Jens Stoltenberg: Yeah, no. I did enough of that nonsense already when I ran NATO.

This is outrageous.

A Tory party led by Ted Heath or John Major would be piling into Reform and Farage not seeking agreement.
It's also time for Labour to get on the front foot and expose the charlatan Farage. He is a threat who needs to be destroyed.

Don't be muzzled!

#fascism

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What is it about London that gets under the skin of far-right racists like Rupert Lowe? Simple. London is an economic, cultural and tourist powerhouse because, not in spite of, its diversity. It's a living rebuke to every foul belief that they hold dear.

David Dinsmore, the Murdoch exec who ran an aggressively hostile campaign against "Red Ed" Miliband's Labour party and denigrated Keir Starmer following the phone-hacking scandal, is now in charge of the Labour government’s comms, leaving both No. 10 and News UK baffled.

Alex Davies-Jones is, I suspect, representative of quite a few Labour MPs who have decided they have got to adopt right-wing positions to appease the imagined British public, but lack the intellectual capacity to actually make right-wing arguments in support of the stance they’ve taken.

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Fr David Gierlach. I’m an Episcopal priest in the diocese of Hawai’i and part of the diocesan Social Justice Task Force

‘The problem is Starmer’s – and the entire political establishment’s – dependency on immigration as an issue to be exploited, rather than to be handled with honesty, duty of care to immigrants who are now terrorised in the streets, and to the whole country’s social cohesion.’ 👏

Calls for a "huge nationwide wave" of protests in last 48 hours saw about 300 people attend one locally-organised protest in Nuneaton (serious charges in local case) + 19 protests range from 6 peoole (Wolverhampton) with about four more reaching 100-200 people (Altrincham,Canary Wharf)

Total < 2000

Full article.

I'm not a fan of Fraser Nelson's, to put it politely, but while I don't agree with every point he makes ⤵️ here, the overall thrust needs reiterating and propagating. It's time the media called Farage et al out on their toxic (and unpatriotic) bullshit.

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The Labour government’s is now a PR car crash.

It is beyond my comprehension that it cannot see this.

Does it not have media advisors?

Once upon a time there was a prohibition.

Some claimed it was justified by things we could not be told, others insisted it was right in principle.

But many said it was one of the most illiberal and misconceived prohibitions they had ever seen.

And in practice the prohibition was very daft indeed.

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
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Farmers fight to save estate at heart of Powys Welsh-speaking community Tenants with smallholdings on estate, seen as a crucial stepping stone for young farmers, are being served with notices to quit by the council

Farmers fight to save estate at heart of Powys Welsh-speaking community

The Mail. TOP TORY'S FEARS FOR DAUGHTERS OVER BOAT MIGRANTS (I’m not transcribing the article… he talks about importing ‘medieval attitudes’ into our communities)

A total disgrace of a paper.
A total disgrace of a man.

I would worry for Jenrick’s daughters too, being brought up by a hate-mongering opportunist, driven mad by Tory failure and now desperate to whip up prejudice, division and social unrest in his vile pursuit of power.

At some stage, someone in the government needs to look at the Palestine Action situation in purely pragmatic terms: is proscription specifically achieving any of the goals they wanted it to, or is it proving entirely counterproductive?

A convicted felon says will meet with an indicted for war criminal to discuss the invasion the UN declared illegal.

It's not a "peace summit", it's a criminal conspiracy.

Utterly grotesque to watch Trump’s predictable capitulation to Putin and betrayal of democracy and Europe. This is an era-defining test for Britain and Europe: whether they go along with disgraceful US appeasement of land-grabbing dictatorship or stands firm for freedom

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Great question here 👇

“There is no gay agenda. It’s a human agenda.”
Elizabeth Taylor -
GLAAD Awards 2000

Gordon Brown urges Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes at Budget The former Labour prime minister says hitting the

Former UK PM Gordon Brown urges Reeves to hike gambling taxes.

Quite right too.

Too many industries are free-riders, don't bear the cost of their pollution - gambling, processed food, tobacco, airlines, fossil fuels.

They expect public purse to bear the social cost, shareholders take profits.

Absolutely brilliant. Spot on satire.

Planning law is perhaps the UK’s most formidable single weapon in geo-politics.

More than Trident.

New from the IPPR: Fairer gambling taxes could raise the £3.2 billion needed to fully fund scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap.

Tax changes would target high-stakes online gambling, slots and major betting firms – especially those based offshore.

Former PM Gordon Brown is backing it.

Starmer said his defining approach would be competence after the Tory mess. But it’s not enough if the trust unravels. Pragmatism isn’t enough without soul. Steady as she goes isn’t enough without hope. Letting your actions speak for themselves isn’t enough without a why. Bad politics

There's a lot wrong with British democracy, but three things we should defend with iron determination:

- no party involvement in appointing judges;

- non-partisan drawing of constituency boundaries;

- limited party spending by comparison with the US - though this is now very much at risk.