Sidewalk summary of American history at corner of 50th and York in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.

Morgan McSweeney's chief lieutenant, housing secretary Steve Reed, on the radio just now claiming that Labour's new far-right immigration policy is essential to defeat the far right

Can't take seriously any commentary on the "asylum crisis" which doesn't acknowledge the role of right-wing media and politicians in deliberately stoking fear and exaggerating the scale of the issue for political gain

"If Labour don't crack down on asylum seekers we'll get another Hitler" is not something I expected to read on the BBC but I guess anything goes these days

So much of the Starmer project consists of blocking off Tory attack lines by moving Labour rightwards at speed, but this is a good example of the harm that strategy will do not only to individuals but to UK institutions - accepting Tory lies about immigration won't end well

I think the left shouldn't shun soft-left/centrist types who railed against Corbynism, championed Starmer, and are now waking up to what they've enabled; but what the left can't do is nod while these guys say "how could this have happened?" because we told you it would happen

A supposedly left-wing government with a giant majority and it's already come to this

Weird that Mandelson had the nous to warn Epstein not to hang out with Prince Andrew, but didn't have the nous to stop hanging out with Epstein

Speaking of moral bankruptcy, here's Larry emailing his good friend Jeffrey Epstein:

Not hard to explain how a leadership which was forged by deceit and betrayal would engender precisely those qualities in the MPs it so carefully selected

“Why has No. 10 circled the wagons?... You circle the wagons and you end up in a circular firing squad.” Former Labour minister, Barry Gardiner MP, criticises talk of a challenge to Keir Starmer, as the PM’s allies say they will fight off any leadership bid. #Newsnight

wow, it turns out that putting some of the very very worst people in politics in charge of the Labour party may not have been such a great idea after all

Mostly ignored in the BBC coup saga is the fact that Starmer’s government has done nothing to reverse the blatant politicisation of the BBC board under successive Tory govts - instead Nandy has mostly pandered to the right and validated the right’s incessant claims of “left bias”

Just incredible that Trump used the word "fight" twenty times in his Jan 6 speech, but the UK media and political class have done Trump's bidding by suggesting that the BBC somehow misrepresented Trump's incitement of the insurrection

We now have a BBC so desperately anxious about right-wing criticism that it appoints right-wing board members and consultants to review its coverage, and somehow their findings that the BBC isn't right-wing enough make it to the Telegraph - who'd have known that would happen?

Once again the right-wing media has come for the BBC and once again the BBC has folded; the fact that Trump was trying to overturn the election result in 2020 ought to be the story, but instead somehow it's 'BBC bias'

Absolutely bonkers to suggest that Zohran was somehow running against rural America when he spent his entire campaign talking about inequality IN NEW YORK CITY

HA HA HA Janan Ganesh has joined the Zohran chat!

The dishonest, soaring dullness of these people.

loving this so much

Just hilarious this morning listening to BBC journalists who spent years trying to destroy Corbyn having to grit their teeth while reporting the success of "radical leftist" Zohran Mamdani