I thought I understood Starmer; I had him down as a vaguely narcissistic, status-hungry, political makeweight being used by the Right to destroy the Left. I underestimated him. Not by ability, but he's far more determined in his evil than I gave credit for. www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And here we have a perfectly-dressed, brass-necked, performative, genocide-enabling hypocrite dishonouring the dead... #GuessWeForgot

An Independent councillor who is chairman of a football club and says he wants to stand as a Reform UK candidate for Parliament was jailed for three and a half years for his involvement in a gang that grew cannabis plants worth £14m ✍️Martin Shipton

1/ The government has plenty of money. Here's my explainer. A short read. Some extracts below 🧵

Last month I wrote to the Foreign Secretary about the detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi by U.S. authorities — a deeply troubling case for press freedom and human rights. I’m relieved to hear that he’s set to be released and will return home to his family soon.

"This open antisemitism is part of Reform’s wider far right and racist politics that must be called out."

She's had her orders .

I posted in jest, then read this on Labourlist. 😳

#Amazon, #Apple, #Google, #Microsoft and now #TikTok. All involved in the #AmericanIsraeli #genocide. More chairs will be needed at #TheHague. @lillmagill.bsky.social substack.com/@truthandbal...

Said an anonymous source, Keir is in a bunker and he doesn't even know he's in a bunker.

Congratulations to the geniuses in Number 10 for finally opening up a goal so large that even Kemi Badenoch couldn't avoid putting the ball into it

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This morning I joined teachers on the picket line outside Capital City College. They are facing an assault on their pay and conditions. This college belongs to our community — and our community must fight back. Solidarity!

Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care. Official advice provided to the government before its ban on Palestine Action underestimated the significant public protests that followed, records show. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

I support Keir said Wes, as he cancelled the office lease and extra phone lines.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney, the man who secretly plotted to replace Corbyn with Starmer, is now secretly plotting to replace Starmer with someone else after realising his guy is a bit rubbish. Poor Keir 😭😭😭

We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision. In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney says he is frantically searching for someone even less principled and less popular than Keir Starmer to take over as prime minister. Only candidate who springs to mind is Wes Streeting 😍

When in a hole, keep on digging. 🤣🤣

Over the years social housing stock has been sold, real wages cut, profiteering unchecked, local council funding cut. Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings". What is the govt doing? Watch the Minister's reply.

I've been reading in UK media for at least a couple of years that young people all love Farage and are flocking to Reform en masse. That was bollocks, wasn't it? Just journos blatantly trying to create a phenomenon that was never actually happening.

Brianna Ghey was not killed by her phone, she was murdered because she was trans. Abusing her memory to justify heavy-handed acts of censorship that MPs have been desperate to impose for years is absolutely sickening

Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest of us. Blair, Starmer, two cheeks, same ar$e.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

The 1% are fretting...

Race to the bottom. UK banks push for easing of capital adequacy rules. They want deregulation and lower capital requirements to compete with shadow banks which are unregulated. This will end in tears. Public purse will bear the cost. All avoidable. Will any govt resist the City? archive.ph/t2poX

NEW EPISODE: 'Trump and the Battle for the Beeb'. How a journalistic error has been weaponised by enemies of the BBC. @goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @baghdaddi.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Public services must be run for people not profit. #WealthTax

Really? Gibb, head of the BBC posting this? @bbcnewsnight

The Telegraph has published its "editorial view" on the recent BBC resignations, claiming that they want "to ask legitimate questions about the accuracy of its journalism". If only The Telegraph would hold their own reporting to the same standards. 1/2

The existence of trans people is not an "ideology", BBC. It is a reality and one which Parliament has recognized. (Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)

Textbook. Why are we letting these people dictate the terms of our national life??

Today I stood with peace activists outside Westminster Magistrates Court, in solidarity with those who have been arrested for protesting against genocide. The proscription of Palestine Action is truly shameful. We must defend the right to demonstrate!

Jade Botterill MP is very cosy with private water companies and corporate lobbyists 🥀💰 labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/l...

www.youtube.com/live/MI3d9A_... Starmer who talked about island of strangers & accused west Midland police of being anti semitic, & has expelled more Jewish party members than any other party leader.

Say the "Island of strangers" man.

Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷

I quite enjoy Ed's new comms strategy of 'well if the Government won't say it, I will'

Never understood why they do this, giving free advertising and publicity to organisations that loathe them (although Sky also has similar reviews with a rotating tedious cast of Waldorf and Statlers). And it's the same old tired papers- never magazines, websites; occasionally you'll get "regional"

Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

This was flagged up ages ago by European Powell on Substack. It’s the beginning of a massive SEZ initiative actively sponsored by Keir Starmer’s government.It’s been an ongoing issue and will continue to be with local opportunists making thousands in taxpayer money open.substack.com/pub/european...

"Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared", says Starmer. "I mean, how did we end up here? It's hard to believe", he continued, "but there are mainstream politicians, right now in 2025, giving speeches that clearly echo the words of Enoch Powell. It's just awful."

Ffs. Trump is a convicted sexual assault criminal and bizarrely, President of USA for a 2nd time. King Charles *hosted* an unprecedented, costly 2nd state visit for this cruel, vindictive felon. So much for the 'special relationship'. Time 🇬🇧 tells him to fxxk off. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Is Starmer in a self induced coma or something? Nothing ever stirs him into life - unless its a ban on Israeli football hooligans coming over to Britain, then he has a view.

Bridget Phillipson’s Special Adviser worked in the Post Office PR Team that blamed the sub-postmasters and defended Horizon labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/b...

Starmer's favorites at it again. What a lovely bunch, let's invite them over for a friendly football match, eh?

#WATCH | Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians daily across the West Bank, protected and assisted by the IDF and authorities: shooting, beating and threatening residents, stoning, torching fields, destroying trees & crops, stealing, blocking roads, invading homes and burning cars. (Btselem)

“Measures used to ban groups such as Palestine Action should be restricted so that they are only used to protect the public from terrorism” Translation: Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation. inews.co.uk/news/law-use... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

Indian authorities have arrested people protesting about Delhi's pollution. Clean air should not be a luxury and protesting about it should not be a crime: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Absolutely obscene that a complaint about poor treatment can get vulnerable people evicted from care homes. Where's the humanity gone?