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Have we still not reached the time when our government can admit the US is not an ally, but a rogue state led by a fascist paedophile rapist fraudster, in whose name people are murdered on the streets & in other countries across the globe, to bolster his “power”?

Yeah, sure, top talents will want to come to a country that says it hates migrants…

As discussed in here the problem with Labour attacking Reform and Greens as two sides of extremism is that Labour and Green voters are very similar in their views.

And the big majority of Labour voters would be willing to join a coalition with Greens, when almost none would with Reform.

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

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt

Real issue is (media as much as Lab) seeing all in terms of “threat” from L or R, rather than voters judging actual values. Lab has adopted Ref’s anti-migrant, anti-progressive rhetoric, assuming it to be vote-winner, regardless of morals & honest belief. Now we see it’s not even tactically sound.

You’re replying to someone else. That’s not my moniker!

Despite being continually accused of not integrating, Muslims have voted in numbers, and against a party with a Muslim Home Sec whose immigration policies and actions regarding Gaza they strongly opposed.Instead they found common value with a white British woman who spoke to them locally and beyond.

Labour partisans will try to say it’s a meaningless by-election midway through the government’s term. They’d be wrong. The Greens have now told the voting public that a vote for them is not wasted and they can win in a safe Labour seat.

A stunning win for the Greens in yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election which shows how a strong leader can transform a party. New MP Hannah Spencer got 41% of the vote on a very good 47% turnout.

Reform second with 29% and Labour third with 26%.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
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Jenrick, Sunak, Gove: just a standard morning on BBC Radio 4… Tell us again about that “left wing bias”?

I have never bawled my head off from watching dance before, but this had me sobbing uncontrollably.

This tribute to Renee Good & Alex Pretti dipicting #ICELawlessness is something EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN NEEDS TO SEE!

Bravo to the dancers of Hungryman Productions & choreographer Mathew Steffens!

Here's a word I don't use often: shameful. But this policy is shameful. I'm ashamed that my government has proposed it. It's arrogant, it's cruel, it won't work in any meaningful way, but it will make our country a worse place. Please respond (before midnight). It's so, so bad gov.uk/government/c...

I've just responded to the Earned Settlement consultation. It closes tonight. The whole idea is dreadful but what stuck with me most is the gross arrogance of the whole exercise. A (cross) thread 🧵

His earlier comments to Sky News, external had drawn criticism from Manchester United fan groups. He said: "You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. "I mean, the UK has been colonised. It's costing too much money. The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it?" He incorrectly claimed the population of the UK had risen by 12 million to 70 million people in the last five years. The Office for National Statistics estimates it has actually risen from 66.7 million to 69.4 million, an increase of less than three million.

Ratcliffe made an "incorrect claim" according to the BBC which is, as always, absolutely feeble when it comes speaking truth to power. No, he made it up you bunch of craven weasels.

Disgusted at BBC News for headlining Ratcliffe’s non-apology, & thereby giving repeated airtime to his mendacious bigotry, the substance of which he has not apologised for at all.

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so)

The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%)

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So why ape then with the flags? Toxic nationalism is a cancer at the heart of UK (and world) politics.

I guess we can thank Bangor’s Debating & Political Society for prompting Reform to reveal that they intend to govern in the same Trumpian, thin-skinned way that would cause them to tank the economy of a small city because some students were mean to them.

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There’s a brilliant film on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 9.10pm - “Turn The Key Softly” (1953) starring Yvonne Mitchell, Kathleen Harrison & Joan Collins. We covered it in episode 32 and were honoured to have @minghowriter.bsky.social as our guest sohobitespodcast.com/episode/32

When whatever happens at the top of the Labour Party finally happens and given the sorry mess that British politics has been for years, is it maybe time to fix a broken system? Get rid of the “two party politics” delusion? Embrace PR? It’s apparently good enough for Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

It should not require an act as morally repulsive & treacherous as leaking govt intel to an overseas pedophile sex trafficker who may also be a Russian spy to permanently end a political career.

Permanently banish anyone who deliberately or recklessly engages in ethical wrongdoing from public life.

Politicians should not be treated like toddlers. A time out on the naughty step before being welcomed back is not an effective deterrent for adults who've deliberately or recklessly engaged in ethical wrongdoing. It's an encouragement for more violations - as demonstrated by Mandelson's career.

One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.

When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

Sometimes I just need Private Eye ….

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”