This is a very good read and explains what’s going on in the North of Ireland . This quote jumped out at me: “It has taken a unique mix – the legacy of the Troubles, xenophobia, social media platforms and state acquiescence – to create the toxic climate.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

The night Belfast burned: how the Northern Ireland race riots unfolded

A stabbing in June sparked another summer’s night of racial violence, stoked by loyalist groups. How did the unrest erupt – and why do many fear it will happen again?

theguardian.com

It's all a bit Dunning-Krueger @mrjamesob.bsky.social People don't know what they don't know. Or in Donald Rumsfeld terms, people have unknown unknowns. So they'll protest and call in while ignorant of their own ignorance. @lbc.co.uk #lbc

@nohostages.bsky.social · 7h ago

If the objection to asylum accommodation is genuinely that groups of “fighting-age men” pose an inherent threat to women, then consistency demands protests outside military barracks too. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc 1/ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/more-th...

I genuinely don't understand how @antoniabance.bsky.social gets from "I don't need mad speeches from the PM about strangers" [top] to "I'm broadly fine with [forced remigration of 100,000s of people who came here legally to work]" [bottom] ..which was the "mad speech about strangers" policy..

I've been combing through Reform UK's latest party accounts. Reform UK took more in donations in 2025 than Labour and the Lib Dems combined...twice over. £31.9 million in donations in a non-GE year. It's staggering. They spent a lot (over £21m) but banked over £10m. Reform's war chest = £11.9m

It's all a bit Dunning-Krueger @mrjamesob.bsky.social People don't know what they don't know. Or in Donald Rumsfeld terms, people have unknown unknowns. So they'll protest and call in while ignorant of their own ignorance. @lbc.co.uk #lbc

@nohostages.bsky.social · 7h ago

If the objection to asylum accommodation is genuinely that groups of “fighting-age men” pose an inherent threat to women, then consistency demands protests outside military barracks too. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc 1/ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/more-th...

If the objection to asylum accommodation is genuinely that groups of “fighting-age men” pose an inherent threat to women, then consistency demands protests outside military barracks too. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc 1/ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/more-th...

More than 1 in 10 Armed Forces personnel have experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse | King's College London

New research from the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London has found that Armed Forces personnel are significantly more likely to both experience and perpetrate ...

kcl.ac.uk

If the objection to asylum accommodation is genuinely that groups of “fighting-age men” pose an inherent threat to women, then consistency demands protests outside military barracks too. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc 1/ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/more-th...

More than 1 in 10 Armed Forces personnel have experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse | King's College London

New research from the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London has found that Armed Forces personnel are significantly more likely to both experience and perpetrate ...

kcl.ac.uk

This is excellent.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10h ago

📌 ICYMI — Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’? — Simon Nixon Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon

My Burnham optimism barometer will be off the charts if he stops permitting a system in which children drown in the Channel because the UK government refuses to provide safe routes or allow asylum claims to be processed in France. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

NETANYAHU: “.. I want to be clear here — Israel is ruling out the 15-point plan.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...

Sunday Times research finds universites down £550+ million on international (aggregate across the 55 universities with lower international fee income of 128 surveyed)

Israel's slaughter in Gaza continues. Murder of a child a day during the 'ceasefire' says UNICEF. "With hundreds more children injured, many severely, children in Gaza are still waiting for the end to the violence they were promised." Yet still, Albo does nothing to bring Israel to account.

At least 300 children reportedly killed in Gaza in past 300 days

unicef.org

I think a more vocal challenge to Restore on foundations [remigration of legal migrants; racism] would go down well with centre-left voters. It could help median voter place them more accurately. I think Restore would still appeal to 1/4 of Reform 2024 voters (who would prefer a BNP-style option)

Not related to Arday but would recommend again @jheathershaw.bsky.social ‘s piece on the crisis in British universities - and the attack on the social sciences and humanities - from democracy for sale last weekend open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

open.substack.com

I listened to a podcast the other day. The English historian being interviewed said that: (i) the UK had not been invaded for 1000 years (ii) the UK had existed in its modern form (unchanged) for 300 years. That, my friends, is why Brexit happened.

The inability to name Restore as far right is genuinely baffling. By any measure its policies are far right

FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!

Lots on the substack this week... We got top barrister and tax expert Emma Chamberlain to write about the best way for the government to get more revenue from wealth taxes. It's been widely shared across Whitehall. samf.substack.com/p/the-right-...

The right way to tax wealth

A 10 year programme for an incoming government

samf.substack.com

Left: President Trump, "China makes a lot of windmills, but they don't use them because they're smart, because wind is a disaster" Right: China's installed wind capacity is more than all of the world combined. By end of 2026, wind will account for 19% of China's energy generation

Farage’s Breaking Point poster? Fine. “Globalists”? Fine. Braverman invoking the Cultural Marxism conspiracy? Apparently fine. It’s not the substance that crosses the line for Heath. It’s saying the quiet part out loud.

Instead of annexing, the Trump regime and its supporters are simply doing and taking what they want Denmark and the EU should put a stop to this illegal incursion now - using force if need be It is the only thing these fascists understand www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

theguardian.com

I'm glad Heath is doing this (and persisting in doing so). But as with Fraser Nelson I wish he'd take some responsibility for creating a world in which most of his readers in the comments are backing Lowe.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

Allister Heath in the Telegraph argues that the foundation of Restore's politics is a "Groyperification" into rabid conspiratorial populism that rejects ethnic & faith minorities being equally British. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...

this is an admission of a crime btw; superpacs cannot coordinate with candidates

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Q: MAGA Inc., the Super PAC that your allies control-- Trump: Not my allies, I control. $800M. I could spend it on anything I want. I have a busy schedule. I won. I'm not campaigning. A lot of people are angry at Republicans. They are not angry at me.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

Richard Tice Says He's Been Treated 'Worse Than A Paedophile, A Rapist Or A Murderer' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richar...

Richard Tice Says He's Been Treated 'Worse Than A Paedophile, A Rapist Or A Murderer'

Reform UK’s deputy leader launched an extraordinary rant when quizzed about his finances.

huffingtonpost.co.uk

“Well, we’ll follow the law.” There’s something uniquely infuriating about hearing this from legislators. You don’t merely follow the law. You make it. If the law is unjust, inadequate or absurd, changing it is literally your job. If you don't, it's a deliberate policy choice.

Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons@spacegrace.bsky.social · 3d ago

She shakes her head disapprovingly when councils challenging the guidance is mentioned. Can’t even say we will be treated in private spaces, which has at least been suggested previously (but wholly unrealistic and still segregation). Burnham’s government is just as transphobic as Starmer’s

Sometimes you see groups of them, each leaning on the phrase “social contagion” as they edge pompously through every discussion of human difference. Anazingly, every disability, identity or divergence they encounter turns out to be something the young have caught from one another. Or TikTok.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 4d ago

Seen this shared enough today and finally read it, and... No, you don't?

“Well, we’ll follow the law.” There’s something uniquely infuriating about hearing this from legislators. You don’t merely follow the law. You make it. If the law is unjust, inadequate or absurd, changing it is literally your job. If you don't, it's a deliberate policy choice.

Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons@spacegrace.bsky.social · 3d ago

She shakes her head disapprovingly when councils challenging the guidance is mentioned. Can’t even say we will be treated in private spaces, which has at least been suggested previously (but wholly unrealistic and still segregation). Burnham’s government is just as transphobic as Starmer’s

She shakes her head disapprovingly when councils challenging the guidance is mentioned. Can’t even say we will be treated in private spaces, which has at least been suggested previously (but wholly unrealistic and still segregation). Burnham’s government is just as transphobic as Starmer’s

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yvette Cooper confirming that NHS guidance is coming forth shortly banning trans people from single sex wards. She waffles about ‘alternative provision’ but let’s be realistic here, this will massively massively disadvantage trans people’s care. Fuck Andy Burnham