Jon Williamson

This Is Fascism

Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home A BBC investigation raises questions about how the Reform UK leader's partner paid for a home in his constituency.

‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does…
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Brilliant, beautiful book.

Labour's slow, sure progress is an easy target for Farage Home secretary Yvette Cooper's hard graft on the small boat crisis has to be seen to be working (AFP/Getty) SEAN O'GRADY Maybe everyone can agree on one thing: if stopping the boats was easy, it would have been done by now. Whether the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, ever deluded herself otherwise, a year of only limited progress in the government's mission to "smash the gangs" must have brought home to her just how intractable irregular migration is.

Just the same as Brexit, in fact, when he also made extravagant claims about how it would solve our economic problems, and then blamed everyone else when it left the nation impoverished. Now he's blaming the migrants rather than Brussels, and his policies - little more than slogans - should be treated with extreme caution. Leaving the ECHR, for example - which he used to call "Brexit 2.0" before Brexit 1.0 turned out to be a flop - wouldn't change a thing over in Calais.

The far right will never fix anything. Ever. We shouldn’t need to learn that lesson again.

“It’s not that the remedies offered by Farage, Rupert Lowe, various fascists and some Conservatives are cruel and morally shameful, which they are, but that they are impractical and costly”

(Independent)

Nigel Farage looking deeply unamused as Angela Rayner accuses him of offering "billions more in unfunded tax cuts for the very richest while he marches to the lobby in the House of Commons to vote against higher pay for the lowest earners"

“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King

#photography
#books

Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.

There is no endorsement...

When doubters doubt, this man said that 100% we would be in the premier league next season. Take a bow Daniel Farke 👏👏👏👏

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory.

The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters

My heroes!
The best commentary team consistently doing a brilliant job.
Thanks fellas.

We’ve been covering #lufc games for #lutv for years, travelling up and down the country together but this is the first time anyone’s had the gumption to get a team pic… good thinking @tonydorigo.com 👍🏻
Connor’s the cameraman/techguy/driver/carer 😂

Ok Jonathan Goodenough is now better at this than Kuenssberg, Mason, Peston, etc.

Why do they hate us so much? Trump and all his Maga disciples see Europe as little more than a parasite – how did it all go so wrong?

Trump and all his Maga disciples, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, see Europe as little more than a parasite – how did it all go so wrong? Asks @jayelwes.bsky.social

Trump Live Updates: Deportation Flights, Putin Call and More

Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Trump Over Judge Impeachment Remark.

“Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Justice Roberts wrote.

#MomSky
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When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.

So fighting for the Robert E Lee statues wasn’t really about just preserving history.

I’m shocked.

Heard an interesting anecdote today. Friend was up in Canada last weekend and, when entering via the Nexus line, there was a Tesla in front that got grilled for 15min. My friend breezed right through.

It would be *hilarious* if Canadian immigration officials were profiling Tesla drivers.

IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN. Impeach Trump. Sign the petition NOW to defend democracy and demand accountability! He is disqualified from office, and has violated the U.S. Constitution.

www.impeachtrumpagain.org

I'm going to have to stay on a maintenance treatment that is wrecking my body because if I go off of it the cancer may come back and there will be nothing for it because DOGE is killing off the chance for a cure.

Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies ‘Exploit’ Copyrighted Works More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders urged the Trump White House to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies.

Proud to have signed this document. 🙏
"More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging the administration to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies."

On Friday,3/14/25,Trump said: “Etched onto the walls of this building are the words English philosopher John Locke said: ‘Where law ends, tyranny begins' and I see that.”

We know he sees that. It's part of his plan. His lawlessness is his map to HIS tyranny.

We MUST stop him.

#Proudblue

Not “disappeared.”

Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.

They have so much in common, after all.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Schumer cancels his town halls