The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

Reform have announced their latest defections, Jack the Ripper, Covid 19, & Rail Replacement Bus Services

RIP Alex Pretti. The nurse was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis as he wss filming & protesting agents involved in the Trump ICE deportation effort. Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

The 'sharply contradictory narratives' of truth and lies.

A tip from the best TV commentator out there, the peerless @scottygb.bsky.social - thank you! Highly recommended series www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

If this happens, it will make literally everything better. All of it. Everything in the world. @nigella.bsky.social in our living rooms every Tuesday throughout Autumn - genuinely life-changing stuff.

I understand the logic of providing Trump an off-ramp so he can back out with some dignity, but I think it's dangerous to do so. Each time these issues are resolved this way, he will be tempted to conduct himself this way again. What he needs is a public spanking.

how far is Davos from Dignitas

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

After one day of unity over Trump the Mail, the Telegraph, Times and Badenoch have decided the Chagos are more important than the destruction of the western alliance and backed the insane ramblings of a rogue president who was fine with the deal last year. We see you #collaborators

is there a law against mark carney becoming British PM

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

There was, of course, absolutely nothing to stop these Tories resigning when their own Party was literally in the middle of doing all the things they now claim to be so unhappy about. (Come on Higgins!)

We regret to inform you that Keir Starmer has once again told a joke. My SKETCH of PMQs. thecritic.co.uk/come...

I've never had a colonoscopy but I imagine reading the news in America is like having one but the tube has metal spikes on it and the opening is lined with honey and ants.

Yeah, you voted for it.

Sport England suspends X account over abuse of women and girls www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

Sport England are leaving X/Twitter. Chris Boardman explains it is because it has become a toxic environment - exemplified by the unlawful stripping & harassment of women and girls But also one where effective & useful communication is less and less possible www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

One reason I have zero tolerance for transphobia, why I've come to find it completely disqualifying, is that it is in the nasty, tedious forefront of all right-wing rhetoric. Anyone who still thinks this prejudice is compatible with being on the left or being a liberal is not someone I have time for

There's something I can't quite put my finger on that seems to be the common denominator between all of these streets. Oh, I know what it is. It's the complete lack of cars.

a decade is a long time in politics

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

i think standing too close to ICE is what has been getting people killed

"What will I do when they start murdering civilians & blatantly lying about it?" I think a lot of people will, somewhere deep inside, be surprised to discover their actual answer to this question. Mostly 'free speech' campaigners, terminally online 'classical liberals' & self-styled 'libertarians'.

The casual acceptance of risk from driving cars is utterly bemusing. If this many people were being killed on trains the rail system would be shut down until the risks could be eliminated. Why is it seen as normal that so many people are killed and injured while people drive vehicles?

For a simple one-off fee of £1million, I will go into any government department and show them how to Google "social media apps to post on more than one platform".

In 2024, more than 1,600 people died on UK roads. Yet a major new road safety strategy has passed largely unnoticed. This reflects media acceptance of road danger and a societal complacency—an “it won’t happen to me” mindset. Sadly, it can, and by then it is too late. How do we change this?

Running a country well is an impossibly difficult job. You need intelligence, economic literacy, the ability to inspire and the humility to listen. Nobody truly gets it right, and most are considered failures. Who thinks the answer to this conundrum is to elect the absolute worst of humanity?

‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.’ ~ Tolkien. #BookWormSat

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

With this regime anything is possible…

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.

The borough of Bromley’s active travel preferences (if not policies), succinctly stated.

'Hitler has invaded Poland? I want to establish the facts first: - what time did his troops first cross the border? - where along that border? - how many troops crossed? - was the lead commander called Hans? - what is Hans' blood group? - what do other leaders think about all this?' Etcetera.

The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.