One of the things I dislike most about this government is that they make me have to praise the House of Lords

Being in the UK I feel kinda happy about this poll, it seems we are not ‘an island of strangers’ mr Starmer, but we like our neighbours 💚💚

This morning in seminar I was explaining to students that a key difference between Enoch Powell and mainstream 1960s Tories was his plan for financing re-emigration. An hour later a student put her hand up and told us all that this had just been announced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if the BBC will report on this. They always report what Farage says and does.

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

‘Summarising the Israeli government’s position, Citrinowicz said: “If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future . . . [or] the stability of Iran.’ www.ft.com/content/dd07...

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. 2/4

@jamesnaish.bsky.social This… “People's work is not the government's to give away”. Remaining copyright protections from creatives who work in the UK so US billionaires can profit is a) immoral and b) economically illiterate. The #CreativeIndustries are a jewel in the UK’s economy.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

‘Better Together’ in Scotland ‘Labour Together’ in London. ‘Together’ involves sleazy contempt for truth and democracy. Labour and Tories are finished. Vote them to away in May! #ScottishIndependence

Political passion Something Starmer cannot do

“Keir would not have been able to live with himself if he had been forced out of office early without showing the country who he really is and what he’s about” Right, so we’ve all got to suffer because his ego is too fragile to accept he’s not good at this job? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

Yikes. Gorton byelection!! Britain Elects predicts: Green 31% Reform 30% Labour 29% A vote for Starmer would let Reform in! All LD Lab voters need to vote Green this time!! youtu.be/LEAYkbC_Wnc?...

It was never all in your head.

If Hodge is appointed Ofcom chair, I hope people go back to the story of how she absolutely tried to suppress media coverage of her disgusting mishandling of a paedophile scandal. www.theguardian.com/society/2003...

Labour the party of PAEDOPHILE protectors Labour member Tom Dewey admitted the offences and was convicted and added to the sex offender register. When local women party members tried to discuss the issue, Labour locked them out of its systems to prevent them. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

This is worth a read and useful to have to hand when the Tories start claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility. open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

This week's Thursday Reader Contribution on Bearly Politics is brought to you @andygjburge.bsky.social. In this post he does a robust comparison between Labour and the Tories when it comes to the management of the economy, and in it one of these two is found with their trousers badly down. 🐻

It’s amazing how fast the police can move when it’s a question of money or state secrets rather than the rape and trafficking of women and children.

Here is (I hope) a globally shareable link to this important op-ed piece on what can be done about pervasive #corruption in and around the Trump administration. A ray of hope. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Meritocracy is not, in fact, meritocratic youtube.com/shorts/wqduT...

'Open AI's George Osborne', blimey thats one up from 'Meta's Nick Clegg' in awfulness. The final boss would probably be'X's Nigel Farage'.

In effect @petergeoghegan.bsky.social is calling Starmer's claim not to know about the activities of Labour Together... ...a lie. archive.is/k7Shw

So powerful. Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, led by Bryan Buckley, with Tony Award-winning choreographer Mathew Steffens, the ResistDance piece honored Renée Good and Alex Pretti #ResistDance #ICE

The #DWP’s training on how to assess severe conditions criteria (SCC) states that the conditions need to be ‘constant’. So if you can’t walk now but might have a hypothetical cure in the future, they will cut your benefits to starve you into work. Reminder, this is a #Labour government

“The #BBCWorldService costs less than the upkeep of one tank,” Prof Jean Seaton, BBC Official Historian. So in the midst of a disinformation #war with #Russia and #China, etc, there’s no visible govt plan to fund WS 7 weeks from its money running out - even for the price of running 1 tank.

2026 youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I?...

This is what happens when your country is run by men, for men. Im sure Starmer thinks hes a nice guy who believes in women’s equality, but hes actually a man who has zero insight into his male privilege www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

We are thrilled that #Punch has been nominated for 3 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards. BEST NEW PLAY BEST ACTOR – DAVID SHIELDS BEST ACTRESS – JULIE HESMONDHALGH See James Graham’s #Punch in 2026 with a brand new cast bit.ly/NPPunch And at Leeds Playhouse and Theatre Royal Plymouth

#PalestineAction win their judicial review against proscription. Yet in another avoidable error Starmer’s government is going to appeal. Letting the problem simply go away is just there, guys! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

2011.

Saying the quiet part out loud. This incel is the tall poppy that shades Epstein’s network, the grooming gangs and the violent man in homes across the globe

Ratcliffe is an immigrant in Monaco, where immigrants have properly taken over. Maybe being rich makes him think its different for him. Massive Hypocrite.

This photo won’t go away quickly.

Jim Ratcliffe who settled in Monaco just after receiving a knighthood is seeking support from the UK government worth hundreds of millions of pounds to build a stadium for Man Utd. His move to Monaco is estimated to have cost the UK Treasury between £440m and £4bn in lost tax revenue. #Corrupt

Starmer and Blair are to the right of Macmillan's Tories. Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.

Harrods is our own Epstein scandal. This govt has blocked justice. And the survivors are furious with Keir Starmer 👇👇

Maurice Glasman called Paul Ovenden a "good guy" in this morning's interview with Trevor Phillips. An interview in which he was "I told you so-ing" for telling Starmer not to appoint Mandelson in the first place. This is what Paul Ovenden was sacked for: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely loathe Josh Archer. I’m not a fan of George Grundy’s but these rich kids have no idea what it’s like to be as poor and excluded as he is #TheArchers

Labour Together paid a PR firm £30k+ to investigate journalists that were digging into how its undeclared funding bankrolled Starmer’s successful Labour leadership campaign Watch the video on Democracy for Sale's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_V5...

The Al Fayad victims would beg to disagree. bsky.app/profile/kerr...

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

Mandelson is what happens when (successive) governments decide to collaborate in, rather than stand up against, the corruption of Western democracy taking place in Trump’s America. It will keep happening until either a) the decline is completed or b) we choose to ally with other nations to combat it

The Epstein Files & Nigel Nigel Farage appears 36 times Nick Candy, Reform UK treasurer is throughout it, and appears to have been a close friend of Epstein & Maxwell Steve Bannon, Farage advisor was incredibly close to Epstein and is throughout.

Useful framework for thinking about how deeply and widely corrupted our government and governance systems have been.

🚨 NEW: Labour MP Rachael Maskell has called for Keir Starmer to resign "We need to now move forward as a party to ensure that we can gain that support back. I don't believe we can with the PM in place - it is inevitable that the PM is going to have to step down"