Bye bye magnificent blue whales ...

"Gary is far kinder to Rory Stewart here than Rory has ever been to him." via @dailypolitik.bsky.social #TaxWealthNotWork

‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

There's a fundamental failure of imagination among political leaders about the realities of governing in the 21st Century (this is true for the UK as well as the EU). Toxic information environments, malevolent state actors - these are the threats of today.

Unfortunately, with Rupert Lowe, Jenrick, Susan Hall and Reform councillors across the country pushing hard on blatant racism (& a third of the population voting for it by way of Reform Ltd), I think they’re achieving quite a lot of it.

Gangster diplomacy from country run by ZioNazi mafia.

"We are living through protracted, overlapping losses: loss of services, loss of stability, loss of communal spaces, loss of trust in institutions. [...] Any attempt to explain rising mental distress that ignores these conditions will inevitably miss the mark."

Ofgem has announced au upgrade of our creaking energy grid. And who is going to pay for it? You That's another £100+ on already high bills, while energy cos rake it in 💰Energy cos made a £30bn in pre-tax profits 🏠 Average household pays £500 a yr in energy profits 📺 So who is getting all this cash?

Blame Wes Streeting and his NHS privatising policies bought with £££££s of bribes not doctors

Don't believe the "moaning Minnies" in the Sun, Mail, Express, Telegraph, Times, GB news ... whose billionaire owners just want to keep paying zero tax welfare spending has fallen!!!

There is something deliciously subversive about watching hard data dismantle supremacist nostalgia bsky.app/profile/meta...

Select committee MPs – several declare a conflict of interest as "Friends of Israel" – nonetheless grill West Midlands police for banning violent Israeli football "ultras" from an Aston Villa game The police school them on the dangers Full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRarjfVYSsM

Labour, Reform and Tories are all on the same team, same money behind them.

A 'Russia Hoax' or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again 🔎 From the archive — July 2024 bylinetimes.com/2024/07/01/h...

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

Nigel Farage. The man who's spent 20 years attacking the politically correct "woke" BBC now attacking it for... checks notes ... "showing the Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s". Always good to be consistent Nigel.

EveryDoctor is incredibly concerned about what we're hearing from staff about the state of the NHS.💔 So we 've created a secure portal where NHS staff can safely share their stories. Politicians have been profoundly failing us all...

‘Defending the indefensible’: Government ‘will have blood on their hands’ over indefinite jail terms www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

In November an 18 month investigation into ADHD concluded. It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment. It said GPs need to be diagnosing it. Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'

What first attracted a cryptocurrency investor to donate £9,000,000 to a party calling for cryptocurrency deregulation? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-reform-uk-handed-36351307

Reform allegedly launches an investigation into its accidentally White Supremacist council leader. One thing we are seeing is that groups, journalists and politicians calling out the fascists stop this becoming normalised.

As yet more hundreds of £millions of taxpayers money disappears into the offshore tax haven accounts of polluting water company shareholders ...

Adam Parsons frames the latest Israeli air strike on Gaza as retaliation for a Hamas attack on IDF soldiers Israel has violated the ceasefire hundreds of times, killing hundreds of Palestinians. Why didn't Adam frame the Hamas attack as retaliation for what Israel has done?

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

It appears the prosecution feels Palestinians have no right to self-defence, even during a genocide - that would be a racist, genocidal position. We can only assume it is the private position of the UK government because one of its senior lawyers, Alison Morgan KC, was involved in the prosecution

Former Tory MP Ben Howlett "bought a 50% stake in the influential PoliticsUK Twitter/X account for just £100, from a young Tory parliamentary staffer. As part of our investigation, we paid for two pro-China posts on PoliticsUK" They were published and only deleted after Howlett was told of the sting

#TheCovidInquiry £192m spent by the inquiry itself. £100m spent by the government 'in response'. Zero money reclaimed. Zero arrests. Zero MPs in jail for corruption.

The system forges a potent clientelist rapport between journalists & powerful state agencies, heavily influencing what national security matters get reported on in MSM & how Demanding media outlets seek its advice before reporting certain stories, or asking they avoid particular topics outright

This got almost no attention at all on here. The identical story got 177 retweets and 313 likes on Twitter. Another reminder that BlueSky is tumbleweed for the big stories.

This hasn't had much coverage, amidst all the debate about jury trials, but there is also a lot of concern about Lammy's plans to remove the automatic right to appeal bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

🔥How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of broligarchs, including Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates & Zuckerberg bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...

"You've got Streeting, treating people who want to save lives like the enemy.. we always turn on the workers & at the end of the day if my life needed saving its not going to be [politicians] who are saving it, its going to be the doctors" Nancy Fielder on #PoliticsLive. Well said!

"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months" The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

NHS to pay 25% more for US drugs That's an extra £3 billion a year Why? Because Brexit, taking us outside the EU, makes the UK weaker than if we were inside the the EU

“If I were falsely accused of stealing an iPhone from Curry's this afternoon, with my whole life and career on the line, I would 100% want a jury trial” Chris Daw KC

"Meet Hikmet Kaya, a retired forest manager from Turkey who spent 41 years planting 30 million trees, transforming barren land into thriving green forests. A 1978 picture of the same area shows the breathtaking transformation — from desolation to a living ecosystem teeming with wildlife"

Obama's former speechwriter blamed Holocaust education for making young Jews too sympathetic to Palestinians. She thinks teaching kids "Nazis bad" is backfiring because now they see Israel killing people and get confused about who the good guys are. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sara...

"The NHS will have to pay 25% more for new drugs" In the US pharmaceutical companies rip off patients & the UK govt has signed a deal with Trump so they can do the same to us here.

Israel has allowed tents into Gaza that will house 12,000 people. There are 1,900,000 displaced people in Gaza because Israel has destroyed 92% of all homes and currently occupies over 50% of the strip.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time. Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK Trump-aligned lobbyist who hosted Farage’s meeting with a January 6 rioter is funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

shouldn't the BBC be chasing down the Russian influence stories instead of confecting this?

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

"UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings" Hurrah! More pointless wasteful government spaffage. So glad that Labour turned out to be nothing like the Tories. www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/d...

Don't forget🚨 70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working. A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents. https://bit.ly/4iooCiF

Paul Doyle who injured more than 100 people in Liverpool has pleaded Guilty to 9 charges of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm and 17 charges of Attempting to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm. He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter. Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?

The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...