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submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

Both, Grok and ChatGPT misidentified the photos of National Guard sleeping on the floor. It's good that you check the images you see online. But pls apply the same critical thinking to the info sources you ask. A tip: When you post images, pls credit them/the source. This prevents confusion.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

“Trump has, according to another source with knowledge of the matter, said in recent days that he’s got plenty of capable allies on the ground particularly, because the police — including in the Los Angeles Police Department — are on “my side.””

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

A newly-elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended, and will now sit as an independent "following a matter that is now with the police", with opposition parties calling for a by-election: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

If the hard and far right need to blame anyone for “two-tier” policing, they need only look to themselves and the invidious position in which they’ve put officers. My latest, on Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

Quite apart from anything else, this a major opportunity for UK higher education which we are currently doing our best to neutralise.

submitted 27 days ago • 42 comments

Trump administration considers "requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting". That would be the same administration that just sent a team to the UK, because of concerns about "free speech". www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Nigel Farage wants attention for saying he’d scrap the 2-child benefit cap. But in the vote against it, did he show up? No. Zero Reform MPs voted against the cap in July. Green MPs put it in our costed manifesto, signed the motion, and voted to scrap it. Actions not words.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Responding to Farage’s speech today, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey says: “Nigel Farage praised the disastrous Truss mini-budget, and now he wants to repeat it with huge unfunded spending pledges and only vague promises of fantasy savings. "It’s Trussonomics on steroids."

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This is really important. Far right populists often use language that tries make their bigotry seem as if the majority support their view. They do not! They use terms like ‘normal people, ‘working class’, ‘mothers’ ‘Millions of mothers’ certainly did not call for the murder of innocents

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

submitted 28 days ago • 52 comments

Keir Starmer leads Nigel Farage by 15pts on who Britons think would be the best PM Starmer (44%) vs Farage (29%) Starmer (36%) vs Badenoch (25%) Starmer (27%) vs Davey (25%) Davey (41%) vs Farage (27%) Davey (33%) vs Badenoch (21%) Badenoch (29%) vs Farage (25%) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

Nick Clegg's new book is £25, but I'm sure he's okay with us stealing it.

submitted 29 days ago • 26 comments

Led By Donkeys wanted to confiscate Michelle Mone’s yacht but settled for renaming it. It was still a coup | Zoe Williams

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Boo fucking hoo. It's built on THEFT. "I don't know how I'd ask all those people or afford to pay for all their work." Then you DON'T GET TO HAVE IT. These would-be geniuses have convinced themselves that something in their miracle blah-blah machine is so inherently amazing rules don't apply.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Imagine a Muslim cleric had called for churches to be burned down and British people killed. They’d be calling for a far longer sentence….. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

submitted 29 days ago • 26 comments

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

submitted 29 days ago • 105 comments

Don't be fooled by any of Trump's performative BS. Unless he actually pushes for sanctions, this is the crocodile tears of a narcissistic sociopath. Also, note that he blames Zelensky as much as Putin for the war--those bad Ukrainians, asking to be invaded!

submitted 29 days ago • 78 comments

Whole lot of people think X is "crappier Twitter because there's no moderation." No. The algorithm is fundamentally different now. If you are not a paid account pushing right-wing propaganda, your reach is a tiny fraction of what it was. You're posting in a chatroom of your followers. Nothing more.

submitted 30 days ago • 36 comments

Isn’t the real question here why anybody is asking the opinion of the father of a former Prime Minister?

submitted 30 days ago • 56 comments

Was he asleep when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister?

submitted 29 days ago • 176 comments

I'm genuinely interested to know if/when any of the UK higher education free speech warriors are going to raise even a peep about this.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 32 days ago • 301 comments

The government claims that recent migration has been "low-skilled" and that its reductions will therefore not be as damaging to the economy and public finances as the OBR assumes. I explain why the government's own data and research contradicts this.. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

When I was at Politics.co.uk I used to commission this guy to write straight-down-the-line, reasoned, academic analysis of public opinion. His decade-long descent into far-right grift has been quite something to watch

submitted 33 days ago • 76 comments

Reform looking increasingly stupid as it becomes evident that much of the culture war stuff they stood on doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 34 days ago • 44 comments

On day one, Reform councils fulfil pledge to scrap flying pigs in their jurisdictions. Leaders write mayoral order to council staff to rescind and refuse all pig flying licences with immediate effect!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Listening to Brexiters is to see a group of people who haven't changed as the world/country around them has.That's Starmer's gamble. Then as now, they continue not to reckon with a simple truth: we still need the EU more than they need us. New from me goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/brexiters-...

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

A reminder that this is the kind of thing regularly being put out by GB News now. This is the same channel Starmer's Government insist on giving exclusive interviews with the Prime Minister and other senior ministers to. On his recent trip to Albania they were the only broadcasters invited by No10

submitted 34 days ago • 25 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 34 days ago • 303 comments

Parliamentary recess starts tomorrow - but jet-setting Nigel is already off abroad for the NINTH time since the general election.

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

And contempt of court laws prevent mainstream media doing anything to really say this is happening, or that it’s completely baseless (and insane), and it’s killing our information ecosystem. But successive governments (and senior lawyers and judges) have their head in the sand on this issue.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

submitted 35 days ago • 57 comments

BBC have interviewed this woman as a business spokesperson, she rants about Brexit aspirations being stolen, they forgot to mention she is a Reform spokesperson and was a Brexit party MEP

submitted 35 days ago • 102 comments

This is what the pro-Brexit argument has been reduced to now: "I like being able to needlessly inconvenience myself. Why are you taking it away from me?"

submitted 35 days ago • 183 comments

I genuinely find this very shocking. Paul Nurse isn't a fringe figure or a random academic. Astonishing that government wasn't approaching the Crick for support with testing, even more astonishing that they ignored his frequent attempts to get in touch to offer expertise essentially for free.

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

After years of denial, it's really striking that a UK government press release has just come out and said that Brexit was, you know, really bad for trade.

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.

submitted 36 days ago • 49 comments

Quite aside from anything else, looking forward to the apoplexy on the UK right about Monday's EU summit. Geography denying trade fantasists imagining histories justifying lunacies.

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

Here's the full leaked recording of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp admitting that it's now harder to return asylum seekers who previously claimed asylum in Europe to that first safe country. And it's because of the botched Brexit deal that Boris Johnson claimed was a success. @news.sky.com

submitted 40 days ago • 17 comments