Brian Mcleish

There are very few, arguably no, genuine "legitimate concerns" around immigration. When they're broken down they inevitably are concerns about other areas, housing cost of living etc. Where you can't claim you're anything but far right is when you're pushing "remigration" www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

100%. There’s only one type of adult that benefits from children being kept ignorant of sex education.

BTJ catches a clean throw in the end zone. Referee team look around in dismay, realising they have nothing to chuck a flag over.........

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

Simon doing the Lords work here, ripping Restore's phony stats designed to make people hate immigrants a new one. These numbers are BS and I would encourage everyone to read this to see why. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/how-a-bad-...

I have an idea. Why don't European nations (including the UK and Turkey) get together in Poland and agree a new defensive alliance, building new c&c capability absent the US? They could call it the Warsaw Pact and really troll Russia!

In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...

Well this is one (really bad) way to address the production crunch of ADHD meds share.google/YYlJRLgaHkyR...

The Mirror "UK weather map turns volcano red as heatwave comes again" *shows map of England* 🙄

Life reflects art - Microsoft has published an AI development code of conduct including that AI should not imitate consciousness. The OC Bible in Dune -> Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Hell to the yes! The UKG finally taking socioeconomic inequality seriously! Time to end class squeamishness: first government unit to improve life chances for working class - GOV.UK share.google/7kg6zTsDwZhj...

Facebook is awash with exploitative scam adverts using AI videos to drive empathy purchases. They set up the idea that an individual is hand-making the products and has faced criticism or abuse. In reality they are just drop-shipping cheap crap from China (and probably skimming card details). Scary.

I always knew I was ahead of the curve........ I was friendless in London about 25 years ago! share.google/AGTPqNNfcNOr...

Hundreds of men, all dressed in black and with face coverings - a 'spontaneous' protest? Are Kent Police incompetent or complicit? Which side of Hanlon's razor are they falling on here?

And they said this of the Persians, that fathers teach their sons 3 things - how to ride, how to shoot, and how to tell the truth.

When I was a teenager and my dad learned that my aunt was tracking my cousins’ movements on an app I remember him saying “what’s the point? You could be doing crystal meth at home!”

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.

Inevitable is the right word. People brought this up at the time.

“Lanyard class” simply means women who have told a man that he needs to follow the rules, right? At least in America they went for “HR lady politics” to make the misogyny clear.

As far as I can gather, 'lanyard class' lumps together e.g a corporate solicitor, a Russell Group professor, a Whitehall SPAD, a council economic development officer in Durham, and an NHS manager. Not sure it has all that much explanatory power.

Truly a cause worth fighting for - please sign and share widely @38degrees.bsky.social you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Starmer's historic reputation, I think, will end up being a fascinating answer to 'how would Churchill be assessed if he had *only* been prime minister from 1951 to 1955, when he mostly couldn't really do the job anymore'

Lots of news reports go on about how Khamenei hasn't been seen in public since March. Gee, I wonder why that is? Remind me, what happened to the last Supreme Leader, his dad?

This reply just fully encapsulates the gender critical journalist mindset. The perceived monopoly on victimhood, the unbridled rage that they might be seen for what they truly are, and the mountainous, gravity defying hypocrisy. How very dare you, don't you know who I am?

Literally yes

It remains the case that most councils are run well by decent people who want to do the right thing.

Good example of how, for good and for ill, TUs represent the interest of their current membership at the expense of their future one. True that you are unlikely to learn much about this 23 year old. You might learn however that their boss has never hired outside of the University of Oxford, tho.

Think this whole thing is a good example of a real challenge for AI design is that frankly the AI *ought* to say in this case “you’re burnt out. Catch up on sleep and get back into reading with something you loved as a child, like Betsy Byars or Judy Blume”, not “you’re right! This book IS hard!”

"There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities"........."(where all the people are)"

Obviously the post below applies to Phillips bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

Non-ironically, yes. Lowers the value and makes it easier, therefore, to demolish and rebuild at density, which is the one of the two available secret sauces to “have a thriving high street”. (The other is “be v rich”.)

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Carnegie "The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced". Musk "what a NERD, amarite?"

The original clip posted on X excludes the woman saying “it’s a range of things that is also rape” and Manivannan saying “none of which is less or more worse” - and instead just includes them saying “it’s a spectrum”. Extremely misleading. Misinformation really.

Same argument always, and always wrong. The private sector is *never* in a better position to buy and operate not-for-profit assets because its cost of capital and, therefore, required returns are always—always—higher than the state's. Which means higher user costs and/or lower service quality.

The End of Oak Street feels like an adjunct to an Eric Flint novel. Another one of the Assiti Shards?

This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.

If you have yet to do so, read this book and the three after it. open.spotify.com/episode/30CD...

Typically good take from Pete. Literary devices or tropes (“this murder mystery exists to explore the world I’ve created”/“this fantastical concept is an allegory”) are interesting. Genres are just a marketing tool, and not a very interesting one.

It's not my local library, but I'm really looking forward to hearing about the refurbished B-listed Langside Library, including a brand new fully accessible entrance, reopening in winter 2026-27. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/about-us/col...

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.