Rovers and Politics

He wants to show that the UK state is offering impunity for sustained racist harassment (of me specifically, as it happens) so that racists "win".

So he’s lying. Again. He should be owning his wish for political violence, not pretending that what he wants is somehow friendlier than it is.

That guy just loves a dictator

October 24, 2025 - "American Week": Trump demolishes the East Wing of the White House Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme, this week with Aasmah Mir sitting in for Tom Swarbrick.  Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm on LBC...

My "American Week" for LBC.

This week, Trump trashes the White House.

Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.

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Mason is clearly sympathetic to Reform and Farage, just as much as he clearly couldn’t fail to hide his very Tory friendly views. He was never really cut out for the job, but to see him consistently demonstrate he’s even worse than Laura K is doing damage to the BBC brand

The biggest deficiency of the US Constitution to emerge so far is the Presidential unlimited power to Pardon. This has totally undermined the limitation of the President's legal powers.

There is cynicism where constitutionalism should be. While bad faith actors can rely on their own official powers, they are preventing the proper operation of checks and balances. That there is a “written” codified constitution makes absolutely no difference. Constitutional form makes no difference when those with power can act unconstitutionally and simply get away with it.

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The gaming of the American constitution

How a codified “written” constitution is being manipulated by those acting in bad faith

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Will Hayward: "Beyond this campaign, the aim of the party to appeal to Reform voters that are never coming back (and often were never Labour voters anyway) at the expense of left and centre left traditional supporters has been a catastrophe."

Last bit from this but it's a v good piece on Caerphilly: "There are not many areas that will be more favourable to [Reform] in Wales... Given their immense resources, disproportionate media attention and overwhelmingly favourable social media algorithms, they should be embarrassed by the result."

I really hope they haven’t paid this proven failure to tell people what he thinks. This country really needs to sort itself out in terms of identifying who can be trusted and who is a grifting charlatan

This is not as bad as the autopen signing stuff ‘Biden didn’t know about’ I assume? He MUST be able to go into acute detail about anyone he pardons

People who ARENT seeing Portland burning to the ground are ‘seeing things’

‘Overly prosecuted’. They prosecuted too much?

Let them eat ballroom

The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.

Nothing’s funny anymore, but “23% of Americans yearn for the White House East Wing to be demolished” is sort of funny.

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

If there’s no data, there’s no bad data.

There is still some hope that the brazen racism can be so blatant that it penetrates even through the filter of the hateful Daily Mail. But these grifters like Jenrick and Lam are convinced that what the public wants is them to be more like Farage and Tommy Robinson

Shame that Number 10 still hasn’t.

Social media disinformation, Trump, Johnson, Brexit all from 2016. We fixed nothing since that year that broke everything. We’re now 9 years in to mainstreaming xenophobia and racism

Woeful. This is worrying form

President of peace.

It really is disgraceful. There is no integrity left in the Republican Party - they have all folded utterly to do Trump’s bidding

It is a stunning thing to watch, Mike. They must laugh about this stuff together afterwards, right?

This definitely happened. Also, I think he’s trying to crudely explain part fibre broadband, like no one in the public would understand modern internet connections. He lives in a very weird reality, but one that absolutely has him as the main character at all times

The quiet evil of Mike Johnson.

This is appalling. Wrecked lives but nothing can be done…

tl;dr Trump:

"I don't know anything about Project 2025 but I did try to get its principal author laid."