Wow. He just nails it every time. Has anyone ever succeeded better at proving that decency is more powerful than anything else that government can ever offer?

Yes. It's like the "island of strangers" stuff. It was months later, researching something else, that I actually read the full section and realised that most "progressives" (including me) had been quoting pellets served up to us by the Mail and the Telegraph.

WOW

Me too!

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

What the hell are Labour MPs doing ? Get behind the most effective leader you have had in decades

Have they tried staying at home but not being boring, self-involved emotional toddlers?

Everything else (…) notwithstanding, is *this* enough to persuade the govt that twitter is a bad place to be?

All of this.

The Tories haven't tabled a debate on education for the King's Speech. I wonder why? Maybe they don't want to talk about all the things Labour are doing to give children growing up in our country the best start in life – so here's your reminder. 👇

So here is the FULL list of the 37 bills included in the King's Speech today. Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Northern Powerhouse Rail Bill European Partnership Bill Small Business Protections (Late Payments) Bill Clean Water Bill Competition Reform Bill Regulating for Growth Bill 1/6

Grubby charlatans. How disgusting to pose as a homeless charity for your own pockets.

To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party. Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody. buff.ly/cI7lfBP

Yep. Absolutely this.

My MP. I wrote to her back in early Feb and pleaded with her to back the PM. No response. Was very keen and open on the phones and on the street before she was elected. She’s now lost my vote thanks to her own self interest. I’m so upset with her.

Me too

The comments. Read the comments.

Concur with @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social on the nonsense about Starmer.

And the reality after May the 7th....

Burnham, Rayner, Streeting, West. None are the answer. Starmer is the answer. The media will not allow him to get on with his job. This 18th leadership challenge story is to take your eyes away from £5m bungs. Because there’s more where that came from.

Spanish wholesale electricity prices are less than half the EU average (and less than half the UK figure) because oil & gas have been pushed out of the system over the past half decade. Gas only sets the price 9% of the time now, down from 55% in 2022. bsky.app/profile/janr...

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Please notice.

Like Trump, Reform can only win because of very ignorant people who furiously believe things that are not true. Take them away, leaving only those who fully understand Reform’s policies and their consequences, and you have a hard right party polling under 20%

ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

One of the most optimistic pieces on Trump I've read in ages possibly, ever 👏👏👏

I wish more people understood that the United States was a democracy from 1965 until 2013.

NEW: Reform UK are running a WHITE SUPREMACIST in Essex. ❗ A joint investigation by HOPE not hate and @mirror.co.uk reveals all. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/02/r...

How Zia Yusuf made his money...

Great article about our Earth Rover Program, and its tremendous potential to revolutionise soil science and, eventually, agriculture. immersives.pioneerspost.com/earth-rover-...

Nice start to the week, ten announcements under our hard working Labour Gov. new laws taking effect and some exciting plans. Don’t expect to see these in our media though. They are determined to keep these from you. #DoingTheMediasJob #FixingBritain #LabourAchievements

What an empty car park tells us about the UK's debt problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - yet three prisons on the island, which offer secure jobs, pay well, and have significant staff shortages, don’t get a mention.

Exquisite use of the word 'simply', there.

Bravo!

“The test man said I should be giving the tests not him. He started crying and called all the other test men because they couldn’t believe how good I was at tests. Then they all cried and said no one has ever been better at knowing a bear from a giraffe. Now the test men made me a king prince.”

Wild horses - R Stones The boxer - S & Garfunkel The Night - F Valli Don’t call me at home - LL Burns Come on train - Don Thomas Crying, laughing, loving, lying - L Siffre Cotton - Mountain Goats Ba-di-da - Fred Neil Sunday Morning Coming Doen - Kristofferson Something on your mind - Karen Dalton

I wonder what Lincolnshire would say.

Dandelions are turning to clocks.

having the opportunity to feign surprise and drop this line would give me a kind of high no drug could reproduce

On Saturday I went into a Ryman's to buy blotting paper. The young assistant knew exactly where it was - "in a very odd place" - (next to the pens) and as I paid politely asked what it was for. So I told her. I feel so delightfully old and wise..

Absolutely brilliant www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New concept: PODYSSEY STORYTIME - diddy half hour bedtime stories! 🕷️ Arachne - Web of Truth 🕸️ A talented Lydian weaver, challenges the Goddess Athena to a contest, by accident, and ends up with quite the itsy-bitsy problem. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BqF... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

One man was entrusted with some of London’s most beloved leisure centres. How did he burn through so much public money and end up with a £200,000 payout? www.the-londoner.co.uk/r/356fb42e?m...

“Reading Is Fun!” The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.