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That perhaps the fault doesn't lie with the T&S policies of a two-year-old social media platform with no stream of income which bad actors want to see fail,

nor with their folksy idiom,

but perhaps with the fact that there are many perverse incentives for bad actors to Get Lucky, Only Once

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Shabana Mahmood has decided that her political future will be secured by being evil to refugees, just as Wes Streeting decided to be evil to trans kids.

This is where the Labour Party is now.

this is an exaggerated version of something I've encountered a lot talking to other men about #MeToo stuff; they could imagine themselves as the accused man (and thus, in their heads, as the 'wrongly' accused man) but not as the victim of abuse.

The letter the BBC could send to Trump in reply to his $1bn claim 12th November 2025 Yesterday this blog offered a close reading of the letter Trump’s lawyers had sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation. As a follow-up, this is a letter that the BBC could se…

I think you have not linked the "non-substack" version on Bluesky yet?

(I tried checking using the "replies" tab. I hope I am not joining the crowd cleverly suggesting something you have already mentioned!)

davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

"my island is completely normal"

normal island:

I'm glad a big name like Peston has come to Bluesky. Nice shot of nostalgia hitting that block button.

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?

It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

Thank you for working on this article. I am not a paid subscriber. I would like to note the top liked substack comment is written in the exact same style as an "AI" chatbot. It's unfortunate, compared to the authentic discussion over here.

matt @mattatthecinema · 3h is @gmail not working for anyone else? I was unable to send an email in the app or view any of my folders. following a phone restart it's not loading any emails, just showing "getting your messages"

gmail app down

downdetector.co.uk is showing "User reports indicate possible problems at Gmail"

Note how, when the government’s condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!

This is worse than her doing it IMV

National broadcaster getting sniped at on bsky, reasonably so. For not getting an answer from the shadow home sec: do they stand by their draft law of mass deportations?

The first part of the 6 min interview was taken up with him trying to argue racism doesn't count from Tories, only from Reform!

Chris Philp: "It is certainly not language that I would use"

Is it racist? "I am not going to call her that word"

Pivots straight to: "We should acknowledge that the public do have concerns, legitimate concerns, about large-scale IMMIGRATION. Discussing that is certainly not racist".

Eh?

A real failure that a 6 minute BBC interview with the Shadow Home Secretary has simply failed to clarify
- whether the Bill in the Commons stands, or has been dropped?
- whether threat of removal to those currently with ILR stands, or dropping retrospective deportations of 430,000 people

Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance

“We do not believe the EHRC has provided satisfactory responses to questions around how they expect businesses to implement such stringent expectations.”

Nearly 50 backbenchers have written to Peter Kyle warn about the EHRC’s upcoming guidance:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The EHRC's dodgy (now withdrawn) guidance, and their terrible Code of Practice, are simply unworkable. They are putting businesses in an impossible position, all whilst undermining trans people's human rights. The government needs to put it in the bin.

Good on @warinderjussmp.bsky.social sky.social for not directing people to x dot com!

Guess I'd better update the link on the Wikipedia page, so people can find his latest posts :-).

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

They could just write a DM.

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

Really recommend reading this piece by @kissane.myatproto.social if you are about the future of social media and decentralized networks. This piece is not just about Trump's arrival on Bluesky; it's about the state of play for the open networking sector, and the political risks it faces.

And every comment below is a blue tick demanding even more people are deported. Hardly surprising that politicians spending all there time on X think this stuff is popular.

All this stuff, aside from being ugly as hell, once more proposes the UK as a country which doesn’t pay its debts. It’s unserious.

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it

But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

Just shocking incompetence/laziness from @peston.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social here. No excuses.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart".

Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .