Of course Sunder is correct. There is no logical/principled *argument* behind this hypocrisy.
But IMO there is indeed a logic to it.
The reason the Spectator/Telegraph want to crack down on antisemitism is not because they care about Jews, but because they want to legitimise anti-Muslim bigotry.
Fascist marches have been permitted to continue.
For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...
Because many people attracted to 'Blue Labour' are racists, and even more think the majority of the country are racists and want to appeal to them. Incidentally, the Chevening scholarships were rightly understood as British diplomatic soft power, so it's also a needless injury to *us*.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Labour, again, providing Reform the infrastructure to stop anti-fascist protest should they ever get into power.
I agree that’s the current position. That was the position of Trump in his first term. That’s been blown out of the water. Maybe Reform will wait to get into power before making the shift. As the Telegraph gets more explicitly racist, there won’t be a backlash from the right wing media to stop them.
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
How long before Reform stop making their councillors step down and just accept that their open racism is fine?
No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job.
They have these “news” items though
"Pull the plug on VAR!"
SC Preußen Münster ultras literally pulled the plug on the VAR screen during a penalty check during their team‘s 2. Bundesliga game vs. Hertha BSC.
The Hertha pen was ultimately given by the video assistant - and scored.
FT: Münster 1-2 Hertha
📷 @stefandoering.bsky.social
If only there was a form of energy that didn't rely on fossil fuels and be impacted by war in Ukraine or the Middle East. What a bonus if that form of energy didn't contribute to climate change. If only the government was in a position, with a huge majority, to invest in sustainable energy 🙄
Will any of these tax dodgers have a modicum of empathy for other people fleeing war-zones? Of course not, they don't care about animals, let alone humans.
My fear with Reform is that they would do this in the Channel
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
Another moment to consider the differences post career interventions from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. One of them only speaks when he has a vital contribution to make and otherwise shuts up; the other one can’t shut up.
Cartoon drawing featuring a woman in bright red bloomers and a men's-style blazer and bow tie riding a bicycle in the foreground, and an old man with a pitchfork losing hat and pitchfork in surprise. Over his head are the words, "What it will come to". At the bottom it says, "Then they WILL be satisfied".
Anti-Suffragette postcard
ca. 1910s
Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!
Now they have come for the Sociologists. How is this not content/viewpoint discrimination and therefore unconstitutional? Where is our First Amendment now?
truthout.org/articles/flo...
Matt Goodwin propagating untrue stories - "Some evenings, I canvassed streets where nobody spoke a word of English" - + Nigel Farage's stories about Oldham, where UKIP failed to produce an election petition
There is no Reform election petition in Gorton + Denton
Very Trumpian.
(Spectator)
FIFA peace prize winner Trump couldn't care less whether Iran goes to the World Cup
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Did you know?
In 2024, the govt had to rename the statutory enquiry process for DA deaths to ‘Domestic Abuse Related Death Review (DARDR)’* because suicide is the most common cause of death in domestic abuse cases.
(was Domestic Homicide Review)
Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.
Good job that AI and technology can minimise civilian casualties in war 🙄
This is a great thread. So much political commentary of the past couple of years has been plain wrong.
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Photo of a man riding a bicycle on a path through high grass on hills.
“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.”
-Grant Petersen, bicycle designer and author
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
..the fact Mahmood is using precisely the same sort of deliberately misleading language as Goodwin, Jenrick, Lam and Farage tells us all we need to know about how acceptable/fair she thinks her policies actually are to Guardian readers/the British public.
