Lucas Bertholdi-Saad

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

every Democrat in the country should not only endorse Mamdani within three hours but they should denounce and condemn Andrew Cuomo and demand he retire from politics forever

I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.

A policy of expelling legally settled residents from overseas in the cause of "cultural coherence" is out-and-out, no pretences, racism. Waiting for Badenoch to admit as much.

william hockett was a forcibly conscripted nc quaker willing to face a firing squad before helping slavers. the last line in his diary entry after deserting goes so hard

the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction

In particular @bbclaurak.bsky.social could quote what Lam said very clearly in Parliament -that the Conservatives would kick out anyone now holding ILR who had ever claimed pension, child benefit or a host of other benefits.

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Man it happened 262 times last year. What a mess of a system.

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"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird

They have published a Bill!

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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.

The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons.

Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.

Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?

Some thoughts:

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

Now in Yr 3 they all do exactly the same stuff British primary school children have always done - practicing the recorder, cutting up crepe paper with scissors, learning about the Egyptians for some reason, going on school trips to see the Cutty Sark. They're all becoming little Londoners. (3/end)

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

this is actually extraordinary and a lot of it's been done just by asking people to drive basically any car produced since 2007. almost no cars later than that (and some earlier) comply with ULEZ - it's not forcing everyone into a Tesla, it's incredibly basic improvements

All to avoid the shame of acknowledging the horrible, psychologically troubling truth. Labour has for a long time been a party of the PMC, by the PMC, for the PMC. It’s just, here’s the thing about the PMC. They are the electoral majority. And they are how Labour won, will win, and can only win. n/n

And to reiterate, Labour voters who have gone to Reform are very different from rest of Labour AND are only 8% of 2024 Lab voters. 20% have gone to DK, 20% to LDs and Greens. The choice seems obvious to me. Though I am transgressing on Blue Labour orthodoxy. 19/n

Notice also though that the Low PMC group (roughly teachers, nurses, social workers, and lol journalists) anchor each of the parties. The Low PMC are the base! and they are a huge group around 30% of voters for most parties. Notice also the large gap between Labour voters and right-wing parties 15/n

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

What Do We Have To Lose If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"

If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Dire framing. Strategically and morally bankrupt.

Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.

Good morning.

Immigration is good. Trade is good.

There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

'It is impossible + unworkable' = wrong + politically ineffective

Try:

Its wrong in principle. The attempt to do it would be cruel + chaotic. Would be inhumane consequences not only for vulnerable groups they choose to target + dehumanise but the rights of everyone else vs unaccountable power