Susan Hall is the GLA Conservative group leader. She has become the most senior Conservative to support Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain movement. One of Lowe's core goaıs is to shift the immigration debate to remigration: not how many people come but how many leave: mass deportations & net outflows

Retrospectively hilarious that Perot thought the big gap in American politics was in the center, between the mad socialism of Bill Clinton and the crazed fascism of George HW Bush

We know Reform are winning lots of seats, but look at this under the bonnet - they dominate 2nd places too - in wards Labour, Tories, Lib Dems & Greens won Reform was most likely to have come 2nd in all of them. Thinking today *must* be a high water mark for Reform is a mistake as more ground to go

Nice! Depth of flavour's important

Potatoes dauphinoise?

The trouble with branding this a “free speech” site is that it will probably be forced within 24 hours to adopt a series of rules prohibiting using a photo of a lettuce as your avatar, employing the hashtag #FBPL (follow back pro lettuce) and calling yourself a Romainer in your bio.

Gonna be interesting to see how many people sign up

Fishy business is crazy, even by EU standards In equating mackerel with arming Kyiv, France is showing itself to be unserious about defence

Who cares about fish? European defence and security is just a little bit more important than sole and haddock.
www.thetimes.com/article/6905...

I know "I wonder what James Delingpole is tweeting these days" is a horrible, stove-touching impulse, but I was genuinely not expecting "Lily Philips and Bonnie Blue are government psy-ops".

very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?

Actual belly laugh. Daniel Hannan is priceless

"did you enjoy your holiday?"

"the break from your incessant demands was truly a tonic for my weary soul master"

"good, well now you're back there's work to do"

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

"Vice President JD Vance, very much the Nick Nack to Trump’s Francisco Scaramanga": unimprovable.

MASSIVE FISCAL PACKAGE OUT OF BERLIN: 12-20%+ of GDP.

- 500 billion fund for public investment
- All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake.
- Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment.

Germany is back - economically and militarily.

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A Thriller That’s Most Fun When It’s Boring Even the most mundane moments are riveting in the new deep-sea drama film “Last Breath.”

The deep-sea survival thriller “Last Breath” tells the story of a do-or-die situation with meticulous realism. But even the most mundane moments are still riveting, writes @davidlsims.bsky.social:

"Blow for Blow"

What penalty for people who strike up conversations with strangers?

light, strong, waterproof, essentially did everything plastic does for us now. the weird bit is that they all made creepy looking things out of it.

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

@jonrauch.bsky.social: “Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it. In particular, it has a fatal weakness that Democrats and Trump’s other opponents should make their primary and relentless line of attack.”

1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there *still* no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?

There’s a real chance that we staring down a new pandemic in the form of bird flu. It could never happen or happen in the coming months. And we are in the process of decimating our core national public health and infectious disease service.

today's highlight was learning of the existence of the Labour MP for Broxtowe from 1929 until 1953, who revelled in the name "Seymour Cocks"

"Dulling his political instincts"

Hmm

Talk me through what those instincts are, exactly?

Inflation here we come

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why: