A healthy democracy requires a population that is informed and in possession of the facts. We deserve better from our journalists, especially in the major news outlets. There is far more at stake than ratings.

I cannot be the only person who read the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH from the one everyone is quoting. So how come so few are putting it in context? Only rational explanation I can find is that it detracts from the "heat" of this moment and those quoting are interested in maintaining a high temperature. 3/3

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

The BBC's flagship politics show devoting the whole programme this morning to 'two tier policing'. May as well hand the entire schedule directly over to Elon Musk www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-t...

Maybe Putin is referring to Trump and Vance?

whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet

"Two-tier policing" is part of a bad faith effort by the far right to portray white people as oppressed by malign, racially conceptualised forces & ultimately needing to fight back violently. Either Kuenssberg doesn't know this, or she does but chooses not to say so. Either ought to disqualify her >

And now here are Guardian readers’ votes for the 100 best novels of all time. Lots of overlaps, but top place goes to a title that didn’t even make the writers’ and critics’ 100…

Monstrous and indefensible: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Matthew Syed’s column in tomorrow’s Sunday Times is headlined ‘Forget left vs right: the battle we now face is between truth and lies’. Can you guess which side he blames more though? Side note: the person he debated on Thursday was Jo Grady of the UCU but he doesn’t seem willing to name her.

Don't plan to come to the US for the World Cup. Trump will deny you entry last minute and cost you thousands. Especially if he thinks your country was mean to him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

Apart from everything else I think the European right underestimate how damaging it is to have their key messages associated with the Trump administration.

Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet

At this point it's basically pathlogical. The site is once again being used to whip up race riots and people with responsibility for national security are on it merrily whistling away.

@quietriotpod.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social

My great-uncle Herb Reichlin lost an eye fighting for this country in Europe and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. I am confident that he would have been furious to hear the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean described as an invasion in comparison to D-Day.

I know we shouldn't respond to the trolling, but Vance implying that Sikhs are part of a "mass invasion of migrants", when they fought in tens of thousands for the British in two world wars and even THE INDIAN MUTINY is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

"The US has nothing to teach the UK on policing. Deaths at the hands of police in the UK are extremely rare. In the US, around one person in 315,000 is shot dead by police each year. In the UK, the comparable figure is one in 25 million."

It seems that Labour feel they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to every policy decision by the court of public opinion.

I just don't understand this stuff. Labour isn't in opposition. It's not writing for an essay competition. So don't whine, legislate: "X com has become a tool by which malignant foreign actors spread disinformation and we will bring before Parliament legislation to block it."

i promise you that whatever you think will happen next won't

When is the British government going to get it? We don't have an ally in the White House. We have a regime that is opposed to every decent value people in Britain stand for. These people can't be appeased. They have to be beaten. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

What the fuck is happening? @iandunt.bsky.social

Been a grim, grim fucking week man iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

This is a vital piece from @iandunt.bsky.social. As always, he brings facts, but also great moral clarity, to show us how far and how fast the discussion of race has moved to the extreme right. Terrifying stuff, truly awful. iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

Between this, the comments on personal allowance on bbcqt, business tax proposals and his commitment to the big three taxes, he's both boxing himself in a LOT on tax and also setting expectations on the direction of travel that are just…impossible to deliver.

I love the nuanced discussion you get on @quietriotpod.bsky.social, especially in the new B-SIDE episodes. This is one of the most enlightening discussions about the relationship between parties and voters that I have heard. Well worth your time!

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

A word from the USA, famous worldwide for its colour-blind law enforcement /s

Would back someone who thinks there are men in the Moon to give more thought through answers than Kemi would to questions like “okay, so just take me through the first five days of this civil war”.

Fascinated as to what level of moon man talk it would take for literally any sitting Conservative MP to go “you know what? I don’t like the direction we are going in”

Rest In Power

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

exactly the right response

Zelenskyy has written an open letter to Putin: “Whatever you say about NATO, geopolitics, and the Russian language — this war is your personal choice. “A war without a real reason. That is how history will remember it. 1/

Alexey Navalny would have turned 50 today.

your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%

what i find so frustrating is this pathetic lack of agency from Labour & frankly all politicians who arn't batshit fascist adjacent cranks make the fvcking argument ffs - you know, for inclusivity, respect, openness, empathy every data point in history shows if you do it works, & if you don't ..

meme via Mark Keeping

"they can moderate him to get what the want" the Von Papen strategy - yes it didnt work then

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Farage promising to deregulate crypto and create a national crypto reserve. Those are just the policies the people of Makerfield want.

Could we stop treating Farage like a PM-in-waiting? Latest from IPSOS: