"The government's sleeping at the wheel, under these circumstances, has to be something more than incompetence and complacency. It's stretching credulity to suggest their refusal to act on Twitter is because they think it's a valuable news outlet used by millions of people."
The fact this was posted first on X tells you exactly how seriously we should take it
Another night of rioting, this time culminating in the burning out of African immigrants from a Loyalist area of Belfast. This was called fo...
A decent statement from Sadiq Khan. Issuing something as basic as this is beyond the government.
They're not going to. It's time the hand waving about Starmer's inadequacies stopped and moved on to hard questions concerning tech oligarch interests and why Labour refuse to challenge them.
The British Press: "Watch us"
A few people campaigning / focus grouping in Makerfield have told me that even Reform supporters have brought up that Farage going against the wishes of Nowak's family made them uneasy.
So these statements are both brave and important.
Phil Burton-Cartledge
Phil Burton-Cartledge
Brendan Harkin
You will recall, less than a year ago, British police were instructed to disclose the ethnicity of suspects of crime as an explicit sop to the far-right after their last attempt to gin up pogroms. Our then-Home Secretary, now Foreign Secretary, lauded the move. Do we think this helped.
Sam Freedman
The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility"
They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants
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Daniel Trilling on how it's a mistake to think that in places where Reform (and other far-right groups) are doing well, that they represent the majority. And that a task for the metropolitan left is to build solidarity with people in such places who also oppose the far-right:
Lizzie Dearden
In fairness to ‘em, the NS are correctly asserting - with evidence - that successive governments sold or outsourced most of the state’s capacity to improve society somewhat*. The Spectator is repeating a lot of gargling Nazi horseshit about The Suicide Of The West. These are not the same.
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Gregk Foley
A lot of this stuff could have been avoided if more mainstream/influential liberal institutions had simply told these people to Fuck Off much sooner
