Ken Ferrett

Nick Robinson, in a conversation on Reform UK with Chris Mason this morning, said, "the scrutiny will now start..." Not holding my breath.

I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this coordinated campaign to delegitimize Muslim Americans - not just as citizens but as humans. These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.

Race Across The World but it's Flávio and Bibi on the run from Lula and the ICC

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Sort it out, @mickhitchin.bsky.social

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.

“Crime is spiralling out of control under Labour,” Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said about new stats out this morning. “Labour needs to stop making excuses and back the police to ensure criminals face consequences.” 🙄

Apt that the culpability of politicians over the 43000 Covid deaths is hardly mentioned on the front pages on the 60th anniversary of #Aberfan. Hancock and Johnson are the 2020s equivalent of the NCB.

What does Kemi Badenoch think the level of immigration should be? Is everybody in the media & politics going to act surprised when the year to June 2026 statistic (on Nov 26th) falls below net 100k for first time this century Best estimate of net migration *now* (4th Q 2026) is zero, or negative

NB I can totally see the arguments for doing something about this £100k cliff-edge. I just think that, compared to the cliff-edges faced by many way down the income distribution, this is probably less of a priority for a centre-left government in a weak fiscal position than it is for the UK media.

What Sikorski says is true and most Americans don't believe it because they're received a steady drip feed of rubbish about Ukraine for years from US corporate media. bsky.app/profile/noth...

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

This is excellent messaging for the median ballroom and military complex combination voter.

Not enough people know about this. Badenoch put Low onto the Public Accounts Committee.

The right’s obsession with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be our next Brexit - the next dumb, nationalist, chest-beating act of folly that will have huge consequences for Britain – none of them good Podcast and piece for me

A beautiful blue and white view from my volunteer marshaling spot at this morning's Great South Run. 💙

Basically, the entire UK right. Just months ago, Farage and Badenoch wanted the UK to actively participate in his moronic war with Iran.

Reform's top man in Hampshire claims he was never a member of "Portsmouth Patriots". Sure George, like Gerry Adams was never a member of the IRA.

1,000 years from now, teachers will struggle to explain to their students how at this time in history, we found literally the most despicable human being in America and made him the most powerful person in the world

Someone joked on WhatsApp about Trump appointing Liz Truss as his new Press Sec and, for just a flash, just a millisecond, I actually believed it. Because that is the timeline we are living.

There is no US pivot towards Russia now either, this is what the US has been since January 2025.

ITV's expose of Reform UK is neither shocking nor surprising. That they have selected people to represent them that are racist, misogynist bigoted foul people is exactly what they attract and what they are. Farage has cultivated that and just shows what a farce their vetting procedures really are.

If you can be "provoked" into saying/doing something racist, the chances are that you are, in fact, racist.

Chris Mason has spent the last few days looking for a gotcha with Andy Burnham and his relationship as Greater Manchester mayor with Man City. Mason's peers in ITV have done an excellent, and brave, expose of Reform. The contrast speaks volumes.

you can see Putin's lips moving

Unforgivable Green conference vote dates from the inability of Marxists to tolerate Israel as a home for Soviet Jews

European states are now going to observe the price paid for not preparing for a post-US security future the moment Trump was nominated in 2024. Unfortunately the price will be paid by Ukrainians.

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

Q: Russia hit 6 energy sites yesterday. What evidence do you have-- TRUMP: Well, Ukraine hit many sites the day before

My admiration for Zelenskyy is off the scale. The word "hero" doesn't come close.

How the hell have we ended up here?

How is it a 'collapse in gender boundaries and stereotypes' to say that men performing gender stereotypes are women? It's exactly the opposite. It's a regressive & autocratic enforcement of gender boundaries and stereotypes to insist man = performing masculinity and woman = performing femininity.

Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party calls the 'lethal force' proposal of Jenrick "disgusting and illegal". "Our armed forces are not going to start opening fire on unarmed civilians, and Reform are dragging their own reputations and credibility into the gutter by suggesting it"

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

On Facebook, this has 2400 laughing reactions and the comments are worse. A stark example of the dehumanisation of migrants

Lest we forget... Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage both supported Donald Trump's war of choice against Iran. A war that is not only illegal but which has resulted in needless suffering and instability, as well as undermining the UK's economic recovery. #bbclaurak www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

If you want to know what Donald will say today, read what the Kremlin said yesterday.

So Ukrainians are now monsters. What's next, they will sanction us? help Russia bomb Ukraine?

Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers

Elon Musk encouraging violence against his political opponents. There is no good reason to continue using his website.

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”

#CPC26 tl:dw WW3 is coming but you will be able to leave the bombed-out remains of your house to your children tax free

Badenoch seems to have written her speech in the belief that her party has just won a massive majority after 14 years of Labour Government.