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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

These are just our first steps.

Let's keep going.

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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?

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

Zack Polanski has done the impossible…

Made me feel hope in politics again.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Oh awesome!

Join the Green Party! It is overwhelmingly trans friendly and arguably a more natural party of the left, over a party where 4/6 members are social conservatives.

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Umm...What's going on here then? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1661...

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.

I know how people feel about AI around here - myself, in general, included - but I think Anthropic is genuinely trying to do the right thing. Denying law enforcement use of their models is, sadly, a courageous move in this dystopia

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

My latest piece.

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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Nadhim Zahawi admits he paid nearly £5m to HMRC after ‘careless mistake’ Tory former minister says he made error over tax paid on sales of YouGov shares after previously saying he was being ‘smeared’

A little bit of perspective on Angela Rayner: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women

Thinking of the women of Afghanistan - suffering so much

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...

Funny how Fartage is normally all over the fckng media like a rash but when he's completely demolished during a US congressional hearing it's all about Angela Rayner

Sorry to hear that Adrian.

Labourites seem to have gone from "ha ha hypnotits" to "oh fuck Polanski will make Farage PM, is that what you want???" very quickly.

But lads, if you want people's votes, win them. You're the government ffs.

It costs around £100 to get an 100mph train from Liverpool to London, and you're not even guaranteed a seat.

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

The baffling thing about Starmer's Labour Party is it didn't have to be like this. A bulletproof majority, guaranteed power for five years - and they chase Linehan and Farage.

They could have actually done some good.

Sam Whyte The fact JK regards the appointment of a lifelong Sutton fan to manager of a regional women's team as a "plum job" betrays here level of understanding. She doesn't know shit about women's sport, she's an idiot. Solidarity to Lucy. Graham Linehan 🎗️ · May 13, 2024 Another woman serving men at the expense of other women. Don't you get on with your mum? Sam Whyte We've been a bit distant since she died when I was 13, Graham. Still better company than a frothing transphobe, though.

Since we're sharing examples of Linehan's scummy behaviour

Can't believe Farage ran away from further questions today after soiling himself under scrutiny. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on what...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.

Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to:

Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely.

Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out.

Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy.

Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad

Congrats Alex, you have ran a great campaign.

How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it.
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...