Returning home from a trip and finding nobody there who planned a meal is a different kind of frustration.

What we hoped would happen in Gaza: Israeli withdrawal, rebuilding by Palestinians with help from agencies. What's proposed: effectively a slave-labour camp for the Palestinians under complete surveillance and control by Israel/US. No freedom, no self-determination. Slavery.

Spent the day with 10 other amazing secondary school librarians shortlisting for Spellbinding, the Cumbrian schools' book award. 64 longlisted books whittled down to a shortlist of 12. There was drama, there was passion, there was laughter, there was chocolate. #BestDay #Spellbinding26

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

Read that again, and again and again and again….

Today I intervened in a very well attended petitions debate on fireworks. Always grateful when I get the chance to mention a constituent too. I spoke about Helen who had shared a video of her border collie, Alf, who quaking with fear under a table because of fireworks. #SouthDerbyshire #Fireworks

As you already well know by now, it's all lies. Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie. All of it. Every time.

Joe Thompson is a principled public servant who spent more than a decade achieving justice for Minnesotans. This is a huge loss for our state. It’s also the latest sign Trump is pushing nonpartisan career professionals out of the justice department, replacing them with his sycophants.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Fighting the Brexit reset means scrapping Erasmus again and telling businesses that red tape, queues and cost are the price they should all pay for Farage’s petulant prejudice. What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants. www.ft.com/content/3f97...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

NEWS: Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Mark and Melissa Hortman, released statements after Trump reposted false claims about their parents’ deaths. Sophie Hortman urged Trump to remove the post, saying, “I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced.”

When a dog barks at nothing. It's not barking at nothing. It's barking at where the world thins and the border betwixt us, and the monsters is at it's most slender. It's most fragile. Remember that the next time your dog barks at nothing.

Yes please, more of this type of initiative, UK Gov. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

An important statement from the desk of Robin Ince

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Only 2 months since they did the same thing to Angela Rayner. There's a pattern here & it stinks like a fishmarket in late August

Except that’s not true. Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021. Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014. Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

Farage says he didn’t promise to cut Council Taxes (all Reform Councils are raising it), he leads the party & sets policy However Warwickshire Reform Party leaflet said ‘we will cut your taxes’. Worcestershire leaflet said ‘We will reduce waste and cut your taxes’ Did someone say Reforms dodgy AF🤔

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

I genuinely think there is a concerted effort by the media to bring this government down. It's sinister and undemocratic.

British.

Cheesy leeks are great with roast chicken. That is all.

Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time, I put to Reform that their former leader in Wales was in the pocket of Putin, taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while an MEP, they had no answer, because patriots don’t peddle for Putin. metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?

Beg pardon?

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

The piano on You Are My World. @richardcoles.bsky.social. phenomenal 😍

So, arrived home from holiday today and three Union Flags have randomly appeared on lampposts in my street. Question is, do I take them down?? 🤔

Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.

Same 🙌

Fantasy world of Farage adviser: UK should not have fought Nazi Germany. Could “regain” former colonies. Should copy mass incarcerations as in El Salvador. Should not support Ukraine. Elsewhere Reform opposes worker rights, wants US style healthcare, return to gold standard for currency.

This is the best one yet... "Columbus" - Because of the maps! 🤣🤣🤣 Nearly choked on my coffee!

I'm in Carlisle (UK). It's too hot. We're not used to this. Send help!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

I thought Conservatives wanted to deport foreign criminals? What do they actually want? Just to be a cynical wrecking ball, in Chalk's case it seems...

Gosh, Chancellor Rachel Reeves needs to find £40 billion to maintain her fiscal rules Labour keeping the UK out of the EU Single Market costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax revenues

It just never ends. Pam Bondi has convened a grand jury to look into claims that members of the Obama administration may have violated federal law during their investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

This didn’t age well .

They moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison camp. In order to qualify living in such a posh prison: Federal inmate must be within 10 yrs of release date. Federal inmate must not have a documented history of violence or sex offense over a. prescribed period of time (at least 10 yrs).