Lady Macbeth
@notinstructed.bsky.social
Not instructed. Rarely impressed. Merely observing proceedings…
Farage’s defence appears to be that he cannot predict what candidates might say. How convenient. The allegations concern what a candidate had already said. The question is what Farage knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. Attacking the investigation is no substitute for answering it.
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 3w agoFarage accused of protecting Reform candidate who made racist slurs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rejoining the EU isn’t a manifesto pick-and-mix. Article 49 TEU requires accession negotiations and agreement with existing members. Freedom of movement is fundamental. Labour can debate whether it wants membership; it cannot unilaterally rewrite what membership entails.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3w ago"I think the majority of people in Britain know that leaving the EU was a mistake" Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Comittee, Dame Emily Thornberry MP, says she wants the next Labour manifesto to include rejoining the EU, but "we need to discuss" if it should also call for freedom of movement
Putin started the war. Zelenskyy is fighting to keep his country. Yet Trump appears determined to make the defender pay the price for the aggressor’s crimes. History has an unflattering name for politicians who mistake capitulation for peace: appeasers.
FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com · 3w agoEdward Luce | Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular ft.trib.al/OjnFMFj #FTEdit
Strip away the slogans and what’s left? A proposal to dismantle asylum protections, with human suffering treated as an administrative detail. The logistical failures are almost beside the point. Cruelty isn’t a policy framework.
Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3w ago1) making countries accept returns 2) problems finding third country hosts 3) building enough detention centres 4) legal obstacles Oh and the unforgivable inhumanity… Farage’s hateful fever dreams need to be torn down like this - with the contempt they deserve. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...
The Royal Marines are not an armed immigration enforcement squad. Unlawful entry does not make someone a legitimate target for lethal force. The fact that we’re even discussing this as a serious policy proposition is chilling.
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 3w agoHe's just a violent thug in a suit
There’s something peculiarly hollow about invoking Christianity chiefly as tribal branding while dispensing with the inconvenient bits about humility, hospitality and loving your neighbour. A cross used as a boundary marker is not much of a creed.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Now look for the people in that bit of the Venn diagram who have been haranguing her for years AND have been parroting Kremlin talking points AND were keen on Brexit. That sort of person needs looking into.
Putin’s wager is that Europe will tire before Ukraine breaks. That is precisely why wavering now would be catastrophic. The answer to intimidation cannot be strategic fatigue. Support Ukraine properly, consistently, and for as long as it takes.
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 3w agoThis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is something almost touching about failed Prime Ministers spending retirement insisting the thing that failed was, in fact, the answer. Sunak has Rwanda. Truss has the mini-budget. Some people keep photographs. Others keep policy disasters.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3w agoIs it now a feature of failed Tory PMs that well after leaving office, they keep going on about the main thing they pushed as PM despite it not working at the time? Sunak: Rwanda. Truss: Mini budget.
For years Carole Cadwalladr was mocked, threatened, sued and treated as though asking inconvenient questions were the offence. Now we are told there was clear Russian interference in the Brexit vote. How terribly awkward for everyone who spent years trying to discredit the woman asking why.
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
So the “it would take a decade” line may be less law and more political convenience. Best for Britain’s Article 49 analysis argues that, with alignment and political will, the UK could rejoin within a single Parliament. That deserves more attention. (Best for Britain)
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 3w ago🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...
There is something particularly ugly about an institution polishing its own historical halo while omitting the journalists who actually did the work — especially when one of them then endured years of legal threats and abuse. Credit is not a decorative extra in journalism.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 3w agoBut partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observer
Bailey’s point was that fiscal policy has to look credible enough to stop gilt yields and borrowing costs spiralling further; UK 10-year yields had just hit their highest level since 2007 amid wider bond-market stress. Notb quite the same thing as saying, “Fk hospitals, keep the speculators happy.”
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w agoBank of England governor tells the UK chancellor to agree a budget that reassures financial markets. Govt told to serve markets, speculators, corporations. Healthcare, education, social justice, housing is secondary in neoliberalism. Wither democracy.
Forget the policy people. Give the entire campaign to Aldi’s social media team. Within 48 hours there’d be a cult following, three devastating memes, a middle-aisle special and somebody from Reform discovering that “ratioed by a supermarket” is now a recognised political condition.
Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat next - Reform UK demanding a supermarket exclusively for racists ... "That guilty conscience just wrote its own confession." via Truth Against Hate
Sir, you are currently the leader of a minor opposition party, not the East India Company. #Farage 😏
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉@paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 4w ago“ I will not tolerate countries who won't take back illegal migrants. I'll impose tariffs, airline bans and visa bans on any country that refuses” Says Poundland Trump, hot from losing yet another by-election, drowning in investigations over corruption, hemorrhaging councillors.. Deluded 🤡
The Mariana Dam collapse in Brazil released roughly 40 to 45 million cubic meters of toxic iron ore mining waste. The toxic mudflow killed 19 people, destroyed local villages, displaced thousands, and polluted over 600–700 kms of the Doce River.
Lady Macbeth@notinstructed.bsky.social · 4w agoHundreds of thousands of victims, billions at stake, and a bitter struggle over who controls the litigation. One wonders at what point the claimants became incidental to the battle between lawyers and funders. The Mariana disaster was a human catastrophe, not a commercial prize.
Farage proposes conducting foreign policy through economic coercion, apparently untroubled by the constraints of international trade law. The distinction between possessing political authority and merely coveting it appears to have escaped him. Demagoguery is not a substitute for statecraft.
Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3w ago“Tariffs are a favoured diplomatic tool of President Trump and Reform could face significant legal challenges if it follows suit” (page2) Farage is a desperate, vindictive bullshitter who only appeals to racists with no idea how the world and trade and law actually work. Cos that’s a bit hard.
“Screw your courage to the sticking-place,” Kemi. Although with your party polling at 18%, even Lady Macbeth might have suggested securing a few more accomplices before attempting to seize the crown. Such vaulting ambition. Such a lamentable shortage of bloody voters.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w agoI mean her party is polling on average 18% in the polls. She's 'set' for a general election at Xmas in the same way I'm set for winning a grand slam tennis tournament next week
Hundreds of thousands of victims, billions at stake, and a bitter struggle over who controls the litigation. One wonders at what point the claimants became incidental to the battle between lawyers and funders. The Mariana disaster was a human catastrophe, not a commercial prize.
Dam claimant committee 'acted properly' in terminating class action agreement
Mr Justice Waksman reserves judgment after two-day hearing of dispute over ownership of Mariana dam collapse claim.
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Naive belief’ is doing a lot of work there. God forbid somebody from the wrong school, wrong family or wrong age gets another crack at education.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4w agowhat a grim and mean little quote
Serious people. Serious spreadsheet. Serious £500bn oopsi
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w agoBritish social care: chronically underfunded when it comes to residents and staff, suddenly a £1.1bn investment opportunity when there’s a 7%+ yield attached. Funny how quickly the money appears once frailty becomes an asset class…
Andy Brown@andybrown1951.bsky.social · 4w agoAnyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...
Nothing says ‘online safety’ quite like picking a fight with Wikipedia while the actual sewage carries on flowing.
DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 4w agoBe nice if the Online Safety Act had some consequence other than taking Wikipedia to court because it was written by fools and seems to be enforced by them.
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson now says “mob rule” mustn’t interfere with Palantir’s contracts, and he’d work with a Reform government on immigration crackdowns. Quite the ideological journey. Turns out the red line was simply whoever signs the purchase order.
Number crunching: “the poorest in our society” From the new Private Eye, out now.
Reform by name. In need of remedial English by nature. The administrative revolution will commence just as soon as someone locates a dictionary. 😏
The London Economic@thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 4w ago"It’s so embarrassing for Reform that they can’t even spell their own name!"