Hector Skill #FBPE

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.🧵

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Appalling - EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Imagine the UK media outrage if these rights under the Withdrawal Agreement were being threatened for Brits in Europe

Katie Lam calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened

Robert Jenrick Robert Jenrick complained of v 'not seeing another white face' in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.

So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”

Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.

Tories would make 'whatever changes necessary' to implement Kemi Badenoch's policies, amid questions over Windsor Framework The Conservative Party says it will make “whatever changes are necessary” to ensure that its policies are applicable to the whole of the United Kingdom – leaving open the possibility of scrapping or r...

Tory "leader" still desperately searching for a clue, any clue.

www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politic...

As I said down thread:
Tactical boots, cargo pants, tucked polo shirt, gaiter mask, sunshades, and a ballcap.
They seem to favor a tan or army green palette.

That way you look like them enough to pass when real agents are under pressure, but aren't actually impersonating officers.

Kemi Badenoch is being given what you’d think is an open goal in her #r4today interview: a chance to distance herself from rival Robert Jenrick’s dubious comments on skin colour. Yet we’ve reached a point in our politics where she, the party’s first Black leader, thinks it necessary to defend ‘Rob’.

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’ Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

The thing is, until someone says ‘no’, they’ll keep pushing the limits.

"Dad likes to post videos of things that aren't real and pretend they are" is usually followed by an earnest discussion of whether it's time to put dad in a memory care ward.

Furloughed Department of Education workers’ out-of-office emails were changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown without their permission.

Why is Trump resorting to such desperate, and likely illegal, tactics?

Because he knows that he’s the one to blame for this shutdown.

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.

It really is amazing how often you can repeat something Trump said verbatim without identifying Trump as the person who said it and Trump supporters will say it’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard.

Beyond Help Ben Wildsmith Keir Starmer’s speech to conference this week was widely praised by the centrist commentariat in the London press. He was, we were told, taking the fight to Nigel Farage at last and…

Starmer is a politician without a constituency. His compromises have repelled Labour support whilst attracting nobody from the right

The USA only ever had 46 Presidents.

What they have now is not a President.

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Many people assume Brits get 2 x 90 days in France each year after Brexit.

But they *only* get that if they stay away from *every* other Schengen country.

Which means no business trips to Germany. No conferences in Brussels, no holidays in Greece, no visiting children living in Spain.
🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇬🇷 🇪🇸

The Government is considering temporary renationalisation of Thames Water

There should be no such thing, renationalise it, and renationalise the rest of Water and Energy too

Hit them with fines, cripple them with taxes, pay them with pennies, like they paid Thatcher for them

Anyone who swore an oath upon entering America's armed forces...who currently supports the Trump administration had sensory limitations on par with Helen Keller when they took that oath. Either that...or they said, "F*ck it," and dumped any silver of moral and ethical standing they once had.

Is there really noone left who dares to say no anymore?
What next?

US Treasurer Brandon Beach has confirmed this is happening. This is what Republicans are working on as the government is shut down.

80% want to reduce support for Israel
74% want an arms embargo
72% say it's a Genocide
65% want sanctions

That's US Democrat voters, imagine what the numbers are in the UK.

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store.

The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

A brave man dies but once. Donald Trump dies every month.