If Roman history is any guide, we are only moments away from Trump appointing a horse to the Senate.

FAO Farage and any other racist, far-right “patriot” trying to take centre stage for Remembrance Day… You can’t threaten ICE-style raids, detention centres, mass deportations and authoritarian torching of our human rights and claim you’re not fascists. Get off that stage. You dishonour their legacy.

Don’t fall back in love with the USA. The country is still basically mad and we should distance ourselves from it as quickly as possible iandunt.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...

I would just beg everyone, very much including elected Dems, to vigorously reject the words "retribution" & "revenge." Do not say them. Object when others say them. That's not what's happening here. The words you want are "accountability" & "rule of law."

We're not in Kansas any more 🇺🇸 Wow, America. Just WOW! 🆘 What happened and why? 😍 Highlights, lowlights & actual laughs With @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/75KO... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

We're not in Kansas any more

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Why is she like this?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago

Burnham government (while significantly softening the settlement package on care + work) supported a v late decision by the Home Secretary to much harden the settlement policy for refugees from that she had announced under Starmer government in March. This has dramatic impacts on 130-200k refugees.

Excellent piece from @davidallengreen.bsky.social on the mid-term results: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-mornin.... Includes this spot-on section on "legitimate concerns":

“For years the right in the UK have bet on the idea that the rise of Trump signalled an irreversible shift towards billionaire-backed authoritarian populism.” Elections in Serbia, Brazil and now the US show us all that our votes can - and must - prove them wrong. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

The Time Is Running Out for Donald Trump’s British Cheerleaders

For years UK right-wingers have tied themselves to the US President’s ship. Now it’s sinking fast

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Nothing America did yesterday can make up for all the harm we have done to our neighbors in Canada and Mexico, our allies in Europe and Asia, and vulnerable populations in South America and Africa. Just know that we intended yesterday as the first step in a long-term redemption.

George Madgwick isn’t just a councillor, he’s a member of Reform UK HQ too. Reform UK councillor charged with rape and sexual assault www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK councillor charged with rape and sexual assault

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday that it had charged George Madgwick with 35 offences.

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This is it. The complete betrayal of these people and it still secures negative coverage from the papers who will hate whatever a Labour government does.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d ago

Meanwhile we now have a system where refugees are going to have to wait up to 30 (!) years before they can settle here, during which time they will be subject to arbitrary removal by whichever authoritarian government comes along.

The reaction to Shabana Mahmood's immigration 'reforms' shows exactly why this is such a dead-end for a Labour government. Lambasted by the right-wing press, hated by the left and ruinous for all those people actually affected by them. Pleasing nobody, whilst making everything worse

The damage and shame that this White House has brought upon the U.S. will last for decades.

Still applies.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Fire Mahmood.

This is absolutely absurd and inhumane. Cruel and degrading, even. A completely unacceptable way to treat refugees in a civilised country. #UKPolitics #UKLabour

Jon Featonby@jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 6d ago

Home Secretary confirming refugees who go through the asylum system will start at a 20 year route to settlement - but with 10 more years if they arrived irregularly. So many, many refugees will face a 30 year wait for settlement, all while facing reviews every 2.5 years.

Leaving aside all the other issues, someone please explain how this is supposed to be compatible with the givernment's stated aim of improving integration

Jon Featonby@jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 6d ago

Home Secretary confirming refugees who go through the asylum system will start at a 20 year route to settlement - but with 10 more years if they arrived irregularly. So many, many refugees will face a 30 year wait for settlement, all while facing reviews every 2.5 years.

The whole principle behind Shabana Mahmood's proposals is repellent. The idea that we value humans by their pay rate rather than its need for society. Why should a care worker wait longer for citizenship than a banker, or a nurse longer than an HR manager?

Jenrick is just a liar. But #r4today focused on the cost of immigration, not the benefits. Great to be starting a more honest debate on Brexit but we urgently need a more honest debate on immigration too. The vast majority of immigrants come here to make a life and to contribute. Racism is ruinous.

I'm trying to care about all those crypto hacking losses. Truly, I am. But, so far, nothing is working.

It's humiliating that the UK isn't right in the middle of this. We're in the G7. Permanent members of the UN security council. A nuclear power. The world's 6th biggest economy. And nowhere. Isolated by stupidity. Sidelined by xenophobia. Diminished by empty nationalism. Well done, Brexit.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last wk.

We are launching a new Alliance for the Future — a partnership that will bring together Canada, the EU, and other like-minded nations to address common issues and build our collective strength.

#bbcqt the BBC has a hard on for cutting the welfare bill. They should be honest and play "kill the poor" on the hour every hour.

So, BBC Question Time yet again has Zia Yusuf on But #bbcqt has always favoured Farage’s parties During 10 yrs when Brexit was a key issue, they had UK Members of the European Parliament on 50 times: - ALL pro- Brexit - 47 from Farage’s parties (45 UKIP, 2 BP) - 0 from LAB, LD,Green,SNP, PlaidC

#bbcqt the BBC has a hard on for cutting the welfare bill. They should be honest and play "kill the poor" on the hour every hour.

The FT`s Spain correspondent continues to peddle the "open borders" lie. Spain expels 1000s and 100s die trying to get here every year. Some "open borders", Jopson is a fucking disgrace

Trumps Mississippi speech verbatim. Anyone else would be looking a permanent secure elder care facility. This is not how people talk, let alone anyone in charge of something

Note to Badenoch… You plan to leave the ECHR which means renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement and the Brexit deal, as well as the improvements Labour has made to that deal. Not so much “reopening the Brexit debate” as blowing everything up and starting all over again. Now THAT is a terrible idea.

Derbyshire has now become fully trained. Equally chippy, dismissive and patronising to everone. #newsnight #bbcbalance

Absolutely this for the billionth time.

Hugh Sykes@hughsykes.bsky.social · 2w ago

And a great day for the British government to consider if it's right to continue using Elon Musk's X/Twitter, as one of their main platforms for making public announcements, & come over onto Bluesky instead. If they stay on X they are funding Musk's funding of thugs. @downingstreet.bsky.social

I really hope that European states are waking to the reality that they are on their own with Ukraine--with Canadian help. The US is now their enemy and China is not their friend. They desperately tried to pretend this was not the case, but the time for illusions must be over.

Bad day for the far right and that includes Elon Musk who threw £400,000 in the pot for his defence team... and every single politician and pundit who has excused Tommy Robinson or sought to portray him as anything other than the grifting thug he is.