Horrifying. And this person is presumably still at it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 19h ago

Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men

It’s not just that he’s incredibly ignorant, though he is, but that no one can or will tell him. A colossal sucking failure of a whole administration. The complete intellectual and moral collapse of a political philosophy

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 8h ago

He's causing massive damage to the U.S. economy. And at its core, the reason is that he has no idea what he's talking about. He has no idea what a trade deficit is. No clue. He thinks that it's like a business operating at a loss.

“The AfD is not a normal party. It must be understood as a (counter)revolutionary movement trying to change the system from within.”

Friedrich Merz is now on borrowed time. But that’s not why the AfD’s triumph is seismic | Jörg Lau

The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered, says Jörg Lau, an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zei...

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Zack Polanski, Green by-election candidate and party leader, says he wants "to show unconditional solidarity – Zia Yusuf’s comments were despicable". He challenges the Labour government's record on immigration, criticising Keir Starmer, rather than Burnham, and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

The party which has built its brand on combating irregular migration would like you to know that breaking the law is fine as long as no-one is directly harmed

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h ago

Laura Kuenssberg, "Ben Delo has a conviction for what the US Dept of Justice says he didn't establish an anti-money laundering program alongside his crypto business" "Are you relaxed about taking money from someone who has. conviction like that?" Robert Jenrick, "No individuals were harmed"

we've got this technology (with, to be fair, genuine uses & potential) being thrust into every aspect of our lives with no thought at all about what an ethical or regulatory framework for it looks like

Literally doing the ”Say: ‘I’m alive’” meme

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Centre-right protestors march on Rome in October 1922, hoping to snatch a few selfies with local admirers

It’s incredibly important to appreciate that Reform isn’t just a “normal” - if even more racist - political party but one trampling over the most basic norms of democracy and the rule of law, and also to appreciate how badly this fact is being communicated by the legacy media

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.

Here’s some more tittle tattle I received on my WhatsApp and it turns out that [checks phone] the two legacy parties polling >50% between them while the Tories career ever further to the far right is a [squints at emails] return to traditional two-party politics

Burnham and Badenoch revive red versus blue politics as Reform land £36m mega donation

As Reform slip back in the polls, Labour and the Conservatives rediscover a familiar political divide, writes Laura Kuenssberg

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Obviously deeply worrying & should have been banned ages ago, & I don’t want to be complacent, but the BBC & rightwing press have given Reform better publicity than money could ever buy, yet they’re down in the polls & the more most voters see of them, the more they’re motivated to vote against them

Felicity Hannah@felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reform UK has received a second £36m donation in two days, as cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a record-breaking donation announced late on Friday.

Obviously deeply worrying & should have been banned ages ago, & I don’t want to be complacent, but the BBC & rightwing press have given Reform better publicity than money could ever buy, yet they’re down in the polls & the more most voters see of them, the more they’re motivated to vote against them

Felicity Hannah@felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reform UK has received a second £36m donation in two days, as cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a record-breaking donation announced late on Friday.

The Telegraph's scrutiny of overt racism in Restore for the last month is welcome. But its odd for Mr Shipley to call it a "hostile takeover" when overt racists joined *by invitation* on day one + their membership was defended by key party staff + officials, against challenge from within + without

David Shipley@shipleywrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Restore party members and activists have spoken - on condition of anonymity because they are so frightened of their fellow members - of a 'hostile takeover' which risks turning the party into 'a revitalised British National Party' www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f77488c...

It’s incredibly important to appreciate that Reform isn’t just a “normal” - if even more racist - political party but one trampling over the most basic norms of democracy and the rule of law, and also to appreciate how badly this fact is being communicated by the legacy media

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.

Here’s some more tittle tattle I received on my WhatsApp and it turns out that [checks phone] the two legacy parties polling >50% between them while the Tories career ever further to the far right is a [squints at emails] return to traditional two-party politics

Burnham and Badenoch revive red versus blue politics as Reform land £36m mega donation

As Reform slip back in the polls, Labour and the Conservatives rediscover a familiar political divide, writes Laura Kuenssberg

bbc.co.uk

So close and yet The far right's real weapon is the mainstream elite hyping it to distract from the crisis of democracy. It's not rising because it's popular or because immigration is a "legitimate concern", it's rising because it is being built as the only alternative by those currently in power

Just massive, *massive*, amounts of political life in the UK is explained by the extremely bizarre fact that our intelligentsia, political class, and even much of our business elite, feel aching insecure about faiilng to meet some imagined ideal of Authenticity they attribute to the volk.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Think the discourse on “lanyardian” is missing the far crazier part of this, which is that it’s a conversation between two people who now believe that saying “UK” is a weird, Starmer-like affectation. Margaret Thatcher used it, because it is literally the name of our country!

Yes, definitely if I were concerned about “chronic dishonesty” in politics, what I’d do is shovel vanloads of cash in the direction of Reform

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 6mo ago

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

You‘ve got to assume from past experience that most of this will go on “marketing”, “polling” and the like by firms conveniently linked to party insiders and their mates

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Still waiting for some ex BBC presenter to come out and say “I’m in favour of open borders, reparations for colonialism and climate damage, an end to the monarchy, and 100% tax on the mega wealthy, and I couldn’t say this on the BBC”

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d ago

Genuinely baffled as to which of this mix of tedious cliches, right-wing received opinion and inside-the-box thinking, all of it featured ad nauseam in BBC politics programming, he thinks he couldn’t have mentioned while on the Today programme

Radio Four comedy

Screaming Pectoriloquy@caulimovirus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

scary monster man

You‘ve got to assume from past experience that most of this will go on “marketing”, “polling” and the like by firms conveniently linked to party insiders and their mates

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

theguardian.com

Lies and smears from billionaire media barons can't stop our movement. We'll keep building and we'll keep moving forward! join.greenparty.org.uk

The Trumpification of UK politics, stonking levels of blatant corruption

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reform has now taken tens of millions of pounds from crypto billionaires at exactly the same time as promising to legislate to slash taxes on crypto sales in half, potentially saving them hundreds of millions

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I will remind you that all of the pundits unified on the position that the Labour Party taking small donations from members of the public, which secured their finances years in advance, was a terrifying and anti-democratic imposition of minority enthusiasms on the people.

“Why don’t they just stay in France?” update

Hundreds of asylum seekers removed from UK to France have disappeared, say NGOs

Rights groups say those missing after being deported under one in, one out deal include dozens of age-disputed children

theguardian.com

Still waiting for some ex BBC presenter to come out and say “I’m in favour of open borders, reparations for colonialism and climate damage, an end to the monarchy, and 100% tax on the mega wealthy, and I couldn’t say this on the BBC”

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d ago

Genuinely baffled as to which of this mix of tedious cliches, right-wing received opinion and inside-the-box thinking, all of it featured ad nauseam in BBC politics programming, he thinks he couldn’t have mentioned while on the Today programme