Rishaad Aït El Moudden

Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Left to right - Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman

Welcome to Reform’s front bench

Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school

The authentic voice of the working class

@msclairebiddles.bsky.social vitally important news

I used this guide to fill out the consultation which was useful bc it's purposefully not very clear and also biased! do it before midnight tonight please www.gov.uk/government/c...

@michaeltsb.bsky.social FYI, from the latest Propaganda, the "You've done it now, you've gone and made a big mistake" line is from an Undertaker WWE theme: youtu.be/kIiKTCDumTA?...

I'm honoured to have watched your favourite film of 2025 with you! The romanticism idea is spot on.

Nigel Farage appears to have changed his mind

Finally, the @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social programme has dropped and I am so glad to have it out there. Below are some of the films that I am most excited for people to see:

10/11 year old Rishaad would be thrilled to support Jack Harrison at Fiorentina. Maybe he would suit a bowl cut too? #lufc

Haneck and gadz need more prominence.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

She wouldn't admit it but it was probably tactical, expecting Sam to be the other with the most votes. Great TV but glad she's gone.

A large crowd of protesters gathered on a city street surrounding an Immigration Enforcement van. Several uniformed officers stand in front of the van, forming a line. People in the crowd hold signs. A Palestinian flag is visible in the upper left corner. The scene is densely packed with people, some sitting on the ground and others standing, with cars partially blocked by the crowd. The background shows a stone building with multiple windows and a bus stop shelter.

GFF26 news!

BAFTA-winner Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street, will open our 22nd edition on 25 February.

Tickets for both Opening and Closing Galas will go on sale 10am Monday 19 January on our website.

Read more: bit.ly/GFF26_OpeningGalaAnnounced

I have watched all seasons of UK, NZ Australia and some of US! And wasted too many hours on the subreddit!

Yeah, I guess they wanted to control the reveal but a shame we only had one roundtable where we didn't actually know the identity of the banished

It's the same with The Mole. You're at the Mercy of what the edit wants you to see and think. I assume it's someone less prominent atm. I like the change and the dual narratives though!

If you were personally not racist but you ran a party that contained this level of racism, you'd resign on the basis you had somehow ended up organising racists into a serious campaigning force, which had never been your intention.

On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...

I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.

Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years

Starmer / Reeves relentless focus on growth latest.

🚨 GFF26 breaking news! 🚨

We’re proud to announce that James McAvoy’s directorial debut will have its UK premiere as the closing gala for Glasgow Film Festival 2026!

Tickets to the UK premiere on Sunday 8 March go on sale in January 2026.

Read more: bit.ly/GFF26_ClosingGalaAnnouncement

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

Agree with every word of this

We've gone from 9% of social care staff coming from outside the UK and EEA in 2021/22 to almost 25% in 2024/25

The govt has no near-term replacement

It means either:
1) staffing shortages or
2) councils spending far more to attract staff, with no extra funding

We’ve mapped the mansion tax.

You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.

Full interactive map here 👇

Again, I invite the public to put two and two together about what has been happening in British politics and media for a long time now.

if you missed me at thought bubble i have added my new zine to my online shop! 24 pages of writing about films including MAY DECEMBER, TÁR, QUEER &c – all with cute illustrations by moi! £4+pp! fwyl.bigcartel.com/product/wrap...

Even with my bedrock low opinion of Labour, I was clinging to some shred of hope that even they would realise that stealing the last remaining possessions of people who have fled for their lives was a disgusting policy. Turns out there isn't a bottom to this particular barrel they are scraping.

The government seems to be trying to simultaneously claim it can deliver Reform’s agenda better than Reform, while also about once a month sending out someone to decry Reform’s racism.

It’s genuinely sort of amazing that they still haven’t realised why that doesn’t work.

"Where is the nearest place that sells a calzone this big in Vatican City?"

What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".

Based on popular artists 'similar to' music I listen to, probably LCD Soundsystem.

Or maybe Bring Me the Horizon or A Day to Remember. I thought they were the same band for ages.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...