The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like. Make it make sense.

I don't think we should revoke citizenship because of some tweets

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

A cross-party group of MPs is organising to tackle the threat of deepfake AI content to British democracy in 2026 The Speaker of the House of Commons has also taken a close personal interest in the issue @zoecrowther.bsky.social reports

Rupert Lowe repeats his belief that "whole communities" need to be deported from the UK - attacking Nigel Farage for saying Lowe went too far by using that "whole communities" language to propose that all British Pakistanis needed to be deported from the UK.

What happened to the execs who ruined lives during the Post Office scandal? Fujitsu execs, accountants, lawyers also made millions from the scandal. All living in comfort. None fined, prosecuted. Even when that happens, litigation will last for years. The UK legal system doesn't deliver justice.

'New analysis found at least 87 contracts across the public sector in the government’s own database involve companies criticised in the phase 2 report into the Grenfell fire, published in September 2024, though some contracts may have since expired.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Documents obtained by Declassified suggest the government has allowed UK companies to send drone engines to Israel without export licences. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

The Washpost edit board calls Trump’s bombing in Nigeria “a welcome change in a part of the world that has always been little more than an afterthought for the president” — and has zero mention of the thousands in Africa facing starvation because of USAID cuts www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Starmer and Reeves have “cut themselves off from every critical tradition in political economy” by narrowing their mission to indiscriminate “growth”. @tom-clark.bsky.social on what two major new surveys of capitalism reveal about our precarious moment:

NEW: A former Scotland leader of Nigel Farage’s previous party has been under scrutiny over pro-Russian statements since an explosive court case 🚨

The right realised a long time ago that if they keep screeching about being persecuted and unheard it gives centrist wanks who basically agree with them an excuse to give them everything they want.

RIP to Brigitte Bardot, sixth best singer to collaborate with Serge Gainsbourg, but definitely the one most convicted for repeatedly inciting racial hatred.

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

UK an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader Remember this the next time you can’t get a GP appointment or have to wait too long to see a hospital doctor or nurse www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Chloe Deakin, the teacher who wrote to David Emms (the Dulwich College headmaster who failed to meet his own standards) about Farage’s vile conduct to pupils in the school), speaks on the record here. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

EXCLUSIVE: Concerns have been raised over an anti-abortion group giving talks and plays at Scottish schools Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The insistence that Brexit is solely the fault of Leave voters isn’t neutral. It’s a narrative designed to stop you questioning whether consent was manufactured — and whether democracy was hollowed out in the process.

In that one Joe Dante found extra walls to break, having got bored with the fourth

2025: Peter Thiel, who really means it this time, and other prominent tech billionaires (including Bill Ackman, who has always been based in NYC and never in California) publicly announce that they're "thinking of leaving" California due to the proposed tax on extreme wealth.

By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.

“We must stop referring to far-right politics as ‘populist’.”

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BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

Elon Musk remains at the top of the list with a net worth that has risen nearly 50% to $645bn. ft.trib.al/ARjBBXC

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike

Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

BREAKING: sparked by a mass exodus of X users in protest of a new function that feeds images to Generative AI for other users to edit, for the first time since April 8th, Bluesky gained more than 55,000 new users in a day. There are still 6.5 hours to go before the @bskycheck.com counter resets.

Thread about the current migration wave of Japanese users to Bluesky

"For my third Christmas behind bars, I proposed a new tradition to my friends: a holiday feast. Our sources of income varied from legitimate jobs to various side hustles, and together we pooled what we could from the canteen and kitchen."

To be fair, Brazil (1985) is absolutely a Christmas movie.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured. For @sportico.bsky.social 👇 www.sportico.com/business/med...

UK newspapers can’t stop talking about net zero. But where’s the mention of climate change? Britain’s most dominant media outlets are failing to “join the dots” between net zero and climate change, as researchers call out wave of “problematic” coverage www.euronews.com/green/2025/...

Kenyan environmentalist Truphena Muthoni broke her own world record by hugging a tree for 72 hours at Mount Kenya — a silent protest against deforestation and poor forest protection. Her action reflects a new generation making conservation urgent and tangible.

Yeah, no thanks. Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.

Qesser Zuhrah: the student who could soon become the UK’s youngest hunger striker to die 🔗 John Simpson reports https://bit.ly/4qpRrhM

If you really want to ‘put the Christ back into Christmas’ make refugees welcome.

We’ve identified a website that’s become the go-to store for the most radical fringe of the far-right to design and order patches from.

I spoke to Dana Abu-Koash of the Palestine Red Crescent about two years of healthcare workers being beaten, kidnapped and killed jrnl.ie/6907705