All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought

This is a soulless attack on ourselves. Every one of his customers is a victim. Every person who worked for him. Not to mention his family and friends. Mass deportation isn’t us versus them. It’s us versus us.

What did the little rams horn snails ever do to her? I find it disturbing when a person talks about other creatures purely as an impediment to their own desires. It’s not healthy.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Noem and influencers on roof of ICE facility in Portland, ostensibly looking at a very calm city block on a hot Tuesday afternoon….

Among protestors outside ICE facility Noem is visiting in Portland is Oregon Guard veteran Noah Mrowczynski:
“I'm a combat veteran, a veteran who fought real wars against real terrorists. Not this so-called insurrection and so-called terrorists Trump would have you believe we are in Portland.”

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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

So action will be needed to bring X back within the rule of law in our country.

Tolerating such an egregious failure of social media platforms to even try to uphold their legal duties has led to 3 years of de facto impunity for unlawful racist abuse in this country.

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I wish they would put half as much effort into solving the problem that humans have created a subsistence system which doesn’t actually fit human needs, rather than obsessing about finding reasons to exclude people from help.

It’s not over diagnosed, neurodivergence has been chronically UNDER DIAGNOSED, which is why we’re suddenly seeing an increase in diagnosis particularly amongst women and girls. This approach is a combination of misogyny and a poorly handled pandemic 🙈🤦‍♀️🙄

LOL

Ahead of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem’s expected visit to the Portland ICE facility, a small protest crowd and a catchy song with the lyrics “Trump is in the Epstein files (yes he is).”

I would really really like to see regular polling based on a preference system for comparison. I know that has practical issues and wouldn’t be perfect but still.

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

I followed up this piece with another on why lumping all 'nonwhite' groups together leads to bad analysis and bad policy on segregation

www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/when-is...

I acknowledged that choice can lead to segregation, including in schools, tho noted some less observed aspects of this

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

The world sometimes feels overwhelmed by division & hatred. In the wake of horrifying & divisive events in the news, it’s ever more important we all recognise & build on our shared humanity. The news rarely tells stories of people casting aside division & instead spreading love, peace & joy.
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People like Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage are increasingly looking at people who are not white and suggesting that they can't be British.

That in itself is fundamentally un-British.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Scene outside ICE facility in Portland where DHS Sec. Noem is expected to visit today. Sound on for one protestor’s soundtrack.

A decade ago, I lived on a rough estate in Salford. One of the houses on the street behind mine was given to a black family by the council. They then suffered weeks of vandalism, abuse, & threats.

Oh. That Trump-sponsored 'Brexit benefit' on steel may be about to go up in smoke.

It's dangerous and it's also incoherent: I heard Jenrick saying today that when judges don the wig it symbolizes the point they leave personal views & identifications aside. Fine, but this makes his claim (if even true) that some judges have 'links' with immigrants' charities utterly irrelevant.

Dan thinks Jenrick's words have been outrageously misinterpreted. And yet other Tories like Mel Stride and Andy Street are distancing themselves from Jenrick.

There is nothing wrong with Pippa's summary.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Birmingham is a massively mixed community. Do ‘they’ all look the same to him?