Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13h"We charge you with genocide." Grim, inane and preposterous. One day these people will realise that words mean something and you shouldn't just string them together randomly to make yourself feel better. 1632829
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16hModern racism is fascinatingly stupid, in that in the 90s and 2000s, there were all sorts of racist things people would say about mixed race people but they weren’t confused and perplexed by your existence. 820610
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This whole, "everything I don't like is Israeli," thing people keep doing is getting closer and closer to just being mask off Nazis. And Sunrise doing it is making a bid for a red-brown ecofascist alliance based on shared conspiratorial thinking blaming Israel for everything they don't like. 321345
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah I think people are confusing “it is good he clears that bar” with “he is good for clearing that bar” 051
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 512664960
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The people nitpicking the welcome change (or clarification) of tone/position are fundamentally unserious about the threat and the extent of the drift to this point. We 100% need conservative politicians to start speaking like this, and any objection as to the form is a nth order concern right now 48214
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Endlessly wearying that so many responses to this section of the speech are to point out that Badenoch's worked examples are wrong. Sure, but, in a very real sense, who cares? 1716620
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 2844586
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news. 1738367
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026She is a dreadful politician. She makes dreadful speeches. She’s still massively racist towards Muslims. Nonetheless, her saying this is a good thing. 51239
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Maturity is resisting the urge for a gotcha about the comments regarding Barnes and Wright, and recognising that instead she’s said something that is necessary to be said, and this is a first step to recalibrating the conversation away from ethno-nationalism. 819830
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Actually interesting section on Reform. "To those who say 'unite the right', we are not uniting with that". Says she doesn't want to debate if her mixed-race children are English. "We must not let these people take us backwards." This is a very welcome section, which wins a standing ovation. 826227
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialMrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Did you finish, babe?" 1226
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I want to talk about this story and removing levies from bills. As always I'm going to explain it all in layman's terms so people who are not energy nerds can understand what these debates about how to lower their energy bills actually mean www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...theguardian.comChancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy billsExclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers 64425
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialSimon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Let me talk about 7 October 2023. Tbh I'm not comfortable doing so here. I don't trust you. On that day, and in the days following, my experience of social media was deeply, profoundly unpleasant. But a lot changed in my life as a result of the attack and the war. So I may as well share how. 212528
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One of the acutely minor consequences of 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, mostly Jews, being murdered by Hamas on 7 October 2023 was finding out just who celebrated, equivocated, or who didn’t say anything at all but magically regained their ability to comment on this brutal conflict a few weeks later 18022
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026seems clear that whatever Polanski’s ambiguous feelings about the motion pre-passage, he now thinks critics should shut up and move on 67416
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions: 4940199
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026Kane and Unable: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch's decision to conduct her broadcast interviews as a tribute to Jeffrey Archer. thecritic.co.uk/kane... 814934
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush. 89545125
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/10/2026Demanding your head coach read this out at a press conference is iconic. 169315
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t understand how someone who was once such a great footballer is clearly so out of tune with their own body and its limitations, among other things. 311395
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857631246
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Honestly her brain should be studied. Why is she incapable of going 'this nuts politician has said something nutty and vile?'youtu.beDoes Kemi Badenoch agree with Suella Braverman that she 'can't call herself English'?YouTube video by Good Morning Britain 1922034
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I've agreed we should spend £10bn of taxpayers' money on this thing, no I don't know what it is or how it works, why would you expect me to know what it is or how it works?" 819514
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The thing is, this isn't some gotcha memory test about "what precise amount of money will this cost/raise" of the type beloved by interviewers in election campaigns. It's the most basic question imaginable - "how will this thing work?" She has no idea. 52457113
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pisspoor response from a pisspoor leader, who clearly does not have the moral clarity or the conviction to prevent racism in his party greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/05/z...greenparty.org.ukZack Polanski reaction to Zionism is racism motion - Green PartyGreen Party leader Zack Polanski said: “Antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli state are, and must always be, completely distinct – blurring the line between the two is not only wrong but antisemit... 7963998
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026So far this week we have lost three right-wing fraudsters in their eighties with criminal convictions related to their use of hush money to cover up sexual scandals. Almost like the Grim Reaper is hunting for one person in particular. 16917
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I continually struggle to reconcile “Kemi Badenoch, who as business secretary went ‘getting rid of all retained EU law would be the act of a nutty arsonist’ and backed Rishi Sunak in 2022” with “almost everything Kemi Badenoch does and says as leader of the opposition”. 1114327
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast 667311409
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026i’m still chuckling about this. imagine being a pair of professional shitstains and then crying like this in public about a joke at your expense 1474369264
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialDuncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Left-wing parties boasting about left-wing things and right-wing parties boasting about right-wing things is the hot new trend 2566
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Margaret Beckett: I blew up my party as a cautionary tale Zack Polanski: At last, we will recreate blowing up our party from the iconic “Labour party” 628531
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist 1635876
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry, whilst having some funny moments, is basically cringe. What is unforgiveable is the racism. #ToryRacism [H/T @eberlmat.bsky.social @generalboles.bsky.social @seanjones.org] 2228782
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding. 541902772
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026once again, they're telling us what they want to do 1337689
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026'Actually existing Manchesterism' meet 'Manchesterism as a device for making Labour feel good about itself'bbc.co.ukAndy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breachesThe prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton. 1312127
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 18722110
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible. 488997
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443850917
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialDavid Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The thing about this is it would very likely be hugely damaging, extremely unpopular and a gift to the tories if...Starmer had proposed it. So yeah it matters that we have a PM who knows politics and how to make an argument. 1102
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A bit like net migration figures being lower, the fact that UK economic growth has been higher than expected cuts against the narrative but can’t be ignored forever. Maybe (probably) I was wrong and Labour did have a theory of growth after all. 57025
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging. 551070147
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Polanski’s “tax the rich” is the same as Badenoch’s “cut benefits”, a one-size-fits-all funding source that appeals to their prejudice but would never generate anything like the money they claim, and prevents them ever having to engage with serious politics 1420037
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 312886640
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman watching that speech: 0163
Reposted by @anrana.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The guy who put changes to the triple lock 'on the table for discussion' less than a year ago. C***. news.sky.com/story/nigel-...news.sky.comNigel Farage pivots on economy - will his original supporters be in favour?As Nigel Farage threatens a benefits crackdown and becomes the only party to put changes to the triple lock on the table, will Reform UK's original voters still be as strongly in favour? 5908
