I want a time machine so I can grab my parents from 1990 and plop them down in front of their 2025 maga selves. I don't think any would survive, but definitely not my father.

You'd be a fool to predict the next election this far out, but my feeling is: the Stop Farage vote is far more determined than any Stop X vote I can remember.

No matter how popular Reform seems to be, I suspect they won't win a GE because 65% of us will do almost anything to prevent it.

So sorry to hear about the flood. I hope that there isn't too much damage and you can get back to normal really soon.

The ideas of the far right would take us back to the era famously summed up by Max Frisch as “We wanted workers, but we got human beings”. Having an immigration system which respects people isn’t ultimately just about those directly affected, it’s about all of us: about our soul as a country 4/

If this Labour government had even the scintilla of any political nous it would now be showing pictures of some of those the Conservatives and Reform claim they'll deport. From the famous sports players to the people who keep public services running.

"An initial draft was rejected by the people in 2021, mainly because its management was entrusted to private providers. The current version proposed by the government is entirely state-run, optional and free of charge" is a message the UK government should take on board.

If Brexit were given the attention its damage deserved, it would be on everyone's lips and at the top of the news agenda.

It's only because politicians are too cowardly to draw the connections between Brexit and all the problems facing Britain that it's off the radar as a key issue (THE key issue).