Lavenham Teacher

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

This is utterly damning, and yet still about as generous as possible

Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing. "Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."

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.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

Remigration in action:

I think one thing is that Ali G's youthful audience 25 years ago didn't actually get the joke - they weren't laughing at the parody of a middle class white guy pretending to be black (a niche type at the time), they were laughing at the sexist jokes, drug references and befuddled ageing interviewees

For those unaware, John Cleese has fully endorsed Restore Britain

According to the @moreincommonuk.bsky.social MRP from late 2025, Clacton is now a majority Rejoin constituency.

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

I would hope this man gets absolutely everything he deserves but I don’t see how we could fit it all in before the heat death of the universe

oh my god

I've really enjoyed reading the original stories - for the first time - to my young son and he loves them too. Beautifully, hilariously written. Delightful.

President Zelenskyy: “It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner. This is my opinion.” Piers Morgan: “You think you are losing America?” President Zelenskyy: “Yes, but not because of us. We can’t be weak. Otherwise we can’t survive. We are not selling our country.”

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

No one in 2026 should be buying *anything* from Elon Musk.

Apart from once again proving himself a dead eyed socipath, Jenrick is forcing Reform down a cul-de-sac. "How about war crimes" is not winning 35% of the vote.

Okay, so Reform is now actively advocating for the armed forces to murder unarmed civilians as official policy. At what point does the media at large stop treating these people as anything but fascistic far right thugs who under any normal functioning system would be condemned as extremists.

Average Labour lead now almost 5 points ahead of Reform....

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

Zelenskyy: @Precisely at this moment, when we are talking about peace, America is giving Russia the opportunity to export diesel. This is... I don't know. “I believe our team is simply being used as a cover. And this is definitely unfair. “This is definitely un-partner-like.”

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

The party is polling, on aggregate, nine points lower than the day she took over, even with every right-wing media shoulder to the Badenoch wheel for several months now, and Reform in free fall, they have managed a one-point improvement since their party conference last year.

not beating the dictator allegations

Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.

Could someone put 10p in Nick Timothy, he appears to have frozen

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

Very helpful points from Georgina who knows the EU well.

Yep, when I catch up with other former Lib Dem Spads we just sit around cackling about how we destroyed the Tories by making them compromise on key issues. ‘Wow we totally screwed their electoral chances for a decade’ we say as we laugh into our drinks.

There's something a little depressing in the fact that the British establishment stood up against Enoch Powell's racism in the 1960s than it seems to be willing to be now

I am deeply saddened that the "Zionism is Racism" motion has passed.

The evidence seems thin that people are starting to give Badenoch a hearing. It does raise the more interesting puzzle of what people are thinking when they respond to these job approval questions

Heartbreaking to watch. "Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted to Russia, subjected to heavy indoctrination and even military training to turn them into soldiers." www.cbc.ca/player/play/... #JusticeAndAccountability #BringThemHome #ProtectUkrainianChildren #HumanRights

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

The reaction of most elections academics if you suggest introducing SV for any election is roughly similar to the reaction they would give if you proposed setting fire to their favourite pet

Living for Ross Kemp thinking that Bella Ramsay has killed him in plain sight for putting a hat on him #CelebrityTraitors

Amol Rajan: ‘I know a lot of people think of me as that nice, warm man from the news…’ #CelebrityTraitors

I DARE you to read this Pochetinno quote without Adam Curtis voice in your head

it might backfire horribly on him but if so, boy is Andy Burnham going out with a bang. Do wonder if that speech could only have been made by someone who was out of Westminster for the madness years & isn't as scared of the public - he's gambling on them still grudgingly respecting conviction

The number of people arguing City should keep titles they cheated* their way to is frankly mindboggling *subject to appeal etc etc etc

The online far right conspiracy theorists’ obsession with the Fabians - stoked massively by GB News, Talk TV et al - is one of the weirdest, most disturbing things in British politics right now (and that’s saying something) Like a mini British QAnon Must be awful working for Fabians rn

The black outfits don't work so well in the dark Maybe a hi-vis gilet as part of the winter hooligan line