James Graham

By complete coincidence, this is precisely how Nick Clegg built his political career. Wild.

See, now I’m thinking Dolly must have been Borrowing, a la Granny Weatherwax!

But also, how middle class are you if you believe that an ID scheme isn’t compulsory if it only applies to the proles?

Says a man in a party full of transphobes.

You have to use more than facts to make an informed decision; history, reasoning and experience also play a role @fullfact.org recognises none of that here and have just produced an article that people with dishonest intentions can use to dunk on anyone using lax terminology.

The original Blair policy was to use it for everything, and you can bet the TBI will be using their vast resources to lobby for the ID scheme to be widened as far as possible, and it will be hard for the government to resist that calls once the infrastructure is put in place.

This article does highlight the limitations of fact checking. Sure, “only” people wanting to work will have to use it when the scheme is introduced, but are we really meant to believe that once (some of) the kinks are ironed out it won’t be introduced more widely?

this needs to happen more regularly.

famous, and rich, ppl need to be told they can't buy their way out of things.

The Leave campaign – Nigel Farage included – called for more non-EU migration to Britain You'd never know it from the debate on immigration today, but: In 2016, the official Vote Leave campaign actively advocated for more immigra...

Sam Bright reminds us that "every element of the Brexit campaign advocated for more non-white immigration – including Nigel Farage".

The Met keeping us safe from serious crime.

#WarRavagedPortland

Disputin

Gotta be a less dystopian way to put this

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

No, it’s the place where you are allowed to stream toilet rolls.

it should be illegal to park a lime bike on a public pavement BUT it should be legal to park a lime bike anywhere a car can be parked

That would be. Just. Awful.

There may be unforeseen costs to downgrading our understanding of the national language

Absolutely loving this as a humblebrag. It might be the best one I’ve ever seen.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The thing that is really being "replaced" is money.

Things we owned - infrastructure, property, land... - are being handed over to foreigners.

That's how we are losing our country

Brexit made us poorer and speeded this up.

Those selling our country deflect & distract by pointing at brown people.

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

a woman with a surprised look on her face is standing in front of a plane ALT: a woman with a surprised look on her face is standing in front of a plane

Finally saw Game Night, and now I have my reaction gif for when Trump kicks the bucket.

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Fantasy author: In my book, I invented CMOT Dibbler’s Torment Sausages as a cautionary tale
Kemi Badenoch: At long last we will introduce CMOT Dibbler’s Torment Sausages to every school meal!