Martin Calladine

Spot on.

Impressive how Starmer's done a speedrun of the Blair years - from turfing out the Tories after a generation to supporting an illegal American war in the Middle East - without first passing through being really popular by fixing Britain's public services and offering a positive vision of Britain.

Aiding and abetting.

She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work

Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

If only there'd been some earlier sign that he wasn't a suitable candidate to represent a progressive party.
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Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

"He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in."
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They know that no amount of ethnic cleansing could create the white Britain they want, so they've decided to settle instead for terrorising and spilling the blood of their fellow citizens and reinstituting the myriad ways, large and small, in which people can be oppressed and immiserated.

They are fundamentally unable to adjust to or function in the modern world - a world far better than the one in which they grew up - and so, unable to contribute constructively, can think of nothing else but to try and tear it down.

It highlights the reality of the current political divide. The far-right are pitching not just toxic nostalgia, but an entirely imagined past. They could not achieve their political vision even if they had an actual time machine. All they have to offer is cruelty, violence, corruption and decay.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

PSG, too. This could be the first war settled in a Champions League format.

Still, at least we know who'll win this year's Fifa Peace Prize.

This is why I can't understand why the government is behaving as if the political situation it faces strategically is like threading a needle.

People want hope, decency, evidence of improved public services and a growing economy. It's not easy achieved, but the strategy and messaging are obvious.

Newcastle United's owner, along with the Israeli Prime Minister, pressed the US to assassinate a foreign leader and start an illegal war of aggression. After yesterday's home defeat by Everton, the club currently lies twelfth in the Premier League.

Absolutely bang on by @jonathanliew.bsky.social

The Mail calls out racism on its back page, while promoting unsubstantiated, outright racism on its front page.

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I couldn't bear to watch the news last night - and felt bad about it. That is until I saw someone walk up to Jack Whitehall live on TV, while he was presenting the Brits, and call him a knobhead.

Ah, but they're doing it for good, don't you know! This is progressive authoritarianism.

We need a serious long-term approach to dealing with the far-right and rising authoritarianism that looks not just as electoral success but as bolstering our institutions and properly addressing the crisis in our media.

But instead, we get the Home Secretary trying to out-racist Nigel Farage.

Not only is the government's strategy for defeating Reform obviously flawed - and clearly failing - is premises on the false assumption that, somehow, if they win next time, that takes care of Reform. As if the far-right will pack up and go home.

The government, meanwhile, slumbers on, refusing the hear the alarms going off and take the steps essential to ensuring future free elections and peaceful transitions of power.

The Mail knows there's no truth to this and is deliberately making itself part of an effort to replace Britain's liberal democracy with a far-right authoritarian government. This is an attack on our country.

Christina Applegate on life with multiple sclerosis: ‘I won’t lie and say any of this is a blessing’ When the Emmy-winning comedy star was diagnosed, her body started giving up on her. She writes about losing control, gaining weight – and refusing to be a ‘good girl’

This is really powerful.
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No man has ever had a more faithful lapdog than Tony Blair. Nearly thirty years after Blair departed Downing Street, he still goes to the front door and howls daily for his master's return.

With the way Laura Kuenssberg, Chris Mason and Robert Peston play stenographer, it's as if Fabrizio Romano were Britain's most senior sports journalist.

Anonymity for sources is supposed to facilitate the publication of public interest reporting that would not otherwise be possible. It doesn't serve the public if that protection is routinely misused to allow politicians to disseminate unchallenged lies or indefensible positions.

Remarkable that so many of Britain's most senior political reporters feel no shame in making a living by passing on the political equivalent of transfer gossip, giving credence to claims that, where they not protected by anonymity, would be dismissed as obviously self-serving.

The Times & Sunda... @thetime... 1m 'I want a free Iran, but deep down I don't trust Trump to do it' I want a free Iran, but deep down I don't trust Trump to do it I want a free Iran, but deep down I don't trust Trump to do

The Syedbot is malfunctioning.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

need to be clear that by keeping Starmer until May even though almost all of them know he's not up to it, Labour MPs are basically sacrificing hundreds of councillors and dozens of councils on the altar of their own inertia and ineptitude