As previously mentioned: the state needs to be more accountable to us, not less and definitely we don’t have to be more accountable to the state.

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews on airport expansion. Villages/Towns could be polluted and destroyed, but people won't easily be able to bring a legal challenge. What options left for concerned citizens?

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

"I haven't been a scumbag in years Mr Garda"

Lucy Powell: Labour has handed the megaphone to Nigel Farage – it must end now 👏 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

New research shows that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less. We must reject the division. Reject the hatred. And build a coalition of progressive voices that represent all. https://bit.ly/4gFEUCW

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

An amazing essay by @peterjukes.bsky.social here. Epstein's many links with Russian-funded, Putin-friendly young women, his murky friendship with Trump and Trump's mysterious affinity for Putin converge. Why is Trump so desperate to keep the Epstein files under wraps? Is it more than just sex?

National ID cards, famously stopping people illegally working in <checks notes> …France and Italy?

Virgin Active has enforced a changing room and bathroom ban because of a threat by GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry. Email Virgin Active and let them know they should follow the law, not transphobes 👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Today #Railway200 celebrates 200 years of the modern rail service. Larkin travels by train in I Remember, I Remember, Dockery and Son and, of course, The Whitsun Weddings All afternoon, through the tall heat that slept For miles inland, A slow and stopping curve southwards we kept.

I’m not against ID cards per se. But I am against them now. For this. As yet another weapon in the arsenal against immigrants. This isn’t taking the fight to Reform. It’s using immigrants as a human shield while Reform keeps punching you in the face. iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

If the UK govt wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership. High price of energy and water fuels inflation, poverty, deplietes people's purchasing power Industries like water, energy have extracted dividends, neglected investment.

Nigel Farage means it when he promises to uproot settled immigrants. But the leader of Britain’s hard-right party does not always understand Britons all that well

Long term colleague of Nigel Farage and Former Leader of Reform UK in Wales Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

Give it a month and Keir Starmer will tell someone interviewing him that he hadn't read this morning's speech before delivering it.

'Canary Wharf from Under the Flyover' by Janet Brooke janetbrooke.com

✍️ Police in Northern Ireland unlawfully spied on journalists to unmask sources, a review finds, raising fresh fears over press freedom By Barry White @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

🔴Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks bylinetimes.com/2025/09/26/r...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

I wondered why his councillor page had him now listed as an independent... (and asked him, too - now we know...) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

NEW: When Labour voters were asked why they believed things were getting worse for the UK, they overwhelmingly cited Brexit as the number one cause, with 69 per cent naming the decision to leave the European Union as the main reason behind the country’s problems. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Anyone surprised? “Former Welsh leader of Reform has pleaded guilty to bribery charges”. Such a patriot he took money to talk pro-Russian propaganda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning ☕️

"When Tony Blair tried to launch ID cards in the early 2000s, it cost £4.6bn at 2010 prices, and never even got off the ground." goodlaw.social/j17w

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In solidarity with the victim and her family and with the Sikh community - I’ve doubled the reward being offered through Crimestoppers - for information in relation to this horrendous crime. Please help if you can. buff.ly/GW6LTC1

You can now watch 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture on Youtube, delivered by Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social). Robin was a fierce friend to Compass and a torchbearer for the human, alliance-based, radical social democracy that we need so desperately today. youtu.be/uB7wXawsgaU

Brilliant from @kevinclimate.bsky.social as always - making abundantly clear the inconvenient truth this Govt is forever trying to duck & dodge: expanding aviation capacity is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s climate obligations

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Myself and Stewart Lee examining Free Speech, censorship and ‘Hurty Words.’ #StrongMessageHere

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it." --Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

If someone says it’s raining …. #MemeForToday #BBC #Balance 🙄

As an ethnic minority woman I am really concerned about the ‘legitimate concerns’ argument justifying racism. Is my concern ‘legitimate’?

EXCLUSIVE: The Papua New Guinea Courier's UK correspondent on Nigel Farage bringing the UK media to heil open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

I can't thank you enough for the massive outpouring of well-wishes on this very special day. 🫶, Mar🐫

🔴‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’ Labour MP @noahlawmp.bsky.social explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

The problem facing us is a tiny group of people have taken away our wealth and our power. Time to take it back. Loved speaking to @podsavetheuk.crooked.com youtu.be/IE9qJvpib6w?...

BREAKING: Lib Dems say they 'cannot support a mandatory digital ID'

The head of the UK's leading anti-racism campaign group Hope not Hate wrote to Keir Starmer to complain about his "silence" in the face of a rising far-right threat. "At the time when people needed leadership there was silence. “And for the far right, that silence just emboldened them further"

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...