George Pontikas

I would like to thank Morgan for his service to the Labour party in finally fucking off.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

An MP and leader of the opposition actually arguing for harm to be causable more readily to adults

By restricting social media use for children, we aren't just protecting children. We can also give more freedoms to adults online. We will no longer need to contort digital spaces to be universally "child-friendly", or impose blanket restrictions on speech and content because children might see it. If we stop treating children like adults, we can stop treating adults like children too.

Hell of an argument for banning social media for under 16s from Kemi this.

Get kids off it so we can be free to carry on destroying our democracy and tearing apart our society without them.

It's also a lot of money!

Be fair. If you do as much sucking up to foreign strongmen as Nigel Farage does, an occasional sore throat is to be expected.

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn.

Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

Right wing nationalism is basically:
1. Protect my free speech, not yours
2. Protect women I approve of
3. Your paedos are scum, mine are fine
4. State overreach is fine if I like it
5. I've earned my welfare, you're a feckless scrounger
6. My public services are sacrosanct, yours are woke

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Compare and contrast the acres doom-mongering and entirely inaccurate column inches dedicated to this with the almost total silence around George Osborne's destruction of Sure Start. It's the perfect illustration of privilege, UK-style.

I am increasingly having the "suitcase in the hall" conversation with people from other diasporas. Irish, Jewish, South Asian, West Indian, Arab...

None of us have any faith in Starmer's Labour standing up against the far right.

This is insane in 2025 in the UK.

Tories who say that allowing young people to access Erasmus+ to and from the UK is a betrayal of Brexit need to recognise that Brexit was a betrayal of the young by people by living in a past that never existed.
#bbcpm

So. Far from being the 'fighting age' islamist terrorist/asylum seeker/non-white person the right were desperately hoping they would be, the Liverpool parade attacker is a white, ex-forces, right-wing, male, middle-aged Tate wannabe with anger issues and with a crypto fetish. One of their own.

A 5 bedroom house was never in the lifetime of those impacted on the lower end of the property ladder (even less so in Richmond); nor were any of the houses in the picture.

Amen to that! few moves can be both so symbolic and substantial at the same time.

It's not an issue of competence (or manifest lack thereof). It's that some actions are simply no longer just a compromise/accommodation of the (far) right - they are simply beyond the pale

Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail

Think there's something particularly dispiriting about the Greek governments various moves against climate change initiatives because if your country routinely bursting into flames each summer doesn't drive it home, what will?

Looking at the local news, it seems to go significantly beyond just modern languages

Photo of Sarah Pochin MP captioned 'remove the whip', overlaid with the Times' headline: Reform MP: ‘Adverts full of black and Asian people drive me mad’

If racism has no place in his party, then Nigel Farage should prove it by withdrawing the whip from Sarah Pochin immediately.

Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)

Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics

Will Hayward: "Beyond this campaign, the aim of the party to appeal to Reform voters that are never coming back (and often were never Labour voters anyway) at the expense of left and centre left traditional supporters has been a catastrophe."

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Badenoch's speech wasn't that bad, but listening to the punditry and you'd think it was Gettysburg Address.
Like declaring the school Nativity Play a success because Joseph didn't wet himself.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness

The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

I've said this before, but the next election will be the most consequential of my lifetime. Fascism v political norms will be on the ballot. If you don't vote for whichever party is most likely to stop Reform in your constituency, you share responsibility for what happens next.

It gets better, his constituency includes the Wroughton & Wichelstowe ward of Swindon, Wichestowe being one of the largest housing estates under construction in the country. By 2028-29, there will be a few thousand more voters very unlikely to vote Reform...

100k or more marching for a violent racist, the head of X live-streamed in to incite a violent overthrow of the government. And that same government can't find in itself the decency or even the instinct for self preservation to call this out. I despair.