What is shameful is that people have to use irregular crossings in the first place and we have a government which is so hostile, discriminatory and inhumane towards those seeking safety. It isn't the people seeking asylum who are the issue here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Could have been the UK, we had 3 times as much oil and gas. Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.

Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

We're challenging a broken, failed economic model, and the people defending it have no answer other than just to continue with what is broken. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Which party leader’s message is missing in this report from the perfectly balanced BBC? Starmer vows to 'defeat decline and division' in new year message www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This has to be the stupidest question. What are the criteria to compare a goalkeeper with a defender, a striker, a midfielder-fielder or whatever? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Suggesting @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s proposals on Wealth Tax are the sum total of his programme shows that @joedromey.bsky.social needs to keep up. & If Dromey thinks stopping small boats is a central issue for the UK he needs to defect to Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Any thoughts Reform or @uklabour.bsky.social? www.instagram.com/reel/DSfo9Ix...

Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Homo Sapiens is busy destroying itself so any such considerations are gorgeously irrelevant cos we’ll be long gone. Dark energy just got even weirder and why the Universe may end in a 'Big Crunch' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What more can be expected when the leader of the Labour government seems to have abandoned both values & moral compass?

In other news, Noel Edmunds & Mr Blobby are set for a triumphant return to our screens.

England’s Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

In other shock news, the Pope is both American & a Catholic.

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Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake". They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses

Wanting the super-rich to pay a few percent more tax than the "normal"-rich isn't about populism. It's simply a reaction to the economic reality of increasing economic inequality. We can't sustain the same quality of life in our society if we ignore the fact that things are seriously out of balance.

The costly result of a brain-dead decision by a gov’t apparently committed to such decisions.

Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/3e3320

Which is what the BBC Panorama programme said very clearly even if you ignore the clumsy edit. & that’s why the #orangefelon is attaching the BBC.

Newsom's Observation of Chump's Lies Last Night.......

MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’. UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity. Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership. Rejoin the EU.

President Trump, "I slashed drug prices by as much as 400%, 500%, 600%" Still no one has taught him high school maths 😅

Keir Starmer faces huge threat of rebellion as dozens of MPs slam 'madness' jury plan www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

Once a toady always a toady, eh George?

It’s really not rocket science. But apparently a mystery to our forensic PM.

When even the #BBC is now talking about the #hungerstrikers Lammy’s gotta admit the game’s up. Given the rank stupidity of many of Starmer’s cabinet, however, he’ll likely not.

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wow! Nothing says “you can trust me” like enthusiastic support for a convicted felon.

Is there any data on connections between these private sector companies & donors to Reform? Asking for a friend.

More than 50 MPs and Peers have joined me in urging David Lammy to immediately meet with the lawyers of those on hunger strike. The government needs to wake up, take responsibility, and show some humanity before it is too late.

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

Returning our water to public ownership Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK Councils Council Tax increases Durham: 4.9% Worcestershire: 5-10% Warwickshire: ~5% Leicestershire: 3% TBC Kent: 5% Lincolnshire: 2.9-4.9% Staffordshire: ~5% West Northamptonshire: 5% Derbyshire: 4.99% North Northamptonshire: 4.99% Nottinghamshire: 4.84% Lancashire: assumed 5%

Mears, Serco, and Clearsprings oversee most asylum accommodation in UK and make huge profits doing so, despite a significant proportion of accommodation being substandard. It isn't people seeking safety costing taxpayers money, it's the firms making profits off of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So, Trump sues the BBC for $5Bn and puts the technology deal with the UK on hold until the US gets more concessions. Anyone still deluding themselves about that “special relationship”? No. Just the tedious parade of simpering MAGA dickheads - led, of course, by the traitorous Farage.

US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice. Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance. Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products. Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU

If the #OrangeFelon proceeds the winners will be lawyers by $$millions, he will lose & all of his vileness will once again be front & central in international news as his Jan 6 coup is revisited. Trump files $5bn defamation lawsuit against BBC over Panorama speech edit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People have had enough of Labour. They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs. More and more people joining the Green Party every day! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Well they do have 5 MPs though one, the #ClactonCuckoo is mainly AWOL. Clearly a significant contribution to the UK polity.

Two interesting questions are 1) which political interest groups joined together to destroy the Corbyn leadership & enable the #genocide supporting Starmer to take over? 2) were those groups working together?

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Or they could just dump Starmer, stop following Farage's narrative, and put someone in charge who actually wants to fight the far-right instead of morphing into them. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

"Another day, another Reform UK “hard worker”. A Reform councillor has been accused of being “completely absent” after sending just two emails and showing up to one council meeting since May. Northumberland’s Shaun Knowles has pocketed £9,340 of taxpayers’ money." via Reform Are Not Your Friends

Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies. Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance. Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.