Jonathan Kingham

Interesting result: Brexit increased immigration in the UK.

Few points:
- Non-EU immigration was increased by the Tories out of necessity. otherwise the economic shock was too high. This was not an oversight.

- The undercurrent here was a deep hostility towards EU and all Europeans...

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Now hear me out, but I’m just beginning to think it may have been an error to appoint a deranged, narcissistic, psychopathic, criminal, sex offender, reality TV star on the run from justice with dementia to the highest political office in the world. Twice.

hello I'm mental

With the enshittification of everything technological that I once loved, the appeal of all things analog and offline is getting irresistible…

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Happy international women's day.

This is protecting women & girls brigade, harassing a woman.

The police need to follow up on this targeted harassment.

I hope MP Hannah Spencer gets home to a nice brew after a nightmare day.

Weird that protesters aren't filling the streets when the streets are being bombed and the sky is black at noon

our deep concern is that the people arriving on small boats have links to the Iranian regime? 😁 Tice, you transparent, disengenuous toad. We weren't born yesterday.

YouTube video by LBC Lewis Goodall: 'You would welcome Iranians on small boats?'

A reminder that if you back regime change (morally) you ought to accept the likely consequences. www.youtube.com/shorts/Uuber...

Lam is a "standout performer"

Her breakthrough moment was eye-catching language to make media spot that the Conservatives had published a bill several months earlier pledging to deport 5% of the population - so that they had to ditch that legislation + policy
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tehran is a modern metropolis the size of London, full of ordinary people just like you and me. It seems stupid to even say it, but still it's worth being deliberate and insistent about it because the whole we consume news functions to make us forget it, even in all its obviousness

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

10 years negotiating the criminalization of ecocide, endless academic discussions about its definition and requirements, meanwhile the most powerful army in the world doesn’t care that intentionally hitting oil refineries can poison a city of 9 million people and the environment. It’s infuriating.

I did not know this and have been not eating them for ages. Thanks!

The competence issue matters because what is at stake here is not, as many commentators claim and, no doubt, some political activists and voters hope, that Labour need to respond to the by-election defeat with a ‘lurch to the left’. Setting an immigration policy which is fair, rational, and consonant with economic and demographic needs is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Operating an efficient and humane asylum process is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Making a clear distinction between immigration and asylum policies is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. To think otherwise is to cede the idea that these are somehow ‘extreme’ propositions and that the policies of virtually zero immigration, mass deportation, and the near-total rejection of asylum seekers advocated by Reform and others are the ‘norm’ or ‘moderate’.

As @chrisgrey.bsky.social says, rejecting Mahmood's plans would not be a "lurch to the left" but simply about restoring a basic level of (economic, political and administrative) competence.

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...

In 1 week, US & Israel shattered at least 5 core liberal int’l order rules of engagement:

- Assassinating chief executive
- Targeting a school
- Destroying freshwater supplies (Qeshm)
- Bombing civilian energy (Tehran refinery)
- Invoking religious crusade (“Armageddon”)

What else am I missing??

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

is the phrase 'lethal autonomy without human authorization' good? it doesn't sound good.

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

I think it is absolutely disgraceful that @mattrodda.bsky.social simply ignores his constituents when they wish to raise such important issues, and I am not giving up on it.

One of the neighbouring MPs, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social at least does occasional open meetings with constituents. She also spoke out against the non-transitional effect in a Westminster Hall debate.

That is really bad that he is ignoring you. I don’t think he even does surgeries any more. As far as I can see he stopped them in around 2020.

Never heard it at the time but just bought the vinyl unmixed version. Absolute belter

Are you or is a family member directly affected by the proposals?

Israel attacked UN forces in Lebanon. It’s nowhere near the first time either.

This is a great thread. So much political commentary of the past couple of years has been plain wrong.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say — The Washington Post The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

High Court Grants Permission to Challenge Home Office ‘Good Character’ High Court Grants Permission to Challenge Home Office ‘Good Character’ Policy for British Citizenship

The team working on this are Toufique Hossain, Jeremy Bloom, Ben Nelson, Kristen Allison and Thomas Munns.

Counsel instructed are Alex Goodman KC and Charles Bishop of Landmark Chambers.

More on this challenge here ▶️ buff.ly/MbZpM4P

The Home Office have advised me to contact the Home Office Analysis and Insight Team with this inquiry about what the government's calculation of its own policy is. So I have done that. Have asked No 10 about whether/when it will be retracted too.