This is absolutely extraordinary. It's hard to know where to start. The utter tone-deafness? The scorn towards local government? The high-handed dismissiveness towards people affected by racism and antisemitism? Badenoch is an X-brained crackpot.
Lizzy Price
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People who behave like this in a hospital should still be treated, but they shld have to wait however long it takes until a doctor/nurse fitting their preferences goes on shift, and they should have to sit out that wait in a public waiting room wearing a gown with "racist" printed all over it.
If you, to take another entirely random example, describe recent immigration a "squalid chapter in our politics" a "failed experiment", and promise to "shut down the lab" you are contributing to the problem of norm erosion www.gov.uk/government/s...
PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.
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If you, to take one random example, say that someone with a long history of neo-Nazi activity is welcome in your party because he did a training course, you are contributing to the problem of norm erosion.
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
A reminder to all NHS staff: you are loved, wanted and appreciated by millions of Londoners, and we collectively condemn the vile racism you continue to experience.
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
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Shamefully, this used to be ‘ok’, but was fairly successfully stamped out & made socially unacceptable for new generations. It is not ok to wind back the clock on that. It is not ok for parties like Reform & Restore to have their hate platformed & normalised. It’s on us all, to call out & stop this.
Lizzy Price@lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 2d ago“Immigrants are blamed for the cost of living, energy bills, the worsening situation in the country, & people think it’s ok to say it” The ugly impact of normalising the lies & racism of grifter Farage. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
This is a valuable contribution to the EU debate on how to manage geopolitical risks - such as weaponisation of migration. First it was Belarus, and now Ceuta. Enemies of the EU use migration as a tool to harm EU. Measures, procedures and above all solidarity between Member States is required.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · yesterdayOPINION: Recognizing that migration can be weaponized is not alarmism — it is realism. The EU must now equip itself with the legal and operational tools it needs to defend its external borders, writes Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Shapps, Gauke & Barwell out. Neo-Nazi in. They’ll be inviting Bridgen back as a moderate. Shapps was always a dreadful chancer, but the fact that he has no place in the Tory party but this thug does? Wow. Just wow.
Lizzy Price@lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 2d agoMaking racism normal - Farage’s poison has infected so much of our politics & MSM. The party that threw out Enoch Powell now has a place for a white supremacist, with convictions for racially aggravated harassment, assault, malicious communications and burglary. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Ceuta crisis & its exploitation by the MAGA Right. We have to get used to the idea that hybrid warfare will come from MAGA US as well as putin’s Russia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoHouse GOP said Spanish territory 'belongs' to Morocco. Two weeks later, tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants stormed the border.
"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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“Immigrants are blamed for the cost of living, energy bills, the worsening situation in the country, & people think it’s ok to say it” The ugly impact of normalising the lies & racism of grifter Farage. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
theguardian.com
The Moroccan government confirmed that the Ceuta migration wave was organized and amplified through social media. A similar campaign is currently being run on TikTok, where people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq are being encouraged to migrate through Belarus to EU via the Baltic states. 1/2
Massive heat wave, thousands dead, one of the worst fire seasons on record: 🦗🦗🦗. Morocco playing games amplified by Russian propaganda: 20 EU heads of state write outraged letters. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 This is how you lose a hybrid conflict.
Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 4d agoUkraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
“At a time when Europe is under sustained hybrid attack .. European leaders have chosen to respond .. with partisan politics that only underlines their fragmentation and gives succour to the pan-European far right.” Best analysis of this crisis that I’ve read. nixons.substack.com/p/europes-de...
Europe's Defeat
How Europe lost the Battle of Ceuta; the four horsemen of the summer apocalypse; why Europe faces a climate sovereign doom loop; and why the Clacton by-election is not a joke
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More evidence that no country in Europe can go it alone. It's only by working together with the free movement of produce and people that we can face the future: "Pubs, restaurants and supermarkets are having to buy lettuce and broccoli from Spain at what should be the height of UK growing season."
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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The hybrid warfare of the refugee crisis in 2015 comes to mind. Pump misinformation online, encourage migration, destabilize .. & useful to the far right that it threatens EU as well as the socialist govt in Spain. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory
How 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory
Migrants spent days preparing to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco
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Ten years on - our independence from China & the US & our ability to stand up to Putin lies in being part of the EU. It always has. onhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/donald-trump-andy-burnham-europe-britain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Will Trump be Burnham’s undoing, or the making of him? The answer lies in Europe | Jonathan Freedland
In an increasingly dangerous world, Europe is finding safety in numbers – but Britain is on the outside. The new PM’s task is to change that, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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25% turnout for the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election. Nearly 3/4 of voters didn't show up for a contest, whose previous winner has just become prime minister. We shouldn't be blase about this: it raises big questions about the health of our democracy & the public appetite for the mayoral model.
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 5d agoit's an interesting contradiction of devolving power to local people when it's a pretty consistent finding that they don't really care about exercising that power
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Gerald Knaus: “Images beat statistics. If we have pictures of migrants arriving - even if the numbers are small - it gives the impression of a lack of control.. politically it is toxic.” It’s what Farage et al have been exploiting for years & MSM have been very obliging. #wato
So never mind war, climate change, wildfires, poverty, etc. - all is well with the profits of oil companies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shell profits double as oil prices rise due to Iran war
Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.
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“The fact that the shadow home secretary should use transparently absurd statistics to promote his xenophobic and economically illiterate policy shows that he is either a liar or grossly incompetent at his job." >insert 'why not both?' gif
Gareth Davies@garethtbij.bsky.social · last wk.False reports about migrant care workers came from Conservative party 'research' The Times was forced to issue a correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 dependants to UK
In their mindless orbit around Trump, the Right confirm they are happy with arbitrary tariffs, extortion from private companies, corruption, and the salting of divisions with partisan spite. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Suddenly the British right feels a political chill. It’s getting cold in Andy Burnham’s shadow | Rafael Behr
The Tories and Reform had it easy when Keir Starmer was self-destructing – but a new PM with ideas exposes how vacant the opposition has become, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Reality doesn’t care about political talking points. This isn’t because Spain and France forgot to rake the forest. This is climate change, plain and simple, and it’s only going to get worse. 🚨 Nearly 200,000 people are running for their lives from out-of-control wildfires.
From Gibraltar to the GFA, the UK’s continued membership of the ECHR & its commitment to net zero under the Paris agmt underpin our post-Brexit relationship with the EU. Badenoch threatens both. In a turbulent world, the tory party is as damaging as ever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nobody in Europe knows or cares what Kemi Badenoch thinks. That’s a big mistake | Simon Nixon
The opposition leader wants to pull the UK out of the ECHR, wrecking treaties from the Good Friday agreement to the Gibraltar deal, says economics commentator Simon Nixon
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