Malversation problems (i.e. legalized corruption) affect not only the party of government but any opposition party that might become the next government. So Farage &Tice seem to be setting the table for a wave of Trump-style deference to their donors should they ever get to power

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc

The government is forever striving for the positive Daily Mail headline that will never, ever come.

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin" @tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com > www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' says Bank of England chief. The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that question".

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

British.

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Can we pause and imagine the well of sympathy in the Telegraph for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of overstaying foreigners in the UK who don't speak English. Polluting the culture.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Let’s make hope normal again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

Would be great if millions watched this party political broadcast. Could you share this post?

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Funny how mainstream media are ignoring the Nathan Gill story, but were bouncing up and down with apoplexy over an innocent mistake by Angela Rayner.

The Nathan Gill Russian bribery case: "Nothing to do with Reform"? - West Country Voices share.google/ooVOBRoPjgTS...

An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?

Whenever you legislate for more powers, you shouldn’t think about what your government would do with them, but what a future bad (evil or incompetent - or both!) government might do with them.

Cambridge psychologists tried something radical: making a positive case for EU immigration. It worked – spectacularly. Fred Lewsey reports

"...the web is lacking in compassion, but this is not a human failing. This is a design issue." "'The algorithms that make social media so compelling have harmful consequences & should be regulated,' argues the inventor of the web." h/t @floragraham.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/comment/inte...

680,000 estimated dead in Gaza. arena.org.au/politics-of-...

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Eurovision embodies a culture of unity, defiance & joy. To platform Israel, a state carrying out genocide in Gaza, killing 64,000+ people & silencing journalists on that stage, is obscene. The BBC must join Irish state broadcaster others in saying: no genocide in Eurovision.

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

Now it looks like Jesus murdering someone with a tiny mallet.

If you listen to one thing today 👏👏👏 bsky.app/profile/wear...

Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said

"Petroganda" Genius

Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."

Op-ed and warning from the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: "The Baltic nations know what 'only de facto' Russian occupation means — and that 'temporary' can last half a century." www.ft.com/content/7c57...

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

Great explainer of the origin of the Online Safety Act from @alimcforever.bsky.social: youtu.be/lJ2AokZujC0?... How can we know that the Carnegie trust doesn't have assets that will directly benefit from the act that it wrote? We can't. So poor from the government.

From the way some talk, you'd think Labour is losing all its voters to Reform. Absolutely not. From @georgeeaton.bsky.social excellent email

The Minister for Homelessness is a landlord - and she just evicted her tenants, tried to charge them >£2,000 in illegal fees, then re-listed the property weeks later for £700 more. The same Minister who claims to fight for renters’ rights. You couldn’t make it up. 🧵

Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans. www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...

Farage says Epping far-right hotel rioters were "genuinely concerned families". Here are the "families" he was referring to.

The thing to understand about mainstream politics in Britain is it follows this chain of thought: - Most white people are not capital 'R' Racist -> It is offensive to call them racist -> Leftists/minorities make specious accusations of racism -> Therefore you *can* legitimately call *them* racist

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...