@Colman @ChrisMayLA6 Lots but Trump does not care - he most probably gets perverse pleasure from the fact the people are fighting over and for him. Trump is a clear and present danger to US national security.

'This is England 2025.It starts slowly at first, then all of a sudden it just creeps up on you'!The view from Faversham.... 'Racists & thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents & people of colour, who are living in fear'!When the BBC gives Farage a platform to broadcast his hate this is the result... if we end up with a Reform Govt. then the BBC wil have comprehensively failed as a public service broadcaster!#politics #racism #FarRight https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/09/racist-mob-menacing-refugee-children-far-right

Scottish Greens' Justice Spokesperson Maggie Chapman on the arrest of protestors against the proscription of Palestine Action.... Once again the Scottish Greens are saying what we would like other politicians to be saying (and of course acting on).#politics #protest

Jason White's (Guardian) cartoon on the priorities of a police force dealing with placard wielding peaceful protesters rather than 'real' criminals....#politics #protest

Two hundred Neighbourhood Health Centres across England could transform NHS practice.... but, perhaps unsurprisingly the Health Dept. is exploring private investment to build & run them.Seemingly Labour have learnt nothing from the part previous Private Finance Initiative projects have played in the ongoing budgetary crisis.Ironically (?) this is exactly the sort of social investment one might have hoped Rachel Reeves new fiscal rules would have encompassed?#politics #health #NHS h/t FT

There is a long tradition of breaking specific laws to show that the Rule of Law (in its normative sense) is being compromised by non-sensical laws - such civil disobedience has a well-established pedigree.As arrests of those breaking the proscription of Palestine Action, by holding placards silently, exceeds a thousand, I think we can safely say Labour is now confronting mass civil disobedience; if they know their history they'll know they are likely on the wrong side of this!#politics

Well, well, well.... Nigel Farage uses a personal services firm in a common if often criticised 'tax planning' approach to (legally) reduce his tax bill.Once again Farage is showing that despite his man of the people approach he's a lot more like the establishment figures he criticises... but, while this features in the Guardian, my guess is unlike Angela Rayner's, Farage's tax affairs will garner little interest or traction in the Right media.#politics #tax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

@cstross I'm not convinced by the common UK view that increasing fees have been driven by the expansion of university places. In France anybody that passes their 'bac' at the end of school automatically gets a uni place - and more students go, and more get degrees, than in the UK.My daughter has just finished a 5-year university course here in France. Both her fees and living costs were paid by the state. She could get a 3-course meal at her uni every day for 1€. She could hire a bike for 1€ a YEAR. She could go from home to her uni in Strasbourg by train for 60€ - a journey further than Newcastle-London. She spent a term in Portugal, entirely funded by the state and EU (and she was doing chemistry, not languages), as well as another term in Paris, also paid. If France can do this, why can't the UK?@HighlandLawyer @ChrisMayLA6