The special relationship doesn't exist. Our fantasy about it deprives us of our dignity. But we can once reacquire our national pride if we make hard decisions about our future. inews.co.uk/opinion/brit...

If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

Oof.

The UK could keep attempting to work with an unreliable leader across the Atlantic, or choose to cooperate with our trustworthy European neighbours. To us, the answer is obvious 🤷🏻‍♀️. #RejoinEU

I did wonder whether the lads who installed mine had trolled me rather well by programming mine to be like this. Apparently not!

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

Exactly this ⬇️ "The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/11/the-guardian-view-on-kemi-badenoch-and-the-iran-war-confusion-reveals-a-lack-of-serious-thinking

Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.

Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk? To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics The warnings are there for us all to see

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social In the context of British slang (or is it?) terms for “cheated”, it’s a shame you didn’t think of “welshed”/“welched”, which I think similarly slurs an ethnic group. And no, this Brit hadn’t never heard of “gypped” (spelling?) before either.

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

Oh.

“hypocrisy isn’t the main issue here. Rather, it’s the loss of reliable federal support for vaccines, and how that loss is already dissuading companies from developing new shots that could someday protect hundreds of millions of people from dangerous, even lethal infections.”

Farage is a traitor.

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.

Isabel Oakeshott: anti-migration commentator, economic migrant to Dubai, possible future evacuee of the very British state she insists is broken. Isn’t it funny how mobility becomes acceptable when it’s your own?

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Yes yes, @snellarthur.bsky.social - but what do you *really* think? "It is clear that the overriding feature of Trump is his stupidity. Yes, he’s a sociopath, a child rapist, corrupt, vain, cruel and superficial. But most importantly, he’s an idiot."

Damn, Arthur Snell nailed both the analysis and the description in this one!

Amazing how all we see now is Dubai at night and the faux free press pretending it’s all terror,yet over in Eastern Europe a small enclave of brave spirited glorious bastards are defending the very frontiers of a western front hoping they will be recognised as true freedom fighters by embezzlers.

Loving the work of the South Park gang here www.draftbarrontrump.com

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social I think in the UK Lego is a mass noun e.g. “I keep my Lego in that box”, “All my Lego is in the playroom”, “I’d like some more Lego for my birthday” etc.

@k8lister.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate the name chosen for this child, baptised in Axbridge, Somerset, 22 Oct 1774. Wonder if she lived up to it?

Full Farage

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Mail on Sunday peddling Farage’s racist, fascistic, undemocratic agenda is hideous. Howling to disenfranchise voters. And wanting to remove our rights to make sure we can’t object. Ask yourself whether this is an admirable response to losing? Or the ugly tantrum of vengeful, entitled bigots.

US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school… Death toll now at 150 A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail …and they call others terrorists.

Obscene.

We shouldn’t have to vote tactically. We shouldn’t have to painstakingly analyse small sample polls with huge error margins to figure out how to stop our least preferred candidate winning. We shouldn’t have to be bombarded with conflicting party propaganda about who is in front really. It’s madness.

So Brexit had made Gibraltar more Spanish. Once again, the opposite of what the Brexiters promised.

I believe our constitutional arrangements leave us extremely exposed to authoritarian takeover. Here’s why and what should be done bestforbritain.substack.com/p/is-the-uk-...

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social Can’t believe you guys didn’t think of logophile or bibliophile when trying to think of a non-Epstein -phile word.

If we gave even a tenth of the attention to the solutions as we give to the problems of FPTP, we would’ve secured PR a decade ago. End the madness Labour, and back equal votes for all. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

High energy prices threaten UK’s status as manufacturing power, business groups say. The same groups supported privatisation of rail, mail, water, energy and more. Households ripped-off to appease shareholders. Subsidies aren't the answer. Need public ownership. Gives govts more economic levers.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Zia Yusuf says Reform will outbid Trump by proposing largest ever expulsion people with permanent status [over 250k] since 1970s dictator Idi Amin threw 80k Asians out of Uganda + deport over a million other more recent legal migrants too. Despite rhetoric of control, its a recipe for chaos+cruelty

*30%* ffs. I wonder what that figure would be by now if our media weren’t still almost exclusively populated by intellectually indolent wankers too pompous to admit that they never had the first idea what they were encouraging everyone else to vote for. (With a side of plums who deployed ‘balance’.)

You don't have a "special relationship" with a psychopath like the UK government may think. You shouldn't really take the moral high ground with others as some in the EU want to do. You don't loftily declaim all grubby deals. You survive another day.

In the light of another couple of days of US tariff madness a reminder that survival is the only real aim when a kleptocratic psychopath is given ridiculous amounts of power by the richest and most armed country in the world.

Student numbers hit an all-time peak in 2022/23. If this was a ‘con’, it was one that survived, and expanded, through fourteen years of Tory government.

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

An important reminder

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

We’ve all had enough of politicians lying to us, right? Reckon on that we can all agree Which is why I’m absolutely buzzing for this legislation that would criminalise lying in politics …”punishable by up to two years in jail!” GAME-CHANGER news.sky.com/story/hillsb...

Trump, 79, dozing off at his own “Board of Peace” event. How pathetic and weak!Cameras caught him nodding off while Tony Blair spoke then jolting awake at applause. This is the guy who bragged about stamina? This is just the latest public nod-off. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AzTErUagiS-m...