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It looks as though the high twenties is peak percentage for Reform. Not enough to win a byelection, and not enough to win a general election (as long as people are offered something hopeful to vote for). It’s really pleasing that the noisy minority have been shown to be just that - a minority.

Nigel Farage, 30p Lee, Suella Braverman, Andrea Jenkyns, Oswald Mosley, Benito Mussolini - your boy took one hell of a beating

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I wonder which questions or statements made by Nathan Gill, who clearly could be bought with roubles, Farage disagreed with? He said the same things at the time. He hasn’t distanced himself from any of Gill’s words. Dear journalists - please ask!

Jim Ratcliffe has issued a statement saying he's very sorry if people don’t like the fact that he’s a racist twat.

Reform claim not to be fascist. Not to be racist. To speak nothing but common sense. But they select an actual Nazi to fight Gorton and Denton.

I realise that you want clicks. And possibly even someone to buy a physical copy of the paper. But please - you used to be a responsible organisation. You cannot, in good conscience, peddle such dangerous dross.

Is she only opposed to human rights? Or also opposed to health? And to safety?

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

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.

"I feel like I've come home," Suella Braverman tells assembled Reform UK voters.

Funny thing - the word on the tip of their tongue, looking at her, is also 'repatriation'.

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

A problem hiding in plain sight - which country does she claim to be a princess of?

A problem - lots of talk about ‘this country’, but switching from British values to the England football team. We’re not all English.

The former Coliseum Cinema in Porthcawl. Now a Spar.

The Coliseum in Porthcawl. Not as grand as the Roman one.

The competition has been thrown into chaos after Israel is still permitted to compete, despite ongoing legal cases concerning genocide and war crimes. There - that’s your headline.

BBC celebrity University Challenge - there is no national park called ‘the Brecon Beacons’. We all know that is used by Anglophones colloquially, but it’s wrong. #BannauBrycheiniog

Buy a Henry (my friend Henry, who lives in the cupboard under my stairs, and works a lot better than my old Dyson ever did, agrees)

Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and... A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year

"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth?

Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Vote for a politician who will establish universal, tax funded health care.

@markjsewards.bsky.social would you like to call this out please? Or do you also believe that she is a ‘terrorist’?

British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

The Mail thinks Farage was ok being racist because other people were (presumably unacceptably) racist at the same time? Not quite the same as a denial, is it?

Parties need a face to go on the media - who will decide which of the collective leaders gets the gig? Whoever is chosen will give their version of policy - and all the ex-Labour people have a terrible record of following the party line. Because whoever decides that, controls the public image of YP.

More than 70% oppose Reform. They’re still noisy, but they can be beaten.

He’s offered no apology or acknowledgment that racial slurs are unacceptable. Yet his supporters are out behaving like members of a cult - there’s literally nothing he could do or say that would shake the faith of some of them.

Think how disappointed his mother must be that, despite the expensive education, he’s still a twat

Shabana Mahmood is wrong Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.

Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...