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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 298 comments

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

submitted 14 hours ago • 310 comments

A comprehensive comms success.

submitted 22 hours ago • 79 comments

This won't have much impact on net migration, but will hinder integration, promote "churn", and increase hardship. Mean-spirited, unnecessary, and unpopular. www.ft.com/content/f844...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

It's been clear for some time now the direction that Keir Starmer's government has been going in on immigration, despite some people denying it at the time. Here's what I wrote back in February www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/keir-starm...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Interesting move. Nice that at least one party wants to challenge Reform rather than dance to their tune.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Can't defend a government that lies like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

In microcosm, this is why “fund defence spending with an aid cut” is really stupid. What is your strategy to prevail in these conflicts if not through funding something like the World Service in addition to your hard power?

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Well, there goes the "The match going fans know better" argument

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Well done to Liverpool Pride for ending their partnership with Barclays after Barclays said it would ban trans employees from the toilet www.lcrpride.co.uk/2025/05/08/l...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Why are they booing Thomas Partey? #livars

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Also mathematically a silly argument on its own terms - weak economic growth rates could have been weaker still, or even negative, without immigration

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Every interview with Yvette Cooper

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine being Yvette Cooper, someone who has been in government before. Waiting all these years to regain power to play the part of hateful to migrants placeholder.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Farage’s immigration hysteria is now setting Labour’s agenda. I’m seriously doubtful - to put it mildly - of the political wisdom of accepting and amplifying Reform’s migration myths 👇🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I guess it would be too much for them to ask whether it would improve the country rather than whether it will win votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Letting unis go bust will be popular with voters right up until the economic and societal affects hit them square in the face. This is exactly why outsourcing politics to focus groups and those who cannot adjust from campaigning to governing is disastrous.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

If you’re anywhere near West London, the Hanwell Hootie, an incredible celebration of live music across multiple venues, is just getting underway. Free & fantastic. (And the Golden Chip is a magnificent chippy.) #HanwellHootie

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is, imv, really good. From the conclusion: The government 'is unwilling to lead. It is unprepared to make the argument. It does not have the courage to state clearly what is happening, what it wants and how it will get there'.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The debate on healthcare, like pensions, runs into an incredible brick wall over the statement: "I've paid taxes all my life". To which the honest response is: yes, you have. But those taxes were at a rate far too low to provide the level of service British pensioners now expect.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

'Giving equal weight to people who lie or mislead and people intent on presenting facts may superficially look like impartiality. But this model, in effect, takes the side of the lies, because truth is not the midpoint between a fact and a lie.' Patrick Howse via Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers... It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

But this manifestly isn't a way to "counter" Reform. It's just an endorsement of Reform. If it's what Glasman believes, then he should simply join Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

Ending double taxation of Indians here on temporary work visas just as we do for many other countries (including US, EU, etc) is "two-tier taxation". Ignorance, racism, cynical opportunism, or all three?

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Can you imagine if Biden had said something like this? They would have demanded the 25th Amendment was acivated right there and then. Basically, "by destroying the economy I have saved people and businesses from having to buy and sell stuff". ~AA

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Ask people in these accursed vox pops. a) How many immigrants are there? b) How much lower (reasonably) would you like this? Ask people. Because they will wildly over"estimate" a) and b) is probably what we are close to.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

submitted 8 days ago • 183 comments

A critical point in today's post. A lot of people assume that Labour places going Reform mean Labour voters are going Reform. But it doesn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Affluent, adjacent to London. Posh Spice is from here. Hardly the left behind patriotic working class.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

"Since the election, Labour has lost more than three times as many voters to the Lib Dems as to Reform" (Rachel Sylvester writes in the Observer today). They don't act like they are concerned about those lost votes

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Killing off the university sector once and for all for a politcal battleground which Labour will never win… instead of reclassifying the immigration statistics as we always should have to reflect the fact the vast majority of foreign students leave the UK. Stupid. Unserious. Utterly self-defeating.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Is this the same Kemi Badenoch that spread a false race-baiting claim circulated by a far right extremist about the series Adolescence?

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

There is an idealised Proper Working Class, who is heavily implied to be straight, white, working in manual labour and socially conservative with it. With no aspirations for their kids but to be the Same As Them. It exists predominantly in the minds of Blue Labour and post-liberals.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

And, by the time that were to happen, the majority of people that voted for it will be dead or senile. And still not care about the reality - just what they have read which will still be negative.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Racists don't believe the numbers - whatever they are. They also don't care. It is irrelevant. They say it because they think it makes them sound non-racist because gullible people believe it or nasty people pretend it. But they will also point at me (uk born) as not deported to prove the point.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

When on earth are they going to learn that their number of people deported figures are meaningless to absolutely everybody. Liberal people are appalled and racists don't believe it or do not think it is enough. This is a dead end in which Labour with wither and die.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

just the perfect story

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country

submitted 9 days ago • 421 comments

The Jewish Chronicle is perhaps the only paper in British history where we are not allowed to know who owns it, or why. Its refusal to run an ad critical of Netanyahu makes this untenable, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments