Lyn Thomas

You're gonna be unpopular. Be unpopular because you're fixing things, not because you aren't.

I know McSweeney isn't the whole problem. I know the king chooses his advisors. But I really do think letting a campaigns guy who thinks in polling not policy run all the bits the PM isn't interested in is a huge, huge contributor to their inability to climb out of this hole.

Refusing to X won’t stop its owner from being both the loudest cheerleader for global fascism and a mass murderer but it’s the very least one can do and it shocks me how many people can’t manage it

Elon Musk’s legacy

National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE

Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world.
If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Julian Vaccari said: "I'm thrilled to be joining Question Time at such a fascinating moment in British politics. The show's appeal over the decades is a testament to the power and simplicity of the format. At its best, Question Time is a celebration of community and shared experience. I want people from every part of the UK and every walk of life to feel like they can take part and hear their views expressed."

I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”

To see Matt Goodwin drooling over a chance for NF-level race-baiting just days after he appeared on Question Time sums up how irredeemably rotten that show is. Today they'd book Nick Griffin without batting an eyelid

Even now, if you were to divide the 48,000 by 15, and then by the working days per year that would mean that if every GIC were to see a very reasonable 8 people per day, in 2 years, everyone would be seen.

The delays are intentional.

Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. Nigel Farage described him as "an important voice for young men". That tells you all you need to know about Farage's moral compass.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Where Tory grandee Michael Heseltine is absolutely right:

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Only 29 asylum appeals have been made to the ECHR in the last 45 years you dimwit. For that non-existent benefit you would sacrifice the right to life, liberty, fair trial, freedom of expression, thought, religion, protection from torture, slavery, etc.
Fucking idiot.

“Black people make up around 4 percent of the population” she says here, ( in her massively insincere and fake apology)

But…… I thought we were being “invaded”?😯
Can’t have it both ways, Reform. Vile racist bigots 😖

Seven nation Army: Tehran women rock out in defiance of Iran's regime.

Unimaginable in recent memory. A moment of freedom – and resistance – as women rock out in the streets of Tehran to The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. #WomenLifeFreedom

On Intersex Awareness Day, thousands feel unsafe to live openly The world is a dangerous place for intersex people, and new research shows that many feel it’s getting worse

The world is a dangerous place for intersex people, and new research shows that many feel it’s getting worse | Jennie Kermode

Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.

The pattern is familiar: get a scheme approved, then apply to remove the social homes.

We need stricter rules to stop this and ensure every development delivers the affordable homes communities need.

#AffordableHomes #SocialHomes

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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

How to Defeat Nigel Farage The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on

Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.

It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

‘Jail is inevitable’ for former Reform politician awaitin... Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament

"Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament."

How long before Reform renames as the Putin Party? observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance

Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A reminder.

Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.

Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.

Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.

Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.

This.

Breaking: Disturbing scenes out of Portland, 2025 — authorities warn the situation could escalate.

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like.

Absolutely shameful.

He'll probably become Tory leader.