The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

🔗 Read the full piece www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

New post just out: The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed. In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Being the same age I wanted to be her as well as Annie Hall. What a career what a class act.

Oh no Diane Keaton. RIP you darling woman. 😥

Fantastic comments from the audience on #bbcqt. Politicians should take note and stop stoking division and fear. "The vast majority of people in this country live very happily and very peacefully together." 👏

👏👏👏👏 🇻🇪 Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Such a positive thread, but we must not let the haters and charlatans destroy it.

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus 💔💔💔

Day 2079 of #Brexit: ‘Between 2021 & 2023, British exports to the EU fell by a serious 27%. [] Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain’s economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Simon Calder interviewed on new border controls leaves no listener in doubt about his feelings on our disastrous Brexit making us a third party country on our own continent. #r4today

Exactly this 👇👇

So thankful for her insightful knowledge unsurpassed by any other commentator, hearing her obvious relief this morning was wonderful.

Always worth a listen even if at the moment a terrifying vision of what's happening in the US.

Water bills for England households to rise even higher. Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns. End the Scam. Nationalise water

This lot are trying to normalise racism. But that’s not the Britain I know... and our Giga Poll of 45k shows that. Diversity is its strength, not something to fear or smear. Some people, desperate for power, will say anything.

Kemi Badenoch was spouting blatant lies today in her speech. She said that Motability cars are being given to people with ADHD If that is the case, it is because they have a mobility condition also. You don't get given these cars if ADHD is your only disability. For reference:

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

I'm surprised Badenoch hasn't promised to scrap degrees in Modern History. She hopes people will forget May 2010 to July 2024.

My husband's at the dentist while I'm listening to Badenoch. Lucky him.

I'm only listening to this nasty snarking because @mrjamesob.bsky.social is challenging her facts. Still can't wait for it to stop.

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU. This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times. Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit. You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

It’s a sign of how far to the right British politics have been driven that the extremist idea of leaving the ECHR is now mainstream. The correct response by a journalist when a British politician says they want to leave the ECHR ought to be an incredulous: "Are you out of your tiny mind?"

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again. As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers. And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it. youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

“Gottle of geer.”

This club ❤️💙 #cpfc

As if we needed another example of what dangerous clowns Reform are in local Government there’s this👇🏼 When they came to Power, they promptly cancelled plans which were in place to lower the speed at an accident black spot in Kent, which is claimed many lives and caused serious injuries❗️💀💀

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?" Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA. 1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

“People forget - the first country that the Nazis invaded was their own.” Dr Erskine, “Captain America: The First Avenger”, 2011

Reality bites ReFuk in Kent that claimed to slash public spending in DOGE-like cuts during elections. They can’t. They are “already down to the bare bones” and admits they will have to increase council tax Words come easy when trying to win votes but governing is hard. www.ft.com/content/277c...

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Sampling a Guinness

How does PGMOL sack a ref off from VAR duties, twice, but somehow conclude he’ll make better decisions in front of 50,000 people? Bedpans. The lot of them.