I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

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Interesting claim from Dylan Riley: by attacking the politically ‘irrelevant’ civic nodes of academia and NGOs, MAGA could unwittingly unleash a more truly potent Left newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...

Quite bizarre to think there was a co-ordinated campaign to vandalise ULEZ cameras with like 5,000 incidents and people getting criminal records all because Sadiq Khan introduced a policy that's reduced pollution and saved people's lives.

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

It's not volunteering if it's compulsory

Two anti-immigration protestors came down from Scotland to take part in today’s UKIP Mass Deportation rally in Newcastle and were told to go back to where they came from… by their own side.

The Starmer loyalists - a small but noisy group which seems, against all rational expectations, to exist - told me off for this, and demanded I wait til Friday when he would obviously be doing this. "The right was correct, immigration IS bad," was not quite the line I was looking for, if I'm honest.

I am living groundhog decade today. NPR delayed, Andy Burnham can’t understand why his pre conference leadership platforming is being reported as pre platform leadership platforming, why hasn’t this tram been built, levelling up announcement

The consistent theme in Chotiner seems to be that a lot of important, well-regarded public figures either have horrifying views, or that they are so dim and unused to being challenged that as little as one follow-up question makes them look absurd, or both of these things.

I know we've worked hard to move history ed away from names and dates but I think we might need to swing back to chronology a bit because "who was president on january 8 2021?" and "which came first, the clinical description of autism or tylenol?" shouldn't be this hard, especially for reporters.

Just protecting women.

"Absolutely shocking that this would even be considered." 💬

RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Prof Nicola Ranger spoke to ITV news this evening about Reform UK's plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants.

Also Chris Mason getting up in arms due to an accusation the BBC is laundering rightwing political positions as if it were merely news reporting is... a bit rich, let's be honest.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

This xenophobic nonsense illustrates why the government's proposals to restrict settlement rights is not only wrong but politically self-defeating.

Has just encouraged Reform to become even more extreme.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

It took ~9 months for Farage to go from disavowing mass deportations to promising them, and then 25 days to go from promising them to expanding that promise. At this rate I really dread to think where this policy will be by the next election...
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And, like, that’s in addition to the clearly impeachable worse-than-Nixon coverup of the Homan bribery investigation.

Two—count them: ONE, TWO—worse than Nixon things JUST TODAY.

When you hate trans people so much, you have to pretend this isn't an antitrans smear in order to allow yourself to be mad about it.

Imagine having all the cultural and financial security of *the university of oxford* and being this pathetically weak. Extraordinary really.

It was just a quite mean spirited, very targeted set of redundancies this time (I’m out of scope this time, so only been offered voluntary redundancy three times - so far!). All the warmth and humanity of a thrown knife, as Pratchett would put it.

ours was on wednesday this week, which was a refreshing change

I was once daft enough to think that the "reasonable", "moderate" transphobes would speak out against the extremism of the Republican version but I haven't seen much evidence that they care what happens