RFK Jr. wouldn’t last a day in the shoes of the AFSCME members who work on the front lines providing health care. He’s a billionaire sellout who has wormed his way into our public health system & is now intent on decimating it to benefit greedy corporations at the expense of our health.
The Government's 'Devolution Bill' fails to deliver real power to local communities, instead handing even more authority to regional mayors. Devolution must mean decision-making from the bottom up. Local authorities know their communities best - it's time Whitehall stopped sidelining them.
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🚨 SCOOP: Reform donor in breach of company law Nigel Farage’s party has taken £50,000 from a company run by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz — despite the firm failing to file its accounts on time, a criminal offence under the Companies Act. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/new-reform...
"Clegg spent years as a politician, then a tech executive, two jobs in which the less you can share about yourself with the public, the better. ... The problem with How to Save the Internet is that it tells you nothing." Like Clegg as deputy-PM, duplicitous inanities.
Every single time I go to look at Twitter there's about 20 notifications and it's mostly Tommy Robinson. I don't follow him, I don't follow any of his admirers, and yet that's who it wants me to see. Astonishing that the UK government's position on this platform remains "it's fine"
A troubling bit of data journalism on the closure of the social care visa, from @matildamartin.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Let’s see what the ethics adviser says, but maybe instead of all this jumping up and down, now would be a good time to discuss how we look after disabled children and build a more caring country.
More lies. Lying is a component of cowardice too. bsky.app/profile/jame...
What kept you? 😇
As Liberal Democrat Councillor Dr Wendy Taylor, Chair of the LGA’s Health and Wellbeing Committee said “Identifying risk early gives people the best chance to take action before problems develop.”
Same! 🫠
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
The dedicated work of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council and The Parks Foundation has led to national recognition, with them collectively becoming Nature Towns. Read about their journey and how local communities have come together for good naturetownsandcities.org.uk/meet-the-nat...
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio. Neoliberalism blames minorities for problems, not corporate capitalism, inequalities, concentration of wealth or political corruption In Farage, the UK has a Trump clone who will deprive people of human and workers rights. archive.ph/xUeJ8
Two despots and the world’s important economy are meeting up and we’re dancing to the tune of a tinpot Oswald Moseley. You couldn’t make it up.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
How to medical (2020) 🎨 @sarahcpr.bsky.social
I want Keir Starmer to lead - to call out racism, not mutter about bunting. To offer real refugee policy, not parrot Farage. To show Britain is better than this. Instead we’re cowering. We must do better. They must do better.
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Well said @willforster.bsky.social
Maybe it’s the healthcare plan we were promised in 2 weeks, 6 years ago. 🥳
New video: "Trump HASN’T BEEN SEEN after THIS CLIP" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9W0vvbOyQ
Colors that glow...
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Fantastic to work with @anandmenon.bsky.social and others on this report out this morning. Big takeaway from our panel - is the government prepared to take on fights this Autumn to make progress on these challenges. Nothing left to lose, or the window of opportunity to be bold already passed?
These Tory MPs are going to be furious when they find out who was in power when employment in offshore oil and gas HALVED between 2014 and 2023. The Conservatives are doubling down on being a cheap Reform tribute act rather than a serious party
Already hearing from teachers who've been told that they shouldn't allow children to write any words or letters (including their own name)until they've been taught the correct letter formation. Try to stop them! I'm sharing this again as an antidote to the nonsense. ruthswailes.com/whats-in-a-n...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
The interesting Q re: Polanski taking over the Greens is whether they can keep their strategic ambiguity that has allowed them to win in both progressive and nimby/Tory/conservationist areas.
🚨 BREAKING: People on X are sharing this Photo of Joe Biden with the hashtag #WeMissJoe
If they didn’t think painting St George’s flags all over the place was intimidating, they wouldn’t do it. It’s got bugger-all to do with patriotism.
Parliament reopened today, but Nigel Farage was in Washington DC on his 10th trip to the US since becoming an MP. You don't get to earn £1m from 12 jobs by wasting time on what is meant to be your full time role.
This is insanity. I worked for a time bringing new business to Manchester, a city with 5 internationally renowned universities and an overseas student population of more than 50k. Those students bring huge amounts of money to the city's economy and often contribute to long term spin out business.
Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share
Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Providing safe & legal routes for refugees is a significant way we can reduce the number of small boat crossings and tragic deaths in the Channel. So why has the Government just restricted family reunion - one of the few safe routes that currently exists? This is cruel madness.
How bad will it get before it gets better? #AskingForaFriend
The government recognises that our “democracy is being threatened by misinformation.” But their plan for an Elections Bill does not properly tackle this serious and growing threat. Our latest blog considers the proposals and sets out the bolder vision needed. 👇
I’m so done with irony. Apologies 😇
Uh oh - the return of the plague continues. Get well soon 🌺
I've just sat through a This Morning interview listening to Jill tell her awful tale of losing £120,000 after her late husband invested in a 'crypto trader' scam using my face as the bait. Its devastating to hear, and leaves me fuming. This should've been stopped years ago.
We must shut down big tech giving criminal scammers real estate on their sites. It's now 6yrs since I sued Facebook, yet still NO REGULATIONS in place to protect consumers, and non will be until 2027. Pathetic! contd
The path to safety is not paved with fear. It’s built through compassion. Over the past few weeks, like many others, I’ve felt the personal and professional weight of rising anti-refugee sentiment. When one community lives in fear, we all live in fear. This moment calls for courage and leadership.
Fear and loathing in the UK. Absolutely awful!!!
Basic common sense shunted by elected public servants. You couldn’t make this shizzle up!!! 🤐🤯🤪🕳️🙉🙈🙊☠️😶
The shooting and starving of innocent civilians in Gaza is nothing other than utterly and totally fundamentally evil. There can be no other word for it. Why have this Government still failed to sanction Netanyahu and his entire Cabinet? My question to the Foreign Secretary 👇
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“MPs are struggling to find anywhere on the internet that isn’t hostile territory. The online right monopolises X and are dominant on YouTube. On TikTok, neither the online left nor online right has much need for or interest in members of parliament.”
Our impressive education system displayed in glorious technicolor 🤢
Research shows that power makes people more sociopathic.
Where is this money coming from? Seriously. Who’s printing it. 🤐🤔🤪
Zoe shouldn't be alone in countering the nonsense from Ferrari and the rest of the right wing chatterarti. Where is Labour?
Week after week, in a small market town, a group gathers in silence to acknowledge Gaza’s devastation. They don’t chant or march, writes Jacob Ecclestone. They simply stand, refusing to look away.
What a loss. Lie gently, good man 💛🌺 screen filler 🔥
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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
The far right's new poster boy 🤔 Their latest push online features Paddington!! Yes Paddington!! A fictional MIGRANT!! Bear from PERU!! An interesting choice for a poster boy. 🤷🤦🤣
Important underrated message 👇👇👇
Can we as a collective, just…
Of course it’s bull, but bragging that you have scammed $8 trillion from the American people is a weird flex.
So full of bullshit but let’s keep the crap about tariffs in perspective…. through his BS and threats he’s driven China India and Russia together, I see North Korea in the outer circle. The Orange phuk caused what can potentially be the evil axis. The rest of us now have to live with the mess.
The Whitest House has turned into the cloaca maxima and can only be trusted to spew out excrement. But it does that at an astonishing level.
Desperate times = despairing people. We did this to ourselves. Bloody stupid. 🤦🏻♂️😵💫🕳️
I see ITV are doing a drama about The Thick of It inquiry episode.
Define west in three words.
Good morning. What expression do you think this grey crowned crane at Birdworld has on its face? To me it says: I beg your pardon
Is phase two the same as second gear? 😵💫🤔🤦🏻♂️🤢
Labour MP Jo White tries to justify Yvette Cooper's policy to abandon Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights Thankfully the Green Party's Sian Berry is there to set the record straight, and she even points out, "Labour opposed this when the Conservatives put this forward in 2022"
Happy days…. 🤦🏻♂️🥶
You’re all cray cray!😝
Hugely disappointing but somehow unsurprising. 🕳️🙈🙊🙉🫨
@timfarron.bsky.social speaking loud and clear for our collective humanity. What’s your MP saying? 🤔
@timfarron.bsky.social speaking loud and clear for our collective humanity. What’s your MP saying? 🤔
It’s all getting out of hand - no context required… 😵💫
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
As always, impeccable…
🧑🏭 | NEW BLOG: Oil & gas jobs are disappearing. Clean energy jobs are growing. Workers need a real route between them. In this new blog, @joshemden.bsky.social outlines how the government can deliver a fair transition for workers. Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/ski...
The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Peak rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains. Scotland also has: Public ownership of water, lower water bills than England's. No university tuition fees for local students. No prescription charges, abolished in 2011. No two child benefit cap from March 2026. England must follow.
"'Here’s a text book on economics,' I said pointing to a little chap, James Ashworth, who was ten years old and who was stooped over like an old man from carrying bundles of yarn that weighed seventy-five pounds."
Reform using a fake “Made in Britain” logo for their football shirts It seems they are made abroad & imported. Only printing is done “in the heart of the midlands” so as 100% of Labor is not done in Britain, it doesn’t qualify for the logo (Screenshot: @philmoorhouse.bsky.social/A Different Bias)
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
ITV News at Ten fail. No coverage of LibDems, Greens, SNP, Plaid tonight. Lots of mentions of ReformUK yet again & plug of a special report. Alistair Burnett & Sandy Gall must be spinning in their graves. ITN used to best by far. Keep signing for fair coverage petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Underrated tweet. 👇👇
Here, Putin. Have another two weeks.
Just sayin’
NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...
In 1994, the Americas Region was the first in the world to be certified polio-free www.paho.org/en/news/21-1...
The National Guardners
