If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post
"The caucus doesn’t deny that good Muslims exist. But its members argue that once the bad Muslims take power, the formerly good Muslims will join them." This is known as a distinction without a difference. It's also known as fearmongering and bigotry.
Have I understood this right? They taken the extra for businesses and individuals and divided it by the number of households?
Given a right to reply to this article, Matt Goodwin wrote: “A typically lazy piece. We are number 2 on Amazon books not top 10. You also miss out I am Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. I have no idea what interview you are referring to. Wait, do I have more subscribers than your insignificant magazine? It’s very possible.”
Lest anyone doubt my own commitment to counterveiling views, here's the response that ran in full at the foot of a recent piece I wrote about Matthew Goodwin (article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...)
Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇
Elon musk biography inscribed to a child on their 9th birthday including "lots of positive lessons to be learned from Mr musk". Signed love mum and dad.
One of the bleakest charity shop specimens I have ever encountered from @mysuburbanhell.bsky.social
Donald Trump and the Epstein class should be very VERY afraid 🔥
Call out corruption to defeat fascism!
Congratulations to the wonderful @thelabandfield.bsky.social, as well as to the other 9 recipients of the Pride in Stem Decadal Awards!!! 👏👏👏 prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...
Not content with starting wars, killing innocent people, threatening the Vatican, weakening the US economy
Trump wants to invade Greenland.
He said, "our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!"
Is there no end to his stupidity?
"America can feel like madness, to be honest. You have to face racism, economic precariousness, and the burden of caring for your family while not knowing if something could happen to you at the workplace, or to your children in school."
www.thexylom.com/post/bhutan-...
Trump TACOed out as expected on Iran. But the big “breakthrough” he announced was anything but. In fact, it appears to be as fabricated as his lies about Epstein, and as fake as that spray tan. My write-up in the replies.
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
One of my favourite quotes, attributed to St Augustine and embodied by @drkatemarine.bsky.social today.
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.
Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
In his role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, former oil and gas lobbyist Aaron Szabo has solicited input and specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules, ProPublica has learned.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
Guy is a literal fucking psychopath
Stop Reform - #VoteGreen
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Let's keep up the pressure: #PalantirOut.
First the NHS, then defence contracts
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82% of Britain’s electricity is currently zero carbon.
This is an incredible achievement of which we should be rightly proud and motivated to go further, faster.
Instead, we’ve got fossil fuelled politicians telling us we should be focusing on 93% depleted North Sea oil & gas.
“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.”
One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.
Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere. Listen · 5:32 min Share full article
“When the Trump administration came to power and began setting U.S. energy policy, we said that we’ll have to reconsider, clearly, these offshore wind project developments,” Mr. Pouyanné said. He said that since winning the leases, the company had concluded that offshore wind was “not the most affordable way to produce electricity” and would require federal subsidies that are now being phased out by the Trump administration.
I know this is an obscene decision by Trump but TotalEnergies are not getting enough hate here. Getting paid $$ to ditch renewables and pour that $$ into filthy American gas projects is a dream come true for them.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.
Great to see @makevotesmatter.bsky.social at the Together Alliance march in London today. Part of the 500,000 people attending who were against the far right and for hope and unity. 👍
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
–Justice Louis Brandeis
Bravo! Would have liked to be there but unfortunately was unable.
Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis”
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.
The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.
Priorities.
It's notable that the seemingly endless catalogue of sexual offences committed by priests & ministers is never turned into a narrative that 'all clergy' are a threat, the way any offence by a trans person is used to collectively smear an entire group. And it's often the religious doing the smearing.
Frogs currently laying in small pond in London - about 12+ads. 3 large egg clumps so far, but now at least 5 have been found dead on lawn. Is this a cost of reproduction with sudden cold weather or more disease? Any similar obs?? #UKBirding
