Richard Haviland

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

Hard to tell whether the subliminal message here to the refugee-haters is ‘look at this shit accommodation we’d get to put them in!’ or ‘look at this luxury accommodation the sponging bastards get to stay in’.

Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s just about the cruelty.

The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.

The revoltingly cruel administrative changes to asylum today are the basis of the next Windrush.

Mass determinations will be needed in 5 years time when they have collapsed under the weight of their own bureaucratic ineptitude and impossibility.

Until then we have community work to do.

Hard to tell whether the subliminal message here to the refugee-haters is ‘look at this shit accommodation we’d get to put them in!’ or ‘look at this luxury accommodation the sponging bastards get to stay in’.

Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s just about the cruelty.

There is a whole generation of politicians on the right who seem to believe that if an aspect of international or indeed domestic law is wrong, the thing to do is disregard it rather than argue for change.

I can think of various war criminals and mass murderers who would have admired Kemi Badenoch’s line in the Commons today: ‘You don’t need international law to tell you whose side you’re on’.

Has a more shameful sentence ever been uttered by a Conservative leader in history?

I’d love to hear her asked about, say, the Geneva Conventions and whether they should apply if Britain is involved in military action.

‘Well-briefed’ and ‘Kemi Badenoch’ don’t sit comfortably in the same sentence!

‘Orwellian’ is over-used but the Culture and Integration Commission would have done the man proud.

It’s highly & horribly likely that the Leader of the Opposition doesn’t or can’t understand this.

Indeed but I’m deleting it because it was supposed to be a reply to a different message!

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

We have enough examples now of both Farage and Badenoch instinctively taking the side of two rogue foreign leaders over their own government’s to make me feel sick to the stomach at the prospect of what may face us in the years ahead.

It dates me but every time I see Hegseth I think of Kevin Kline’s character Otto in A Fish Called Wanda. Although Otto was brighter and more likeable.

It dates me but every time I see Hegseth I think of Kevin Kline’s character Otto in A Fish Called Wanda. Although Otto was brighter and more likeable.

‘MPs who don’t think UK should take military action shouldn’t get to vote on whether the UK should take military action’.

It says a lot about the state of the Tory party that Badenoch is safe as leader at the moment when this is her idea of a policy. Dire.

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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Sometimes the simplest questions are the most effective.

The next person to interview Badenoch should ask her if she believes international law matters.

Everything about Badenoch can be understood through the fact she sees the world through the lens of her “ethnic enemies”: a totalising worldview that will always, always, make the people who hold it say and do stupid things.

Shabana Mahmood to announce asylum system changes to take effect From Monday, asylum seekers granted refugee status in the UK will be offered only temporary protection.

This seems to be the substance of tomorrow’s announcement - that anyone who applies for asylum as of Monday will, if they’re successful, get 2.5 years leave instead of 5 years. They would then go into the new 20 year route to settlement, once that’s in place.

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“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

It’s worse than stupid, it’s dangerous. It shows that Labour - or at least these elements within Labour - are absolutely not to be trusted in the existential fight against the far right which should be uniting all the rest of us, whatever our political beliefs.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

‘It’s for the accused to explain the legal basis for his actions’.

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I want to make a prediction here so I can point to later:

As well as the intended target (Muslims), all this talk of "family voting" and sudden need to police the sanctity of the secret ballot is going to disenfranchise disabled people.

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Yeah, having now slept on it properly, it is weird that no losing parties statement really reckons with why people might have chosen the Greens and instead they all chose to blame sectarianism. It does suggest that they still don't really recognise people who vote Green as, you know, real people.

Something so wrong with this. Rarely in the international sphere is there such a clear case of right and wrong.