I Am Incorrigible
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Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto on immigration says “We have a proud tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and abuse".
I remember that Labour. I preferred them to this current lot.
I remember that Labour. I preferred them to this current lot.
Want to learn the difference between asylum seeker, refugee and migrant and read an excellent article. @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social for The Canary www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Labour has just betrayed its 2024 manifesto completely
When push comes to shove Labour will sell out anyone to protect their jobs and the white colonialist infrastructure the UK is built on
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November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto on immigration says “We have a proud tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and abuse".
I remember that Labour. I preferred them to this current lot.
I remember that Labour. I preferred them to this current lot.
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All else aside, how the hell is the Political Editor of the BBC in any way "unsung". He's literally the Political Editor of the BBC
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
All else aside, how the hell is the Political Editor of the BBC in any way "unsung". He's literally the Political Editor of the BBC
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BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
The Trumped up charges against James Comey and Letitia James thrown out of court.
Always the most likely outcome, but also a direct result of Trump appointing incompetent lawyers from his own team to be prosecutors.
Kind of hilarious but also deeply damaging for those who believe in US justice.
Always the most likely outcome, but also a direct result of Trump appointing incompetent lawyers from his own team to be prosecutors.
Kind of hilarious but also deeply damaging for those who believe in US justice.
US judge dismisses charges against James Comey and Letitia James on.ft.com/3XNXZKA
US judge dismisses charges against James Comey and Letitia James
Ruling found the appointment of Donald Trump ally Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor was unconstitutional
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Trumped up charges against James Comey and Letitia James thrown out of court.
Always the most likely outcome, but also a direct result of Trump appointing incompetent lawyers from his own team to be prosecutors.
Kind of hilarious but also deeply damaging for those who believe in US justice.
Always the most likely outcome, but also a direct result of Trump appointing incompetent lawyers from his own team to be prosecutors.
Kind of hilarious but also deeply damaging for those who believe in US justice.
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Comey and James walking away without prejudice. Trump’s fantasy revenge tour keeps getting smacked by reality and law.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Comey and James walking away without prejudice. Trump’s fantasy revenge tour keeps getting smacked by reality and law.
For secretly funded AEI 'think tank' in the US, read IEA and TPA and ASI among many others in the UK. All pushing in the same anti science, anti climate recovery, pro fossil fuel direction.
And all, ofc, given a regular berth on the BBC (among others).
#climateCrisis #bbcpm
And all, ofc, given a regular berth on the BBC (among others).
#climateCrisis #bbcpm
Kudos to the #CornellSun for highlighting in the title of their expose on #RogerPielkeJr the fact that he's neither a scientist nor an academic, but a paid attack dog for a right-leaning, climate-denying, Koch Brothers-funded think tank. Whatever credibility he might have once had is in tatters.
"AEI Fellow Roger Pielke Jr.’s Talk at Cornell Climate Impact Speaker Series Sparks Controversy" by Andrea Kim for the #CornellSun: www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
For secretly funded AEI 'think tank' in the US, read IEA and TPA and ASI among many others in the UK. All pushing in the same anti science, anti climate recovery, pro fossil fuel direction.
And all, ofc, given a regular berth on the BBC (among others).
#climateCrisis #bbcpm
And all, ofc, given a regular berth on the BBC (among others).
#climateCrisis #bbcpm
KREMLIN AIDE USHAKOV SAYS EUROPEAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS ON UKRAINE PEACE PLAN SEEM AT FIRST GLANCE COMPLETELY UNCONSTRUCTIVE AND DO NOT WORK FOR RUSSIA
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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With typical lack of self-awareness, the narcissistic and stupid Donald Trump reposts an image of himself wearing a crown while sitting on a throne with a Nazi eagle. Hardly a denial of the accusation that he's a Nazi who thinks he's a king.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
With typical lack of self-awareness, the narcissistic and stupid Donald Trump reposts an image of himself wearing a crown while sitting on a throne with a Nazi eagle. Hardly a denial of the accusation that he's a Nazi who thinks he's a king.
Those people always have a fantasy that the UK used to be self-sufficient in food production until relatively recently (usually just before the EU/EEC).
The reality is that we haven't been self-sufficient since the mid 18th century.
The reality is that we haven't been self-sufficient since the mid 18th century.
I like to ask were they think most of Britain's food came from in 1900.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Those people always have a fantasy that the UK used to be self-sufficient in food production until relatively recently (usually just before the EU/EEC).
The reality is that we haven't been self-sufficient since the mid 18th century.
The reality is that we haven't been self-sufficient since the mid 18th century.
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Substackers: New Substack posts seem to now default to a serif font. When did that change and how can one revert to the old style?
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Substackers: New Substack posts seem to now default to a serif font. When did that change and how can one revert to the old style?
IHT nil-rate band is £325k, with an addl £175k possible if the main residence is left to direct descendants, raising the total to £500k. Any value above this is taxed at 40%. For a £148k tax bill, the estate was likely c.£870,000 with £370,000 taxable: 40% × £370,000 = £148,000)
Boo bloody hoo.
Boo bloody hoo.
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
IHT nil-rate band is £325k, with an addl £175k possible if the main residence is left to direct descendants, raising the total to £500k. Any value above this is taxed at 40%. For a £148k tax bill, the estate was likely c.£870,000 with £370,000 taxable: 40% × £370,000 = £148,000)
Boo bloody hoo.
Boo bloody hoo.
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Yes... I'm planning for its demise too.
I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Yes... I'm planning for its demise too.
This woman knows next to nothing about business, unless you count flipping & serving burgers, and cleaning the loos at McDonald's.
The Tories will reverse Labour's employment bill whatever happens, but at least we have over three years to see how it is working before the next govt repeals it.
The Tories will reverse Labour's employment bill whatever happens, but at least we have over three years to see how it is working before the next govt repeals it.
Badenoch's arrogantly delivered, noxiously apocalyptic assault on employment rights aside, it's quite something to claim that only you understand business, then ask business, instead of adjusting to a new law, to plan on the remotest chance that you will become PM and undo it all in four years.🤣 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This woman knows next to nothing about business, unless you count flipping & serving burgers, and cleaning the loos at McDonald's.
The Tories will reverse Labour's employment bill whatever happens, but at least we have over three years to see how it is working before the next govt repeals it.
The Tories will reverse Labour's employment bill whatever happens, but at least we have over three years to see how it is working before the next govt repeals it.
This is also my experience with my GP in Kensington.
I only rarely have to wait more than a few days for an in person appointment and, if it's urgent, I will always be seen the same day.
Also, if I express a specific worry, it is always investigated with the full range of tests/scans, & quickly.
I only rarely have to wait more than a few days for an in person appointment and, if it's urgent, I will always be seen the same day.
Also, if I express a specific worry, it is always investigated with the full range of tests/scans, & quickly.
I am constantly so impressed with my local GP clinic. It is impossibly efficient. There is no relationship with an individual doctor - I don't want one - but the moment you have a concern about something they sort a call back that day or a walk-in appointment that week. They're just brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is also my experience with my GP in Kensington.
I only rarely have to wait more than a few days for an in person appointment and, if it's urgent, I will always be seen the same day.
Also, if I express a specific worry, it is always investigated with the full range of tests/scans, & quickly.
I only rarely have to wait more than a few days for an in person appointment and, if it's urgent, I will always be seen the same day.
Also, if I express a specific worry, it is always investigated with the full range of tests/scans, & quickly.
Labour has a parliamentary majority of 169. When are they going to use it to pass legislation inline with what most of us understood to be Labour (as opposed to Tory) values?
#PoliticsLive
#PoliticsLive
Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Labour has a parliamentary majority of 169. When are they going to use it to pass legislation inline with what most of us understood to be Labour (as opposed to Tory) values?
#PoliticsLive
#PoliticsLive
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Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult
I always thought the idea of a Logan's Run style carousel was quite an appealing way of dealing with the gerontocracy.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I always thought the idea of a Logan's Run style carousel was quite an appealing way of dealing with the gerontocracy.
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Were any of these things really given the consideration and time by broadcasters that they deserved?
I watched both #bbclaurak & Trevor Phillips's flagship Sunday morning political programmes today - neither of them even mentioned any of these three momentous stories.
How is that possible?
I watched both #bbclaurak & Trevor Phillips's flagship Sunday morning political programmes today - neither of them even mentioned any of these three momentous stories.
How is that possible?
In the past week or so the leader of the UKs most popular political party (acc. to polls) was shown to have a Nazi fanboy past (& likely present); an ex PM proved to be self-absorbed, lazy & responsible for killing 23k people; & COP30 where the likely death of human civilization was in the balance.
Boris Johnson killing 23,000 people during Covid should be the only story for the next month.
It should presage a full police inquiry, a criminal prosecution, & the first incarceration of a British prime minister.
Instead, everyone will be talking about Trump again tomorrow, & the budget, & the..
It should presage a full police inquiry, a criminal prosecution, & the first incarceration of a British prime minister.
Instead, everyone will be talking about Trump again tomorrow, & the budget, & the..
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Were any of these things really given the consideration and time by broadcasters that they deserved?
I watched both #bbclaurak & Trevor Phillips's flagship Sunday morning political programmes today - neither of them even mentioned any of these three momentous stories.
How is that possible?
I watched both #bbclaurak & Trevor Phillips's flagship Sunday morning political programmes today - neither of them even mentioned any of these three momentous stories.
How is that possible?
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
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45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
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Ah, the annual announcement of a "crackdown on benefit fraud"
As a reminder, the DWPs own estimate for the level of benefit fraud is 2.2% or £6bn per year (across all benefits), some of which is already recovered.
Meanwhile, HMRC estimates the amount lost to tax evasion in FY24 was 5.3% or £47bn.
As a reminder, the DWPs own estimate for the level of benefit fraud is 2.2% or £6bn per year (across all benefits), some of which is already recovered.
Meanwhile, HMRC estimates the amount lost to tax evasion in FY24 was 5.3% or £47bn.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ah, the annual announcement of a "crackdown on benefit fraud"
As a reminder, the DWPs own estimate for the level of benefit fraud is 2.2% or £6bn per year (across all benefits), some of which is already recovered.
Meanwhile, HMRC estimates the amount lost to tax evasion in FY24 was 5.3% or £47bn.
As a reminder, the DWPs own estimate for the level of benefit fraud is 2.2% or £6bn per year (across all benefits), some of which is already recovered.
Meanwhile, HMRC estimates the amount lost to tax evasion in FY24 was 5.3% or £47bn.
What is interesting about this Express post is the phrase "tax generous", which presumably refers to the fact that the rich pay the most tax (because they have the highest incomes & accumulated assets)
They do that out of 'generosity', apparently, because paying tax is optional for them.
#r4today
They do that out of 'generosity', apparently, because paying tax is optional for them.
#r4today
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
What is interesting about this Express post is the phrase "tax generous", which presumably refers to the fact that the rich pay the most tax (because they have the highest incomes & accumulated assets)
They do that out of 'generosity', apparently, because paying tax is optional for them.
#r4today
They do that out of 'generosity', apparently, because paying tax is optional for them.
#r4today
Ok, I was wrong about the (meaningless) name change for the Gulf of Mexico.
10 months on, & I'm confident the key point has been proved beyond doubt.
This is the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Something that is overlooked, even actively ignored, every single day by the UK media.
#r4today
10 months on, & I'm confident the key point has been proved beyond doubt.
This is the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Something that is overlooked, even actively ignored, every single day by the UK media.
#r4today
It's all bullshit distraction - Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada, Gulf of America, all of it.
Trump's 2nd term is about bribery & corruption, nothing else.
The bribes are already flowing in, and Trump wants us looking at anything other than the $billions he intends to trouser over the next 4 years.
Trump's 2nd term is about bribery & corruption, nothing else.
The bribes are already flowing in, and Trump wants us looking at anything other than the $billions he intends to trouser over the next 4 years.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Ok, I was wrong about the (meaningless) name change for the Gulf of Mexico.
10 months on, & I'm confident the key point has been proved beyond doubt.
This is the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Something that is overlooked, even actively ignored, every single day by the UK media.
#r4today
10 months on, & I'm confident the key point has been proved beyond doubt.
This is the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Something that is overlooked, even actively ignored, every single day by the UK media.
#r4today