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This is precisely what this decision will do. It will absolutely render women and children radically unsafe, and closes YET ANOTHER safe and legal route. All so that a far-right mob are appeased and a far right discourse is fully entertained, in all sense of that word.
So it turns out Donald Trump really was too frail and elderly for a second term.
Well done Hnh and thank you to our listeners who took action 🎉
🚨🚨Yes, we all knew that the poor trade deal with the US was a result of the EU being extremely frightened about the prospect of US dropping military and intelligence support to Ukraine. It, however, seems to drag out some inevitable choices for Europe in terms of collective defense and security. 🧵
It’s funny how the public square is vital to those promoting hate, and turns out to be entire optional to large numbers of us once it is overrun by hate-mongers. Almost as if what they really care about is not being challenged when they present grotesque distortions as ineffable Truth.
waka wake
The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Couldn’t agree more he’s hopeless at politics
It would be so unbelievably easy to make a patriotic and pride case for Britain while simultaneously putting the racists and bigots firmly back in their box. I mean the speech writes itself. So why is nobody writing it?
Great explainer: The ECHR is protecting everyone in the UK 🚨 "Reform has touted its plan as a 'legal reset'. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction." https://bit.ly/3JYzaI8
This is what we’ve been saying: Russia’s economy is facing a catastrophe. And these figures are from *before* Ukraine started its successful campaign to degrade Putin’s oil facilities. (Data from Bloomberg via @jayinkyiv.bsky.social on the other place.)
Well done 👏 Scientists are standing up to the Trump administration and are making information about climate change more accessible! 🌎 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump
You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Starmer could have said: Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism; Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.
This is a lie on an absolutely colossal scale - the figures show that tariff revenue has increased by $20 billion/month - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... would take over 30 years to reach $8 trillion at this rate
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
The report also glosses over - in a single paragraph! - how the GFA refers to the ECHR (not 'ECHR righs') as being a key 'safeguard' of the Agreement. That's the single most relevant clause in the whole text, and the report just wriggles away from it.
"unlawful and unfounded asylum seekers" is just gibberish. Presumably Straw means unlawful *entrants* and unfounded *claims*. But given that he is being sold here as a Big Ass Lawyer, his lack of legal precision is just embarrassing.
"entirely groundless" This is how public discourse is being is being debased. The GFA expressly requires access to court in Northern Ireland for ECHR. But what Straw says is not tested, just repeated, and so a "both sides" "debate" is created. The actualité drowns. Sad to watch in real time.
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.
What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?
BBC Radio 2 presenter is a racist. Gary Lineker isn't. Tim Davie is not bullying the Radio 2 presenter as he did with Lineker.
Both the Lucy Connolly and the Epping hotel cases have now taken on a political-media existence of their own, unconnected with what actually happened in court. It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other. People want stories instead.
When was the last time 76% of voters agreed on anything?We need a youth mibikity scheme with the EU yesterday www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I am never quite sure whether (a) marinating in Twitter makes you think stuff like “bread is woke”; (b) monetisation incentivises you to say stuff like “bread is woke” for engagement or (c) same as (b) but you come to believe what you’re posting so what’s the difference?
So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.
People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
Important take down of the media’s narrative by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Pokrovsk is not strategic. Russian oil is
A downed Russian surveillance drone type Gerbera contained test footage from the Chinese factory from which it was delivered.
#Paris #AirPollution
This again... bsky.app/profile/rola...
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Thread.
“Mass unrest” update
Trump administration now openly pushing Putin strategic talking points.
Excellent from Rowan Williams “Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves? No-one in their right mind thinks accommodating asylum seekers in hotels is a good idea.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.
This week has seen a cabinet minister come out fighting against Farage, promising to rip up UK's progress on better EU relations; a poll revealed a majority of Brits back a youth mobility deal; and the French government is at risk of collapse. Subscribe: https://bestforbritain.org/weekend_wire
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
"Over the past two centuries, the powers that have emerged triumphant have been the ones that not only fought the enemy on the battlefield but also targeted its production and deployment systems—[...] as the United States and Britain did from the air against Nazi Germany."
I think you’ve misspelt dead
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Hi All, Just sent out this piece on a Ukrainian strategic air campaign against Russia. The Ukrainians seem to understand that targeting Russia strategically through oil and rail attacks is one of the best ways to weaken the Russian war machine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox & Friends: “We no longer have a cap on how old you can be... at age 18, sign up for ICE and join us and be a part of it. We’ll get you trained and ready to be equipped to go out on the streets" Ads: “Want to deport illegals with your absolute boys?”
1/ The role of experts in a democracy is to provide: 1️⃣ Advice to democratically elected leaders on the options available to achieve the objectives those leaders select; 2️⃣ Advice to democratically elected leaders on the likely outcomes and consequences of leaders' proposed plans.
It’s the hope, that’s the worse thing. Almost certainly not true.
Took me 5 guesses! Thanks for this needed something after the NYT put the mini behind a paywall
Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
If you just look at the language here. "Undeterred". This is a judgement of a Court of Appeal. Not a war against a common enemy. It's the small things that are eroding the rule of law in this country. And the Times has become a driving force in it.
“Patriots’l heads explode.
On Donald Trump's march towards authoritarianism. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Philp is not telling the truth about what the government argued in court
The ECHR as a turnip-ghost, continued.
This story struggles mightily to avoid outright saying the guy is a dumbass. The Europeans, State Department staff and even the Russians seem to think he's a dud who doesn't do his homework and gets easily confused.
You can tell the Democrats want someone who will fight Trump as Trump has fought them. Much more effective than Schumer's strategy of keeping his head down. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
The dangers of climate change are real. We need to act now. Gulf Stream ‘could collapse in our lifetime,’ warns EU climate chief. https://www.politico.eu/article/gulf-stream-could-collapse-lifetime-warn-eu-wopke-hoekstra/
As usual what the British public think is the opposite of what most Reform voters think. There is an increasing tendency to confuse vocal unpopulism for public opinion
Thank you for this Ian. Someone in government needs to make a stand. What Farage is proposing is morally repugnant.
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
New analysis finds widespread misinformation around electric cars in UK newspapers Via @eciu.net #EVs eciu.net/media/press-...
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'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
"may try to disrupt" 🤦♂️ It's a nailed on certainty that he'll do whatever he can to rig the outcome.
Excellent. Farage's plan would mean police -or new paramilitary forces - rounding up tens of thousands of people in *every major city* (hundreds of '000s in London). It really shouldn't be hard to make this politically toxic. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...
Listen if you have tiny kids I'm here to tell you you have *no idea* how many work/social days will be lost to chickenpox in the coming years if you don't get this jab. How many days you will pay for but not use at nursery. Get the jab.
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Full write up in the Mirror www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Excellent this is how you fight the far right’s use of flags
Outstanding.
Too weak TACO leaps into inaction
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
They should tell him maybe in two weeks
The Guardian on our study published today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is very good. Why aren’t staff in other govt depts under hostile takeover, tasked with breaching ethical norms, doing the same - DoJ, FBI, National Guard commanders, DHS, DoD etc etc?
Security guarranties is a fantasy. The size (5000 troops) is idiocy, American 'backstop' is rubbish all the while the Americans is siding with Russia, and the European stance that this will be implemented after a ceasefire which Moscow repeatedly has rejected, makes all these efforts pointless.
Let's hang Farage's "ICE-style enforcement" around his neck like a concrete albatross. Let's show people what that looks like. A majority does not want this.
Is this the "ICE style deportation enforcement" that Farage has in mind? Does this seem like a happier, safer place to you? Machine-gun armed militias, with faces covered, yanking people into unmarked cars? The full Mark Stone report is a must-watch👇🏽. ~AA www.youtube.com/watch?v=KolI...
Why it’s so distressing that Labour won’t point out the dangers to voters. ‘They have a point but their plans are not practical’ deprives voters of the information they need to assess Reform.
And from my former government lawyer perspective.
As Farage pledges to open up Britain for fracking, hilariously the Reform-led council in Lancashire says “oh, there’ll be no fracking HERE” Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is so fucking depressing. Something that can be irretrievably proven to work and save hundred, thousands of lives (across all possible vaccines I mean) and people have just gone mad and decided that no, they know best.
South Norfolk's Labour MP Ben Goldsborough, who won his seat on a 19% swing, overturning a 21k Tory majority, has written a piece challenging Reform's approach to refugees, asylum and human rights as an issue of principle, not simply impracticality www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
Keir Starmer's political strategy of trying to position himself as Farage with better administrative skills would be morally reprehensible even if it were working. It does not appear to be.
"Thomas-Symonds’s speech was the most assertively pro-European he has given since entering government last year as Keir Starmer’s chief European negotiator." ~AA www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I think he's more than just an economic moron; he's a moron in so many other areas. #trump
Promotes freedom of speech then refuses to speak to local press. Nottingham Reform off to a solid start. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Dictator-esque Nigel Farage plans backing torture, jailing kids and paying jihadis. Scrap UK human rights protections, lock up women and children, jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland, risk going to war with the church. Opposes worker rights, supports fracking. This after supporting Brexit.
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
Why Nigel Farage’s ‘fag packet’ migrant deportation plans don’t add up www.the-independent.com/politics/far...