Marion Lowe

With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

This is powerful and worth watching all the way to the end!

I travel a lot on the WCML to see family and when I’m budgeting I generally assume prices are about 40% lower as that’s what I’m going I get back on delay repay.

Ironically the delay repay is the best-run bit of the entire service. Maybe they could hive off the rest and just be a refund company.

Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are going to shut down the United States government so they do not have to release the Epstein files.

Shutting our government down, hurting Americans, to protect pedophiles.

How this isn’t the biggest scandal in American history is beyond me.

South Park does it, it goes after Netanyahu.

Here he is being flamed for the truth, Benjamin Netanyahu is the most antisemitic of them all.

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, held local elections today. Support for AfD up but at 15% well below party's national polling. And lower among the young: 5th place on 11% among under-25s, who also delivered a smaller swing towards the party than did older generations.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Two very important graphs.
Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved.
The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers.
Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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

Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets.

@femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.

The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them.

Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

This, too. bsky.app/profile/colm...

As a general rule when a judge says “this is not what the case is about” that will be what the press and the public will take the case to be about.

Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.

And now, driving home, some bunch of dickheads have attached Union Jack flags to nearly every bridge over the dual carriageway. WTF do they think this represents? Because I certainly don’t look at them and feel proud. I feel surrounded by dangerously emboldened racists.

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.

They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.

That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

It's much easier to do a genocide if nobody sees it happen

The audio will be released just as soon as two things are removed:

1. All references to Donald Trump; and

2. Todd Blanche telling Ghislaine Maxwell that if she agrees to publicly exonerate Donald Trump, he will give her a pardon when he leaves office and in the meantime move her to a nicer jail.

Just to make clear: you don't have to verify your age here. It's clear that you can carry on using Bluesky without doing so. You won't be able to use DMs or access adult content, but I suspect those restrictions won't be a dealbreaker for most of us.

Video of man throwing water over Zarah Sultana MP isn’t real – Full Fact Ms Sultana’s face appears to blur and glitch as the water covers her, which is a clue indicating the video was very likely made using AI.

We’ve spotted a video being shared online that appears to show a man throwing a bucket of water over MP Zarah Sultana as she is speaking next to a Palestinian flag.

But this video isn’t real, and was almost certainly made using artificial intelligence.

Morning in Kyiv. No sleep. Air quality is extremely bad. City is covered in thick smoke.

This is Russian terror, aimed at people who chose to stay, resist and fight.

Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

Three quarters of UK voters *don’t* want Reform in power, but because of the first-past-the-post system, they’re projected to win 42% of seats in the House of Commons. Interesting column by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

a group of people are dancing on a stage with a watermark that says ' kc ' on it Alt: Tom Holland dancing to Umbrella in lip sync battle

Favourite lip sync battle ever

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema

Also no accident is how Putin benefits: The Iranian parliament has approved the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, throttling 20% of all oil transports, likely skyrocketing oil prices. This comes after reports that Russia was on its last legs economically. Trump just refuelled the war against Ukraine.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.