Starmer has fallen into Farage’s trap The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it

The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it

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I think we watched different speeches....

Badenoch's brain should be studied. Visibly believes that she has put the hours in working while all her policy suggestions are just obviously picked up on Twitter without any critical thought before they end up as policy. Visibly confused as to who was in office 2010 to 2024.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

Visiting UK for the fall, where they’re having their own f-word debate. But that’s just the problem: it’s more than a word. Media’s semantic dodge of a concept, fascist, that may be (is) a fact, the acknowledgment of which wld require a paradigm shift in coverage.

I wish they would word this more truthfully in saying "Billionaire refuses to pay what he is meant too so leaves"

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Well worth a listen all round - but particularly for the interview with Magen Inon.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

The point being he did. Five of them. On his own video. Aside from the racism he lied - to reinforce his racism.

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

BREAKING: Radioactive material was accidentally released at Scotland’s Dounreay nuclear site in a major environmental breach, The National can reveal

Its also a lie.

Honest Bob went to Birmingham and didnt see another white face.....except the five he spoke to in his little social media film.

Honestly Bob. 🤦‍♀️

ONS acts to improve understanding of suicide rates, after Full Fact investigation – Full Fact Politicians, the media and the public should now be better informed about what the suicide data really shows.

We’re grateful to the ONS for changing the way it reports suicide data, following our investigation.

YouTube video by Garys Economics Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn...

Thanks for this. I've stopped watching the press preview unless I know someone like Ian is on. I'll get the rest on catch up. Far too few people on Sky now who actually call a spade a spade.

Kemi Badenoch’s claims about Labour’s unemployment record aren’t quite right—here’s why – Full Fact The Conservative leader has repeated two claims about Labour’s record on unemployment, neither of which is quite right.

Over the weekend Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has gone up “every single month” since Labour took office, and that it’s been left higher by “every Labour government in history”.

Neither of these claims is quite right—our fact check has the figures 👇

Gary Neville hits out at ‘angry, middle-aged white men’ as he urges UK to reunite Gary Neville has hit out at what he described as “angry, middle-aged white men” dividing the UK as he urged the country to reunite. The former Manchester United footballer revealed he had removed a un...

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Worth watching the full video on the abuse of our flag.

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/gary...

The silence of European governments about ICE's thuggish activities this weekend in Chicago and Portland is not going to be sustainable for very much longer. If you call it out when you see it in Belarus, you need to call it out when you see it in Illinois.

Double amputee raises £6000 as he wheels from Glasgow to Gaza

A double amputee riding his wheelchair from Glasgow to Gaza to highlight the horrors in the territory has raised more than £6000 in the first stage of his campaign 👇

*gasp*

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

Exactly! The constant leadership carousel will not change that fundamental problem yet they all keep leaping aboard.

Yeah, its in the i Paper. I said a year,l - they're in constant self destruct mode.

Just read Jenrick is collecting letters of no confidence...

For the UK, Truss’s ‘mini budget’ felt like the apotheosis of this phenomenon. But three years later, things are actually worse. From the Mail to the Telegraph to Farage, the people who cheered & championed it are all measurably madder.

A terrorist attack on Yom Kippur

This whole episode is so well done. A good antidote to media which has immediately sought to flan tensions. Thoroughly recommend. open.spotify.com/episode/5J7Z...

Words fail me.