Kemi Badenoch claims the Type 45 Destroyer can’t intercept missiles.
That is literally what they are designed to do, and they’re world-renowned for it.
The Conservatives should wind their neck in and stop warmongering.
We will not gain anything by getting involved in a conflict with Iran.
ICYMI My take on the Cabinet Secretary role and appointment. (Spoiler - does NOT contain gossip or briefings).
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ICYMI My take on the Cabinet Secretary role and appointment. (Spoiler - does NOT contain gossip or briefings).
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Me, for the Constitution Society
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Once again from Monday ...
04.03.2026 12:40 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.
No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Me, for the Constitution Society
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The Reality Show?
01.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Reality Show?
01.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
28.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 3297 🔁 828 💬 283 📌 128I know, I know. I literally fought Leeds/National Front supporters back in the 70s. 😂
28.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Right now I am supporting two Premier League teams.
Arsenal
And whoever is playing Man City.
Even, holding my nose, Leeds🙄
NEWS! Man who said he wouldn't get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago newsthump.com/2026/02/28/m...
28.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 200 🔁 77 💬 2 📌 3We've entered the stage of the news cycle where the clear initial information has been reported, fresh reporting is hours or days away, and the gap in between is full of talking heads either constantly re-stating the bleeding obvious and/or speculating wildly based on nothing.
28.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 263 🔁 49 💬 7 📌 2My god. Did these people ever leave middle school?
28.02.2026 09:47 — 👍 57 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 1
Given Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK has modelled itself on Trump’s MAGA movement, it’s perhaps unsurprising that it’s now blaming its defeat in Gorton & Denton on “cheating”.
Echoes of Trump’s hare-brained attempts to overturn the 2020 US election result with false claims of electoral fraud?? 🤔
Viktor Orban is a pro-Putin authoritarian thug and the fact that Trump, Vance & Rubio have openly campaigned for him against freedom-loving Hungarians who want him finally out of power is disgusting, dishonorable & disgraceful. But typical of them because that is what they are.
26.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 3167 🔁 996 💬 120 📌 44Not all Jews are “white”. Jews originated in the Middle East and like other inhabitants were dark skinned. Many remained there and some moved to North Africa. If you go to Israel you’d see that immediately.
26.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Given his convictions Robinson would not normally be allowed into the USA.
People are being rounded up by ICE and deported for far less. But they are brown.
Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP.
The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want.
The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.
Presumably as these speeches are a public service Goodwin does them for free or just a very modest fee + expenses so he doesn’t become “elite” himself? 😂
25.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Question: does Goodwin regard University Professors as part of his “elite class”?
Whatever their origins?
(BTW I knew Goodwin at Manchester U. He was very definitely middle-class by origin. I wasn’t. I have a highly developed class spidey-sense 😃)
Don’t give him ideas
25.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧵Reform's Matt Goodwin has said he is “not part of the establishment”, and criticised the “elite class”. But we found that his definition of “the elite” excludes the bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him /1 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
25.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 279 🔁 125 💬 11 📌 12Thanks James. Is that an opinion based on experience or something else? Not criticising - just want to be clear.
25.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This guy gets it.
Seriously though, this feels like a moment of transition from the post-911 era into something darker, more Torrian, and more focused on policing American citizens
Interesting (genuine) question: does saturating by-elections with ‘outside’ campaigners really work?
Is there any research? Cos my hunch would be in some places/for some people it would be a turn-off?
What a good idea.
I generally tell them to take a hike, but turning the tables on them is sweeter.
I once got a call about having been in an accident. I went on a long and drawn out spiel about how a massive dog had gone out in front of me and I hit it only to have finally gotten out to look and there was a naked man lying unconscious. "Then I looked up and saw there was a full moon!"
Hung up.
SCAM JAM
Just had a call from “BT” about our internet connection.
We don’t, and can’t, have BT on our estate.
I started to say that “all my calls are routinely recorded for legal and security purposes….”
And they hung up.
