🚨VERY IMPORTANT! ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT Make sure your MP attends! youtu.be/LPO_ZWlyb7Q?...

Jim Ratcliffe has my full support. Anyone who lies about population figures, claims £120m in public money for his own company after paying no UK tax at all, while immigrants pay at least £15bn is my kind of guy!

Huge change to political donation rules to close loopholes on foreign cash Labour’s Steve Reed today unveils legislation to stop foreign donors interfering with UK politics - while also letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in elections for the first time 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Jim Ratcliffe & the return of blatant, public racism. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

An Indiana judge and his wife were shot at their home on Sunday, prompting concerns for the safety of the state’s judiciary after recent increases in threats and violence against public officials across the U.S.

Conservative MP Andrew Griffith agrees with Donald Trump that returning the Chagos islands is a bad idea Even though it was Conservative Foreign Secretary James Cleverly who started the negotiations to return the Chagos islands in 2022

I see the 'patriotic parties' are now leaping to the defence of the man currently threatening to impose economic sanctions on our country, while seizing the European territory of our neighbours and allies

'So we thought we'd give them a chance to do it again'

"For science and medicine to prosper and deliver on their potential, medical leaders must not become creatures of the state." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in our latest Editor's Choice www.bmj.com/content/392/...

This is so important. If you persist in misrepresenting or misunderstanding reality you give even more ammunition to populist liars who understand nothing.

I'm delighted to welcome Robert Jenrick to Reform! One thing our party urgently needs is more frauds.

I suspect Jenrick's read this. The idea that Farage, *any* Tory who backed Brexit/Johnson/Truss or the media that cheered it all on can somehow disassociate themselves from the messes they made is palpably nuts... So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

Today we’re trying to make sense of Trump’s Greenland fixation & NATO’s ball searching We also dig into Iran: the blackout & the history no one wants to talk about It’s a lot. But at least we go through together. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla. You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"Nadhim Zahawi, a few years ago you tweeted: 'I'm not British born Mr Nigel Farage, I'm as British you are. Your comments are offensive and racist. I would be frightened to live in a country run by you'" Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform.

Nigel Farage on GB News in 2022: "I thought Zahawi had principles. Tonight we learn he's just about climbing that greasy pole, as so many of them are" Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform.

2026: Nigel Farage lies about the vaccine rollout claiming the UK did it faster because of Brexit 2020:: Dr June Raine (CEO of the MHRA), "We have been able to authorise the supply of this vaccine using provisions under European law which exist until the first of January"

Nigel Farage welcomes the experience Nadhim Zahawi brings to Reform. Zahawi previously made tax payers pay to heat his stables and 'accidentally' paid millions less in tax than he should have. That experience?

The Duke of Wellington’s traffic cone has now been swapped for a pigeon sculpture, complete with a mini cone on its head and a little newspaper in its wings. 🐦📰 By The Rebel Bear

Thames Water has deferred £2.5m bonus, disguised as retention payments, to execs. First tranche of £2.5m already paid, millions more promised Bonus for what - fleecing customers, dumping sewage in ruvers, not investing, boosting profits? Let customers vote on exec pay/bonuses.

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"Dear Diary, The PM has just announced an inquiry into foreign interference in elections. That Nathan Gill has a lot to answer for - I still can’t believe he would do something so stupid. By which I mean getting caught, obviously"

Personal care products such as lipstick, moisturizer and shampoo still contain potentially toxic chemicals despite industry progress, a new report found.

Raise £12bn in budget by extending income tax thresholds freeze, says a Fabian Society. The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Hitting low/middle income people won't aid growth. Tax dividends and capital gains at the same rate as wages. Tax the rich

Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS. PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service. PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.

And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.

We always say “never again”. Visiting Kigali’s Genocide Memorial today. The exhibit chronicles how European governments created the conditions for the killings, armed the perpetrators, and stood back when they happened. Plus ca change?

Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by election, beating Reform into second place. So does #trevorphillips interview someone from the winning party? Of course he doesn't! Instead he interviews Zia Yusuf from Reform.

Thanks @juliamwright.bsky.social for flagging this shocker. I not the guy has previous for the same behaviour.

Ontario’s primary care crisis demands innovative solutions. Midwives are highly skilled primary care professionals, providing pregnancy, postpartum, infant & reproductive care. Yet there's been no new investment in midwifery education since 2010. Demand change: www.ontariomidwives.ca/midwives-eve...

Does anyone know of a paper that describes or provides examples of how participants can be involved in data analysis / interpretation using creative methods? @helenkara.bsky.social @jpueblafortier.bsky.social

Russia and other adversaries have pounced on the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an opportunity to spread propaganda aimed at aggravating U.S. political divisions, according to researchers.

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

Dr Susan Bradley is a research fellow in the centre. Her work addresses the challenges involved in ensuring equitable access to maternity care services for women in low-income contexts. ow.ly/iiLP50WPv0i #maternitycare

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, following an explicit threat by Brendan Carr, the head of ABC’s regulator, the F.C.C., “is the mask of ‘free speech’ coming off for good,” Michael Hirschorn writes.

My book along with many other excellent ones is on this list!

Meet Professor Alison Macfarlane, a perinatal epidemiologist and statistician who works on the Europeristat-IV perinatal indicators project ow.ly/xxNj50WomjR #PerinatalHealth

ITV News point out that the four arrested for projecting images of Trump and Epstein on Windsor castle were not a security threat

Kemi Badenoch's refusal to even mildly criticise a convicted far-right criminal and his billionaire mate, openly calling for violence on our streets, tells you everything you need to know about her leadership

Can anyone explain to me what counts as legitimate protest in the U.K. these days? I’m baffled. We should celebrate attacks on police as vibrant free speech but condemn pensioners with slogans on t-shirts and @ledbydonkeys.org with a projector?

Dr Katherine Curtis-Tyler is a senior lecturer, and her research interests include how paediatric provision can be improved for children and families. ow.ly/L7HP50WolsC #PaediatricCare

"Israeli air strikes have continued over the weekend, many more hi rise buildings destroyed, which Israel says are being used by Hamas but.. those on the Gaza side say its an exercise in a scorched earth policy" 23 months into Israels genocide & the BBC is still doing both sides

UK Govt must change course. Increase purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. WRONG At the very least abolish VAT on domestic fuel, reduce std rate of VAT, lift personal allowance by £1,000. Shift the cost to the rich.

"Starvation is a war crime" Protesters in Israel.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” invests over $50 BILLION per year for vouchers that let private schools pick and choose which students to educate. The American people do not want to privatize public education, they want to strengthen it.

From May 2024 to May 2025, 4 billion people (half of the world’s population) experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat due to climate change. And what is Trump’s response? He just fired the last remaining State Department employees who work on climate change.

On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key leader of its team: the warning coordination meteorologist, who had retired just a few months prior: cnn.it/3Ip42ku

Celebrity news and wellness content: How a new wave of conservative influencers and magazines is courting millennial and Gen Z women cnn.it/4kq1HTF

We’d assume he knows exactly what he’s saying it’s not a term that comes up in normal conversation by accident. In modern usage, it’s very difficult to use the word “Shylock” without invoking antisemitic connotations.

Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large outbreak that was kindled in an undervaccinated pocket of West Texas have driven the US to a troubling milestone: There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago