‘207 sovereign states in the world, 180 have freedom’ www.nbcnews.com/video/will-m...

£75 million that could have been spent on infrastructure going instead to a pointless ad campaign. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: American good most popular with people who chew with their mouths open

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/3993...

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

I heard that there are thousands and thousands of cases of Rep. Claudia Tenney drowning kittens in her kitchen sink. It happens all the time. But Rep. Claudia Tenney will tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.

Is Johnny Depp causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was released nearly two decades ago. @npr.org

Fuck you CBS. You're murdering American journalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqd...

are you just going to do this for every generation

Excellent, thorough piece on the perverse impact of UK's restrictive attitude to migration. Government claims it wants to improve economic outcomes and encourage integration -and is achieving precisely the opposite. (draws on @migobs.bsky.social/my research) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Interesting day for Blair to launch his advice to 'abandon net zero'.

Must just be some mad coincidence that all the Putin apologists find themselves in a party run by a bloke that really admires Putin

Another Farage ally spewing Russian propaganda 👇

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So, if he's going to stick with a hardline and frankly cruel immigration policy and thinks we should stay out of the EU and wants to reform the election system but only after the next election, what, I ask, is the actual fucking point of it all?

“You have to vote for Burnham”they cry “He’s the only hope for change”they cry “You’ll be splitting the ‘Left’ vote”they cry Burnham, once again proving he won’t do the things people say he will and he is none of the things people think he is www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The speed that Burnham is surrendering to the right, with absolutely no pressure on him, is genuinely a bit shocking. He might be even more lost than Starmer.

Burnham to back plan to put Farage in power.

Almost comical how stupidly Burnham is making the same mistakes as Starmer. So one more time so that also the dumbest Labour politician understands it. Aping Nigel Farage does not bring back Reform voters. It only drives Labour voters to the Greens. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Greater Manchester still says no to #NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin Manchester showing the way England needs to go Wales and Scotland agree No to Palantir www.theregister.com/public-secto...

Reform UK are refusing to explain why Nigel Farage posed for a "Christmas drink" with far-right activists, some of whom took part in a violent attack at a church. One of the men pictured with Farage was convicted of assault by beating last month, after storming an anti-racism meeting at the church

I've asked the BBC to correct this news report's mistake in claiming 100,000 small boat arrivals last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Could use BBC Verify data to get numbers right + more accurately report the context:eg, that small boat numbers are falling in 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

bullshit-maxxing

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

I hope when Trump dies he gets cremated and the guy working the oven says "You're fired" and laughs.

OK it's decided, I am now muting anyone who posts another pic of the shitty pizza they're having

How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The ‘we need to rethink our approach to the North Sea’ is dumbest conversation in UK politics Expensive to extract- much of it now owned by small producers - that goes into global market Good to jobs in Aberdeen, not much else *mad* we’re not talking about energy security + renewables every day

Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Bigger. Problem. Than. Anticipated. The first verified Shahed Drone attack on Ukraine was 1,270 days ago. Ukrainian numbers put the number of Shahed strike UAVs launched at them last year alone at over 32,000. Your brain, is it... not good? Do you have the bad brain? Sir? Sir?

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS. Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

An economically, politically and morally bankrupt strategy. Bad for individuals, bad for families, bad for businesses, bad for public services, bad for integration and cohesion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Almost twenty years on from Gordon brown I still defy anyone to define what ‘British values’ are I’ve lived in this country - all over it (Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London) - for almost all I’m adult life and I’ve no closer to an answer

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally, the water companies and the regulatory environment that enables them are being given the Post Office treatment. Watching this is well worth your time. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Amused how many friends & old colleagues (actors, waiters, night club staff) keep getting in touch to say press keep phoning them or turning up at their door for stories. They can't stand the growth of our movement - lower bills & take on power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

speaking of crimes against statistics...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.