え、なんで〜？！勿体無い
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
え、なんで〜？！勿体無い
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Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
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My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
Alas, all very predictable
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Alas, all very predictable
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Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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Literally the rhetoric that saw Enoch Powell lose his job amidst overwhelming cross-party condemnation FIFTY-SEVEN years ago, and yet this expatriate immigrant gets to pontificate in a national newspaper from a country where strict Islamic law actually does remain in place.
Do better Britain. FFS.
Do better Britain. FFS.
October 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Literally the rhetoric that saw Enoch Powell lose his job amidst overwhelming cross-party condemnation FIFTY-SEVEN years ago, and yet this expatriate immigrant gets to pontificate in a national newspaper from a country where strict Islamic law actually does remain in place.
Do better Britain. FFS.
Do better Britain. FFS.
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Thinking big picture, do we need a new social contract for an globalised ageing society?
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Thinking big picture, do we need a new social contract for an globalised ageing society?
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I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.
October 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.
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‘Integration’ means contributing to this country’s prosperity, unity & equity. It means loving it enough to be champions of connection across the rich diversity of its people. That certainly doesn’t apply to those stirring prejudice & division. They do so for their own selfish gain. Shame on them.
October 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
‘Integration’ means contributing to this country’s prosperity, unity & equity. It means loving it enough to be champions of connection across the rich diversity of its people. That certainly doesn’t apply to those stirring prejudice & division. They do so for their own selfish gain. Shame on them.
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There is I think a sort of liberal comfort belief that the system is self-correcting; if the right does something bad then there will be an equal and opposite reaction restoring order. You see this a lot as a reaction to lots of things Trump does or proposes and… the belief just isn’t true!
![Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.
[quoting the post below]
A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.
So, on balance…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kc4iodwrwf3vsopm6lx6xktg/bafkreicisoc3vzvddcvt6xuvcwux2fpdyuklew3uopki2kpesme2et6nje@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There is I think a sort of liberal comfort belief that the system is self-correcting; if the right does something bad then there will be an equal and opposite reaction restoring order. You see this a lot as a reaction to lots of things Trump does or proposes and… the belief just isn’t true!
Media personalities who facilitate the rise of the far-right by framing their policy as ‘legitimate concerns of the people’, or refuse to use the word ‘fascist’ really need to familiarise themselves with Arendt’s concept of ‘the banality of evil’, and rediscover their role as guardians of democracy
One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Media personalities who facilitate the rise of the far-right by framing their policy as ‘legitimate concerns of the people’, or refuse to use the word ‘fascist’ really need to familiarise themselves with Arendt’s concept of ‘the banality of evil’, and rediscover their role as guardians of democracy
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One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
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Oli Dugmore, "A word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government"
"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"
"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oli Dugmore, "A word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government"
"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"
"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"
Hence , any white capitalist person who professes a desire to move to the UAE is a major red flag for me—signals a lack of empathy for the less privileged; shallow, materialist greed; and lack of awareness of ’white privilege’
The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
October 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hence , any white capitalist person who professes a desire to move to the UAE is a major red flag for me—signals a lack of empathy for the less privileged; shallow, materialist greed; and lack of awareness of ’white privilege’
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So it turns out the main council expenditure *wasn't* in fact the Diversity and Inclusion training budget?
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So it turns out the main council expenditure *wasn't* in fact the Diversity and Inclusion training budget?
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The “people who vote for Reform are dependent on the services Reform leaders want to cut” problem strikes again.
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The “people who vote for Reform are dependent on the services Reform leaders want to cut” problem strikes again.
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I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
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馬と鹿（高市早苗テーマ）
YouTube video by トーイツ戦線
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Magnificent peroration to Simon Schama’s @financialtimes.com weekend essay on defending freedom of speech in the era of Trump - with help from Milton, Jefferson et al.
on.ft.com/4gSqvDw Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
on.ft.com/4gSqvDw Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Magnificent peroration to Simon Schama’s @financialtimes.com weekend essay on defending freedom of speech in the era of Trump - with help from Milton, Jefferson et al.
on.ft.com/4gSqvDw Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
on.ft.com/4gSqvDw Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
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Only piece of evidence the piece offers for its contention is that at present, only 34% of people think Farage is a racist.
Any chance that could that be because every major figure in British public life desperately avoids calling him that and instead waxes poetic about his 'legitimate concerns?'
Any chance that could that be because every major figure in British public life desperately avoids calling him that and instead waxes poetic about his 'legitimate concerns?'
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Only piece of evidence the piece offers for its contention is that at present, only 34% of people think Farage is a racist.
Any chance that could that be because every major figure in British public life desperately avoids calling him that and instead waxes poetic about his 'legitimate concerns?'
Any chance that could that be because every major figure in British public life desperately avoids calling him that and instead waxes poetic about his 'legitimate concerns?'
However the joke is on us the UK electorate for voting for this liar. Again and again
Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
However the joke is on us the UK electorate for voting for this liar. Again and again
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Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
The BBC also needs to take a hard look at itself in shying away from criticising the far right’s xenophobic agenda, for fear of not being seen as ‘impartial’. Being impartial doesn’t mean that clear moral wrongs can’t be called out, and xenophobic attitudes ≠ ‘the people’s legitimate concerns’
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The BBC also needs to take a hard look at itself in shying away from criticising the far right’s xenophobic agenda, for fear of not being seen as ‘impartial’. Being impartial doesn’t mean that clear moral wrongs can’t be called out, and xenophobic attitudes ≠ ‘the people’s legitimate concerns’
This is all very true, but in an age where subscription to newspapers is falling, and people are seemingly hooked on instant access to ’news’ (verified or not) on social media, how will serious media survive? We could limit Farage’s airtime, but this is the long term challenge we need to think about
The truth is Farage has 'hacked' the political-media system so is able to fill large chunks of it unchallenged. He has twigged its need for gossip, clicks and 'column inches', and so exploits this.
The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.
The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.
'Today, Nigel Farage said that all mice are gay and they're from space. We ask experts whether there is any truth in the claims'.
September 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is all very true, but in an age where subscription to newspapers is falling, and people are seemingly hooked on instant access to ’news’ (verified or not) on social media, how will serious media survive? We could limit Farage’s airtime, but this is the long term challenge we need to think about