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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Understandable. 'Cyclists and pedestrians are 44% more likely to be killed by an SUV than if they were run over by a conventional car. Children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries. For children under 10, the risk of death is 130% higher.' www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
My 10-years old son is walking home from school alone for the first time. Kidnappers, drug dealers, strangers? Not worried. Other parents driving SUVs is what I am terrified of.
Doubts cast on Kemi Badenoch’s claim of US medical school offer Stanford University ex-staff and experts raise questions over Tory leader’s claim of place and partial scholarship offered at 16, saying it is an impossible scenario www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
For reference, both wind and solar are seeing double digit output growth year on year. But sure, the world is going nuclear.
Congratulations to @ZackPolanski on being elected as the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. 💚 👏👏👏 Zack of course is a long-standing and vocal supporter of proportional representation. 💪🗳💪🗳💪🗳 #getPRdone #ProportionalRepresentation
Inevitably... @theguardian.com, jumping on the latest right-wing confected anti-Labour narrative bandwagon. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's genuinely disturbing.
Yes, I did look for her here before posting. It's rustrating how slow or disinterested so many media and political people are in at least mirroring their accounts on the other place over here.
#Ukraine says goodbye to Andrii Parubii, ex-head of Ukrainian Parliament, famous politician and a true patriot of Ukraine. I knew Andrii well and had a lot of respect for him. Today, his murderer was caught and according to his statements, Russia might have a connection to the murder.
Somewhat ironically. 😊
Sarah speaking for Farage, as usual. This habit of putting the position of absent people has to end. And it's totally selective too, not consistent. Biased right. #wato #r4today #bbcpm
BREAKING: At least 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave's hospitals told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4aikcf
Real police state stuff, pre-emptively arresting people in Defend Our Juries, because they are organising a peaceful protest.
Very.
How is it that one year into a five-year Labour government that has a majority of 146, the leadership is tagging along behind a party that has just four, count 'em, four MPs? Zero fight back against the tide of Reform-led racism. Zero leadership. #politicslive bsky.app/profile/adam...
Well, I for one have never felt prouder to be English. 🏴 #politicslive
Two Tories out of four panelists. Same old, same old... #politicslive bsky.app/profile/paul...
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Tice taken to task by the editor of the Nottingham Post. 👏 #politicslive
Keir Starmer's cunning plan to win over voters by trying to out-Reform Reform is going as swimmingly as one might expect... '38% of the public are most confident that Reform UK have a good plan for changing Britain geerally, versus 28% for Labour.' (27 Aug) www.ipsos.com/en-uk/briton...
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
If you want to know why immigration is leading the news every day, look to Labour. Almost half their Twitter output across Starmer's account, the official Number 10 account, and the Home Office account, involved negative takes on immigration. 75 out of 160 tweets in August 2025.
It's beyond me why the PM doesn't want to put out this simple message. It's not hard. Hold a reception for prominent non-white British sportspeople, actors, etc to point out the kinds of well known and well liked people this kind of ugly nationalism is attacking. It's really not rocket science. 5/5
Actually, if the Government - sensibly - wanted to put more emphasis on integration, part of that would involve pointing out that racism has no place in our society. 4/5
The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5
This sort of data is so dangerous in a country that uses FPTP. This could give the far right a massive landslide of MPs and complete control of the country. Labour MUST change the voting system to something proportional or it will be their fault fascism comes to the UK. #FBPPR
I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers
It's driving you mad, it's driving me mad. It's driving the friend I'm currently ranting about this to mad. Because it is mad. If Starmer won't stand up other Labour MPs have to, regardless of any possible cost to their political future. Otherwise, what the hell are they in power for? STAND UP, FFS!
Overt racism on our streets, flags as threats, Reform strutting around like they’re in power already, toxic radicalisation by Musk on X, politicians howling to leave the ECHR and to hell with the consequences… How can the govt just meekly nod along? FFS and for all our sakes, stand up to this shit.
‘Over-diagnosis’ of child mental health? No — it’s an unhealthy environment of schools as exam factories, stressed parents and a looming climate crisis. Our children deserve better. #MentalHealth
What we're dealing with is the results of collapsing Sure Start, punishing local austerity, an exodus from mainstream schools with no adequate funding of specialist settings, a mental health crisis that ballooned on their watch , and more. Not 'overdiagnosis'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴
Yvette Copper doing the “go home” vans in written format
'A group of former Premier League footballers say they lost tens of millions of pounds because of their financial advisers. They are now being chased for millions more in tax, despite being told by City of London Police they were "victims of crime".' #v11 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Literally.
How is it that one year into a five-year Labour government that has a majority of 146, the leadership is tagging along behind a party that has just four, count 'em, four MPs? Zero fight back against the tide of Reform-led racism. Zero leadership. #r4today bsky.app/profile/adam...
Honestly surprised that Cooper hasn't dug May's "Go Home Vans" out of storage at this point. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The removal of Robbie Gibb should have been an absolute priority from day one.
Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.
This. bsky.app/profile/step...
Despair is always a useless reponse to any problem, but it's particularly useless in this context. Even without political leadership, we are seeing pushback from within civil society (counter-protests, local communities helping minority owned buisnesses that have been targeted).
I endorse this message. I see 3 big problems - failures of online culture , the most toxic voices feeling legitimised & 2 major parties anxious & mute We also have a significant potential coalition of support, capacity and resources to push back strongly bsky.app/profile/step...
Reform UK are rapidly encouraging, emboldening & legitimising this kind of explicit racism across our country. It will only get worse until those in power and influence use their platforms to challenge and repudiate the deliberate spreading of paranoia about asylum seekers & subsequent vigilantism.
Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse. Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
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...
My money's on a tasty dish laced with dioxin... 😋 www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...
I am AMAZED there are not more people at the very least pointing out that this lightning-fast deterioration in Trump's health, happened only a few days after he had a lovely cup of Polonium tea and a slice of Novichok marble cake, with his best friend from Moscow.
Tonight's featured Old Etonian is Jacob Rees-Mogg.* The first day of Parliament and the BBC is wasting no time. *Bonus 'ick': presents show on right-wing competitor GB News whose owner Paul Marshall recently called for the BBC to be broken up #newsnight www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
#nowplaying Softboy - Told You So youtu.be/gCQ_uT56VDU?...
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
😂 'In the millisecond a seagull took to flip a piece of bread in the air and shove it down its beak while staying airborne, it provided more entertainment than the players had done for the 90 minutes that went before. It was about the only graceful thing we saw all day.' www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
Yeah, my friend expressed concern about his WhatsApp history being checked. This is authoritarianism, stoking fear in the hearts of every citizen.
Sympathetic Brit here. Just awful. I have an English friend who now lives in Santa Monica after moving there a few years ago to marry his Californian girlfriend. He has his green card and was due to visit London this summer but has cancelled because he doesn't want to risk it. Who can blame him?
A mom who is a legal US citizen gets separated from her family by ICE GOONS after getting back home from a family vacation.
Tomorrow I will be a tabling a motion to force the government to release the legal advice it has received on Israel's military action in Gaza and breaches of international law. Ministers cannot turn a blind eye to this humanitarian catastrophe any longer.
You can't have a COVID vaccine anymore. Until the worm says its OK
And yes, William Broad/New York Times, it really IS appropriate to compare the current assault on science by the Trump administration and its enablers in congress to that by Stalin a century ago: bsky.app/profile/mich...
Time for Keir Starmer to "take back control" by showing some leadership and telling the indecent minority of raging, xenophobic, racist bigots currently staining this country's reputation, in no uncertain terms, that he doesn't want their votes and that this country's decency is not for sale.
Britain is not a country of racist bigots. Time for the decent majority to "take back control". Repost if you agree.
Levelling up shouldn’t mean levelling down London. Our capital’s success supports jobs and growth across the UK, from trains built in Derby to our buses from Falkirk. I spoke to Matt Forde for the Political Party podcast about how a stronger London helps build a stronger UK.
This is the key thing about the Voter Respecters: they neither respect, nor understand the voters.
This is a huge deal. One of the concerns is that US is able to control arms “virtually”, limiting reach. I have talked about it during my livestreams. If UK and Germany can handle production, this will become the new trend in the EU.
"This will be the biggest purchase to date. And we are now entering final contract negotiations," Gahr Stoere said. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Massive, unalloyed good news that threatens to be eclipsed by the flag wars and the small boats. Let's talk ships and not boats... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘We need investment in offshore wind’ – environmental lawyer www.channel4.com/news/we-need...
Labour has to start acknowledging what's going on and denounce every race-baiting thug and politician riding this wave of anti-immigrant fuelled xenophobia and racism. This means using all of all the media weapons at its disposal. Silence is complicity. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/crime/p...
This. Starmer has to come out of hiding and show some leadership, if he's capable of such a thing. bsky.app/profile/paul...
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It’s funny that the “protect our culture” lads are so entirely alien to arts and cultural events and human creativity. Let alone support arts funding. So I assume they mean culture in a more scientific sense, like a yeast infection.
It was very frightening and upsetting, particularly as the fasc crowd had bought so will many children with them
I'm over there most days. It must have been terrifying for any kids shopping with their parents. Absolute scum. Some footage has been posted in the other place. ⤵️ x.com/AndyPlumb4/s...
Concerned patriots... 🏴 'A group of masked protesters became "aggressive" towards police at Canary Wharf shopping centre. Police issued an order to "prevent people concealing their identity" and made several arrests. "One of our officers was punched in the face".' news.sky.com/story/police...
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
More "concerned citizens" causing concern...
The big question the media haven't noticed or started to ask is why none of the trouble & disorder in summer 2025 (most of the sporadic disorder is in London suburbs & southeast Epping, Cheshunt, Hillingdon/Heathrow, Canary Wharf) & v little protest of any scale is where riots happened a year ago
NHS Worker Assaulted and Racially Abused in Halifax Park Apple, a dedicated NHS worker from the Philippines with 15 years of service, was racially abused and assaulted while walking with her family in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August. I bet this couple have been putting up the flag recently
2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit 2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer
One hundred percent. I've been saying this ever since Theresa May turned it into a criminal enterprise on a mission to persecute innocent West Indians and Britons of West Indian origin. She should have Windrush engraved on her tombstone.
The Home Office is an Augean stable and it needs to be cleansed.
“This is information that the taxpayers have already paid for,” said @relindsey.bsky.social. “This administration is trying to hide it and take it away from us. It’s an abuse of government. It’s a waste of resources. People should be indignant.” Meet @climate.us: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices." Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
Footage from a Chinese factory was found on the camera of a downed Russian ‘Geran’ UAV. The video shows testing of the A40 Pro Viewpro camera, manufactured in Shenzhen at the Aotexing Science Park technology hub — the exact site where the footage was recorded.
Drax must die. 'In 2024, Drax, Britain’s biggest single source of carbon emissions, collected £2m in subsidies every day for its biomass power generation – £10 from every household. £7bn in total, since it began converting from coal-burning to run on biomass.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Just as with immigration, as with the white working class, the good Labour story tellers don't fall for the division and set their own narrative, but the bad ones head straight into the trap and think they can deliver their way out of it, which is impossible.
So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.
Understandably, there's much concern about AI with regard to jobs and disinformation but for science and medicine the potential benefits are almost beyond imagining. 'Doctors have developed an AI stethoscope that can detect three heart conditions in 15 seconds.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Yes, it's so much easier to ruin something than to build something. The government has to condemn and unify. Up to now they've been too gutless/cynical to even acknowledge what's happening and why for fear of upsetting wouldbe Reform voters and a right-wing press waiting to exploit the moment.
Hope they find them. I used to live close to this park when my son was little. The play area was used by families of varying ethnicities without any problems. It just takes a few racists like this to start unrest between communities. Farage is enboldening them. 😡
I had the same thought but racists are so thick they can't even get that right. 🤦♂️
The sad racist shits use the England flag because they can’t put it upside down like the complicated union flag, but now have a problem making a straight line with there childish crayons #fucktards
This by @sundersays.bsky.social now ongoing useful and necessary fact check against the total nonsense most UK papers are still spouting out. As if they still really want to make it happen. I am so sick and tired of it.
Who knew there were so many ̶r̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ ̶ concerned citizens? 'Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked men attempted to enter a hotel housing asylum seekers on Saturday.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...
