Story that keeps happening 1. Scandal breaks out involving someone with obvious bad vibes 2. Colleagues and admirers circle the wagons 3. Another revelation 4. Doubling down intensifies for some reason 5. Damning no-way-back career-wrecking revelation 6. “But how could we have known?”
I haven't seen anything from this man nor from Badenoch acknowledging, never mind apologising to, Luciana Berger. And the Board of Deputies has declined to meet him, which should tell you everything about how victims of his pure evil feel about his "rehabilitation". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
bbc.co.uk
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
Feeling a bit sad for all the right-wing Jews who will struggle to vote Tory after Bonehead-gate.
Seeing Jews as an abstraction, not as actual people, is a key part of the antisemitic mindset.
Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4h agoI have read Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s blogpost from April entitled “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite -and How I Escaped It”. It’s a fascinating account of being consumed by hateful, extremist ideology. You know what’s not in there? An apology. To Luciana Berger or the wider Jewish community
It’s time to act. And when we do we won’t just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown - but we will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive - and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come.
Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 7h agoZack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast
Another day of non-Jews in and connected to the Green Party telling Jews who is and isn't a Jew. #antisemitism
If you’re working with your Meta pervert glasses on, don’t forget that looking at passwords shares them with Meta. I know the immediate solution is to use a password manager, and I’ll never not recommend that, but how about not wearing your pervert glasses?
I urge you to watch this. Polanski comes across with crystal clarity and dare I say it? Leadership. The firefighter who spoke was particularly powerful www.youtube.com/live/bsTXZ2V...
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Greens in City Hall, making our councils stand up for minorities under threat from the billionaire backed "for women Scotland" 🍾🍷
Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · yesterdayI’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]
![Letter to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Code of Practice for Service
providers, Public Functions and Associations
I am writing following our conversation at Mayor’s Question Time (12 June 2026) where I raised concerns about the distress and anxiety trans Londoners tell me they are feeling following the publication of the revised Code of Practice for service providers and associations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
You told me that your “priority is to ensure London remains a city where everyone, regardless of gender identity, can thrive, feel safe and belong.” [1]
You'll be aware that this week, on 5 August 2026, the Government's updated EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect, following an order from the Minister for Women and Equalities.
Trans led organisations, such as Trans Actual, have maintained that the Code remains unworkable; it does not protect trans people, it does not help service providers and it does not respect the UK’s human rights obligations. [2]
Despite cross party condemnation, with 166 MPs signing Early Day Motion (EDM) 240,
tabled by Nadia Whittome MP, in an effort to halt this discriminatory guidance, there has
been no debate in Parliament.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment admits that this code of practice would have wide-ranging negative impacts on Trans people and that Trans women could face a "disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault.” [3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y72k4zijlsi47z7wk262cv24/bafkreifzyqhohvnimtn7f55trm54cbxvwqcjjxkmdfuq74twtvtyacufaq)
Printers are always a vexed subject, but tank inkjet printers are actually wonderful. Incredibly reliable (in my expereince) and can make photo-quality prints for next to nothing. I still prefer a laser printer for text.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
I'm fascinated by this new form of PR that's emerged with LLM companies where they leak stories like 'our product spontaneously assembled an army of domestic appliances & announced it would exterminate the lowly hairless apes - we barely managed to pull the plug' to imply it's really powerful
Can we just, you know, stop very, very rich people fucking things up, where things include – but are very much not limited to – the moon?
He has spoken about his past as a former extremist & warning about antisemitism. But there are potential elements of the patterm of some "formers" swinging erratically between different types of extremism, identifying as counter-extremists + using similar methods www.channel4.com/news/unmaske...
Unmasked: Man behind satirical ‘Crewkerne Gazette’ AI videos is convicted far right racist – exclusive
The key figure behind the Crewkerne Gazette has been identified by Channel 4 News as Joshua Bonehill-Paine.
channel4.com
The general principle should be that every member of a political party is in principle is considered at least decent enough to be the party leader.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 13h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
If this person has reformed then that is a great thing. But regardless, you don't get to hold any public office or position of trust with a record like this, ever. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
So the Reform plan is for Royal Marines to dump channel crossers back on French territory. Without French consent, if necessary. Presumably this would be a crime under French law. So we'd end up with Singapore-esque scenes of British forces being marched off to jail.
Morocco applied to join the EU in 1987, but was refused on the basis that it was not considered to be a European country: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco...
Morocco–European Union relations - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The Jewish sage was born in the city in the 1130s; the statue, created in the 1960s, has become a key tourist site
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba defaced with a swastika
The Jewish sage was born in the city in the 1130s; the statue, created in the 1960s, has become a key tourist site
jewishnews.co.uk
I wonder how many presumed Green Party supporters have to point out in the replies that Zack is peddling naked misinformation here before he does the decent thing and (once again) deletes the post.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d agoVery disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
The flip side of "don't trust the mainstream media" is "don't screenshot a headline from the BBC and think that it tells the full story". As many people have shown in the replies, Burnham did say he'd work on safe routes. It says so in the third paragraph: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings
The PM says enforcement is being increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.
bbc.co.uk
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d agoVery disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
Any idea when the BBC starting calling a ballot paper a "ballot list"? Is British English part of their vocabulary?
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉@paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 3d agoThe #ClactonByElectionFarce has the record as the longest ballot in British electoral history, costing four times as much to print than regular ballot papers.. Farage’s attempt to dodge Parliamentary investigation into his dodgy £5 million & avoid accountability is costing taxpayers over £250,000
