Andrew Naughtie

Or sue Reform over some nonsense grievance. Revanche UK.

UK Greens trounce far right in key election as Labour face disaster Two insurgent parties with a tiny number of MPs between them have shunted Britain's governing party into a humiliating defeat. #EuropeNews

Good morning from Manchester: a great victory speech by Hannah Spencer, an utterly deserved if hardly total failure for Matt Goodwin, and a sheer calamity for Labour.

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I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

awful AI shitslop image of a train in a sort of Scottish looking city that's blue and has a logo on the side formed of a lightning bolt in a thick circle

that same logo in its original blue and red colours, which happens to be the literal flag of the British Union of Fascists

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists.
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It anticipates that a large chunk of the electorate will react to this escalation with "not our problem, what about me" – a lot of GB News viewers/Reform members are being told repeatedly that UK selfishness is a virtue. Ukraine overpowered it, but it can't be taken for granted that this will.

Even better way to prolong the agony: if one person has a huge advantage (eg long run of hotels when nobody else even has a set), use Free Parking to start and replenish a bailout fund for the other players.

Doesn’t change the outcome, at least 90 mins more game time, but a taste of solidarity.

The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Since it sneaks a full-fledged train underneath the City, I suggest The Trainpipe.

Though to look at it another way, these ones have effectively already been vetted, meaning Reform are less likely to have to spend days defending them after they go on a podcast and say people from X country are “a cruel race” or whatever’s coming next.

Nobody needs to be on X. Nobody needs to see what’s on X. It’s a cesspit of racism, xenophobia and misinformation. And it refuses to comply with even the most basic of standards.

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

Party For You (Corbynite Continuity (Socialist))

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

Clutching other people's pearls, more like.

Quite. Stay tuned for an upcoming panic about “anchor babies”, à la USA circa George W Bush.

The Starmer-Mahmood asylum/refugee policy is basically legislating to weaponise the Windrush deportations nightmare into a deliberate legal process. And for what? To close a polling gap?

“Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry, and any of their accessories that I might be able to shift on Vinted.”

Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.

The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.

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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

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London Centric: Always on the Käse.

The Hardline Conservatives = Belle and Sebastian twee indie

Working Right = sub-Madness forgotten twotone band

Reluctant Reformers = falsely claimed to have done the original version of The Living Years but lost a lawsuit about it

the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.

The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

On a constant loop. Radio 7.

A great point. If you read the UK press, spend time on X and fall prey to elite radicalisation, you can very easily fool yourself into thinking you represent the silent majority when in fact you are an increasingly extreme minority. It's funny when conservatives scold liberals about their "bubbles"

“ENOUGH OF THIS WOKERY - MORE ASBESTOS!”

“All that is solid melts into goo”

The question that *should* trip them up is of course: “How many generations does a line [or whatever] need to interbreed with locals for its descendants to become local?”

The measure of their nastiness (and their confidence) will be how they handle that question, and where their answers take them.

Lucy White, Lowe et al are still *just* this side of race “science”. The reaction to Sarah Pochin’s remarks (which weren’t even pro-eugenics, just a nasty gut reaction to black faces) showed that that barrier is still just about holding on the mainstream hard right, at least in public. 2/