The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Another opportunity missed to stress the positive contribution migrants make. Instead Mahmood goes again for the mythical returning Reform voter convinced the net effect is a burden on communities. Barely is the ink dry on the Budget supposed to appeal to the left.

Except in the U.S.

I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".

As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.

Famously migration from the Middle East to Europe dried up after the US and allies invaded Iraq

The UK government:

The press secretary of Potus clarified that Potus does not want democratic members of Congress to be executed.

Oh the times we live in.

This is *nothing* like a peace plan.

It is a surrender plan.

It is akin to what Hitler did to Czechoslovakia in 1938, browbeating its president into accepting brutal occupation.

‘The job of a lifetime’: Line of Duty to return for seventh season The hit BBC crime drama is coming back to screens for the first time since its record-breaking 2021 finale BBC hit crime drama Line of Duty has been confirmed to return for a seventh series. A new six-part season following police anti-corruption investigations was today announced by the BBC. “We couldn’t be more delighted to be returning for a seventh [series],” said creator Jed Mercurio. “Corruption in this country is supposed to have come to an end while Line of Duty was off air so I’ve been forced to use my imagination.” Continue reading...

‘The job of a lifetime’: Line of Duty to return for seventh season

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Trump lowers food tariffs aimed at reducing grocery prices In an executive order, President Trump rolled back tariffs on some imported foods in a move aimed at lowering grocery prices. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports.

WAIT.. I thought tariffs weren't a tax and did not raise prices? If so, as they told us, then why lower them????
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Trump lowers food tariffs aimed at reducing grocery prices www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...

Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

"Leader of the EU"

That will be news to the governments of the EU countries

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

A sandwich *is not* a lethal weapon. Repeat: is not a lethal weapon.

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash

“Instead, the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it.” Via @gelliottmorris.com
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

Nor do they care.

free speech news

When someone tells you who they are...

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

Delicious irony

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Honestly what is the point of a Labour government that won’t take a stand against mass revocation deportation of people with permanent settlement rights?

If you won’t stand against anything you stand for nothing.

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally: