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I doubt whether the total income of all the workers on the 6 am bus out of my town on their way to cleaning, caring and hospitality jobs is much more than £100K a year but, Kemi Badenoch may not agree, they work bloody hard.

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

I don't understand why Labour don't make more of this. Austerity deliberately underfunded multiple public services with no clear benefit. Now Labour are needing to invest in them to stop them collapsing. Taxes should go towards preserving & improving public services, otherwise what is the point.

Totally agree.

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

Why is there a little goblin happy about tax? Is it supposed to represent public services and those in need or....

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

Me too.

Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.

Apart from the fact that it isn't within any realm of possibility, a one state solution would not solve the conflict. You can't just get rid of countries, even if their leadership is abhorrent. A two state solution is the only way to bring peace, which means the existence of both Israel & Palestine.

America in 2026.

You should never actually watch it, but a key to understanding Kemi is her Triggernometry interview where she explains her immigration policy, the (very friendly) host explains it back to her, and she immediately declares that isn't what she said, so re-explains it, and then it happens again.

I don't know why they stopped pointing that out during the campaign. Kamala & Walz had lovely families, were public servants, hit all the traditional values (family, law & order, fiscal responsibility, etc). It is crazy that a collecion of the worst people in America won. They are all incompetent.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Pathetic…..

The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.

Watching the Senate hearings like

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.

There are some really brave and principled people in the US still. I hope he stays safe and is able to complete the mission he's dedicated himself to.

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

Maybe there's a lesson in that for the rest of the UK.... ?

Not only is this pathetically telling of this administrations competence in international diplomacy, but it also looks awful.

Lord Gove: "The thing that is really perplexing to me is why these people have been released on bail.." Kevin Maguire: "My guess would be, its because the police have found no evidence of terrorism" #GMB

ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, the three leading artificial intelligence assistants, were asked to recommend the best conveyancing solicitor in Doncaster. They all came up with a firm that was ordered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last year to pay a penalty of £23,549,

He will just pivot to "the enemy within". If they are white it will antifa/radical left. He will find a way to use it to stir division, as he's being paid to do.

I am once again pointing out that when politicians say they want less people to go to university or more people to work in a factory, they never mean their own kids.

💔💔💔 Absolutely heart-breaking news that 3 people, including a child, have lost their lives trying to cross the Channel to safety. These aren't just numbers, they are human beings. We must never forget that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.

In the year to June 2026, arrivals on resettlement schemes dropped by 50% - around 3,500 fewer people arrived. And @refugeecouncil.bsky.social estimates that since it refugee family reunion was "paused" last September, around 20,000 people have been prevented from applying.

Safe and legal routes are a good thing, and welcome that Mahmood is going to be saying this later today. But, has to been seen in the context that arrivals will be in the hundreds, and the Government have shut down the Afghan scheme and refugee family reunion. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So we can't raise taxes for the super wealthy as they might leave and then we'll have less tax paid which is bad... but we can force lots of tax payers to leave/ prevent them coming and then have less tax but it is a good thing? Almost like these arguments aren't about economics at all.

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

A genuinely positive step for those who will benefit - but in no way is this a substitute/tradeoff for Mahmood's earned settlement proposals. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.