Jonathan Hopkin

I feel like more should be made of the fact that the right in British politics is very obviously working for foreign interests and have been for a good while

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

It sure didn’t take long for those “Board of Peace” fucks to start their first war.

Help, I saw someone who looked a bit off to me

Sounds a lot like the awful encounter Nadhim Zahawi had in Oxford Street

How did he end up looking like Norman Mailer

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Polling from More in Common shows that Greens and Reform win a higher share of voters who struggle to make ends meet, while Labour and the Conservatives win those who are most financially comfortable

Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

It’s uncanny how it neatly allows Reform to divert attention away from their humiliating defeat

I had a quick lot at their webpage and it did look like a right wing think tank webpage would look

I suspect all that will remain is the stain

No, only to Dubai

Against the overwhelming forces of family voting

Good job he’s surrounded by sensible sane people

Why does Bessent always look like he’s just peed himself

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

It does seem like a lot of people overlearned the lessons of the Brexit campaign, and behave as if the entire country hates foreigners

Hadn’t seen those trends before - it looks like their genius strategy had the net effect of losing votes to Reform?

Good point

Bologna

A whole political economy is falling apart here

What’s the point of a Labour Party that comes up with this kind of thing

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

No notes.

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Confirms my priors, that’s good enough for me!

You could say that Trumpism - or rightwing authoritarianism generally - is just what happens when conservatives move from implicit to explicit violence towards anyone they consider deviant or inferior

Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’ and decries war on Iran California governor, promoting his memoir in LA, was asked if US should rethink military partnership with Israel * Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Gavin Newsom, the Democratic California governor, likened Israel to “an apartheid state” on Tuesday in comments sharply critical of the country’s joint war with the US against Iran. Newsom, seen as a frontrunner for his party’s presidential nomination in 2028, made the comment during an appearance in Los Angeles to promote his book, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery. He was asked if the US should rethink its military partnership with Israel. Continue reading...

Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’ and decries war on Iran

Smart kid

gavin newsom is a very useful weathervane because he believes in nothing save the fact that he should be president

that he's making these noises about israel support should tell you how incredibly over it is for israel within the democratic party going forward