Sad news for the voters of Clacton who were hoping Farage would be able to bend the POTUS’ ear about fortnightly bin collections.
09.03.2026 08:29
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Sad news for the voters of Clacton who were hoping Farage would be able to bend the POTUS’ ear about fortnightly bin collections.
Great stuff here. Oakeshott moving to Dubai for tax and lifestyle reasons looks awfully like a migrant (sorry, expat) responding to those “pull factors” that she so derides in the U.K. substack.com/@porteous/no...
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.
There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.
Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.
Must read piece.
'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'
Don't say "men's rights activists".
"Misogynist" will do fine.
This is absolutely brilliant 👏
About to flush. But first, a word from our sponsors.
Is that something to do with @syrpis.bsky.social
But what about international law – continued.
A new post at The Empty City on how Western one-sidedness in what they openly condemn as a breach of international law is neither coherent nor compelling
Personal blog: theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/but-what-a...
I’ve worked abroad my whole adult life and fairness, consistency, ability to bring family, straightforward path to permanent residency / citizenship are deal breakers. If the UK wants high skilled white collar workers then these all matter a lot
10/ Both Brexit and Trumpian trade wars did and will have long term consequences, but the worst case scenarios experts weren't about were avoided because the governments responsible could simply not escalate in the ways that would produce them.
That may not be their choice here.
Yikes.
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Which is why this isn't a useful question to ask. The public don't have a granular knowledge of where public spending goes, because they rightly leave thinking about that to politicians because they have their own lives to live. You're getting an uninformed reckon.
"I moved to one of the most unstable regions in the world, within missile range of an internationally recognized rogue state, to a city built by 'Israelites in Egypt'-esque slave labor. The place where I live depends on every faction in unstable region mutually agreeing to not let shit pop off"
Integration Commission Enforcement has quite the acronym.
The Home Office is a Behaviourist experiment. A Skinner’s Box where, rather than food pellets or electric shocks, kindness is rewarded with angry headlines and cruelty with praise.
Even considering I’m not a very impressive person, the people who run things and the people who talk about the people running things have absolutely decimated my imposter syndrome.
I have a vague childhood recollection of hearing I Know Him So Well and thinking it must be ABBA.
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
The big problem for UK politics is that the differences between Labour, Tories and Reform are merely matters of degree, not matters of substance.
They all agree immigrants are bad.
They all agree universities are pointless.
They all have nothing but contempt for their own voters.
He's not the leader of a populist political movement. He's a start-up entrepreneur playing at that role but funded by billionaire investors who want a particular kind of government at the end of end of the game. Getting a beating for missing a key milestone is part of the job, then you kick down.
It only seems unpopular now because it isn't real Mahmoodism. Real Mahmoodism has never been tried.
One minister said there was “very little appetite” for Mahmood’s approach among cabinet colleagues, with another telling The Observer: “There is a gap emerging [between No 10 and the Home Office] because people have started saying we shouldn’t be doing it, so Shabana has gone public pre-emptively.”
“Wah wah wah!” screech Reform.
Spitting blame and resentment. Come on voters… don’t judge them on how they are when things are going their way. Judge them on how they cope with adversity. They have a wild and monstrous tantrum. Now, imagine that running the country. Unthinkable.
Aww, you beat me to it by seconds. Conceded and congratulations.
This.... eg the discourse on the right suggesting she surely can't be a plumber looking like that
I think this is surely it. Starmer, Reeves, Mahmood presumably don't want a change in direction, and know that they can't credibly be the leaders and face of it, so it's game over for them [or should be!] and they are not quite ready to start writing book pitches.
If only there was some precedent in history of an "unsinkable" ship steering the wrong course at a potential hazard, at high speed, and not listening to warnings about the huge iceberg ahead....
I have experienced a fun variant in the form of a guy who looks and walks like Donkey Kong. He monopolises a specific machine by parking his water bottle next to it, doing a set, then stomping around for minutes between many sets, looking for all the world like he wants someone to throw barrels at.