Samira Shackle

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

2/2 There can be no public trust in BBC impartiality while it is still in the form engineered by the last Tory government to wage ‘anti-woke’ culture war. Talking points about “illegal” immigration drawn from the right wing press will drive its news agenda until it becomes more impartial again.

This is absolutely appalling. This is a top broadcaster on a major channel essentially asking if it’s “realist” to object to people on the basis of their skin colour.

She wasn’t talking about immigration. She said it makes her angry to see black and Asian faces on adverts. This should not be difficult for a Conservative minister to condemn. The party has really jumped the shark.

We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman

We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.

I liked it better when there were some consequences for flagrant racism. We’ve got to a very dark place very quickly.

Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’

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Someone should definitely do this.

Starmer on Sunday, Home Secretary on Monday, no 10 on Tuesday saying different things about what happens to people here legally. "It would tear our country apart" (Sunday) + prove your right to stay (Monday) + maybe apply some new rules but not others (Tuesday)

This is so full of hedging and avoidance that I had to read it several times. If a Labour government can’t say straightforwardly that it disagrees with the arbitrary deportation of people with the legal right to be here, then truly what is the point of it.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

This is one of the most frustrating things about politics and coverage of it at the moment.

This headline is so New York Times that it seems like a joke.

This case is absolutely horrific.

Davey’s letter highlights how quiet the other party leaders (including the literal PM) have been.

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

“What we are seeing is not about having a bad economy. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines.” Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/4pq7NHo

I’m inclined to agree with this. It’s disturbing to see how explicit racism is becoming more acceptable, and the extent to which it is going unchallenged. I don’t know if it’s down to an increasingly fragmented media landscape, inertia of government, or what, but it is frightening.

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

Troubling piece (but excellent reporting) on the US far right billionaires funding Tommy Robinson and his revival observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

I find it mind boggling that our entire political class seems to be ignoring this. Musk is the owner of a major media platform that - as we’ve seen - can shape media and political discourse. And the official response seems to be head in the sand.

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.

Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.

We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Labour must champion inclusivity to tackle advance of far right, says deputy leadership hopeful Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform

A debate Labour badly needs to have:

In the real world, the last PM, a Conservative, actually defended this stuff, to the point of saying that British multiculturalism works and taking real political damage to do so. Some Labour people are so convinced of their superior virtue they don't seem to realise it's about what you *do*.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.