Well, this week brings a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 3/10; my score was 4/10, being questions 2, 4, 8 (an educated guess), and 10.
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Actual averages of latest polls from 11 companies with fieldwork in past month Reform 27% Labour 19% Con 18% Green 16% Lib Dem 12%
Translates to a Commons with about 331 Reform UK MPs (small majority), 71 Greens (extremely weak official Opposition), 64 LibDems, 62 Cons, 50 Lab, 45 SNP [etc].
As in all other recent polls over the past couple of months, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.
They literally had to turn off replies to this because footage of a great American city from 50 years ago is too radicalizing.
Interesting. In the UK, you would probably get a response within an hour, or a few hours, or be directed to some online website, but nothing would actually be done for weeks, or months, if at all.
Historical note: “Eisenhower’s Holocaust – His Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans“
Iran’s Armed Forces and government have allowed commercial ships carrying humanitarian cargo and essential goods to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the Tasnim News Agency reported:https://t.co/xLvs5Q34VVpic.twitter.com/fgSpFmhhuZ
🇮🇱 All hell breaks loose on Fox News. A reporter in Tel Aviv confirms a direct Iranian missile strike has caused massive destruction in central Israel. pic.twitter.com/c4WSAMDnQL
Tel Aviv area/central Israel tonight with multiple hits confirmed as the video shows multiple interception attempts, loud explosion heard as the sky turns apocalyptic orange… this is what Day 35 of a war Bibi started looks like from ground zero.
— Alexandre Cappucci (@ALEXANDRE121975) April 4, 2026
▶️ Iran's Army says it has conducted retaliatory drone strikes targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.@IranOfficialpic.twitter.com/AvOvOTsL72
🚨TEL AVIV: Israeli Army Radio confirms that the IDF General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of Defense sustained damage during an Iranian missile strike today.
This direct hit on the "Kirya" military complex in central Tel Aviv marks one of the most significant penetrations… pic.twitter.com/smN93YMLrz
— _zahira_Sahraen🇵🇸الخاص ممنوع 🚫 (@bouchraSahrane) April 4, 2026
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⚡🚨💥 A major escalation in the war has occurred.
According to Arab media, Iran has targeted and completely destroyed the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv with a missile strike. pic.twitter.com/nkIuhYsaNP
Keir Starmer genuinely believed his stance on Iran would save his premiership. In next month’s local elections the British people will show him just how delusional he’s become > Mail Plus > https://t.co/UEnOQjStqd
Starmer’s lukewarm stance or fencesitting stance re. Iran/Israel and the war will please few, if any.
Starmer is being pulled both ways, and his misgovernment is all over the place.
One thing the local elections will underline. It’s not just that the Labour vote is imploding to the Greens and Reform. The Muslim vote, previously a bedrock, is also going to fracture and get hoovered up by a rag-tag coalition of independents. And that’s an existential moment.
This week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10; I scored 5/10, if you include my answer to question 5, which was a pure guess; apart from that, I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, and 10.
“More and more Americans believe it’s okay to be racist against WHITE people – and segregation is getting worse“
On the night of her election as Boston’s first Asian mayor, Michelle Wu proclaimed defiantly: ‘We are ready to become a Boston for everyone. We’re ready to become a Boston that doesn’t push people out, but welcomes all who call our city home.’
It was a rallying cry for unity and inclusion from a young, idealistic politician who was determined the capital city of New England should shed its conservative image and embrace its increasing ethnic diversity.
But two years later, Wu is in the extraordinary position of herself being accused of racism after hosting a Christmas party on Wednesday night exclusively for ‘non-white’ members of the city council.
Her decision has stoked a nationwide row over ‘reverse racism’ and exposed once again a deeply polarised American electorate that once put Donald Trump in the White House because they shared his contempt for wokeness, and may well do so again.
…it dawned on the seven white councillors that not only had they been disinvited to the bash, but they were never supposed to be there in the first place due to the colour of their skin.
…for others the hypocrisy sweeping the U.S. is no laughing matter. A country where racial discrimination is technically illegal is seeing an increasing number of schools, universities and large businesses creating ‘safe spaces’ where ethnic minorities can ‘escape white oppression’.
There have even been calls for black people to get racially-segregated ‘safe spaces’ outdoors so they can enjoy activities such as hiking and camping without suffering ‘harassment’ and ‘trauma’ from white people, while also subverting stereotypes that African-Americans don’t enjoy such pursuits.
In the words of one Boston ‘anti-racist’ academic, Ibram X Kendi, (whose work on deeply divisive ‘critical race theory’ is studied religiously in schools and colleges): ‘The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.’
In short, it’s entirely fair or ‘equitable’ that the boot is now on the other foot. It’s OK to be racist against white people.
In 2021, a school district in Wellesley, Massachusetts, reportedly excluded white students from a ‘healing space’ after shootings in which eight students — six of them Asian-Americans — were killed. The email announcing the event read: ‘*Note: This is a safe space for our Asian/Asian-American and Students of Color, *not* for students who identify only as White.’
In the same year, black mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot — under huge pressure over her city’s appalling black-on-black murder rate — announced she wouldn’t allow white journalists to interview her on the two-year anniversary of her inauguration.
South Korea-born technology writer Sarah Jeong was hired by the Left-wing New York Times as a member of its prestigious ‘editorial board’ of senior writers.
But then critics found some of her old tweets on white people and they weren’t a pretty sight. ‘Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like grovelling goblins,’ she wrote.
In another, she confided: ‘It’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.’
Others included ‘#cancelwhitepeople’, ‘f*** white women lol’ and ‘White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along.’
Opponents snorted with derision. Try substituting ‘whites’ in her tweets for ‘Jews’ or ‘blacks’, they said, and imagine what the famously self-important newspaper’s response would have been.
Whatever sanitised image of integration Hollywood puts out to the world, this is a country divided: across state lines, income disparities and, without doubt, by a racially-charged culture war. More and more Americans believe it’s okay to be racist against WHITE people – and segregation is getting worse.”
Studies show that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they’ve heard.
An example is how their mother's voice and presence can be calming and soothing.
After been terrorised in captivity these men escaped only to be murdered by their own, Just shows how indiscriminately the IDF have been and how many innocent Palestinians they have killed over the decades ? https://t.co/fRkLXO29yy
“They walked in daylight without shirts waving a white flag and still were shot by a sniper from a small distance 1 hostage found shelter and shouted in Hebrew help, yet hewas shot.”
A very elderly neighbour just rang me up to tell me that she's inherited an "ancient document" with relevance to our area, and invited me round for lunch after Christmas because there is something that puzzles her about it, and now I'm officially living in an MR James story
[Note: the tweet/embed issue continues. If it persists, there will be no point displaying tweets at all on the blog. The problem seems to be at Twitter/X, not WordPress].
Update, same day: The tweet-embed issue seems now to have been resolved.
Late tweets
Really honoured to be somehow back in the Times Bestseller at number 2 this week – thank you to everyone who has been buying #PoliticsOnTheEdge – and hope you are enjoying it 🙏 pic.twitter.com/fYOgqNKNEv
That Rory Stewart can go from running to be Conservative Prime Minister, to issuing a come-and-get-me plea to become a Labour Minister, via a tilt at being the Independent Mayor of London, suggests a man who is easily seduced by any shiny new attention-seeking opportunity. https://t.co/GLKJaleDMf
If Starmer can indeed give Rory Stewart a job and put him out of his often expressed misery of not being a politician with a brief anymore then that really would be great for everyone including those who are tired of hearing him pine pic.twitter.com/83Q6CfN6Lz
Ian Robert Millard 