Kevin Jordan

Definitely Saturday mornings. Time to reflect on the crazy week before.

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.

Three images. 1) The Doctor and Ruby Sunday surrounded by blue image of villains including Maestro and the Goblin King. 2) Omega and Sutekh battle against a red background. 3) The Robots of Death with a starfield background. Art by Scott Gray.

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Of course having read all those answers I now need to know a) how are you alive on so little sleep, b) can you teach me how to do it and most importantly c) what’s your favourite fantasy book/series? 😉

The Strange World of Gurney Slade "Clear the stage"

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DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.

Farage insists Reform isn’t racist.

I’ve got 20 documented cases that say otherwise.

When the fringe and the manifesto sing the same tune, you don’t have a crank problem - you have a culture problem.

DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander.

It’s maths.

20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

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Why I can't Back Labour Anymore I've given them fifteen months. They've used these to sidle up closer and closer to Reform. I am done.

I defended Labour for 15 months.

Workers’ rights and renters’ protections? Yes.

But cutting benefits, parroting Reform, and calling your own side “the Left” as though you’re not? No.

Which is why Ed Davey and Zack Polanski have an opening Starmer is handing to them.

The “Taxi-Driver-Told-Me” and rapid Americanisation style of politics has become Reform’s entire playbook: bluster, vague rumours, controversy for the sake of it, followed by denials and backtracks, hoping no one notices.

The @elegraph Farage claims migrants are eating swans in Royal Parks Reform UK leader's accusations immediately rebuffed by Royal Parks charity IBC

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back.

I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise.

It could be true, we just don’t know.

That’s how this works, right?

Everybody’s favourite bear 🐻❤️.

Smarter than the average.

Sharia in London? An FAQ for the Terminally Gullible Spoiler: I live here. I’d have noticed if Tower Hamlets had turned into a caliphate.

Yesterday Trump told the UN that London wants to “go to Sharia Law.”

I’ve lived here for a decade and I’m pretty sure I would have noticed if Tower Hamlets had turned into a caliphate.

FAQ below on why this rant is weapons-grade nonsense - and why debunking it matters.

For me it’s a dash versus an em-dash. No idea when to use the right one !

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

The Effluent Hits the Fan: Free Speech, Fascism, and Funding Imbalances From Banning "The Left" to Cancelling Comedians, America is Teaching Us What Actual Suppression of Speech Looks Like

It’s been an ugly week to be away:

America’s drift into authoritarianism is speeding up, Trump’s on his second state visit and funding for dissenting voices is still paper-thin.

Time to talk free speech, fascism and imbalance.

ClIr David Thomas @cllr_thomas X.com I've just walked out of @torfaencouncil's full council meeting in absolute disbelief. Not a single mention... not even a moment's acknowledgment... of the horrific event involving Charlie Kirk. For a council that claims to stand for community, compassion and respect - their silence today was nothing short of shameful. Absolutely disgusting. 11:12 • 16/09/2025 • 13K Views

I know, right?

I have been in multiple meetings this week and not once, not a single time, was there a call for a minutes silence or any acknowledgement of what happened to Charlie Kirk.

Dis.

Gusting.

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage REFORM X.com Let's see if the police arrest the people who called for me to be shot on TikTok yesterday.

I hope they do get arrested.

If someone incites violence against another person, they should face the legal consequences.

That’s how the law works in the UK.

I think most people would agree, no?

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk Political Violence Doesn't Stay Contained. It Cascades - and Democracy Pays the Price

I despised Charlie Kirk’s politics, but I won’t celebrate his murder.

If democracy has any meaning left, it has to mean ballots, not bullets.

Disagreements, not assassinations.

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Excellent news. Can’t wait !

From Promises to Collapse: The Measurable Damage Brexit Caused the NHS Staffing Gaps, Medicine Shortages, and Avoidable Harm- the Everyday Reality of a Broken Promise.

Forget about GDP graphs, trade coefficients and happy fish.

Brexit’s damage to the NHS shows up in your GP queue, your A&E wait and your local care home in devastating, measurable impacts.

Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be) Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”

Migrants aren’t bankrupting the country - it’s your Nan*.

How an ageing demographic in the UK has been known about, and ignored, for years, and why migrants aren’t to blame.

*It’s also not really your Nan.

Disappointed, Proud, Sad: Watching Angela Rayner Resign Her Departure is a Blow Not Just for Labour but to Anyone Who Values Honesty and Authenticity in Politics

I’m disappointed. I’m proud. I’m frustrated.

Angela Rayner should have paid the tax she owed - but she also did something almost unheard of in British politics:

She owned her mistake and resigned.

Enough Platitudes: Starmer Must Confront Racism With Courage, Not Flags The Far-Right is. Emboldened, Lies Go Unchallenged and Labour Looks Like Deer in Headlights. It's Past Time For Real Leadership

I want Keir Starmer to lead - to call out racism, not mutter about bunting.

To offer real refugee policy, not parrot Farage.

To show Britain is better than this.

Instead we’re cowering. We must do better. They must do better.

A Little Favour from the Bear Polls, Polls and more Polls

Hi All,

I'm asking for a bit of feedback on Bearly Politics.

If you have a moment, I would appreciate if you could click at a few polls.

Thank you, as ever,

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Competence Doesn't Trend - Labour's Reshuffle and the Risk of Managerial Politics Order Over Theatre Is Grown Up and Lovely - but Without Direction or Comms, Voter Will Be Left Cold

Remember when reshuffles meant cardboard boxes, WhatsApp betrayals and Kay Burley nearly toppling over in shock at David Cameron’s comeback?

Today Labour just gave us… spreadsheets.

And while order is nice, does it matter when it's a bit... boring?

This week on Bearly Politics.

A quick roundup of what we’ve been talking about - from cats running psychological warfare campaigns, to Reform UK’s empty pyrotechnics, to why the word racist still sends half of Britain into meltdown.

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Chaos, Cupboards and Cat Sneezes at Six on a Sunday Morning Woken by an Elderly Cat, Confronted by Racism - On Why the UK Must Stop Defending Bigotry as “Local Anger.”

“They looked like grotesques from a Roald Dahl book. Shrivelled, pinched faces, every bit as nasty as they sounded.”

This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.

Annunziata Rees-Mogg O @zatzi x.com Harry, and many lefties like him, seem to think the ECHR - adopted in 1998 - gave us our rights. So perhaps they can name one 4 we did not have before becoming signatories...

Is anyone at all surprised that Annunziata Rees-Mogg doesn’t know the difference between the ECHR and the HRA?

You know you’re in trouble when the people that are calling for laws to be binned are confused about what they do.

Ignored by the Media: Why the Lib Dems and Greens Can’t Get a Look-In Reform Dominates the Front Pages with Outrage. Is It Time for New Media to Rebalance the Debate?

Reform UK: 5 MPs (give or take)
LibDems: 70+
TheGreenParty: Same number as Reform.

How does a party that could fit in an Addison Lee dominate the attention, while the other two that could fill a coach get none?

I discuss that below.