Simon Cox

Minister credits Starmer for 'taking responsibility' over Mandelson ahead of key meeting with Labour MPs

FFS, he's the PM

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a thrilling ode to Boricua joy The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican megastar delivered a powerful, detail-packed performance that paid tribute to his history and teased more greatness for his future

Bad Bunny Boricua Bowl www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

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‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Alf Dubs, a Labour party member for more than 50 years, accused Starmer’s government of using asylum like a “political football” while courting voters on the right of the Conservative party and of Reform.

Key problem with UK immigration ministers. Their decisions are based on a fantasy world, because they only really listen to senior immigration civil servants, who only hold those jobs because they refuse to acknowledge immigration reality.

Getting Older

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I first met Gerry when I was 16 and volunteered for Searchlight. Completely committed, enormously knowledgeable about the far Right, and open to work with any serious anti-fascists. I learned a lot from him.

May his memory be for a blessing.

Gerry Gable (1937-2026) | Searchlight Gerry Gable It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce that Searchlight's founder, Gerry Gable, has died at the age of 88. He had been in ...

Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (1937-2026)

Dirty Ol' Man

This hards hard. From 1973, strangely not on radio playlists open.spotify.com/track/1tPsPj...

When your Danish Hat Game acting clue is a Nazi salute and that covers Farage, Musk and Kanye.

Aww I think that was a lovely thing to do.

Overheard, late teen, early 20s “ I think I’m just gonna write Mum a poem for Christmas”

mood

Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol

Evanston church’s Nativity scene depicted baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.

Mother Mary wearing a respirator to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands. Masked centurions with green vests labeled “ICE.”

This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.

Donald Trump’s restitution scheme is among the greatest heists in US history Bogus claims of malicious prosecution could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.

A key difference between past law enforcement raids & prosecutions that resulted in legal settlements and the actions for which Trump & Co. are demanding restitution, @radleybalko.bsky.social writes, is that the former subjects were jailed or killed—and the actions against Trump & Co. were lawful.

The Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4).

That’s facially broad words. …

Yeah.

Linger

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what if Putin cares more about Putin than Russia tho

The Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4).

That’s facially broad words. …

This is very basic stuff

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Cats became our companions way later than you think In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.

what have the Romans ever done for us?

They brought the cats.

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“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards”

Boo fucking hoo.

UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK

gotta link? I like a laugh

morning

The great thing about this is the fearless interviewer. Imagine if all journalists were fearless seekers of truth instead of folding in the face of Farage's prickly blustering.

This idea that you can get by in the world with an app or by expecting everyone else to speak English - it's just daft.

But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.