Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Spot on.

Why did DHS conduct this insane apartment raid in Chicago, kicking down doors in the middle of the night and zip-tying US citizens in vans? To give them footage for this action-movie montage where Latinos are led out into the street by heavily armed thugs, replete with slow-motion pyrotechnics.

What would happen if Reform UK Ltd won the next general election? northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/sto...

With Kemi Badenoch saying the Tories would take the UK out of the ECHR, this YouGov poll in June found the public wanted to remain members by 51% to 27%

Some things never change...

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

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The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

So #Strictly has 3 trained dancers in the line-up this year. This is starting to be a waste of time for anyone else.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

My mama always told me if you want to see what a man truly believes in, watch where he spends his money. That has never been the case more than this gilded dance hall.

From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:

ICE targets Democratic congressional candidate—who fights for disabled rights and relies on a wheelchair. "Agent didn't say anything, just came over and body checked me," she said. "I was tackled and my face just smashed into the ground super hard." Amanda Siebe in Portland, Oregon.

Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour. I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.

@lizziedearden.bsky.social from New York Times explains background to this highly disturbing case to. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

#HumanityAgainstTrump #EscalatorsAgainstTrump #Trumpinocchio 🤥

The shit posting "Reform are great, Starmer is a twat" type posts go a bit quieter from about 10pm, have you noticed? Hint: 10pm UK is midnight in Moscow. Shift change?

Rachel Reeves: "We do need a welfare system that is based on the principle of contribution" What happened to a welfare system based on the principle of need? Or the principle of universalism? Haven't contributed for whatever reason? Tough.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

It's not about not liking video games. It's because men will play video games all day or evening & not do any housework or look after their own children.

This captures much of the frustration of today.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

How could Trump UN speech mention Israeli hostages ( we all want the safe return of the hostages ) but NO mention of the destruction of Gaza and the killing, starvation & continual displacement of families there - most are children. Reminder- Hamas is a terrorist group. Gazans are not Hamas

She specialized in pediatric dentistry.

🚨 These are not even the worst, but cant show ones reported to the police. The far right think they’re winning. They’re wrong! We are the firewall. Join my fight against the far right. ✊🏾 Are you with us, or with them? #ButlerBlocks

Polio cases and deaths USA. You will have had the vaccine and you will have benefited as a result. Guess when the vaccine was introduced

Introducing slightly less cruel/damaging version of Farage's plans would not "outmanoeuvre Reform";would be an economic/ political own goal Far better to attack Reform/Tories for Powellite ethnonationalism & say migrants who come here, contribute & *choose* to stay are welcome -and become British.

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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

From January 2026, UK firms face an £800m hit from new EU carbon rules, with costs passed to consumers. The answer is simple: align with EU standards to cut red tape, stop unfair charges and protect people from higher prices. The government must act now.

🔴TalkTV Presenter Accused of Assault After Dragging Climate Protester From UK Trump Dinner EXCLUSIVE: André Walker facing police probe over allegations he attempted to punch and kick a protester at a Republicans Overseas event in Windsor during Trump’s UK visit bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Can I just send a 🤬to everyone who stupidly voted for Trump, voted third party, wrote in protest votes "to send a message", wouldn't vote for a woman, especially a black one, as well as those who didn't vote... NONE OF THIS HELL ON EARTH HAD TO HAPPEN. IT'S ON YOU.

They didn't stop raping children because Epstein died. Release the Epstein files!!!

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service