Mark Stacey This - from Private Eye - illustrates why it was reasonable to question the sentence lengths given to the Stop Oil protestors The Rest Is Politics

Just check the mugshots coming through 🤣🤣 #ToriesAreOut #StarmerIsPM44 #LabourLandside #Changebeginstoday #farrightfails

America needs to learn the terrifying lesson of the British riots. This was Musk’s trial balloon for the US election. The prospect of political violence is real. And Musk’s behaviour is a warning shot of what’s to come. My piece for The Observer theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Exclusive: Half The Country Believes Nigel Farage Is 'Responsible' For The Riots huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusiv…

Left: James Cleverly criticises Labour for scrapping the Rwanda policy Right: Kwasi Kwarteng admits the Rwanda policy couldn't be delivered by Rishi Sunak and he only kept it going to save embarrassment Both interviews, hours apart, today. The Conservative party and what's

The Guardian newspaper says three in four Brits are worried about the far-right after the riots Are you worried about the far-right?

Some honesty, at last.

Another day, another internet full of accounts professing shock and dismay at our two-tier, totalitarian state in which you can’t even engage in a little bit of racist arson-y violent disorder without the old bill sticking their noses in. Some truth to throw in the mix:

Me. I know. Defendants are informed of their right to a jury trial not only by their lawyers (who know a thing or two about trials), but also by the *court* during the first hearing. Those who pleaded guilty likely did so because they were guilty. You conspiracist fruitcakes.

Incredible… Putin’s henchmen helped Musk to acquire Twitter. That explains a lot: the position of Musk on Crimea… the refusal at some point to let Ukraine use Starlink… the support for Trump… Time for the US to wake up !

Did Elon Musk buy Twitter to do the Kremlin’s bidding?

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Mukhtar It’s the new side hustle. Buy a blue tick, pedal racist lies, and sit back for the engagement $$$. Only hazard is inadvertently instigating real-life hate crimes.

They are weird.

We're delighted that the UK's independent news regulator IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) has upheld a complaint we made over a misleading claim about migration data in a 2023 Daily Express comment article written by then-Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden MP. buff.ly/4ecFmGn

Shadow welfare secretary Mel Stride tells Labour MPs: "Look to your conscience. These measures, you know in your heart that these measures are wrong." In 2012, the Tory govt capped benefits increases to 1%, well below inflation & introduced the “bedroom tax”. In 2013, household