In the generations following the introduction of UBI, people will be horrified by evidence of the torture of those with fewer opportunities. Humans will be free of the shackles of forced labour. They will live without fear of failure.@scottsantens x.com/charlotteh71/status/92…

‘Is Reform the right choice, who knows?’ What do you mean, who knows? We KNOW! It’s an appalling choice. Who ARE you if can’t see that?!!!

Given that there are so many stultifyingly ill-informed voters in the UK, here are a few verifiable facts that for some strange reason, populist politicians and UK news media rarely, if ever, mention: 1. Non-UK nationals (foreign citizens) make up 12-13% of the prison population and cautions/convictions in England and Wales (2024-2025 data), roughly matching their estimated share of the adult population (12%). This has stayed stable despite rising migration. 2. Migrants skew younger/more male (demographics that drive crime across groups). After controlling for age and sex, non-citizens are slightly underrepresented in prisons compared to British citizens. Conviction data is less granular but follows similar patterns. 3. The Great British public estimates that asylum seekers' share of total immigration is around 33%, when (based on 2025-2026 data) they account for around 10-11% of long-term immigration (88,000 asylum out of 813,000 total inflows in 2025). 4. Many Brits also believe immigration/net migration is still at record highs or rising. In reality, net migration fell sharply to 171,000 in 2025 (halved from prior years, and the lowest outside pandemic since 2012). 5. 32% think most immigration is illegal (higher among some groups like Reform UK and Restore Britain supporters). In reality, irregular/small boat arrivals account for just 2-3% or less of total immigration, and a majority of them are found ti be legitimate asylum seekers; the vast majority of total immigration is entirely legal (visas for work/study). 6. There is also a persistent widespread view that most asylum seekers are economic migrants with low grant rates. In reality, the overall success rate is around 60-66% for recent asylum seekers; many small boat claims succeed on protection grounds, though backlogs and appeals complicate it. So while public concern about immigration remains high, you do have to question why so many British people are still absolutely clueless about the reality after more than a decade of relentlessly discussing immigration. It's almost like we're being deliberately misled by privately educated multimillionaires who have selfish ulterior motives...

The ban announced today is nothing more than a performative and cynical move for Labour to gain more votes at the high-stakes Makerfield by-election this week.  Launching a massive, globally publicised policy just days before voters' head to the polls is a classic political strategy to capture headlines, project strong authority, and appeal directly to parents.  Experts, tech firms, and privacy advocates are citing several massive hurdles that would make the ban fail.  To truly block under-16s, tech giants will have to enforce robust age checks. This means millions of users may have to submit facial scans, banking data, or digital IDs to companies like Meta and TikTok. This creates huge data privacy and security risks.  Are you going to hand over this data just to get on a platform?  Or perhaps this was always part of the plan to bring in Digital ID through the back door. Teenagers are highly tech-literate. Evidence from Australia's similar ban showed that a significant portion of under-16s easily bypassed age-gating systems or migrated to unregulated, anonymous spaces.  The most dangerous facet of all is that a blanket ban will simply push children away from supervised, mainstream apps and onto darker, entirely unregulated parts of the web where threats are much worse.  Again, Labour have got this hideously wrong and creating even more danger. Plus this is an ill thought out and unfinished proposal which will, as usual, be watered down by next Spring to make it ineffective. Simply ban hate platforms like X who also persistently show AI porn. Nothing less is workable.

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Who holds a real estate sale in a synagogue? Seriously ...? A place of worship used instead to worship money? Instead of holding moral values sacred in a place of worship, they sell blood-soaked land? If I was a jew in the UK, I'd be seriously concerned about the values on display in this synagogue. A synagogue.

I truly pity the brown people in public life who say stuff like this that they of course - and their families! - know is obviously untrue and ridiculous, but they say it anyways because they feel they have to in order to get ahead in racist rightwing spaces as a brown person.

In Samuel L Jackson's voice "Lets tax these motherfucking trillionaires."

I asked Wilf just earlier this week if he calls out guests for lying on his show. Here’s one right here:

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Yesterday I was watching the news and former Defence Minister James Heappey was on, urging us to spend way more on defence. Then the presenter said, "Mr.Heappey who now works for a company that makes software for drones" Of course he does...it's a revolving door.

You can make an argument that people in public sector service roles should not display political insignia. But only if you apply that universally and not make Palestine the exception. I was once asked to remove a Palestine badge by security at parliament. (There is a rule, bizarre as it seems, that you cannot wear political insignia in parliament). Next to me in queue was someone wearing a Ukraine badge. When I challenged why that wasn't being removed the answer was " that's not political". This is all part of the project by Israel and its allies to toxify support for Palestinian rights as something extreme , sinister and outside the boundaries of acceptable discourse, usually via narratives of antisemitism or support for terrorism. Its power is diminishing in the context of the genocide which has been livestreamed. People know what they have seen. But that doesn't mean the political establishment will still not try to use the playbook to repress, grotesquely framing opposition to war crimes and atrocities as a threat to Jewish safety, in this case the safety of Jewish patients. In doing so they undermine amy consistent antiracism, dehumanising Palestinians by suggesting bringing the facts of their oppression into the public domain and demanding an end to UK complicity with it , is something harmful. In the Health sector, the worst example of this was the successful campaign by @UKLFI to get a hospital to remove a display of pottery plates made by children from Gaza , on the basis that the images of Palestinian life and culture prevented Jewish patients attending the hospital. These initiatives must be resisted by all who believe that standing in support of principles of justice and rights and against the crimes of genocide and apartheid is not simply a right but a profound moral duty.

Dear @hildebentele as someone who lived under apartheid in SA, fought against it & served in our first democratic parliament, & as a researcher & writer have travelled in & published extensively about Israel, I can assure you that there are many common features of SA & Israeli apartheid & some important structural differences. I’m happy to explain these to you in detail. It’s also important to remember that my former boss Nelson Mandela & my friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu described Israeli apartheid as more brutal than South Africa’s

A fundamental principle being lost here - is that if you are charged with terrorism - you can defend yourself by explaining why you are not. As the Filton 4 were never charged or found guilty of terrorism - the judge who sentenced them as terrorists -has denied them this right.

I'd never condone violence against a police officer - this is utterly dishonest. The jury weren't judging them on a terrorism offence. This is an awful sleight of hand. The creeping encroachment of terror laws onto protest & removal of our juries should worry all of us.

Yeah, let's go after pensioners again, the same pensioners that get the worst pension in Europe & one of the worst in the world, let's leave the wealth alone, again Rachel Reeves urged to scrap 'terrible' state pension triple lock 'as soon as possible' msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ra…

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3 of the 4 people didn’t attack the police officer and all of the 4 were cleared of violent intent. So the only disgrace here is the lie you’re telling to justify a clear miscarriage of justice & the use of anti-terror laws to justify your government’s complicity in a genocide.

He should never be allowed to preside over a trial again.

Ah yes that famous “negotiation” where Japan unconditionally surrendered after two atom bombs and Hitler blew his brains out.

The problem isn’t welfare @AndyBurnhamGM It’s extraction. The welfare state is magic self perpetuating. The problem isn’t welfare. The welfare state was one of the greatest engines of prosperity ever created: healthier children, educated workers, security that allowed people to innovate and take risks. The problem is extraction, an economy where wealth flows upwards and away from the communities that create it. A society cannot cut its way to prosperity if its productive foundations are being hollowed out.