That’ll be it Jim: it’s not that they’re just bad at their jobs, it’s that Twitter dot com has eaten their homework.

Absolutely incredible, from the FT's deputy political editor, who is presumably paid a salary specifically to understand this sort of thing

I’m old enough to remember Sir Keir bounding across the House to shake old Nige’s hand and do a big show of matey civility politics. I watched his Enoch Powell speech, saw the billowing sixty foot flags, listened to Mahmood’s migration crackdown announcement. But sure, the Greens

@zackpolanski.bsky.social £269,260. Can we make it £270K before midnight. Clocks ticking and time is running out. Please donate if you are able. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

✨ Here’s to a better, healthier 2026. ✨ We’re wishing for better staff support, better patient care & a fully public NHS — in other words, the EveryDoctor Charter made real. 💙Let’s make it happen. ➡️ bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...

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Read Jonathan Cook. One of our finest.

Yeah. This is why centrism is oft the fascist gateway drug. We have an issue with the far-rght let's... Er, fight the left. It's over a century and they STILL don't get it.

This is not normal. Patients and NHS staff deserve better. ➡️ morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aes-...

Notice how this 'centrist' (i.e. actually a right-wing neoliberal) has sensibly managed to deflect all responsibility away from Labour! Either way, in his 'plain-speaking' terms, it's all gonna be Zack Polanski's fault! 😄 Centrist clowns.

Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage in 2026. DECEMBER: Thames Water tried to make Charlie Maynard pay legal fees as high as £1400 an hour, in effort to quash any attempts to represent the public interest in legal disputes. 1/2

How Farage's party picked a dead woman as election candidate insidecroydon.com/2025/12/31/h... #Croydon #Reform #Whitgift #Westfield #Corbyn @ottoenglish.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @fisherandrew79.bsky.social

How do we stop junior doctors leaving for Australia asks The Times which has called their strike for better pay "reckless and self-indulgent".

Live with Gary Lineker: youtu.be/4tSm2YnkW00

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

👏🏻👏🏻There, someone's said it. Labour is a party of privilege and nepotism. And this list is not exhaustive.

John Rentoul and his colleagues in the MSM are hired to protect the household budget lie, the economic status quo that benefits billionaires. They will have to admit their ignorance or their complicity in the deceit.

Please contribute if you can. The Wildlife Trust was last year given until September 2026 to raise the £30m asking price. It has so far raised about a third of that. The clock is not just ticking, “it’s clanging”, says one insider.

There are case studies to be written on why Labour has become the fiefdom of several families, and how its structures keep elevating their progeny to prominence.

The mistake is to believe Starmer and his ilk are governing for the citizens of UK. They are representatives of donors and corporations that funded a long coup in Labour, as well as aligned with at least one foreign power. So are Tory and Reform.

you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

Labour MP for Thurrock Jen Craft. Her husband has more that £70k in shares of the lobbying firm Cavendish, whose clients include private water firms, Infosys and private equity firms. labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...

Israel is ordering Doctors Without Borders out of Gaza and the West bank. Item number 786 in the huge pile of evidence that Israel is a genocidal state that wants Palestinians eliminated.

There are thousands of doctors out of work because Wes Streeting chooses not to create placements for them.

This should be an interesting listen. Two of the best demonstrating that caring about others should be the norm, not an abhorration to be derided or dismissed as ‘student/fantasy politics’

Putting it another way, if a practising barrister becomes a senior politician they take on a whole new set of responsibilities, and it is those responsibilities David Wolfson is being accused of breaching.

Amazing interview attacking Polanski as a "fantasist" "selling unicorns". But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax. So who is the fantasist?

@joedromey.bsky.social in your Guardian interview you attack Polanski for 'selling the unicorn' that "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need". Am sure you'd never sell unicorns so can you help me, please, with where Polanski said that?

Private equity, a disaster waiting to happen.

'Creeping curbs to individual rights, the clamping down on dissenting views, the narrowing of groups to which rights apply, the relentless intrusions into privacy and personal data, all amount to a tangible shift towards an authoritarian state.' We have been warned! tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/as-i...

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

"We know too well - apart from Shabana Mahmood - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997.

If you don't remember 👇🏻

Let’s hope we see more of this in 2026 Sadly I suspect we won’t

The honours system is, with a few exceptions, utter bollocks. People getting recognition for doing something they are more than adequately paid for, or being some sort of political sycophant and all round twat, is just wrong

ALWAYS money to KILL people! NEVER money to SAVE people! But remember: "You GET what YOU VOTE FOR!" ..Thinking helps!🫤

She should be given an award for her humanity. 🏆

36 Minutes Trial and No Jury - Starmer's Fascist Mass Courts open.substack.com/pub/craigmur...

Hilariously bad journalism... What we can expect in 2026 are increasing levels of resistance to Labour's hardwired refusal to address the multiple political and economic crises faced by Britain which can only deepen its drive towards a chaotic, entropic collapse. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Private partnerships are sold as the answer — but they failed the NHS last time. So why are they back?! Find out why PFI was scrapped and let's ask for better👇 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...

Every time we do this we find that giving people the cash they need to live on, with no strings, is the most efficient approach.

As neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy have the guts to have an account on this site maybe @richardburgon.bsky.social @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social Will give it a mention at the first opportunity at Parliamentary Question Time.

'Cover up' as UK Government withholds files on Prince Andrew www.thenational.scot/news/2572882...

Who said this?

Tressa Burke is one of my oldest friends and I have had so, so many reasons to be proud of her over the years — never more so than today. I hope the UK government is listening. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Jury trials have not caused the criminal justice system crisis. Removing the right to a jury trial and has not been piloted nor thoroughly modelled diminishing the constitutional principle of trial by jury will erode trust in our criminal justice system. www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...

Keep going Keir, your popularity is already -50. Introducing unpopular, none manifesto policies can only help that downward trend.

A year of reasons why Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage in 2026. OCTOBER: The enshittification of Thames Water continues...In 2023-24, its serious sewage pollution incidents more than doubled from 14 to 33. Tell Ofwat to reject Thames Water's new deal. vist.ly/4k45i #OFWATsayNO