Jonathan Kingham

Donald Trump bursting into a flamenco class:

It's a common refrain for ministers to note Nigel Farage's absence from the Commons, but the stats do seem to back it up. So far this year he has spoken five times and voted seven times. As a very rough, smaller-party comparison, Ellie Chowns of the Greens has spoken 46 times and voted 24 times.

also worth noting that Mahmood is jetisoning all Labours other voters to keep 1 group happy, the group that hate Labour & will never vote for them.

"Today’s OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up – while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They can’t have it both ways".

A case of you get what you asked for. Labour’s Home Secretary literally said Labour didn’t want these voters, so the voters go elsewhere.
I suspect if you want them back you’d need a different Home Secretary.

Apart from everything else, the timeline here…he rebuilt the military in his first term and then Biden gave it all away but it’s fine because…he rebuilt the military in his first term?

Anyway, this is as good a sign as any that the stockpile is a huge concern.

The UAE is projected to exhaust its interceptor missile stock within one week at the current rate of fire, and Qatar within four days; both are urgently seeking additional military support from the United States. -Bloomberg

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

A shameful, heartbreaking betrayal of our duties as a country that is lucky enough to be on the right side of history and on the lucky side of political geography.
How can the politicians who betray our moral duties look themselves in the eye in the mirror I will never know.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

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Always thought this guy's a prick. Starting to worry he might be genuinely dangerous, an impression only amplified by reading the comments on his substack for the first time and realising that, against all rational expectation, he has a massive fucking fanbase.

You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. Kurtz: Are my methods unsound? Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.

Gonna get a lot of use out of this

Hannah in a green jacket and pink top, with Carla Denyer MP to her right and Ellie Chowns MP on the left. All v colourful.

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons

sorry applications

Yeah I think the Rules will be coming out on Thursday, but there will be an implementation/transitional provision in there re decisions from today. Is my guess

There will have been around 30,000 UK-born and around 6,000 foreign-born *eligible* voters. It is entirely implausible that this is why Reform lost (by 5000). It is plausible it increased the Green majority - probably by about 3000 voters

Updating previous calculations, @refugeecouncil.bsky.social estimates this could mean the Home Office needing to carry out 1.1m reviews in the first decade after they start. That's on top of existing asylum casework and whatever the process for moving onto thework and study protection route will be.

This is unexpectedly difficult. Plenty killed in civil conflicts and revolutions, but not state-on-state assassinations.

Imre Nagy after the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary comes to mind for me but once again, not quite a decapitation

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

Written statement on the asylum changes confirms:

- refugees will get 2.5 years leave instead of 5
- covers people who apply from today
- details of 20 year settlement & core protection to come
- doesn’t apply to unaccompanied children (for now)

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

US intel did not suggest a preemptive strike from Iran before US-Israeli attacks, AP sources say Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S.

Looks like some very senior admin officials lied brazenly to journalists. "Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings Sunday that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike"
apnews.com/article/iran...

Here but excluded remains the worst of all worlds from an integration perspective.

-nervously watching rapidly depleting stock of interceptors all over the region-

"How could we have known Iran might have a lot of Shaheds!?"

I genuinely think she sincerely believes everything she's saying out of some anxiety response to rising racism/fascism and I also think everything she believes in frankly insane and possibly the most unkind reading of Britain by a politician I ever seen

Strong magisterium vibes

'there is a demon that lives underneath Downing Street and possesses every Home Secretary' remains a pretty strong theory tbh

I fear the main victims of Iran’s attacks on the Gulf will be migrant workers, who make up 90% of Qatar’s population and most of that of Dubai. Are there shelters enough for them?

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

This policy is bad for community cohesion.

You don’t build confident, contributing neighbours on rolling 30 month visas. The current 5‑year route is how people plan for the future and fully join our communities.

The Danish model won’t work here.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...