile in British papers that children were the only group politicians thought the public would find acceptable to take in.
Other than short term construction opportunities... how many jobs or training opportunities are actually created by the AI industry? For which groups of people? Because I'm struggling to see how it is a major job creator, especially for people at the lower end of the education spectrum.
The @libdems.org.uk have become the first major UK party to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza. Thank you @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for your courage and leadership, as Starmer and Labour continue to look away. #GazaGenocide.
What a perfect opportunity this would have been to talk about the benefits of Human Rights law to the citizens of our country. Oh, who am I kidding. Why would a former human rights lawyer, turned far right apologist ever choose to do that.
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Maybe they are debating the word "still"... I mean, there is certainly an argument to be made that it hasn't been for quite some time... 🤷♂️
I think we also have to accept that most people talking about asylum seekers are actually bothered by immigration (many for much the same "unmet needs" reasons). Asylum Seekers have been made an acceptable target for abuse & so it is thrown their way, but it is not just about them.
Those would trade barriers being the ones we chose to impose just a few years ago..
A statement that collapses as soon as you ask "why" they were worried about the state of the country or what they believe the solution is.
Every time any PM says they can't directly raise concerns with another world leader on a state visit because they need to be more diplomatic in achieving their aims, needs this thrown at them. They are enabling Trump to come here & trash our country & spread division over a fictitious grievance
This "might makes right" world we are returning to is a very dangerous place. If you don't want your children or grand children to end up as countless white crosses in a field, then now is the time to stand up & say "no".
Reposting because it seems like a good time to remember how to deal with the politics of racism and how politicians and newspapers can draw red lines if they want to
The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.
Good god I hope so
The private family life of twice divorced Nigel Farage, who had children with both of his ex wives.... and now lives with his girlfriend.... is none of my business... just as the private family lives of everyone else are none of his.
Global child mortality down 10%; global extreme poverty at lowest ever (1990 ~43%, today ~9%); global literacy at highest ever (~87%); 20 more countries recognise same-sex marriage (total now 38); James Webb space telescope; 5000 exoplanets now discovered; humpback whales have invented new songs.
Reform are proposing to “rescind” the climate emergency declared by Kent County Council in 2019 in a move branded "anti-science & dangerous" by the Greens on the council Green cllr Stuart Jeffery: "“Reform’s paper to council is full of conspiracy theories and garbage science. The science is clear."
I dunno Surely that would depend partly on poll ratings... but I suspect many of these people think Farage would be the ideal leader of the Conservatives anyway.
China is becoming a renewables superpower And is reaping the benefits, exporting tech to the rest of the world and cutting it's fossil fuel imports Reform UK want to do the opposite, putting all of their chips on a dying energy sector Reform would put the UK in reverse gear
There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
But if he strips citizens of passports, won't they find it harder to prove their right to vote under the new voting restrictions Trump & his followers are trying to bring in?! Oh.
I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.
The thing is mate, it's actually really hard to make out the fact that you don't like Tommy and think many of the fellow marchers are arseholes from the satellite photos of you among them at the rally, or the newspaper headlines about how 110,000 of you marched with them.
Fascism shouldn’t rise again so easily but the cowardly and lazy and incurious media have certainly made it easier for the profiteering bigots - having neither backbone nor brain but self importance instead I hope they feel proud of yesterday’s march - they have fought for it
I'm in Liverpool this weekend. Chatted to a local old white bloke who spoke with pride about the city having the first mosque in the country, and the first chinatown. And… fuck, I needed to hear that kind of positivity.
Not racists, just people "concerned" that brown people are more of a threat to their children/grandchildren than white people.
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
I went to Tim's speeches. I liked his speeches. They actually reached me in the gut, made me believe someone gave a crap about stuff.
The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse
I would argue though that isolation/separation from others is a more potent fertiliser.
Hard, hard agree. A large number of those who stood on Cable street were dirt poor and also had little formal education. Poverty might create the conditions where people are more susceptible to it, but racists, like Robinson & Farage, step in to that & breed the racism.
I'm afraid that society will always leave millions of men disappointed. Any conceivable society will. What's a feature of these times is there is a well funded, virulent radical right with its own infozone to consume their status angst.
A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government. Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too. The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.
"Not disturbed" For fucks sake. Even if you champion free speech & people's right to take part in it. Over 100,000 people marching for the far right & demanding the gov be overturned should be concerning and disturbing . What are these people doing.
Incredibly important article
Also absolutely horrified & disgusted by how little condemnation of it there is.
The silence is deafening. A lot of people are feeling anxious and scared tonight. For their loved ones. For themselves. For their community. For their country. For our country. Those who lead us must use their voices, unequivocally, now.
Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
Simply in Bed
That sounds quite lovely 🙂
If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"
Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title: Death is literally the New Sex
Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title: Literally Eating the Dead
Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
And the "football hooligan" far right of the 70's & 80's. They, & the rise of the BNP, were treated very differently by the media & gov... but Farage & his political brethren across the right have laundered the far right rhetoric & ideology for so long it's now considered mainstream.
There wasn't a SINGLE patriot out marching on the streets.
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
“He appeared proud of the harsh opinions he robustly shared. Which means there’s no reason now to be shy about them while pondering his legacy.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So basically we need an anti-fascist march that is much bigger Can we do it though? Are we going to learn the lesson of Brexit & make our voices heard BEFORE the bad thing happens?
Once upon a time we had Cable Street (yes, yes, I know it was the police who they clashed with, but it was the fascists they were willing to block the streets to stop).
Telegraph headline feels inflammatory - there's no tearing, just careful removal of a flag from a grade 1 listed historic monument that belongs to the nation.
When someone says "violence & murder are never the answer, no matter who it is" and then go on to whitewash the person murdered, to fictionalised their life to make them appear less awful than they were... ... that second part contradicts & undermines the first.
Unless this is global, it would be really helpful to include the region(s) it covers on the graphic.
I would say Being Human, but I think that's a bit too well known. So it's gonna be another one with Russel Tovey - Him & Her It could also have been Banished. I'm bad at picking "one" thing.
I have never, ever known who the head of the FBI was. Weird that the first time I ever do it's this dumb fuck.
And here we are
When you take an action, whatever action, however benign or fluffy it might be, and use it as a symbol of your hate & intolerance, then you poison & defile it Anyone who wants to "let it go" when the far right do this to our flag doesn't really care that much about it as a symbol in the first place
"What's wrong with putting a flag up?" they ask. Like saying, what's wrong with planting a geranium? Nothing wrong with it. But if you're bankrolled to go out, in groups, at night, planting *thousands* on public land and other people's front gardens, it becomes something other than horticulture.
The other difference is that his followers and supporters are a bunch of hateful people who constantly use the language of division & violence...
To understand online-poisoned politics, from conspiracy theories to actual violence, we have to stop relying on the archaic framework of left and right. That’s not the space they live in
I look at the ugly state of politics in the USA and ask myself how anyone with a brain would want that imported here... but then ... Reform...
It really is a grim ritual that we have so many acts of violence that evolve into another grim ritual of everyone waiting to see what team the maniac played for, and half the time that has already been decided by the grim ritual of everyone speculating before anyone has any clue about it
BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.
The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
To see these far-right invaders desecrating the city I love & grew up in, a city that was always an incredible, tolerant, diverse & welcoming melting pot of different people, makes me incredibly angry.
"We just want to protect our women and children"
Because it doesn't matter... 🤷♂️
Sadly I find podcasts to be more informative than the news these days. I wish it wasn't so, but there we are.
This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
Every politician in the land should read this piece, and the sane ones need to stand up against this shit. The RefUKkers should be ashamed, and if they're not we should shame them. Well done Hannah 💛
But that shouldn't stop people pointing out the irony of his position on shootings & their acceptance. It's worth pointing this out *because* his shooting was unacceptable & that people who share his position should use this to consider carefully their own views.
This is Nazi language. If you’re wondering how that country descended so far so fast.
Bang g Blame is also one of my top favourite REM songs. You sir, have exquisite taste.
This is SUCH a good song. I was introduced to it via the "A Life Less Ordinary" soundtrack. Such a good soundtrack & it's still one of my favourite films.
Releasing the Epstein files is a hostile action against them... so I guess that means what's in the files must be damaging to them. Got it.
Only thing I disagree with is towards the end, where you say "at least one group of powerful elites with an abiding belief that their money and power make them invincible." I'm not sure that's right. I think they know the systems we live in mean their money & power *do* make them (near) invincible
I am running the London Parks Half Marathon for SANDS in memory of our first son Olly who died at 9 months in 2012. Just did my first 7 mile run. More than half of the way there! SANDS has been a wonderful support. Anything you can give will be welcome. Thanks. www.justgiving.com/page/mark-th...
As a bonus one of the artists in the collaboration goes by Dizraeli, and is still making great music & railing against our descent in to madness. youtu.be/ExkqhW9iRsg?...
The concept is basically a "discussion" about liberalism & socialism, set against the backdrop of a UK gone full authoritarian. It's one of my favourite albums for the music as much as the content.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @originstorypodcast.bsky.social Was thinking about the state of the UK & remembered this glorious album. Thought I'd see if either of you had heard of it (especially Dorian) & what you might make of it. dizraeli.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...
Such crap reporting from supposed EU specialists - the CO2 regulation of vehicles is set out in legislation adopted by Member States' ministers and elected MEPs, not a 'Commission ban' - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...