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2016: Nigel Farage - "Vote Brexit to secure our borders"

2026: Zia Yusuf - "Vote Reform to secure our borders"

We are being treated as mugs

#PoliticsLive

Reform adopts US-style Christian Nationalist platform, pledges 'patriotic' Christian curriculum

Most of us in Britain aren’t Christian in our beliefs, practices, or identity.

The only basis for national identity in our country is around the shared values and institutions of our plural society.

Christian Nationalism is a divisive dead end.

humanists.uk/2026/02/23/d...

My favourite Concorde story: A lawyer I know was then very junior, on a big inheritance dispute case. Transatlantic family. Their client discovered the other side was flying to London, with the intent of clearing out some very expensive art from the London home...

BREAKING: Australian PM Anthony Albanese has written to Keir Starmer expressing his government’s support to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from the line of succession

Universal Basic Jobs (For The Young) If there aren't enough local jobs, we can just create them

What’s our most important policy you’ve never heard of?

Let me introduce… Universal Basic Jobs (for young people).

jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/universal-...

He was pleased he upset her , he does seem to have a problem with women .

Accept Britain is not a Christian Country so we can work Towards Real Equality When people talk of growing 'diversity' in the context of religion or belief in Britain, they're usually speaking in a sort of code. For many, recognising diversity is a byword for widening participat...

Just over ten years ago I wrote this on what we could do next after accepting Britain is not a Christian country. Ten years later we're back arguing over the basic premise and the party leading the polls is threatening to take us backwards. We can't allow it! andrewcopson.com/2015/12/acce...

#Humanist values are the answer.

@humanists.uk @newhumanist.bsky.social @humanismedu.bsky.social

Nicely done! 🤣

congratulations to all our Winter Olympics medallists, especially ex-prince Andrew, who won gold in the skeletons

Andrew charged taxpayers for massage services when trade envoy, claim ex-civil servants Whistleblower former civil servants claim there was too little scrutiny of Andrew's costs as UK trade envoy.

Doesn't look like this story is going to have a happy ending for Andrew.

Is there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z? A fierce debate is taking place about whether there really has been a revival in Christianity.

Claims that Britain is the midst of a 'spiritual revival' are fatally undermined by a wealth of evidence. The British Social Attitudes Survey, YouGov's British Election Study, and even Church of England and Catholic Church data all point to the same thing – decline.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don't mistake the promotion of Christian nationalism as merely a dog whistle to anti-Muslim voters (though it is that foul thing too). Many of these guys really believe in a re-Christianised state and society. Bad news is UK's existing Christian constitution gives them an easy way to do it in power.

Hull MP rebuts Councillor's social media fury following abortion vote The MP said there had been "some confusion" surrounding the vote

This women? Was RefUK but now independent? www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-ea...

If we want to inoculate ourselves against future Christian nationalist takeover then we need to take action now: end the heritage Christian parts of our state, from church establishment to Christian privilege, and build a inclusive national culture on our shared values and institutions.

"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries

Nigal Farage is setting out his migration plans, which would involve retrospectively removing permanent UK residency for hundreds of thousands of non-European people, arguing this the only way to defeat a "really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism".

Anti-abortion theologian James Orr, appointed Reform UK’s policy head on Tues, sees asylum seekers as “invaders,” diversity as a “debilitating weakness” & the Ukraine war as a “regional Slavic conflict.” He’s tight with Jordan Peterson and obsessed with stamping out “wokery” on university campuses.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl.

If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

Andrew 'had 40 sex workers brought to five-star hotel' in just four days Andrew Mountbatten Windsor had 40 prostitutes brought to him over four days on a taxpayer-funded trip to Thailand, a historian has shockingly claimed

Hard working royals earning respect for our country through their unique soft power.

God we are so lucky to have them.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

A black and white cat lying in a box, although not much of the black is visible

I have nothing of value or interest to say so here is an idiot in a box

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Nominal Christianity below half at the 2021 census, for first time, more due to no religion than rise in minority faith

England + Wales
Christian 46% (-13)
No religion 37% (+12)
Muslim 6.5% (+1)
Hindu <2%
Sikh 1%
Jewish 0.5%
Wales: no religion 46%, Christian 43%
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Absolutly, it seems linked to identity.

Our poll shows that the constant drum beat against immigration by right wing media and politicians - has gaslit the British public, who think immigration is still rising and that small boat crossings via the Channel are the main route.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

She has always voted Tory and will do so again . Luckily Tory will likely be the anti reform tactical vote in her area

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

So then... here's some good news!

“I’m not swimming 100 miles again because you think you can smell blood”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

There was a critical mass of normie (left/centre left) UK journalism / politics twitter moving across here en masse in a weekend, with lots of starter pack action.

Not everyone stuck around and not everyone quit X, but it's given UK bluesky a v different feel from American bluesky.