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Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter,
Heart of innocence, 2021 #WomensArt

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

British.

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

He insisted the Conservatives had a plan to cut spending, including £8bn of annual savings from reducing the civil service, £6.9bn from cutting the aid budget and £23bn from slashing the welfare bill. Stride told the BBC that to save money, only UK citizens would have access to the welfare system and that people with "low-level" mental health problems would also lose access to benefits. Asked what would happen to people living legally in Britain who are not UK citizens if they fall into hardship, he said: "They've come from other parts of the world and they would have the option to return." The Conservatives failed to back the Labour government's proposed £5bn of welfare savings this year. Stride claimed that the Labour plans were rushed and "not considered and principled".

The Tory Party has gone mad..

Commiserations

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

Just do it! Don’t be cold.

Britishness and free speech - why we travelled 200 miles to Robinson's London rally More than 700 people who were on the march and counter-protest, contacted the BBC to express their views.

BBC continues its laundry job on the far right. Yeah, he's a violent racist but he loves his mum. It's just like the coronation really. Look at the photo- a patriotic street party.

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Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧

Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸

At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊

They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

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Read and weep

Trump is coming to the UK to AVOID the EPSTEIN story. Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the WORLD’S BIGGEST PHOTO of Donald with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

And here is right outside Windsor Castle, where Trump is staying with the King this week.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

"That's me, that is."

Seb, have you any news from Sarah? We haven’t x

Another day, another pop at immigrants from Starmer.

That's 21 anti-immigrant tweets from him so far in August, far more than on any other topic.

(Nothing at all about the positives of immigration.)

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The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik When millions of once-loyal supporters become disillusioned with a party, there can only be one result: electoral disaster, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

'“Elections are won from the centre” goes the old adage, but increasingly the centre itself has changed as the world becomes not a place of wide-tent compromise, but of irreconcilable differences.'

This week's column

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Immigration has dropped dramatically in the last two years – small boat crossings are a small part of the overall picture, but have come to dominate the story (in part because the government has let it)

There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits.

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Feel for you, Sam. Crossing fingers they sort it and you’re back home where you want to be very soon.

LLMs are not like you and me—and never will be. Unpacking a popular new example from an AI researcher at Google DeepMind

“LLMs are an echo of recorded memories. They are not fresh thoughts. People are confusing an echo for cognition.”

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Oo, did you see the William Kentridge? Envious!

2025: Brexiters complaining about UK travellers to the EU being subjected to checks

2016: That time Nigel Farage said he didn't want us to have EU passports, but UK passports, making a third country outside of the EU, and subject to the EU's rules for third countries

We can end the scandal of child poverty if we want to Too often the very young are made to carry the consequences of decisions they haven’t made

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