Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level.

Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.

My last words to Gaza I didn’t turn back to see my family again after saying goodbye. I felt too ashamed. I was leaving for peace, and all they had was famine and war.

“I didn’t turn back to see my family again. I felt too ashamed. I was leaving for peace, and all they had was famine and war. I tried to tell myself that I was leaving so that one day I could bring them out, too. Except I didn’t believe that either.”

www.972mag.com/leaving-gaza...

Could have been very different if we'd started with Saito+ Burrell, but they needed a bit of a recovery after midweek travels. We had 46 touches in their area, 20 shots, only 3 on target. Not good enough, but Millwall are a good team+ defended very well. We weren't bad, just not good enough #QPR

Kolli for Frey? And hoping Koki and Burrell not too knackered after their travels #QPR

Having visited local NHS hospitals with my wife for the past month, it is clear that the health of our people depends hugely on immigrant workers.

Rs have played well, but in spite of the possession + numerous balls into the box have made too many mistakes, esp for the goals. Millwall defend very well. Frey just doesn't look up to it. Need more pace in the second half. Going to be difficult to get back from this #QPR

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Not sure about starting with Kone + Frey but there's a lot of pace on the bench #QPR

Far-right extremists jailed for terror plots Three Nazi-worshipping extremists convicted of terror offences are sentenced.

Strangely there seems to be very little coverage of this in the media? Why could that be? #Nazis
BBC News - Far-right extremists jailed for terror plots - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does anyone know if there is precedent for a ban on supporters attending a match being overturned after political pressure? A reader is asking and I have no idea

Israel is responsible for 95% of journalist and media worker killings in the Middle East since October 7, 2023, according to CPJ data. More than three in every four journalists and media workers killed worldwide over the past two years were Palestinians in Gaza.

cpj.org/issue/israel...

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.

"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port."

jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

Out of surgery. Appear to be alive.

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Rachel Reeves says higher taxes on wealthy ‘part of the story’ for November budget Chancellor hints at rises and calls out past ‘scaremongering’ over VAT on private schools and changes to non-doms

Just had a chat with Rachel Reeves in Washington. She:
- says taxes on wealthy will feature in budget
- wants UK bond yields back in line with rest of G7
- says OBR should have revised forecasts earlier
- promises continued investment, no return to austerity
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Israel returns bodies still in shackles – Gaza Health Ministry Israel has now handed over the bodies of 90 Palestinians to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Israel returns bodies still in shackles – Gaza Health Ministry
www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

C4News, "All these alleged crimes took place when the Conservatives were in government, didn't you drop the ball here?"

Chris Philp, "I'm pretty clear China was a threat"

But didn't do anything about it eh? 🤷‍♂️

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

"big rise in out-of-work benefit claimants are almost entirely a product of counting the same stuff differently"
How come no one worked this out before? Because too many correspondents+ politicians think they can make political capital out of the numbers.

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

on.ft.com/3KOUh07

Key para.

We don't see any reason why landlords and lawyers shouldn't pay the same tax rate as their tenants and clients.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

Over 10,000 people have added their name to keep Hampstead women's pond inclusive.

It only takes 1 minute. Will you join them?
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Daniel Hannan Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave. Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law. I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution. The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

A different future here is not only possible, it’s crucial — our lives depend on it. And we won’t stop fighting until we achieve it.

The olive harvest just began and violence is already spreading across the West Bank.

Two days ago, Israeli forces cut down more than 120 olive trees near Ramallah. And last week, Israeli settlers harassed Palestinian farmers picking olives in the village of Farkha (1/3)

I've tracked death by suicide of Trans youth in the UK since 2017. Leia's is the 25 death of Trans youth age 18 & under.

- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.

Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare

- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.

Our Government is culpable.

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

Ooooh interesting! Badenoch is listing things the Tories did which were bold.

"We were courageous enough to introduce same-sex marriage," she says. There's a puzzled pause in the hall, then a smattering of lukewarm applause.

Then she mentions Brexit and the relieved audience goes wild