Jonathan Kingham
@jonkingh.bsky.social
Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Qué arte tienes.
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Brilliant piece as usual, and my respect probably increased tenfold by this exchange. Good work. 👏👏
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Brilliant piece as usual, and my respect probably increased tenfold by this exchange. Good work. 👏👏
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The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement:
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement:
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The way that Patten pronounces Farage is now how we all should
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The way that Patten pronounces Farage is now how we all should
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The Telegraph's involvement in all this is kind of interesting when you look at this recent Bonavero Institute report on newspapers misrepresenting ECHR decisions (in quite eye watering ways) and then look at the footnotes. As one senior journalist at that paper rather wins the number of mentions.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Telegraph's involvement in all this is kind of interesting when you look at this recent Bonavero Institute report on newspapers misrepresenting ECHR decisions (in quite eye watering ways) and then look at the footnotes. As one senior journalist at that paper rather wins the number of mentions.
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Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
This could be quite interesting as there is someone from 'Labour Together' there
EVENT | The government's digital ID plan: why now and what for?
📆 Tuesday 18 November, 15:00-16:00
Join us to discuss the problems digital ID would solve and the challenges of implementing the policy www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...
📆 Tuesday 18 November, 15:00-16:00
Join us to discuss the problems digital ID would solve and the challenges of implementing the policy www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This could be quite interesting as there is someone from 'Labour Together' there
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It's surely one of the great tragedies of contemporary Britain that it enjoys enormous soft power through the worldwide respect for the BBC's journalism and for British universities and that the media eco-system demands governments be constantly at war with both.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It's surely one of the great tragedies of contemporary Britain that it enjoys enormous soft power through the worldwide respect for the BBC's journalism and for British universities and that the media eco-system demands governments be constantly at war with both.
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While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up
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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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"The applicability of the Danish Social Democratic strategy to the political situation in the UK is not self-evident. Rather, it serves as a warning that you cannot win over anti-immigration voters without simultaneously losing those who are pro-immigration."
ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
ukandeu.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"The applicability of the Danish Social Democratic strategy to the political situation in the UK is not self-evident. Rather, it serves as a warning that you cannot win over anti-immigration voters without simultaneously losing those who are pro-immigration."
ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
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Good to hear Lee Anderson on PM yesterday saying that he used to sit between Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway, making a "lunatic sandwich". Demonstrating that he either thinks he's a lunatic or doesn't understand the concept of a sandwich. I'm happy to believe either explanation
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Good to hear Lee Anderson on PM yesterday saying that he used to sit between Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway, making a "lunatic sandwich". Demonstrating that he either thinks he's a lunatic or doesn't understand the concept of a sandwich. I'm happy to believe either explanation
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"Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”
the tory proposal to deport 4-7% of the uk population is a fascist one - & we have to call it that
my latest with @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...
my latest with @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...
The Tories’ Dangerous Drift
In the U.K., a shocking proposal from a Conservative MP elicited pushback from her party only belatedly. It signals darker things to come.
www.thebulwark.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”
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only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
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Look, I know ragebait when I see it, okay www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Look, I know ragebait when I see it, okay www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I see that the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change also does not like the 10 year ILR policy..
Other than the Tories and Reform, who else does?
Other than the Tories and Reform, who else does?
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I see that the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change also does not like the 10 year ILR policy..
Other than the Tories and Reform, who else does?
Other than the Tories and Reform, who else does?
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Imagined immigration is shaping our politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Immigration has become the number one political priority for the public. But there is one problem: this immigration is imagined, it doesn't really exist.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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In an only slightly better timeline, we would be in touching distance, globally, of a full transition to renewable energy.
"China can produce almost a terawatt of renewable-energy capacity in a year. That is enough to supply as much energy as more than 300 big nuclear-power plants."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In an only slightly better timeline, we would be in touching distance, globally, of a full transition to renewable energy.
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One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.