Suspect this has a lot to do with him being de-selected by his local party in favour of an Asian woman.
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Suspect this has a lot to do with him being de-selected by his local party in favour of an Asian woman.
Coming soon: Shabana Mahmood and Wes Streeting, two of Labour's more prominent trans-haters, combine to proscribe protests against JK Rowling under the Terrorism Act.
Farage: "It's perfectly reasonable to say that if you've known somebody — not just met once, but known for 10yrs [...] — it's pretty reasonable to say that surely you must have known something wasn't quite right."
This isn't getting nearly enough attention!
Via @bonafideyt.bsky.social
I actually don't have words as to how angry I am.
Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021.
UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.
Trump is having to be reminded that when you threaten an EU member on trade, in this case Spain, the EU comes to your defence.
That's one of the key perks of being part of a bloc which negotiates trade as one cohesive unit: nobody can pull you out of the pack and savage you.
A lot better than the present shit show!
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibu6vuc7ofetq5hla3gfcknocotbfl3yk2ajczk6qfd2hnjxrav6q)
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
Quite literally fake news.
BREAKING: Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid has said 'she is not part of her husband's business activities' after he was arrested on suspicion of spying for China
🗣️ 'I have never been to China. I have never spoken on China or China related matters in the Commons'
Somehow my post from this morning has turned into my best performing piece on Bearly Politics to date - which leads me to conclude that either:
1. You guys missed me!
Or,
2. People really, really dislike Isabel Oakeshott.
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And if people think things can never get better than why would they stick with the status quo, they will become more willing to roll the dice on something new entirely and further driving the rise of 'burn it all down' sentiment.
In his speech today Andy Burnham cited our poll finding that record numbers now think the cost of living crisis will never end.
Totally right imo it is 'code red' - it's not just that life is too hard for too many at the moment - but people have also lost hope it will get better
How can we trust a health secretary who trashes commitments on our data and blows a hole in patient trust?
https://goodlaw.social/1i14
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
need to be clear that by keeping Starmer until May even though almost all of them know he's not up to it, Labour MPs are basically sacrificing hundreds of councillors and dozens of councils on the altar of their own inertia and ineptitude
Polish PM Donald Tusk, "EU membership is a success story for my country"
"I am really happy that the EU is still attractive to many countries"
"I've heard so many comments that Europe is close to collapse, it's not true"
"It's still the best place in the world"
Why is Gorton and Denton so unpredictable? Some quotes from our focus groups there. All the national attention has if anything just amplified the confusion. Mostly Green-Labour tactical paralysis but we’ve found Green-Reform waverers who just want something new and Lab-Reform too
Yes, widening who may have standing to challenge procurement processes would be a practical improvement in transparency and democracy.
Stephen Gethins MP is right - it has been reported that the majority of the public want to rejoin the EU, and it’s time for the Government to listen. Our future lies in Europe, not just aligning with them.
Iceland's Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir explains why Iceland want to join the European Union:
"Iceland has a lot to bring to the European Union"
"We've developed our resources in a positive way"
"We have a good welfare system"
"We have solid values"
"And we have respect for one another"
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.
As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
this story about Josh Simons commissioning a firm to investigate how the Sunday Times in 2023 knew about Labour Together's opaque financing is a bit weird when...
....it had literally been fined *two years earlier* by the Electoral Commission, but we all missed the significance of it at the time
oh yeah, you can *totally* stay on X and organically alter the discourse sure Jan dot gif
Hitachi unveils 13-ton battery-electric excavator capable of 24/7 operation
interestingengineering.com/innovation/h...
Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers
No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office
Agreed, not sure how this would work (though will wait for the UQ to find out).
Ultimately, this is a political issue - no system or rulebook can sort it out, it has to be done politically, which means the PM and team need to make a judgement
NEW
Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards
Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column
emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...
Even if we question what we are being told, we do not expect much to be done about it. So we either accept that or – increasingly – switch off from it altogether. We detach and protect. We allow the contempt that power wields to make us powerless – not only through the structures we must live in, but in our sense of ourselves.
I see so much of this—people shutting out politics because they feel helpless. The politicians are fine with that, because it lightens their responsibility, takes the spotlight off their weaknesses or criminal behavior.
