This is good.
10.03.2026 01:16
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This is good.
GB News is both broadcasting + clipping "there is a genocide happening in this island" due to immigration and demographic change, by Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former digital campaign adviser to Johnson's Conservatives.
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
I liked him until his attempt at emulating Mamdani (who I love) turned into a cheap tribute act with very little gravitas or nuance.
I can't stand any personality-based worship of politicians. Everyone has policies I dislike, everyone should be criticised, the blind allegiance stuff is so toxic.
remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum
Caravaggio ❤️
I hope she leads the Party ASAP. Not so keen on Zac.
The competence issue matters because what is at stake here is not, as many commentators claim and, no doubt, some political activists and voters hope, that Labour need to respond to the by-election defeat with a ‘lurch to the left’. Setting an immigration policy which is fair, rational, and consonant with economic and demographic needs is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Operating an efficient and humane asylum process is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Making a clear distinction between immigration and asylum policies is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. To think otherwise is to cede the idea that these are somehow ‘extreme’ propositions and that the policies of virtually zero immigration, mass deportation, and the near-total rejection of asylum seekers advocated by Reform and others are the ‘norm’ or ‘moderate’.
As @chrisgrey.bsky.social says, rejecting Mahmood's plans would not be a "lurch to the left" but simply about restoring a basic level of (economic, political and administrative) competence.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
They are despicable.
Or sued into oblivion. Maybe that will happen down the line. I hope so.
The complete indifference the hotel showed. Disgusting.
I feel ill reading that. That poor woman.
"Historians will look back on the origins of this dispute and there will be nothing there for them: no relevant context, no coherent thought process, no series of motivations (...). No Versailles treaty. No hyperinflation. They will just find a black howling vortex of nothing."
BREAKING NEWS: When asked by a reporter if he is qualified to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin replied "I understand your concern. It's true, I have never shot a dog. But I do believe I could kill one with my bare hands, and I am willing to prove this if given the chance."
If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing party’s leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such “poisoning of the wells” is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.
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The poisoning of the wells
Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy
This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Hoping I can stay awake for Berrettini v Mannarino 🤞
On the latest episode of the podcast, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) to discuss the ways that Caravaggio represented his models’ bodies on canvas and what makes his paintings so unnerving.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
⚠️ This ruling leaves British creatives even more vulnerable in an age of AI. The UK and EU should work together to protect creatives intellectual property.
https://creativesunite.eu/article/brexit-trademark-ruling-leaves-british-brands-exposed-in-eu-disputes
In China, there are 26-storey towers - filled with hundreds of thousands of pigs. Now other countries are adopting the same type of "farming" 🤮 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
When I went to Japan years ago, I bought so many beautiful mementos, but I genuinely regret not buying a shed-load of badly translated t-shirts.
She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point
Important elections news via Unlock Democracy:
The government has announced it will repeal controversial Conservative changes that granted ministers a new power to influence the elections’ watchdog. Big win for democracy campaigners.
She's just so stupid
At which point, he will call them all losers.
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.
It's got to hurt
Tell you what Labour ought to notice: It’s a sign of how desperate left-of-centre folk in this land are to hold onto something they consider progressive that they’re prepared to ignore the fact the leader of the party they’ve landed on claimed he could hypnotise women’s tits bigger.
I mean.
"And. if Goodwin truly believes Britair is carved up into irreconcilable sectarian blocs, he should explain how the very voters he derides as Islamists packed a white, working-class woman standing for a party led nationally by Zack Polanski - a Jewish man - in such numbers. That is not the behaviour of a society locked into tribal warfare. but a constituency rejecting the right's attempts to contort multicultural Britain into a series of warring demographics. Voters have refused the invitation to see their neighbours as enemies. It looks. in other words, like a healthy democracy." Zoe Grunewald
This... ⤵️
via @zoegrunewald.bsky.social
#GortonAndDenton
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
