Abraham Lincoln associated democracy with “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Possibilities are subverted as corporations and super-rich buy political parties and legislators Yet no govt wants to ban political donations which buy influence/power for the super-rich.

Who better to have as Chancellor than Robert Jenrick, the man who helped a billionaire pornographer avoid £45m tax in exchange for a £10k donation.

“Calmac chief on >95% [ferries sailing on schedule since 2023 - read] the facts that Scotland’s news media are shockingly and deliberately hiding from you, for political purposes – please share widely.” READ THE NEWS YOU’RE NOT GETTING.

Israel demolishes the HQ of a UN agency in Jerusalem, and the UK government's response is to "condemn", "urge", "reiterate", and "call on" Israel. With no sanctions or policy changes. #DCUKparliament

Damning prison projections uncovered by The Independent reveal the government’s action plan to tackle the scandal of indefinite jail terms will leave hundreds of prisoners to rot www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Why hasn’t Ghislaine Maxwell been transferred back to a maximum security prison? #EpsteinFiles

Road to the next financial crash. Regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers. Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements. Deregulation encourages games. archive.ph/hhz45

Good! This comes after the former PM Gordon Brown claimed the documents showed in “graphic detail” how Epstein was able to use the Essex-based hub to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia” Brown said Stansted airport was where “women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”

Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy? Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT? Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.

It gives me great pleasure to confirm that our new Shadow Foreign Secretary is Nathan Gill. Under his guidance, we look forward to much improved relations with Russia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

On the passing of Jesse Jackson, let us take a moment to reflect on what a narcissistic, selfish sack of shit Donald Trump is.

Many people have told me I should change my last name, but instead, Donald should change his. "Donald Epstein" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx.

Do senior Labour politicians have relatives fighting in the Israeli military? In July 2023, Richard Hermer KC declared that he had "dear family members" serving in the Israeli military. Now, he's Labour's AG - but Hermer is not the only one... www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

The main reason the tech bros & billionaires back Trump. Huge tax breaks, in this case contracts too, basically funded the taxpayer $1.5 billion of U.S. income - paid exactly zero federal income tax due to of tax breaks largely due to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed last year

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Sarwar won't return 'dodgy' cash from think tank

The FBI has not released all the evidence it has on this victim or her allegations against Trump. Her story was credible enough to be used to sue Epstein successfully and help convict Ghislaine Maxwell. Why can't the world see an unredacted 302 report?

Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.

President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections. Monday’s "One First" explains why—whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics—his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:

President Donald Trump pays a moving tribute to himself on the death of Jesse Jackson. 😢

People sometimes praise Farage for taking lots of questions from the press. That seems irrelevant when he regularly responds to reasonable questions in insulting and Trump-like terms, often attacking individual journalists and their outlets. Collectively, the lobby shouldn’t stand for it.

PeaceHealth has been worsening emergency care in rural Oregon by cutting costs. Now they fired the ER physicians raising the alarm & replaced these local, rural-Oregon emergency physicians with an Atlanta-based corporate staffing agency that is best known for insecure handling of patient information

🔥 NEW VIDEO: Trump’s attempt to suppress James Talarico’s interview on Colbert last night is backfiring. It’s far more likely to make people actually watch the video, as well as help Talarico win the primary in a couple of weeks. I break down the political implications of Trump’s abuse of power.

Racism in football, it’s time to kick Jim Ratcliffe out A Manchester United fan's perspective on the abhorrent comments by Jim Ratcliffe that the UK has been 'colonised by immigrants' | Mark Cunliffe @coldwarsteve.bsky.social @markcunliffe.bsky.social

A dedicated portal giving the public access to more than 700 Gaelic songs is set to be launched

I am both the most mentioned and most innocent person in the child sex trafficking ring which I have nothing to do with and haven't even seen because of all the innocence we're doing with the stock market where it is. But they don't talk about that.

Before Labour Together tried to smear Sunday Times journalists, it was a vital source for them - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Right-wing influencers like Johnson were primarily taking aim at homeless and transitional housing — and exaggerating their “findings.” It’s a strategy state election officials have long been aware of. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rig...

There are offenders out there, living among society, who view Epstein as a hero. They live among us. They look normal. They succeed in life. The obligation is on the rest of us to protect children. Keep your children’s faces off the internet. Keep your children away from social media. Do your bit.

CBS late-night show host Stephen Colbert said on Monday that the network's lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. "D... TAT: [Controlling Information | Suppressing Dissent]

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

It's a thoughtless, mean-spirited and counter-productive idea. They shouldn't have proposed it in the first place. But now they have, they should think again.

I also write about the Epstein files. Because it’s the another eg of US press lacking guts or clarity or leadership to say it like it is. It’s the dog didn’t bark. And if it isn’t barking now..what happens when/if Trump attempts to throw the mid terms?

NEW: ‘It’s a coup’. One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying. NB: They’re still not. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

NEW: Keir Starmer has paid to keep a personalised pair of cufflinks given to him by Donald Trump during the US president’s state visit last year

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EXCLUSIVE: Two Scottish Labour MPs who hosted a fundraiser featuring disgraced peer Peter Mandelson have been told to hand the proceeds to a victims’ support charity 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

It turns out the government is keeping public lists of those fiercely defending President Trump and his cabal of pedophiles. They’re called sex offender registries.

"Age 10". Dwell on this.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident."

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

Next he'll find God in a big way and start a podcast. Pr!ck.

To Kristi Noem, I am an anti-ICE account. I use freedom of speech and freedom of religion to advocate for morality, which is something you and the entire Trump administration will never have. Kill me, imprison me, I don’t care. I will die a happy death. You will live a miserable life.