The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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"Legitimate concerns" is starting to feel very "you had people that were very fine people on both sides"

If your response to violence from racist mobs is to say that "the right of protest is fundamental" and "the concerns of communities are central to our immigration reforms" you are no better than those racists and are in fact legitimising them.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 20h ago

This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"

Burnham has to clean out the Home Office before he gets any credit from me

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 20h ago

This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"

There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · yesterday

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

Can't eat peppers, lettuce, or eggs without peeing from your butt or visiting the hospital. It wasn't brown people or immigrants, but rather Trump and MAGA that turned America into a shithole country. Make diarrhea explosive and great again. Well done. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Chipotle, Qdoba remove jalapeños tied to salmonella outbreak that has spread to 27 states

The restaurants, linked to “illness clusters” in seven of the states, are no longer considered an ongoing risk, the CDC said.

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Left: Yvette Cooper talking about "a new national mental health strategy" Right: Yvette Cooper's policies have resulted in the daughter of a Holocaust survivor being arrested under terrorism legislation, who says, "This is not what my parents died for"

This is truly execrable reporting from the BBC on the racist disorder in Thetford. “…amid fears they were being used to house asylum seekers.” What were those “fears” and why are you giving them this implicitly legitimacy?

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...

From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog

This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.

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In a sane world, this would be the end of Kemi Badenoch as both Tory leader and as a holder of elected office. But we now live in an era where the pushback from legacy media for hiring a NEO-NAZI, former or otherwise, will last all of a few days before being almost completely forgotten.

Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission

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CLIMATE COBRA NOW Follow the science Not sit on science. All excellent speakers delivering the grown up leadership we need. Zack responds with the serious and honest leadership you would expect in a crisis. Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carlbenfield.bsky.social

Green leader Polanski delivers 'urgent message to Burnham'

YouTube video by Sky News

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Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.

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Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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To be fair, “Councillors and council elections don’t matter” are a load-bearing part of the “Kemi Badenoch is doing well and the Conservative party’s prospects under her are looking good” thesis.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and #climatecrisis That’s $700,000 a minute Iran conflict windfall over 3 months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Story by Jillian Ambrose and me www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Just as in France, the June-July period was record hot in Spain, although not by the same insane margin. Still a substantial 0.7 C hotter than the years in joint second place: 2022 and 2025.

AEMET@aemet.es · 2d ago

🧵 El verano de 2026 por ahora (junio-julio) es el más cálido de la serie histórica en España, que arranca en 1961. ➡️ Con una temperatura media de 24,5 ºC, supera en 0,7 ºC a los bimestres junio-julio más cálidos, los de 2022 y 2025. Es 2,9 ºC más cálido que el promedio 1991-2020.

Welsh Conservatives on Instagram this morning, campaigning on behalf of fossil fuels during a record-breaking drought that has parched the country and set the stage for severe wildfires.