It's not a 'small technical shift', it's a horrific and inhumane change of policy.

And bluntly, we all know the Home Office's version of 'safe' is highly likely to be wrong.

I have not tried it yet in London or Paris but I saw shops selling it, getting popular now but it won’t be the same!

I have cravings for an egg coffee just now.

Of course they know! They supply the weapons, training and intelligence

I made my sister try Banh Mi yesterday and she loved it. I was so surprised there is no equivalent of it in Thailand. But yesterday walking around Chinatown BKK we found a Vietnamese place and could not resist 🥰

Yes it is! Loved the city, try the egg coffee for me!

And then you will love Hoi An 😍

just stunning 😍

Pet peeve: customers who take mobile calls on loudspeaker in the middle of the bookshop 🙄

As a scientist, when you analyse and present the data re UK, the only conclusion you can draw is that UK has the lowest number of asylum seekers applications among the biggest EU countries.

"Even with Britain’s high overall tax take, most people’s labour income is taxed lightly by international standards...Britain’s [labour tax] wedge in 2024 for a single average earner without children was 29.4%, the lowest in the G7"
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Well said - I for one am glad you are here.
How ironic that Mahmood, herself, wouldn’t be here if those rules had applied when her parents came here.

I am proof... living, breathing proof... of what happens when a country offers refuge with a future attached.

Britain gave me a chance, and I have spent my life giving back.

6/8

Italy has a flat tax of 200k euros to attract billionaires.
Italy has seen a surge in the last few years.

Why don’t we call these people with their correct name? They are economic immigrants looking for better opportunities and flying oppression like refugees do!

This quote immediately reminded me of a line from Animal Farm:

"Surely Comrades, you do not want Jones Back!"

Which then made me think...

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

She is wrong. Period. Labour is not better than Tory or Reform atm in all its policies.

This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation

Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work

Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket.

Here's why it's not going to work

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

“Remind me to add ‘philanthropist’ to my LinkedIn profile”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Wait for the SPS agreement! It might cover plants 😜

Was "being increasingly nasty to immigrants and asylum seekers" in the Labour 2024 manifesto? I am asking because they don't seem to have any problems with it, unlike with increasing income tax. Probably because a lot of immigrants can't vote, so the government is fine not treating them as people.

So today we went to visit the train market and the floating market.

I visited the floating market 10 years ago. The train market wasn’t a thing at that time.

All there was left of the original floating market 10 years ago is now gone. The canals are overcrowded. Only souvenirs and food stalls.

Starmer and Von der Leyen agree on need for rapid progress on Brexit reset deal Sir Keir Starmer and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen restated the need to swiftly implement the post-Brexit reset deal, amid reports of an impasse over UK access to Brussels’ flagship d...

The only progress that makes sense is to renegotiate our entry into the CU and SM. Anything else is just pissing on a forest fire.

nation.cymru/news/starmer...

Post-Brexit record in Irish passport applications from UK Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.

I wonder how many of these people applying for an Irish passport voted for Brexit?

www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Donate to A Home for Sheena and Baby Joseph — Let’s Change Their Story, organized by Joshua Liljenquist Meet Sheena and her baby boy, Joseph. Sheena is a young mo… Joshua Liljenquist needs your support for A Home for Sheena and Baby Joseph — Let’s Change Their Story

Here’s the link if you’d like to help.
gofund.me/af8c8a7a1

Watch this and suddenly your own problems won’t feel so heavy. The good news: people stepped up and raised about $246 k+ on GoFundMe to help this woman and her baby.

There really are good people out there.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

I wish there was a Thai Bahn Mi version of it in Thailand just to grab one on the go.

I know, I am Thailand just now, do how the ‘Romans’ do.

Eat local.
Try everything.
Chill out.
Enjoy 😌

YouTube video by Double Down News Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED

War crimes you won't see on the BBC (ITV, Channel4, Sky ...)

"Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED"
youtu.be/gEo813rYm8g?...
via @YouTube

Utilisation par l’armée israélienne de Palestiniens comme boucliers humains : les États-Unis savaient

➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/3Xs

"Israeli lawyer Ben Marmareli has stated that he has seen first-hand the signs of systemic rape and sexual torture of Palestinian clients in Israeli detention facilities."
via Mint Press News

The small, dark box at the bottom is the total volume of highly radioactive waste from nuclear in the entire world. And a lot of this can be recycled into new fuels. Its volume is tiny compared to waste from mining rare earths for renewables.

I would highly recommend Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory.