No matter who is in the Home Office the power corrupts them.

How do we protest then? Eh?

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

This is the standard approach through history: The community of the free. We've always had people insist on liberty, but only for their group, typically white men with property. Progressive liberalism was about rolling out those rights for everyone, a process that is now being reversed.

This is why they’re deleting studies

The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.*

* It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

Wes Streeting, as usual, undefeated in the arena of rancid little pipsqueaks

Wow is that really Tim. 😱🤭😝

Fresh blow for Rachel Reeves as Nigel Farage trusted more on economy, LBC poll finds

Sadly this shows the financial acumen of the LBC audience to be more at fault than Rachel Reeves.

Photo of Farage frowning and gesticulating 'Reform's rise has so far has been built on a flimsy policy platform' (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty) The rise of Reform UK is the result of a profound failure by the two main parties to convince voters that they are on their side. The utter loss of faith in mainstream politics is laid bare by the new British Social Attitudes survey, which shows that just 12 per cent of people in this country trust governments to put the country's interests before their own.

The iPaper reports the rise of Reform while bemoaning the lack of trust in politics… brought about largely by politicians like Farage peddling ruinous populist bullshit for power… and media shying away from calling that out.
His goddam Brexit is a gold-plated example of why people have lost faith.

Paging the Ivor Novello Award judges...

Ambition defined…… the size of that ball! 🤣

Wait for it, wait for it…. #Doodle #SkyPuppy #DogsOfBlueSky

An incredible night at #thepiecehall with @wearejames.bsky.social. Can’t wait for Thetford!
#jameslive2025 #NBL #livemusic

‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue

The knives are properly out for Kishwer Faulkner and the little clique of culture warriors masquerading as regulators she has gathered around her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Complements to the photographer 🤣

Coming soon: Labour responds to the failure of its Nigel Farage tribute act by trying even harder to be a Nigel Farage tribute act whilst closing its eyes to the evidence of where that path led the Tories.

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

"LONDON drops down wealth list as super-rich move out," blared a Times splash on 9 April, reporting that there are supposedly 11,300 fewer "dollar millionaires" in the British capital than there were last year - the fastest fall of any global city except Moscow, as the wealthy move their money abroad. The story was also reported by the Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail and Evening Standard, while the Times returned to the subject next day in a 1,300-word feature. Even culture secretary Lisa Nandy responded to the alleged exodus, blaming it on Brexit, not the Labour government. But how accurate are those remarkably specific figures? They come from South Africa-based outfit New World Wealth, commissioned by "advisory firm" Henley & Partners. As pointed out by the New Statesman's Will Dunn back in January, but not mentioned in the Times, Henley & Partners sells advice to rich people about financial planning, and consults governments on "investment migration" policies - so is opposed to higher taxes on rich people. And while New World Wealth puts out seemingly definitive figures, they come up with them using "models" based on tracking the online footprints of a far smaller number of people, without actually knowing where they pay tax. Moreover, when contacted by the Eye, the company offered another important caveat, saying it was "important to note" that "most of" the decline in wealth in London over the past decade was not actually down to people leaving the UK, but poor performance of local businesses and a decline in the FTSE 100, which it also uses to collate its reports estimating relative global wealth. So the super-rich in question may well still be here, just not so super-rich any more. The unreliability of New World Wealth's "data" and what it actually means hasn't stopped hacks reporting on a mass evacuation by the rich over government policies, which has become an accepted truth. Those figures seemed to have an effect on the chancellor: soon afterwards Rachel Re…

thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research

Bridget Phillipson RIDICULOUS squirming over which toilets trans women should be using-
“lots of places have gender neutral toilets” & blank refusal to explain what happens when they don’t.

Answer: people living & presenting as women forced into male toilets & vice versa.
Demented outcome. #r4today

Ripley had a trip to Cafe Nero for a pup cup today.
#DogsOfBluesky #dogs #doodles @caffenero.bsky.social

Beginning of 4th Cir opin denying Admin motion to stay order requiring return of Abrego Garcia:
"The US govt has no legal authority to snatch a person who is
lawfully present in the US off the street & remove him from the country w/o due process. The Gov’s contention otherwise [is] unconscionable."

The sun has come out for Ripley!

Ball. It’s all about the ball.

Ripley always has a relaxing morning.

Riding into the weekend with Ripley!