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School colleagues can be so supportive and so can the students. Routine is good and we are lucky to be in a job where the day flies by! Good luck

so the couple who are basically my Husband's parents have a story where they went to marriage therapy in the 60s in NYC and the big take away was "Do you drink Gin?" they said yes and the therapist said Switch to vodka Gin makes people aggressive and they stand by it to this day

#Poem

Mostly I wonder how these folks expect to sell anything once they achieve their glorious utopia of "No boss has to deal with that pesky hassle of having employees."

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru

Quite a lot of premature (& often casually/overtly racist) commentary like this two Black "British" men from ex-academic Matthew Goodwin, or comments of Advance leader Ben Habib inferred the existence of 2 suspects/perpetrators must mean police were covering something up about terrorist motives

▪️ If it's an immigrant...
"See!"

▪️ If it's not an immigrant, but they're not white (or don't have a white British name)...
"See! Next generation of immigrants!"

▪️ If it's a white guy with a British name...
"See! See what these immigrants made good peaceful people do?!"

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

Dan Hannan + Douglas Carswell put a lot of emphasis on the equal citizenship of black, Asian and mixed race Britons (especially in 2013-2016, concerned that Farage's nativism + the legacy of Enoch Powell would make it impossible for Reform to reach 50%. Carswell has flipped entirely. Has Hannan?

All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...

Total respect to the police and paramedics who didn't think twice in responding to the terror attack in Huntingdon

How many of these results (where tactical voting stops Reform) do we need before the polling that says Reform will be the next government are taken less seriously? 🤔 Each time a new poll comes out, it makes the headlines & Reform get more air time as they are 'seen' as the government in waiting.

She's a politician, running for Congress in Illinois. She attended a protest against ICE. ICE brutalized her, tear gassed her, body slammed her to the ground.

And now *she's* been arrested for 'hindering' ICE. She faces eight years in prison.

This is fascism.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Don't be fooled, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk are playing you The message the hate engine transmits is simple: asylum seekers are not really people in need

Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists

inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

Goodwin is a relentless campaigner for Reform, not an academic. He hasn't published an academic article since 2022.

Kemi Badenoch said today “No, we’re not being retrospective. When we put that amendment through, it was for a live Bill, so it wouldn’t have been retrospective. It was applied to a specific cohort,” she said.

“So she (Ms Lam) just stated it imprecisely”

Badenoch obvs wrong about what her bill said

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Tim Montgomerie's vision of an ideal Britain resembles the strict homogenous hierarchies he grew up in around British army bases in places like Gütersloh

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...

For those keeping track, it's now three days since I asked the Conservatives for (fairly basic) details of their policy on revoking indefinite leave to remain, eg whether it would include separating families and if it would work as per Chris Philp's draft bill. Despite several reminders: nothing.

The ceramic artist Simon Turner makes bowls from moulds of London cast iron coal covers. #London

Milton & Tamarside (Torridge) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 37.5% (New)
➡️ RFM: 31.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 16.7% (New)
🌍 GRN: 5.9% (-23.9)

No Ind (-43.5) or LAB (-17.9) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Independent.
Changes w/ 2023.

When Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost, he wheels around in terror and cries out "Which of you have done this?"

It's him. He's done it. A reminder that projection eventually turns on the projector and leads to collapse.

The BBC has reported the results of the Welsh Senned By-election for Caerphilly.

Plaid Cymru won

Reform UK 2nd

Labour 3rd

Total vote was high and the winner has a long record of standing in Elections for Caerphilly. Both are unusual for a By-election.

Should be a v simple choice for Badenoch’s LOTO - either withdraw this mad “Idi Amin x 20” mass deportation bill or they should be treated by everyone in politics as what they are - more extreme on immigration than the BNP or any democratic govt anywhere

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

The Established Church needs to find a voice on this kind of dehumanising depiction of men, women and children who have come to our country, being spilled all over the place to say the only thing that has human value is a salary above £38k and thst any foreigner who ever earns less must get out