David Carrington

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

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FM26 drops later this evening. I've had a few hours on an early, incomplete version. Here's what I thought....

I cannot quite describe how it feels to hear a proposal to deport millions of people coming from the ostensible 'right of centre' party. I cannot tell you how it feels to know this while waiting for my son's heart surgery: a claim on healthcare that would see me deported under this proposal.

If *any* dependent receives *any* form of social protection at any point, you lose your legal status, as drafted. It is sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme all at once

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Labour is not sure how to respond, partly because its own policy is ambiguous

Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.

@beefanddairy.bsky.social

Eli’s turned up in Southend.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Happy new Pynchon novel release day!!!

Current mental state:

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Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

London can you wait? Just two more days 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

“You can’t just deny physical reality and expect everyone else to play along” - Evangelical Christian transphobes who have denied physical reality and expect everyone else ro play along.

Very good to hear him say this. I cannot understand why these comments always seem to come two weeks after the fact, but it's much better than nothing.

Grill Farage on this, you supine media wankers. He's been allowed to speak about anything but the Ukraine conflict for way too fucking long.

That as well as the economy, the state is being run in their interests. And that does mean we’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror and recognise where we’ve allowed our parties to shy away from people’s concerns. And let the politics of purity patronise people. Now you will all have issues in your own countries. But in Britain, it’s illegal migration. And I suspect that may be the same in a number of other countries. For too many years, it’s been too easy for people to come here, slip into the shadow economy and remain here illegally. Because, frankly, we have been squeamish about saying things that are clearly true. It’s not just that it is not compassionate, left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages. But the simple fact that every nation needs to have control over its borders. We do need to know who is in our country. Our immigration system does need to be fair if we want to maintain that binding contract that our politics is built on. Otherwise, it undermines trust. Undermines people’s faith that we are on their side and their belief that the state can and will work for them. And that is why today I am announcing this Government will make a new, free of charge, digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It’s as simple as that. Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people - they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them. And of course the truth is, we won’t solve our problems if we don’t also take on the root causes.

It speaks volumes about how unmoored Labour has become from the people who actually voted for it in 2024 (i.e. people in work) that the line on digital ID cards is just an obvious lie to anyone who has changed jobs in the past decade!

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Relieved about Jimmy Kimmel and not just because I have no idea how my subscription to Disney+ works or how to cancel it.

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people?

That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago.

He still has his job.

I’ve been re-listening to a great podcast series of lectures on the US Civil War by David W Blight, covering pre and post too. The parallels with that era are much more resonant, for fairly obvious reasons.

I guess the 30s/40s is such a big dominant example that it clouds everything else?

BREAKING: Trump ends war between Narnia and Mordor.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

Exciting to enter a period where being a comedian might actually become slightly dangerous! Let's see how edgy the edgelords are then.

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly."

They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

Ed Miliband slams 'narcissist' Elon Musk for 'inciting violence on our streets' | LBC Ed Miliband has branded Elon Musk an “attention-seeking narcissist” and accused him of “inciting violence on our streets” following comments the hard-right billionaire made at a Tommy Robinson rally over the weekend.

Ed Miliband slammed Musk for trying to meddle in British politics, saying, “Just because you’re a billionaire doesn’t mean you get to tell us how to run our country.” Miliband told him to stick to cars and, in his words, “butt out of our politics.”
www.lbc.co.uk/article/elon...