Lawson Iley

We will probably be the last country in the world to realise we are in a global competition for people.

It's time we asked a different question about migration: Why are so many British people leaving the UK?

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lol those files are never getting out

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Farage’s wholesale denial of detailed racism claims is ‘troubling’, says former extremism adviser Lord Walney expresses concern over Reform leader’s response as Labour calls on Farage to address ‘disturbing’ allegations

Anti-semitism comes in many guises, but history tells us it has always been the very bedrock of far right politics. For these warped extremists, Muslims are a useful target but Jews remain the real enemy. Nothing has changed.
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This is superb from Keir Starmer.

As a Dad of boys, it spoke to me.

As a Prime Minister, he towers above all other options.

If that is all this person did, it is not a crime—and what we are witnessing is an illegal attack on an American citizen by a lawless band of armed Trump agents

RIP Jamal. You deserved better.

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".

Read on for more...

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The markets finally notice a lunatic is in charge.

We're going to get a lot of this as we run up to the Budget, I guess. Someone somewhere is "we need a story, do anything, get me a story".

*sigh*

Actually, Mark Lobel, I think your guest was absolutely right. It was your reporting that got a bit overexcited on the basis of ten minutes. Market reaction has evened out.

WOW, new signage!

Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming a minority-white country:

“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

Oh, they're talking about it now, Mr Vance.

FTSE 100 index has 10,000-point mark in sight after hitting new high – business live Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as investors ponder AI valuations and SoftBank’s growing funding demands for OpenAI UK government borrowing costs are rising, a little, this morning as bond traders ponder the latest political turmoil in Westminster. The cost of borrowing for a decade, and for 30 years, has risen, following reports that prime minister Keir Starmer’s allies fear he could face a leadership challenge in the wake of this month’s budget. Continue reading...

FTSE 100 index has 10,000-point mark in sight after hitting new high – business live

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Not the last, I agree with you.

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'

Winston Churchill, 1936

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:

One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

YouTube video by Guardian News Boris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'

In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
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ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby.

"They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video.

"ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat."

Cicero, Illinois

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

70.5% OF NEW TARIFFS WERE PASSED ONTO CONSUMERS — PER LENDINGTREE LENDINGTREE DATA SHOW THAT OVER TWO-THIRDS OF NEW TARIFF COSTS WERE DIRECTLY BORNE BY CONSUMERS, HIGHLIGHTING HOW TRADE BARRIERS ARE DRIVING UP RETAIL PRICES AND ADDING TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES.

Elon Musk’s legacy

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For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.