When will Labour (and Tories) work out that trying to out-Reform Reform merely justifies their horrendous policies, making them look like Johnny-Come-Latelies, instead of FIGHTING them and showing them up for the nasty, brainless fascists that they really are?
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
Not true. Tylenol (paracetamol) was first made in the 1870s and Autism was first diagnosed in 1911.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.". Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918
Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs" "But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I’ve deadheaded Margaret Thatcher
I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button
The USA are now at the point where they're just casually murdering people in international waters and expecting the entire world to take them at their word when they say the charred wreckage contained drug runners. (Who, in any case, should be entitled to a trial, not summary execution.)
Does she do paid reviews? I need some for my fist book and another coming next month!
The British Isles. Hmmm, let’s see… Britons Bretons Celts Gaels Romans Angles Jutes Saxons Danes Norse Frisians Normans Dutch Huguenots White Russians German Jews West Indians Ugandan Asians et al … When were we EVER not taking immigrants?
Never heard of him 😂
Not the first time the hard of thinking have rallied behind a fascist xenophobe.
I have NEVER seen a party as determined not to get re-elected as the current incarnation of Labour. It's bizarre and thoroughly depressing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage has spent the summer stoking fears around migrants and women’s safety. But the statistics Farage and other Reform UK politicians have been parroting don’t stand up to scrutiny goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
With respect to the candidates, it really doesn't make a difference who the next deputy of the Labour Party is. The party is so fundamentally broken - it seeks only to protect the wealth of it's donors. I spoke to The Indepedent 👇🏼 youtu.be/sTes4wqlOBQ?...
Hat?
Maths homework
Nice beaver!
#Rejoin
Exceptional from Zack Polanski on a 1% wealth tax and aligning CGT on earned income #C4News The Greens are proposing what Labour should have rolled out when they came into power in 2024 I'm pro wealth, pro entrepreneurialism, pro innovation, but I'm also pro wealth taxes on those with £10m+
@chrismason.bsky.social do your damn job and hold farage accountable. We can all see the BBC falling over itself to report on the rise of Reform. Any dimwit can do that. Policies that are impossible and would bankrupt the country. Venal racism. Your job is to challenge, not just report with glee
Lucy Connolly, jailed for urging people to set fire to hotels housing refugees, is speaking at the Reform party conference today. All the worst people.
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This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.
Zack Polanski just dropped a mic over Starmer - and we're here for it "What we've had from Keir Starmer is despicable in terms of the politics". That's Zack Polanski saying that, not us - but he's right. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
The more Labour stampede right, the emptier the vacuum for the LibDems to go "Let's just ****ing rejoin the EU already!" and snaffle up votes. But it would need to be a loud, proud and sustained message. Not a policy line item on their website, but front and centre in all comms. 2025 is NOT 2019.
Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
Yvette, I'm confused.
It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.
5 - brings the total to 35
Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇
Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?
In August, Keir Starmer has tweeted 61 times. 22 of those tweets were about immigration. 100% of his tweets about immigration painted immigration in a negative light. If you're not on Twitter, you won't be aware of what you're missing. This thread collects EVERY tweet he posted about immigration.
Who was debating with Malcolm Rifkind this morning (29 August) on the Today Programme? Rifkind interrupted him repeatedly, then Nick Robinson did the same. BBC pushing the "ECHR must go" Reform policy, acting as Nigel Farage's free publicity arm.
In the English-speaking world, Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393) is the first book known to have a female author, though first published much later in 1670. For the first woman to publish under her own name, Katherine Parr did so in 1545.
How did the bear do?
Are you fucking stupid? All that will happen is that the poorest in society will have their rents raised to cover the landlords’ NI.
Labour government continues to pile financial burdens on the poorest in the country instead of TAXING THE FUCKING RICH BASTARDS! apple.news/ArUWIUqrsSvm...
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want? youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
This is true and it disgust me. Our government is doing it on the quiet. Nasty politics.
President Zelensky: We will not give our land to the occupiers. Only with Ukraine can the security of democratic nations be guaranteed
This is excellent and should be taught in schools
Ahem. Are you Saxon?
Donald Trump's Fascist Dictatorship is now. Don't be expecting any of your votes to be counted in any elections you have.
"Brexit has been terrible for environmental legislation in this country." ⚠️ "While the EU has strengthened its environmental protections, the UK has drifted away." 👎 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/dirty-rivers-and-lost-protections-brexits-environmental-cost-exposed
An unhealthy alliance One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy By John Hall @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
This is Ukraine. A nation that does not seek to take what is not ours. Not even from Russia — the very country that invaded us. And to those who dare to pressure Ukraine into surrendering its land: start with yourselves.👇
Listen to an audiobook and you’re receiving someone else’s interpretation, and their form of characters’ voices. You’re getting it at third hand. Read the book and it’s all yours to invent.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
PM Keir Starmer said: ‘my ministers will leave no stone unturned to give every child the best start at life’ ❗️Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit would lift 670,000 people out of severe hardship. THIS is a stone they need to turn over.
So many Americans live in permanent fear. They're so fearful of everyone in the neighbourhood that they "need" masses of firearms, won't wear a seatbelt for fear of carjacking, won't take vaccines for fear of "big pharma", and yet they wouldn't wear masks during the worst pandemic in over 100 years.
He’s doing it again. Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.
This quote from the brilliant Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sums up the Green and LibDem approach to rejoining the EU perfectly. Your plan doesn't count if people don't notice it. People won't notice it if you're not repeating it clearly, loudly and unequivocally every possible chance you get.
A young Care Worker from Yorkshire was arrested at Saturday’s Lift The Ban action for holding a sign. “They’re dragging people out of their homes in the middle of the night, then shooting them in the street. It’s murder. It’s a genocide. Free Palestine!” www.wedonotcomply.org
⚠️ "First Past the Post is not sustainable; not for Labour, and not for the country. We must modernise Westminster and launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform." 🌹 Excellent article for @thefabians.bsky.social by @steveracemp.bsky.social #Labour4PR
I don’t give a fuck what Trump might agree with Putin in the absence of Zelenskyy. Russia’s aggression to Ukraine since 2014 cannot be allowed to profit them, contrary to all international law. An emboldened Putin cannot be trusted. All Europe and Scandinavia would be endangered.
A tart’s boudoir. And the same level of taste.
The government is an ass…
I don’t want to undermine Labour. I want them to stop undermining their own reelection chances and start bringing in Labour policies, not trying to out-Reform Reform.
Questions for UK Labour Party members, supporters and voters:- How do you feel about this government validating and copying the policies of the Reform party and extremist Tories? Would you prefer them to propound Socialist principles?
Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW
BBC Today programme please note.
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
Oh, thank god for that - so there’s nothing to stop him releasing the entire lot, unredacted, is there?
I'm liking @governor.ca.gov.....
RIP Tom. One of the greatest satiricists, and song writers ever. But it was Lobachevsky who made him such a famous mathematician.
"Instead, questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who was found dead in his jail cell [APPARENTLY] by suicide nearly six years ago, are overshadowing almost everything else." I fixed your article. You're welcome.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!!
Nationalisation is possible - Fergal Sharkey explains how.
When will Labour learn and start implementing leftist policies instead of trying to placate Reform voters with right-wing nastiness? They are JUSTIFYING Farage’s evil instead of opposing it, explaining why his nasty xenophobia is just plain wrong? Tax the rich. Support the poor, sick and disabled.
Wild swimmer here. We don’t want sewage dumping in our rivers “halved by 2030”, we want it to be zero, now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We live in a country where sentences said on stage upset our government and media class Far more than the slow death sentences for children in Gaza
Nice one Meta - Dead children who wrote poetry of hope before they were killed are really dangerous. 🙄
Andrea Jenkyns says the climate change industry is a "money making racket", while her party has taken millions in donations off fossil fuel interests leftfootforward.org/2025/07/refo...
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so. #mythofantiwartrump
I have so many questions, perhaps the simplest of which is “What are female M&Ms?”
Of the 264 peers that voted to keep workers on zero hours contracts, 41 were hereditary peers leftfootforward.org/2025/07/tuc-...
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What could possibly go wrong?
"Blind journalist accidentally cuts phone call before interview starts" There. I fixed your headline for you. You're welcome. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... "BBC blunder as reporter hangs up on Donald Trump halfway through interview" (Daily Express)
❓If the government admits that First Past the Post is unsuitable for mayoral elections, why does it intend to keep it in place for general elections? Thank you, Sarah Olney MP, for raising this issue in Parliament. Whatever the election, FPTP is not fit for purpose. It must be replaced.
Yet another Tory policy is adopted by this bunch of inadequates.
Very apparent, indeed
🚨Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine has just had its bank account frozen by Virgin Money (Nationwide). "They wont tell us why. They wont confirm or deny. We have been with this bank, in its different forms... nearly 40 years", a spokesperson for the group said.
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
"It's called soccer, not football"??? What a moron. "Soccer" is verbal shorthand for "Association football" - to differentiate it from "Rugby football" (or "rugger").
This is GAS PACIFIC. GAS PACIFIC likes to spoof her location, hiding the fact that she picks up LPG in Russia. This way GAS PACIFIC avoids sanctions and being kicked out of her flag state. sketchy.boats/9102203
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.