Dr Simon Ubsdell

Badenoch's intro video is scenes from the Robinson march interspersed with footage of migrant boats.

You’d have thought that in 2025 this sort of thing would have become long since extinct.

There is at this point a certain antique charm to it.

CEO is probably the only class of job where AI could perform better than its human counterpart. But then chimpanzees would perform considerably better than either.

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

TLDR: the invention of species classification was essentially an essentialist and creationist scala natura idea from a pre-Darwinian era. It has some utility. But often does not, and when wedded to it we reinforce pre-evolutionary ideology. This includes in basic biology...

The Conservative Party's lurch deeper into xenophobic authoritarianism to catch up with the Reform Party means that Farage will inevitably move even further towards radicalisation to remain distinct from the Conservatives who will then lurch even deeper into..

The only appropriate way to headline this is: “Further proof that the country has lost its effing mind’.

The Cosa Nostra ripped up the traditional playbook for running a business.

But we were never idiotic enough to celebrate their entrepreneurial flair.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni... Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

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Who needs peer review? The Trump administration promises easy access to federal grants to universities that agree to change their rules and processes to align with administration priorities. If your university signs this, it's time to start moving.

Tory plot to replace Kemi Badenoch with Robert Jenrick as soon as next month Up to a dozen supporters of the shadow justice secretary are said to have penned letters to use against Kemi Badenoch when the time is right

Jenrick allies are collecting no confidence letters from Conservative MPs calling for party leader Kemi Badenoch to quit,

Hard to work out the strategy of these people. If it’s to copy Reform policies to lure back voters, it won’t work - they’ll go for the real deal.

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda

It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

This is not the first time a close associate of Farage has been revealed as a Kremlin influencer. By 2018, his aide Kevin Ellul Bonici had been revealed as a Russian propagandist, and the Russian embassy visits of Arron Banks and Wigmore had been exposed by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 8/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

Byline Times has spoken to several people familiar with Farage and Gill when they were both MEPs in this crucial period. Insiders describe the two of them as "thick as thieves" 5/12
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An array of photos, interviews and videos of Farage and Gill completely debunk Zia Yusuf's claim that "most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy”. But there's much more 2/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

Indeed. It seeks to make a virtue out of irresponsible laziness.

Boat, not boar. Always be careful about upsetting a sanglier.

Their other line is often 'There's four years until the election', which they take as an argument for saying nothing to rock the boar, when of course it means now is exactly the time to be making one's dissatisfaction known.

Abso-bloody-lutely.

And the smug self-satisfaction that always accompanies the expression.

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In absurd bargain news, my latest book NOTORIOUS is just 99p on a time limited Kindle deal so rob me people.

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Yes, that is genuinely damaging, I think.

On the hypocrisy angle, I think voters have embedded the notion that all politicians are hypocrites to such a degree in recent times that it no longer has the clear thrust that it used to have.

The time has come to mute all those accounts that reply to anyone with: 'So you're absolutely fine with a Reform majority at the next election'.

This sort of lazy, insta-response approach to political discourse is exactly what has made our politics so dysfunctional.

I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it.
These cannot both be true. /1

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!