Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

If you have to wake up and choose not to act on your "gay thoughts" every single day, I have news for you, pet.

Work in progress Pottery ceramics wheel thrown

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧 Sent complaint to NHS England re the illegal use of their logo by Reform UK in their Gorton & Denton by-election material! Just got a reply. Quite pleased.

Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII… Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!

This is every city, every town, every urban centre, every single time car traffic is restricted. It is always a net social and economic benefit. There are no credibly documented exceptions.

bring it

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how. Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

The evidence is, and always has been OVERWHELMING. Cycling is good for business

Blue Sunday - for some. HAHAHAHAH

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection. If you take that away, what do they have left?

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

When whatever happens at the top of the Labour Party finally happens and given the sorry mess that British politics has been for years, is it maybe time to fix a broken system? Get rid of the “two party politics” delusion? Embrace PR? It’s apparently good enough for Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.

Someone is taking the piss.

Every American needs to watch this:

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

"I will never denigrate the contributions that migrants make" says Starmer. But he did just that.

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By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government. Thanks Keir.

Epstein was issued with 9 separate Russian 🇷🇺 visas covering more than 9 years and they were sponsored by MOO that was “linked to veterans of Russia’s FSB special forces unit “Vympel” (known for anti-terror operations).[efa-vimpel] Led by FSB veteran and KGB colonel Sergey Shestov”

FAAFO

This is whya they want to stop Trial By Jury. None of the proposed measures to abandon Jury Trials will make any difference to the backlog in the criminal justice system. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Rebuilding state capacity requires building the confidence of the civil service as well as investing in the dynamic capabilities needed to tackle grand challenges - not outsourcing to consultancies.

🚨 BONUS EDITION 🚨 The mystery of #BlueLabour – What is it, where did it come from… and is Maurice Glasman’s brainchild as powerful as it wants us to think? 🎙️ @dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social tide you over between seasons with this special edition 📳 Listen linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Origin Story is BACK from the winter break with this deep dive into one of the silliest and most broken-brained thinkers we've ever come across: Maurice Glasman

Russia used the energy moratorium to stockpile missiles, not de-escalate—US think tank ISW's assessment. The 3 Feb barrage: 450 drones, 71 missiles, 1mn+ without heat in -20°C. Zelenskyy: Russian barrages 1.5x larger than before January talks.

Mandelson leaks UK secrets to Epstein Epstein was working for the Russians And still Keir Starmer will not instruct our security services to investigate Russian interference in pushing Brexit over the line

At last @originstorypodcast.bsky.social does Maurice Glasman. @iandunt.bsky.social "Just fucking batshit" sums it up megaphone.link/NSR7414660134

Everything in this report reflects on what we value, for communities, for peripheral places, for young people, for education, for the future - and it looks like we’ve got it all wrong.

Tomorrow we are in the High Court suing Reform for breaching data processing rules. We think it's really quite important. 👇

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Someone cycling along a footway next to a busy road is invariably just improvising safe infrastructure. Provide safe space and the "problem" will disappear. Not everybody can or wants to drive. Councils should have a mandate to provide them with safe spaces.

A real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives. That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.

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And perhaps, behind it all, this sea of dark money and kompromat

Is it wine o’clock yet? Asking for a friend.

We need to stop taxpayers having to subsidise employers who pay too little for people to live on. We need properly paid jobs. For too long firms have paid unliveable wages in the knowledge that governments will taxpayers increase those wages up to a liveable level.

‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/d...

If voting was compulsory, the interests of the young would get a lot more political attention. As it is, they are ignored, in favour of the old ✏️ @zoegrunewald.bsky.social

Why isn't this a major news story?

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...