Rob Connell

Screenshot of BBC headline "Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave UK" - 5 March 2026

Screenshot of the Guardian headline "BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010

"Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to £40,000 to leave the UK under a trial scheme announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood"

Sounds familiar

"BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010

As they should.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) quote about The Velvet Underground, that not many actually saw them live at the time, but most of those who did started their own bands.
While I'm a huge fan, I saw them at Glastonbury in '93, & wasn't impressed, while Lou Reed was pretty good in '92.

Stray Cats - Drink That Bottle Down YouTube video by LittleBopper96

Contradictory refrain giving what we just spoke about, but this is probably my favourite ever live recording.
Wish I'd seen Brian Setzer in the flesh.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhZ...

Well done, and don't feel that anything short of abstinence isn't valuable. As a society, many of us drink more than we should, and for me, it's about who's in charge: You, or the drink.
In my 20s I drank at least 3 nights a week, and then 2. Now usually 1. Don't let purity be the enemy of progress.

Americans.
You don't do yourself any favours by crying about unemployment or "the price of gas" being what will bring the Trump administration down, while your government commits war crimes abroad and builds fascism at home.
This incredible self-centredness is the problem.
Read the planet.

This is, of course, something that is applied to the SNP as well. From blithe assertions that independence is just the same as Brexit, to Lammy calling the SNP a "national security threat", to baseless smears (usually from the profoundly ignorant) that Scottish nationalists are in league with Putin.

Okay, enough. Look, the centre-right are going to be the centre-right, that's completely unsurprising to me. I don't expect the Economist to like Polanski.

But this shit is just dangerous. It is asserting that what is at the end of the day a democratic party is akin to literal neofascists.

Thanks for that, but I fully appreciate how bad things got under Tories.
It's not that I don't understand, we disagree.
I think Labour are making precious little improvement & making some things worse, you think they're doing all the good they can.
Seems likely we want different things from govt.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

One of them is Fiona Bruce.

a poll shows that only eight percent of UK public support going to war with Iran alongside Trump.

only 8%.

yet nearly all of the UK media are screaming from the rooftops about how we must join the war.

this tells you a lot about the extreme right-wing bias of the UK media.

🤣

Thumper Ritchie

Only way to do this is to destroy & replace FIFA.

Starmer sticking to his principles of supporting Israel, defending/excusing/minimising US aggression, condemning Iran for retaliation & self-defence, and offering British bases to be used for some killing now, and maybe more later.

It's like when the fascist Oswald Mosley's grandson, who Palantir hired to run its UK operations, appeared on Laura Kuenssberg wearing a black T-shirt.

None of this is accidental: it's all answering the question, 'what message do I want to send?' 'Fascism to immigrants' is the message Mahmood does.

The 'freedom loving' US is now killing as many Iranians a day as the 'terrorist' Iran Government executed in a year.

Do you see the terrorist yet?

Trump is threatening to militarily attack and invade Spain, an EU and NATO member, for refusing to take part in the US and Israel illegal war in Iran.

Orders all trade with Spain to be cut in revenge.

“If we want, we can just fly in and use it. Nobody is going to tell us not to use it”

This is a fact that needs to be hammered home: given the choice between working with Reform or working with the SNP, Labour will choose Reform.

The Diplomat - Scottish Independence YouTube video by Thats Life But Not As We Know It

🍊🦍🇺🇸Now that the Mango Mussolini has gone Batsh1t Warmonger, we should wake up to just how vulnerable we are with 260 Nuclear Warheads at Faslane/Coulport, just 25 miles as the radioactive particle flies from Glasgow city centre ☢️

Indy to get Trump’s Nukes out of Scotland!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

youtu.be/fTMjBMWIWJQ?...

Trump's during an Oval Office meeting on March 3, 2026 stated.

"And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it. But we don't have to."
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We are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap across the Highlands and Islands, delivering real savings. Just two examples:

📍 Wick-Inverness, £31 down to £2.
📍 Elgin-Inverness, £15.60 ➡️ £2.

And we are protecting free bus travel for under-22s, over-60s and disabled people.

Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.

Any media outlet using the word “pre-emptive” rather than “unprovoked” is doing the work of these rogue nations in legitimising their illegal war.

The media is complicit. #BBC

Fucking hate with a passion self-described "expats" living in Gulf States like Saudi Arabia built on modern-slave labour, that oppress, brutalise and execute their own people whilst funding proxy wars and genocides around them, who go on about these being "amazing, super safe places to live"

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

What an utterly disgusting and dangerous front page from the Mail today. Surely by now everyone can see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities and migrants to gain support. Everyone it seems except the Mail

Only thing I'd disagree with is the idea that Starmer would have opposed this war a few years ago.
Same as the rest of his pledges, he hasn't changed his mind: He lied to get into the position he is, and what he is now has always been him.

I don't want a UK government subservient to a deranged maniacal US President and administration.
Its time for the UK to make a stand, not fold like a cheap seat.