Jonathan Kingham
@jonkingh.bsky.social
Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Qué arte tienes.
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Forgot to post this one
![[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf]
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FATHER KEIR:
Well, well, well!
[Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters]
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FATHER KEIR:
Look at all these letters of membership cancellation!
ELF REEVES:
More than ever this year
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[Father Keir reads one out:]
“Dear Father Keir
I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…”
Awww how sweet
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“I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.”
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“Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?”
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FATHER KEIR:
Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we?
Elf Mahmood!
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[Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY]
ELF MAHMOOD:
What.
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FATHER KEIR:
Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left?
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ELF MAHMOOD:
We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…?
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FATHER KEIR:
In the sack, please!
[Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat]
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And off we goooo!
[He wooshes off into the snowy polar night]
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[Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed]
WOMAN:
Is it not what you wanted
MAN:
Not really, no
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January 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Forgot to post this one
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By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.
January 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.
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A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
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I am curious as to who the "stakeholders" are who are preventing the UK government from acting against a white supremacist pornographer?
If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.
January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I am curious as to who the "stakeholders" are who are preventing the UK government from acting against a white supremacist pornographer?
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The yanks have discovered Rentoul. The Yanks Have Discovered Rentoul
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The yanks have discovered Rentoul. The Yanks Have Discovered Rentoul
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Can anyone explain why a man who was sacked, just a few months ago, for sending messages like these, is now being treated as some kind of all-seeing political sage?
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Can anyone explain why a man who was sacked, just a few months ago, for sending messages like these, is now being treated as some kind of all-seeing political sage?
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One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
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This is exactly right and applies to climate as well as immigration policy. There’s a real chance the next UK government could deny climate science, repeal the Climate Change Act, quit the Paris Agreement, axe all clean energy and efficiency policies, and deliver coal mining and fracking projects.
This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Real talk: there's this circle of extremely online weirdos who firmly believe they're on the verge of victory and are going to expel millions of people from Britain.
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is exactly right and applies to climate as well as immigration policy. There’s a real chance the next UK government could deny climate science, repeal the Climate Change Act, quit the Paris Agreement, axe all clean energy and efficiency policies, and deliver coal mining and fracking projects.
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the sheer wildness of eating a filet o fish sandwich for dessert after taking down two enormous burgers at 79 years old aside, this does remind me of one of the all-time great tweets
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM
the sheer wildness of eating a filet o fish sandwich for dessert after taking down two enormous burgers at 79 years old aside, this does remind me of one of the all-time great tweets
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We've been on Mars for two years, twll www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/m...
Musk: We intend to launch people to Mars in 2024
The first SpaceX rocket transporting humans to Marks will launch in 2024, said Musk at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
www.cnbc.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We've been on Mars for two years, twll www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/m...
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Feels like people should start calling out Paul Marshall some time soon
January 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Feels like people should start calling out Paul Marshall some time soon
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This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Real talk: there's this circle of extremely online weirdos who firmly believe they're on the verge of victory and are going to expel millions of people from Britain.
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Yeah it's probably because you're talking about 'English-Jewish relations' and threatening to deport us all if we don't fall in line with your ramblings
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
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This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
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One striking thing to think about is that he daily posts things that would get you fired from any other job if you posted them, even on a personal account.
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
December 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One striking thing to think about is that he daily posts things that would get you fired from any other job if you posted them, even on a personal account.
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The public are nowhere near as consumed with anti-immigrant hatred as the political class believe, but if only one side is making an argument (and has most of the press onside and sets the agenda for the broadcasters) then what do you expect? www.ippr.org/articles/the...
Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR
Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living
www.ippr.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The public are nowhere near as consumed with anti-immigrant hatred as the political class believe, but if only one side is making an argument (and has most of the press onside and sets the agenda for the broadcasters) then what do you expect? www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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The conference speech tried to thread the needle of "fair and managed immigration is not the same as daubing racist abuse on the door of an Indian restaurant" but that seems to have been an outlier.
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The conference speech tried to thread the needle of "fair and managed immigration is not the same as daubing racist abuse on the door of an Indian restaurant" but that seems to have been an outlier.
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This is where "failure to recognise the context" kicks in. At the same time as the authoritarian right are working themselves into a frenzy about Starmer, almost all of his public statements have been designed to appease them and alienate his natural constituency of people who find that repellent
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is where "failure to recognise the context" kicks in. At the same time as the authoritarian right are working themselves into a frenzy about Starmer, almost all of his public statements have been designed to appease them and alienate his natural constituency of people who find that repellent
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Excellent piece on that in the paper recently:
Europe’s second-class citizens
Countries that looked down on the Gulf’s ‘kafala’ system are edging closer to creating their own
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Excellent piece on that in the paper recently:
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General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
![[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5h5jfgi7vuqp4bkfogcntzep/bafkreifigvhyvtmy3mxp2btoxw5gztwrmyujtmpywsraabtjsq6oyrs4gq@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
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"He revelled in the fact that his initials were the same as those of the National Front..."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims
Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"He revelled in the fact that his initials were the same as those of the National Front..."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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Wisdom from the old man
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Wisdom from the old man
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
Nice ‘However’ here in the HO response
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nice ‘However’ here in the HO response
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Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine