Nicole

Nooooooooo

@samfr.bsky.social what’s happened to Elon Levy? Seems anti Netenyahu?? Wasn’t he his spokesperson in the uk?

Come on Israel you can do this!! Kick out Netenyahu, Smotrich and Ben Gvir! The very long healing process has to start 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ☮️ ✡️ 🕊️ Your country, the region, the diaspora and the world needs this 🙏 💙

Wow! He did it!

Wow. Vučić has conceded Serbian election. Massive moment for the entire Balkans

The promise of a proper discussion on free movement. This is exactly what's needed before we get on to Rejoin. rolandmcs.substack.com/p/on-rejoin?...

My God. X is going snowflake crazy cos the government said maybe get a few cans in. What is wrong with people?!

Interesting in Scunthorpe BBC QT that in such a leave voting seat how many were for much closer relationship with Europe and against the US

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

I am 48 and I was today years old when I discovered that I couldn’t call myself English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Absolutely horrific what has happened today in so pleased everyone is safe. It’s also, I fear going to help Netanyahu

This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

lol

Another thing that goes back to Brexit in my eyes and “take back control” she want to give people a sense of agency that the government has control over the borders and that people contribute to the system. She might be right.

OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents ft.trib.al/USplJso

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

WTF

Hmmm. I wonder who led us here. Let’s not pretend the Spectator wasn’t one of the many press organisations that nudged it along.

The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich

So now Christopher Harborne has given another 36 million to Reform. 72 million on 48 hours?!!! This is just corruption in plain site

I do think this ultimately ends up in either liberal democracy being defeated or in liberal democracy being forced to explictly ban its enemies, and dare them to violently overthrow the state. The type of informal "bans" that Western Democracies could do in the 1950s-70s just aren't available now

WTF?

New low of 35.7% for Trump's average approval rating. Wait. That's a *low* for an obviously deranged lunatic who is clearly causing havoc across the world and very obviously lining his own pockets.

The UAE, Qatar, KSA, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia all come out in support of UK action on the occupied territories and call for other nations to follow www.mofa.gov.ae/en/mediahub/...

If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.

Sir Edward Leigh MP: “What is happening in the West Bank... is ethnic cleansing... I am proud to say, as the longest-serving member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, that I absolutely and fully support what [Ed Miliband] is doing today, because it’s about standing up for freedom and justice"

Worth recalling that the Cameron government privately warned Israel that it risked being treated as a pariah as far back as 2014 if it continued on its course re occupation and settlement. Miliband is not making Israel a pariah state, successive Netanyahu governments have done that

I hate to tell you all but Tim Stanley is talking sense again

Saw this on X and genuinely believe this is what is happening. As soon as Labour were elected there were riots it’s seems a hybrid attack on the UK from various governments and stoked by US tech platforms

Sorry, this is dumb/ahistorical. UK sanctions against South Africa 1985/86 were also largely "symbolic". But Thatcher had to be dragged kicking and screaming, and the apartheid regime devoted huge resources to stopping them - just as the Israeli govt is now. Symbols *really* matter here..

I hate to tell you all but Dan Hodges is talking a lot of sense again

Look, I want to defend the BBC as an institution but they make it very difficult. When the right comes to attack it, as they will, there will hardly be anyone there to defend it.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

The latest to go down the X rabbit hole? Nick Tyrone

Jenrick is such a slimy, nasty cunt

Why does Beth Rigby openly call the Bardella and Le Pen “the far right party” but won’t call Reform that?

I'm old enough to remember Nigel Farage ruling out any association with Le Pen's lot "now or in the future" because he considered them "far right". But I guess that's ok now. Here is what he said in 2013 and 2015.

Well I guess my initial view of James Johnson was correct. I always thought he was a proper dodgy pollster. And to think he’s been all over the TV saying Burnham should go for an election now. I wonder what he was seeing there

I remember talking to a fellow Jew who worked at the US embassy a while back, they had some involvement with pro-peace initiatives I’ll never forget them saying “if it gets to a point where nobody will even listen to each other anymore, we are beyond f*cked” Reminded of their words today

Labour hold a 4pt lead over Reform in our latest voting intention, with the Tories a point behind Reform. 🌹 LAB 27% (-)
⏩ REF 23% (-2)
🌳 CON 22% (-)
🔶 LIB DEM 10% (-1)
🟢 GREEN 9% (-)
⚫ RES: 4% (New)
🟡 SNP 2% (-) 
 N = 3,140 | Fieldwork 21-23/8 | Changes w 17/8

In a world of dreadful billionaires, be Dolly

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