I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

Kaja Kallas in Munich: "The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield." Exactly. For a year, the USA has been pressuring Ukraine to surrender in a war it hasn’t lost, and those

"In Britain as a whole, you are never more than six feet from a rat. In Westminster, you are either right next to a rat or, as is more likely, you are actually a rat and haven’t realised." www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le... 👇

I've been listening to Van Morrison's music for over 40 years. Even have a couple of his CDs. It was only yesterday that I found out that "Van" was an abbreviation of his name "Ivan". For over 40 years, I thought it was part of his surname, like "Van Helsing".

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Donald Trump's concentration camps; Keir Starmer and sleaze; LLMs will always generate hallucinations; B movies show us the real America; Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963); bandit queens of the Wild West

"The collision of a multiparty electorate with a voting system designed for two parties is creating new risks for Britain". I signed this letter. It's not about blocking Reform;it's about the danger to democracy of a system that can't cope with multiparty voting www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Another Royal dragged into the Epstein scandal as founder and donor of William’s Earthshot Prize, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, is named in Epstein papers in embarrassing detail bit.ly/3My1nXX Charity Commission is investigating

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Great questioning. I simply don’t understand how this racist bigot can be nominated, of all places, for a State dept position!!!

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

Watching Newsnight talking about sacking of Chris Wormald. Good riddance. Sat on top of the contaminated blood scandal - repeated lies - had to apologise for doing so to me - in writing. Submitted as evidence to the inquiry. Was shocked when he was promoted to cabinet Secretary.

Lib Dems must be "Tough on billionaires, tough on the causes of billionaires" In a guest post for Liberal England, Anslem Anon says Lib Dems must worry about concentrations of economic power as well of political power. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues...

Guess we have now found the global cabal of elites trying to change the World Order...... and it wasn't George Soros.

Zoe cramming more truth into 3 mins than most of the coverage on immigration in the media for the last 3 days in this video.

The Elections Bill is really very thin on political finance. Some loopholes closed, some warm words, but still unlimited political donations. That's why we're working with @38degrees.bsky.social to call for a cap on donations Please sign and share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Daisy Cooper announces plans to replace Treasury | Full Speech

Nice article on how pet flea & tick treatments end up in rivers: the-european.eu/story-57030/...

Hamlet of Sampford Spiney, Devon, once the centre of one of the many courts leet across England. The courts regulated some of the systems that made daily life work, employing officials including my favourite ever job title, the 'Brook Looker' - responsible for maintaining waterways + bridges. 🧵 1

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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Ex-Prince Andrew shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein from his official work as trade envoy in 2010 and 2011, according to material in the latest release of files in the US seen by the BBC

How Keir Starmer's polling encourages both change and paralysis buff.ly/OzjooYz

A must watch with @thenerve.news co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, courtesy of @politicsjoe.bsky.social 👇 The shady Silicon Valley giant taking over Britain | Carole Cadwalladr interview youtu.be/YftdpU4ElUQ

🇭🇺🇸🇰 Mr Orban’s reticence has let Hungary’s opposition take the lead. Peter Magyar, whose anti-corruption Tisza party is ahead in the polls, called the Slovak government “anti-Hungarian” and said Mr Orban would be a “traitor” if he did not denounce Mr Fico.

"There was a general concern that we might end up with an island, but nature is building the spit back up. Spurn is getting closer to where we want it."

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

"The news stories you consume...are increasingly controlled by technocrat Trump loyalists, and algorithmically skewed to the right to foment hatred...you’d do better getting all your news from Neil Young press releases." Stewart Lee's brilliant weekly column. 🔗⬇️

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Here's Simon Hoare - be it fox hunting or raptor persecution, he presides over a wildlife crime hotspot in the UK. Does any UK MP have more shooting estates in their constituency? www.youtube.com/shorts/s7-8w...

It was good to watch Chris Packham record the activities of the Blackmore Vale & Sparkford Hunt today. There was no attempt at Trail Hunting - this is how criminal they are. Simon Hoare, the Tory MP for the area was watching live as well - what did he think I wonder? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bza0...

‘On a knife edge’: can England’s red squirrel population be saved? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you found Gaelic hard to understand, try some mediaeval English instead: Mirie it iſ while ſumer ilaſt ƿið fugheleſ ſong, oc nu neheð ƿindeſ blaſt and ƿeder ſtrong! Ei, ei! Ƿhat ðiſ nicht iſ long, and ich ƿið ƿel michel wrong, ſoregh and murn and faſt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXT...

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Capita, the Cabinet Office and the civil service pensions fiasco

Trump’s campaign of retribution is hitting children the hardest. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision? The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it.

Plenty of room for Andrew here - its vacant, owned by the Royal estate and there's a lease available until 2033 at least...

Just noticed that #Reform have a new recruitment ad. Apologies to #Methodists

Given the current terrifying situation, we are looking for people to write from the US for our UK publication one of our 10 UK national and regional citizen publications with a combined read of over 20m You can write under a pseudonym if you wish. Contact our EiC Gemma, [email protected]

This was just excellent from @bbcstever.bsky.social - well worth your time

If Orban loses the election in Hungary on April 12th to Peter Magyar it’s going to be massive for Europe and the entire democratic world. Orban largely created the populist-right formula for autocratic takeover of a democracy which was copied by MAGA’s Project 2025. 1/12

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Yesterday evening, Peter Mandelson told me "I've never owned property in Brazil and never will". Then we discovered the Brazilian company he incorporated, "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate". Thread:

Asquith comes actoss as a very caring father. She met Gladstone whrn she was six. #Liberal www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...