Samira Shackle

The first sentence is “Nigel Farage has sensationally claimed…”

I’m appalled by this from the Mail. Ugly, straightforward racism, and amplifying the spurious claim of its favoured candidate (even the Reform party chair said last week that any irregularities wouldn’t have changed the result).

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Can't get over the horror of this story.

Extraordinary graph.

Sectarian.

The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word.

Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy

If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

You got to feel for Matt Goodwin.

Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.

Great thread.

What a photo

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

This is a great piece (written pre by-election result) that really gets to the heart of Labour’s vote haemorrhaging.

Corbyn to be Your Party parliamentary leader as Sultana joins leadership committee Former Labour leader says time for ‘real work’ to begin as his candidates take 14 of 24 available places on executive committee

Sort of forgot that this whole thing was still going www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another lifetime!

Wow George, end of an era! Good luck with whatever is next.

Yes absolutely there would be. I remember reading Sam Knight's New Yorker piece about austerity a couple of years ago and being so infuriated that Osborne is just like "we won the argument! everyone's doign austerity now! we got everything right!" Made me want to punch a wall.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

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When I did Lord of the Flies for GCSE, you could borrow an old copy if you forgot yours. One genius had crossed out the title and written "LORD OF THE SHITS" and then every time the word "conch" appeared, circled it and written in the margin: "CONCH". Those were the only annotations.

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’

Cool! Fine! Good! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Can't wait for this to be replicated at a general election and end up with government-by-random-number-generator

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

Restore Britain will, without apology or fear, deport the third world orcs who break into our country, rape young women and then expect the British to tolerate their presence. There is finally a political party that will defend our home, our people, our shires. Restore Britain.

The UK parliament now has an MP who is openly racist and far right. This is, for the current era, new ground, and it will be interesting to see how - if at all – other MPs respond.

Meet the vibe lawyers: the AI chatbots wreaking havoc in ... An increasing number of people are using artificial intelligence to make complaints or defend themselves in court, to varying levels of success

Never ceases to amaze me that AI technology is so widely relied upon in areas where it fundamentally doesn't work (example 1001 here, making up case law!) observer.co.uk/news/science...

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Why local journalism matters, in a nutshell