didnt he do this with the jobs numbers? he didnt like them so he fired the guy. and now miraculously job numbers are going up 😂

My friend Graham Hughes is live on youtube right now, as he is every Friday night. Him and his guests talk politics from the week. Watch him live, 130 people are watching and I think he'll be delighted (as will I) to have more UK & US peeps! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZq...

This is an excellent article by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social. Very pragmatic and well-reasoned suggestions that (in theory) could be supported by people all the way from the centre-right to the left.

You may remember WeCrashed, the TV series about WeWork's fall...and how Adam Neumann was its delusional and utterly deranged CEO whose biggest skill was obtaining inflated valuations for WeWork. Well, I give you Elon.

The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania

Siri, how is a modern day act of treason by a Lord of the realm defined….

Following on from this, Faisal Islam has written an absolutely extraordinary account of how this leak from Mandelson to Epstein resulted in Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan) threatening Alistair Darling: don't tax bankers bonuses or we'll stop buying British bonds. Horrific, shocking corruption.

There's more. On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary. Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.

I love Norway, but this shocks me. Terje Rod-Larsen, Norwegian diplomat, key figure in the Oslo Accords and former director of the International Peace Institute, sent Epstein a one-line email: "Have you heard the saying: when you meet an Indian and a snake, kill the Indian first!"

It seems impossible to me that Andrew could have been indulging in all sorts of depravities at Epstein Island and the Royal Family didn't know.

"how can we frame the drop in the murder rate as a bad thing?"

This is a legendary level of gaslighting by people who defended Kyle Rittenhouse and the January 6th Capitol attack

I am very excited to see the detail in the India-EU trade deal, which I believe is going to be signed today? It's taken nearly two decades of promises and negotiations so I'm sure it's got a lot of compromises, but I hope some radical good stuff too.

I tried Threads for a while. It's full of so many trashy influencers from instagram it was suffocating and annoying. So now I'm back to bluesky, hopefully for good.

Unbeknownst to many, January 26th is an especially big day in British history. It's Australia/Invasion Day, marking the start of colonising a continent. It's also India's Republic Day, the day the British Monarchy was replaced by a constitution and an elected President.

I hope more Americans realise how militaristic and violent their country is, and that Trump is a symptom, not an anomaly.

is that why a twit is now in charge of twitter?

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It was just an admin error. Two admin errors. A few admin errors. Seventeen admin errors worth £380,000.

I was not wrong, was I?

Again remembering the GOP rep who responded to Pres. Obama once wearing a tan suit to a press conference with “There’s no way any of us can excuse what the pres. did.” Now we’re just cool with the US pres threatening Denmark/Greenland, kidnapping leader of VZ/stealing their oil, invading MN, etc.

What a blathering, idiotic bag of lying vomit!

Trump just posted this. Coup the twat already.

The far right’s new slur “AWFUL” isn’t just abuse, it’s a method of misogyny. Turn women into a stereotype, and gendered violence becomes narratable, excusable, and even desirable.

“Involuntary parks” — lands emptied by war, pollution or conflict — can become accidental refuges for wildlife. From the radioactive Hanford Reach to the disputed Kuril Islands, nature often rebounds without people, raising hard questions about conservation, recovery and responsibility.

Game of Thrones fans will appreciate

I don’t know which genius heard The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and thought “sounds like Formula 1” but they were a hero.

The BBC is set to design and premiere programmes on YouTube. Not only does this mean pushing the extraordinary success of iPlayer to the sidelines, it means our audience data and licence fee will now go to improve YouTube's algorithm and AI. This is a public asset quietly handed to Big Tech.

Australia is negotiating a trade deal and - and mutual FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT - with the EU, effectively joining the single market. Brexiters promised Britain a “Commonwealth alternative”. But reality is we'll end up with less than what Australia gets with Europe.

If politics depresses you, do not isolate or accept your condition. Instead, become an engaged activist. When you're an activist, news doesn't depress anymore, it energises. My advice has a scientific basis (research linked below). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This shouldn't be a hot take but while London is a wonderful city to live in, those who call it the greatest city in the world can only do so because they ignore this city's history and the source of its wealth.

UK: Hey EU, we’ve had a great idea. EU: OK. UK: We think our national interest suggests we’d be better off in the Single Market. EU: Don’t say it! UK: But … EU: DON’T SAY IT! UK: Obviously no Freedom of Movement. EU: ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

Given we're all talking about Venezuela I thought it'd help to know how big it really is

Trump needs to do something really bad, like spray paint a plane, before Darren Jones and Keir Starmer can condemn him

"International rules-based order"

Don't ever make the argument again that immigrants are coming over to do low-paid jobs you won't do. We're literally raising everyone's game.

Non-US-aligned countries will be looking at how Trump abducted Maduro and thinking only one thing: how do we get nuclear weapons. It's the only proven deterrent to US meddling.

So much magical thinking around following Starmer's ridiculous comments on Single Market alignment this morning. There can be no cherry picking, and you are either in the Single Market or you are a third country (potentially paying through the nose for partial access via bilateral agreements).

I know the Overton Window for war crimes has shifted considerably given Israel's actions in Gaza, but Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

This is Brexit all over again but worse, because we are again willingly destroying the very thing that feeds us - just at a time when we are at our weakest.

Turns out we hit my net migration forecast a year earlier. Now, all we need to do is brace ourselves for the economic impact.

You can't tell me the Gall Peters equal area projection map, where countries are shown in their true sizes, isn't absolutely beautiful

The UK is to allow high-earners new, faster visa path to residency. Migrants earning more £125,000 would be allowed to apply to for indefinite leave UK after three years. Refugees, 20 years.

A Sri Lankan influencer has been making money running anti immigrant pages on facebook, he runs an academy teaching others how to do the same. 🔗 slguardian.org/sri-lankan-i...

FFS. Surely they must realise that this brings up so many connotations of what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Shoah – taking their jewellery, valuables, and even the gold fillings out of their mouth. ... Or if they aren't aware of it, they're in the wrong damned job! #BlueLabour

"Mamdani will turn New York into London" FANTASTIC. Do it.

Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.

Honestly, not surprised to see Britain relieving brown people of their valuables once again

Pressing the fear button is the easiest way to win votes when people are suffering but you have no talent to fix their problems.

One of the most absurd myths Empire nostalgists repeat ad nauseam is that Britain united India as a country. The core strategy of empire was divide and rule, so to suggest the Empire somehow did exactly the opposite is peak delusion.

Starmer wants to copy Denmark to deter asylum seekers. Reform voters prefer Poland or Hungary. The ethics of these policies aside, can someone ask these people if all these countries are in the EU and can supposedly control their borders better, WHY THE HELL did we Brexit??