A question that few are asking is who will win the contract to operate this system? If it goes to another of the Pay Pal mafia or Palantir then your data may be shipped to America. And a company that openly admits it wants people living in fear will be in control of that to make you live in fear.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I needed to think carefully about how to word this. Labour Women’s Network used to allow anyone who identified as a woman. They have changed the wording to simply “women” and stated this means “biological women.” Labour Women’s Network is a transphobic organisation and I will not be party of it.

So to recap: 🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader 🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY 💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period 💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader 11/14

When Reform's Nathan Gill is sentenced for bribery, he will be the third of Nigel Farage's former MEPs to be jailed for being corrupt, after Tom Wise (expenses fraud) and Ashley Mote (falsely claiming benefits). What is it about Farage that attracts crooks?

I wasn’t against ID cards until now, when the reasons given are false. Employers already have perfectly fine ways of checking the immigration status of applicants. I don’t like being lied to by politicians coffin-chasing Reform.

And this character who's standing for Reform in the Caerphilly by-election worked for Gill

Normalising bigotry and hate narratives only makes things worse. Who’d have thought? (Clearly not the Labour leadership)

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Former leader of Reform Wales pleads guilty to accepting bribes FROM RUSSIANS. Who would have guessed it, eh?

Amazing! The Naked Civil Servant, JohnHurt’s groundbreaking portrayal of Quentin Crisp’s life, is in the 1970s selection of programmes celebrating 70 years ofITV on ITVx. Well worth watching.

I mean, try issuing something called a Brit Card to most of the population of Derry. Go on, I fucking dare you.

Reform's highest-profile politician in Wales spread a false cancer claim and recruited people into a multi-level marketing scheme. Before her current stint as an MS, Laura Anne Jones made wildly misleading and pseudoscientific claims to promote a business model in which...

Five hours apart

Virgin are calling themselves allies whilst banning trans people from using the appropriate facilities . Help us stop them 👇

Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave could collapse the NHS… Which would be incredibly good news for someone wanting us to move to an ‘insurance based system’ FYI the average American pays £480 per month for private healthcare Please wake up folks.

Just the President of the US telling the United Nations that the UK wants to go to Sharia law. How in the fuck did anyone look at this brainless sack of shit and say “Yep, that’s the guy to run the most powerful nation on earth”?

Honestly, if MAGA types want to deny themselves effective painkillers, who are we to interfere with their human right to suffer?

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

I had never heard of a slippery dick wrasse and I’m still not sure whether someone is having me on.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

I took paracetamol in both my pregnancies for minor joint troubles. I had a better pregnancy experience because I wasn't in pain. Neither of my kids is autistic. The high-quality studies and reviews confirm there is NO evidence that paracetamol taken by the mother causes autism in the child. 🧪

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

Also this week, in an interview with Mumsnet, Streeting advocated for trans segregation. www.mumsnet.com/news/wes-str...

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

Anna’s Lola books listed as “banned in classrooms” in one US county – purely because they feature a black character

Tommy Robinson has just been deported from both Colombia and Panama. Still, I'm sure he understands why a country would want to secure its borders against fighting age foreign criminals.

How Arjen Lubach (Dutch late night talk show host) reacts to Kimmel being canceled by Trump

Andrea Jenkyns has awarded herself an increase of £150K to “run her office” as Mayor of Lincolnshire. Council taxpayers will now have to fork out £262K per annum for her immense talent and expertise. Reform U.K. Ltd, always knowingly grifting.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Reform - especially their councillors - remind me of the dogs you see chasing cars. Now that Rover has actually caught one, he doesn't have the first idea to do next ... Stop voting for stupid people.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

(Touches earpeice) And we now take you Your Party, live.....

To all my friends who were annoyed when I said Corbyn was a good man but a terrible leader, how are you going to spin this one then?

Norway runs on renewable energy, electricity is 3p a Kwh from Oct 1st. In the UK it is 26.5p a Kwh, 9x as much.

I have friends who will appreciate this.

It's one of those weeks for the arts - there's a lot going on in Cardiff but don't miss out on this one from my lovely friend Fi, another Stonewall founder now an environmental activist (and a bloody good film maker). Showing at Chapter from tomorrow (19th): tullstories.co.uk/films/ackroy...

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

"I didn't think leopards would eat YOUR face," sobs a leading member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you Wes Streeting lamenting the systems he put in place to restrict trans healthcare.

History has shown us what happens when we scapegoat and dehumanise minority groups. We all said ‘never again'; but it seems very much like it is starting to happen again… and it’s terrifying ✍️Rocio Cifuentes, Children’s Commissioner for Wales wp.me/p8Mk4U-15RY

“The most frustrating thing about.. this moment has been the wildly inadequate political reaction to the hate crimes and racist intimidation.” “Racism is unacceptable – and deeply unpatriotic.” Starmer - and the rest of civil society - must say so. Loudly. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said he will pull state funding for the country’s national film honors, the Ophir Awards, after the Palestinian anti-war drama The Sea took top prize at the 2025 ceremony Tuesday night.

THREAD that shows how badly Wes Streeting has got this wrong; There is no “conflict” between cis women’s rights & trans people’s rights. This is a fabrication that Wes Streeting is either dishonest or gullible enough to believe. Empirical evidence Streeting is wrong 1/3 Hasenbush et al (2019)…