I hear that the US is turning away those whose social media posts are critical of Trump. Today we hear Trump is suing the BBC. I'm happy that history will find me among those who would likely be rejected as tourists. #BBC #StandUpToBullies

📢 This petition reflects what many of us already feel about Brexit’s impact. If you haven’t signed yet, here’s the link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"If people have got lots of money, they have to put it somewhere and part of where they put it is just buying up homes, buying up land etc, so that puts up the price." Shoutout to @garyseconomics.bsky.social 💬 #TaxWealthNotWork

A disastrous consequence of a culture reserving its greatest rewards for commentators with the most pungently expressed opinions is how hard it becomes for them to climb down. By rights, *everybody* writing or speaking in the national interest should be horrified & outraged by Trump’s attacks on us.

🎁 Today is Day 1 of 12 Days of Democracy 🎁 Every day, we will be opening a present and revealing one good reason to support a fairer voting system. Let's see what we've got today - and stay tuned for more!

Ed Davey asks to stand up to Trump's threats to Europe and to strengthen the UK with a Customs Union with the EU Stramer dodges the Trump comment, and says post Brexit trade deals outside the EU are better than a Customs Union with the EU Labour under Starmer makes us smaller and poorer

Craven capitulation ... Uber Pulls Back From Electric Cars, Slashing Incentives for Drivers - After long pushing for government policies to speed adoption of electric cars, Uber embraced Trump's EV-battering legislation financialpost.com/pmn/business...

“The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller & trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse…let's apply to rejoin the EU, reverse the damage, boost growth, increase tax revenues & restore opportunities in the UK” Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Any subject specialist (engineer, surgeon, pilot, atmospheric physicist, chef, electrician, coder) ought be open to scrutiny By professionals in the same industry In academia that's called peer review - done by those who have relevant/related knowledge and training in science (Not Facebook U.)

Once again I surprised myself at my ability to further renew and strengthen my revulsion at the spokesman for Trump speaking on #BBCPoliticsLive . The US under the current regime is neither a friend nor a reliable defence partner.

Second hottest year on record. Average temperature for the past 3 years more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. 10 hottest years on record the last 10 years. It remains truly mind-blowing this is not the biggest story in the world every day. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522952...

2025: Elon Musk wants the European Union to be abolished 2016: That time David Cameron reminded us of the benefits of being in the EU including the special op-out status the UK once had The EU union setup is often considered "better" than the US state system in terms of sovereignty and flexibility

There's nothing'free' or 'special' about these 'economic zones' pushed, quietly but ruthlessly, by both #Tory and #Labour governments. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Layla Moran MP is a spot on. 👏👏👏 It’s way past time to GET PR DONE to MAKE VOTES MATTER ‘Make seats Match Votes’ #getPRdone #MakeVotesMatter #FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation

Today, on the 31st anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with its useless security assurances, we are facing a repeat of history as EU leaders warn of the risk of a peace deal without strong US security guarantees. Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

Temperatures in Arab region are rising at twice the global rate, says @wmo-global.bsky.social - "Extreme weather causes massive social and economic disruption" But Arab group were key blockers of a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels at #COP30 #climatecrisis 1/2 wmo.int/publication-...

He who pays the piper, calls the tune...

"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Starmer’s US pharma deal creates divergence with the EU, risks NI’s supply chains, & undermines the Windsor Framework. This deal doesn’t “fix” Brexit. It makes realignment impossible & makes a mockery of Starmer’s words on getting closer to the EU. The tax payer picks up the #Brexit tab again. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.

That doesn't inspire me with much confidence! I am honestly yet to meet one single person who will vote for Starmer next time round! I would feel a tad better if he focused on introducing PR in good time instead! I would only vote for him if he takes us back into the EU using his stonking majority!

David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit. Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.

@Ed.libdems.org said: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350 million a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250 million a day in 2025.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

“Brexit is costing the UK £90bn in lost tax revenues every year…This week, Rachel Reeves…announced £26bn in tax rises…one of the main reasons for these decisions is the disastrous impact Brexit has had on our economy” Imagine if she’d had an extra £90bn! www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Absolutely. HM Treasury before the ref and the Tories own post ref DexEU department both produced analysis showing there was NO version of Brexit which could have worked for the economy. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Keir Starmer, "Tax rises do make life harder for people, I understand that, it's obvious" It's also obvious that a wealth tax of 1% on those with £10m+ would NOT make life harder for the rich - thats also obvious 🤷‍♂️

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

yes indeed, according to most, 1 to 2 mbpd bsky.app/profile/prof...

Rachel Reeves promises "stability for our public finances - the single most important factor in getting our cost of living down." Under FPTP, we've had: ☑️ 6 Prime Ministers and ☑️ 8 different Chancellors since 2015. There's no economic stability without fixing our democracy.

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

"The Green Party leader Zack Polanski also spoke at the event but received a markedly more positive reception from the young crowd. Once finished, he received raptures of applause from the students, with many even standing up and cheering."

Cut bills. Tax billionaires. This morning speaking to Sky News with @gndrising.bsky.social youtu.be/j95ornZRUHI?...

Doing well on Good Morning Britain this morning. Making Redwood look like a relic from the past. #TheGreenParty

UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves. Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable. Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves. UK can find better uses of £20bn+.

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests. Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

New analysis by non-profit climate group Possible today: Private jet passengers typically pay less than 1% of the cost of their flights in taxes, compared to 26%-54% paid by economy passengers on standard flights Loopholes mean private jetters often pay little or no APD, nor fuel duty on kerosene.

❄️ CHRISTMAS APPEAL ❄️ With your support, we've made so much progress over the past year. PR feels more winnable than ever - but there's still so much to be done. Now we need to raise £60,000 to continue and scale up our work in 2026. Can you help? 👇 makevotesmatter.org.uk/2025-christm...

🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage’s meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising him while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

"Is it not time that we had a proper consideration in this House of changes to the voting system, so that the next election is not a disaster for democracy?" Great question by @maxwilkinson.bsky.social The Government must wake up and get to grips with First Past the Post before it’s too late.

Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin. Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill. Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social