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The wave of anti-migrant politics we are seeing across the West belies a simple truth: Our welfare states & pensions cannot be sustained without immigrant workers. Africans should rightly have power in this dynamic. They don’t because of persistent racist structures in our visa & asylum systems.

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It's utter madness. In today's column I discuss how Labour in the UK, just like Trump in the US, is dismantling the administrative state. And how this makes its other plans, including the good things it's trying to do, impossible to implement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Care staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough & pay huge fees to work because of exploitation by rogue employers - new report by Unison today. "They can be housed in crowded, substandard accommodation and subjected to appalling racist abuse."

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

www.politico.eu/article/trum...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Labour is upping the ante on anti-migrant politics just to learn that Farage & the Tories can always, always go further than them. It’s real people who are caught in the crossfire of politicians trying to outdo each other on toughness. How we treat people matters. #r4today

submitted 16 days ago • 46 comments

So it was a left-bashing group. A lot of Labour centrists who liked to accuse Corbynites of being uniquely aggro conveniently ignored that The Thick Of It was based on New Labour, not Corbyn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Morgan McSweeney.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Is Opening the Borders to the Far-Right’ The Government’s attempts to mimic the anti-migration politics of Reform are a recipe for moral degradation and defeat, argues Jennifer Nadel bylinetimes.com/2025/02/11/k...

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

New: Roman Abramovich may owe UK taxman up to £1bn, analysis suggests, as investigation reveals elaborate offshore investment scheme appears to have been controlled from his "right hand man" in Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Workers are the big unspoken tension in Reeves' speech, both in a 'uh, where are you getting these workers from?' (starts a row with the Home Office) and 'uh, what terms are you employing them under?' (starts a row over workers' rights legislation with practically everybody in the Labour party).

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

Everything Trump does, and everything Trump says, leads liberals and progressives to attack each other over how to respond. It is like watching a diabolical conductor forcing an orchestra to turn in on itself.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It's out! You can download it now.I may do a thread in a but, but I'm just too excited atm.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

Loving playing with the new Chinese AI app, DeepSeek. It rather sweetly comes up with the answer …and then has second thoughts 😂😂

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Today's newsletter: it is, in fact, very bad that the leader of the opposition doesn't appear to do the reading and instead goes on a strange combination of 'her personal experience', 'her instinctive prejudices' and 'potentially things that crossed her Twitter feed that day':

submitted 31 days ago • 71 comments

This is why a majority of voters in every constituency in England, Scotland & Wales think the UK government should prioritise trade with the EU over Trump's America. Because a UK-US FTA could mean hormone beef & chlorinated chicken in our supermarkets.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

'Five years on, Brexit continues to haunt us. It’s posing real economic problems. The government doesn’t like the equilibrium we’ve reached but is unwilling to do much about it. Meanwhile, the EU feels little pressure to change the status quo.'www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

Who needs evidence eh?

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch said on the BBC about the Southport killer tust "he had materials about white genocide". I am writing a piece about Southport & having seen this discussed online, I am trying to track down how far that is verified & what those materials were. Help welcome

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

This blithering idiot reached the very top of the civil service system. Basically proof that something has gone terribly wrong.

submitted 33 days ago • 110 comments

How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk A superb article from @peterjukes.bsky.social & @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/h...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

🚨🚨 I had really hoped this was going to blow over but this looks really, really bad. Massive pressure now on PM Frederiksen who now will need assurances from other European leaders. /1

submitted 34 days ago • 30 comments

Politico reporting that Trump has cut of all aid to ukraine www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

UK climate and nature bill dropped after deal with Labour backbenchers “Ministers insisted on the removal of clauses that would have required the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

“I'm made to feel like a burden for claiming benefits from the DWP. It's not a way of life – it's torture” Karen, a disability benefits claimant, writes about her experiences being made to feel like a 'drain on the country's resources' www.bigissue.com/opinion/dwp-...

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Elon Musk has posed as a champion of those poor bereaved families in Southport but the killer watched a violent video just before his killing spree on X and Musk is refusing to take it down despite numerous official requests from UK & Australian authorities www.ft.com/content/3c89...

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments

The first British victim of WW2. Seemingly lost in time because Britain came to ignore the "phoney war" that was not.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

An awful response on at least four different levels. Morally and intellectually, she's an absolute shell.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Ffs

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

Kemi Badenoch’s statement - which is causing quite the reaction in SW1 - doesn’t even get the date of Starmer’s press conference right…

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

On the day that the families of three little girls had to hear excruciating detail of how their children were killed, Badenoch spends most of her statement playing politics, attacking opponents and bigging herself up. Can’t even get the day off Starmer’s speech right. Appalling.

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

The state of Kemi Badenoch’s response to the sentencing, confirming there is no topic, however serious, that she will do the minimum of research on.

submitted 35 days ago • 96 comments

If Telegraph was reporting the research properly, this headline should be 1 in 18. Or 1 in 15 if want to spin it They have reduced London's population by 2 million, then chosen the top of a projected range, giving the median in the text. The range given would suggest from 1 in 15 to 1 in 23, with

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

Sorrywhatpardon?

submitted 36 days ago • 194 comments

Roll up, roll up. It’s a fantastic report and will be a great event

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Keir Starmer's spokesman says he will not launch any new investigation into criminality in the press, despite Labour's past pledges to complete the Leveson inquiry and despite huge new admissions of wrongdoing by The Sun in Prince Harry case bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...

submitted 36 days ago • 131 comments

A stark legacy of austerity. Whether you think it was necessary or not it was done in an incredibly damaging way.

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

1300 cases, more than £1bn paid out, a decade of litigation and finally The Sun and NGN finally admit to illegal activities after years of denial. What a journey, what a victory for Prince Harry and Lord Watson. Our CEO, Nathan Sparkes, breaks down the historic settlement outside Court on BBC.

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Statement from IMPRESS: "How can the public trust an industry where invasions of privacy and coverups remain commonplace?" 👏👏👏 See: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini

submitted 36 days ago • 22 comments

Thank the lord for Private Eye

submitted 36 days ago • 213 comments