"The Home Office has identified a new problem with migrant care workers. The people presented as a burden on Britain because they earn too little have become so indispensable that they must be prevented from finding a better or higher-paid job." ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...

Unaffordable? No, indispensable. The government tries to move the goalposts for care workers - UK in a changing Europe

Jonathan Portes argues that the government has flipped from treating migrant care workers as a problem to presenting them as a necessity,...

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"Datacentres ultimately have very little benefit for others except the datacentre operator.” I just asked the government in #HouseofLords HOW MUCH of these technologies we can afford? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

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This is a non story. The police chief cites actual figures. Farage challenges actual figures. Farage has no basis for doing this. Why did the BBC run this?

Jenrick: “No one has done more than Nigel Farage to stand up against racism and the far right” Farage has exploded a brexity, anti-immigration, small boats, mass-deportations, ICE-style cruelty, riots and racism bomb on the UK and now stands back and tells us only he can fix the damage he’s caused.

Jackdaw will not bring down bills or protect jobs. This is an irresponsible decision from a government that seems to care more about the profits of fossil fuel companies than the money in your pocket or the safety of our planet.

Maybe when Trump breaks the law, the press should stop framing it as a "feud" between Trump and the judge overseeing the case.

Vile people getting ever viler

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

As Lowe responds to France by proposing Restore would denaturalise + deport UK-born citizens whose parents were migrants, Craig Houston (Glasgow-based YouTuber + Restore Britain member) thanks Lowe for a policy that he believes would + should see the former First Minister Humza Yousaf deported.

Do they not have libel laws in the States? Claiming someone in a very public position is a jihadist, with NO evidence, is surely actionable? Leaving aside the breath-taking arrogance and basic rudeness of the rest of this ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "This guy is a jihadist. Mohammed El-Sayed. He said 'my name is not Mohammed.' I said, 'I'm the President of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.'"

``They call him ..." Nope. Just you, using this childish and offensive name-calling as a substitute for actually, you know, discussing issues of concern to the American people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Talafreako. He's a vegetarian. My wife corrected me. I was calling it veygan. I know nothing about that. I don't like eating a piece of celery for dinner. I don't like, 'I'll have a piece of lettuce.'"

Social care reform is back on the agenda. We outline a model for a fairer system in England, including universal access to support, a cap on care costs, national funding, consistent assessments and clearer entitlements. The aim: equal access, wherever you live. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rWLWZP

It's not a bug, it's a feature

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · last wk.

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · last wk.

The "red wall" is not a term you hear often these days

As two major government reviews into “welfare” are set to finally report back, the right wing press are not even hiding their attempts to shape the reforms. The Left needs to get ready. My col. in today’s paper on Britain’s big benefits debate: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances Ryan

The prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce fairness to the system. He has to seize the moment, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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As a lawyer I am a bit confused by this strategy. "Our product is so damn dangerous it might just self-reproduce like a virus and get out of control." You know that you are producing this, so YOU are to blame, right?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices

A strange day indeed when Nigel Farage (yes, *that* Nigel Farage) is happily lecturing us on the perils of anti-semitism ...

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editors let Nigel Farage write for the Jewish Chronicle. Nigel Farage. A man who got a standing ovation from Nazis (www.dw.com/en/nigel-far...) before they were mainstream. What a shameful day.

Farage distancing himself from Jenrick’s comments, but no apology, no sanction, and every time the ratchet turns a little further towards the normalisation of fascism and bloodshed

Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim

Party leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats

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This is part of a methodology I’m going to call Fascist Edging. It’s deliberate, to move the Overton Window. It’s speculative. Can we go this far yet? What’s the backlash? From whom? Did anyone support/excuse? It’s seeding the idea. Get it talked about. Absorb the initial shock. Normalise.

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pretty hard to misconstrue "If they need to use lethal force, then they’ll be able to do so" as anything but a policy allowing the use of lethal force. People in small boats aren't firing at anybody, Farage knows this. This is all Reform nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Genuinely disturbing that violent racism has become so normalised that a leading politician can threaten to have refugees murdered in the water 1984-style and almost no-one in the media thinks it’s worthy of comment

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

In any sane country Jenrick would be out of a job after these grotesque remarks, but AFAICS almost no-one thinks they’re even worthy of comment

Note once again that there is not one pro-refugee included view here - no politician from the Greens or SNP or even the Labour left, no activist or lawyer, and certainly no actual asylum seeker - and "balance" consists of presenting a choice of exactly how vile we should be to people

Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants

All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.

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Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.

🚨YOU DID IT!!!!🚨 More than 10,000 people saying NO to earned settlement. Because of your support the government HAS to issue a formal response to a policy it hoped would slip throuch unoticed. 🌈 THANK YOU to everyone who signed, shared, and spoke out. 🌈 act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham...

To Andy Burnham: Scrap the earned settlement proposals

Sign the petition and call on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to scrap the earned settlement plans. They are unpopular. They are divisive. And they will devastate our already struggling NHS and our social...

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This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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I am not going to share that disgusting cartoon that was in the Daily Telegraph. Suffice to say that it was disgusting and deeply offensive. Here is Jewish and Muslim Greens' joint statement on the matter, and a call to the DT to withdraw it - jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/11/j... 1/10

Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

In case it’s not obvious, this is a setup so he can blame Ukraine for breaking a non-existent ceasefire they never agreed to as a pretext for more pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine actions.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2w ago

⚡️Trump claims Ukraine, Russia agreed to energy ceasefire — Kyiv has no information about it. Ukraine has no information about an energy ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 11, a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.

I mean, yeah, but maybe the party funded by Cryptobillionaires, led by millionaires, and pushing policies, by their own acknowledgement , specifically aimed at making the poorest poorer, should sit this particular argument out?

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Indeed - and also calls into question the judgement that he was a suitable deputy leader for the Labour Party

This is EXACTLY why we should not work with Palantir.

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

'Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “[Palantir] don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would"' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...