In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish

If permanence can be torn up by Reform for settled migrants, how long before it can be torn up for citizens? Read the Bear’s commentary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Reform UK’s immigration plans have ‘no basis in reality’, say Labour

Nigel Farage announces plan to deport legal immigrants. Will split families. Will resisters end-up in concentration camps? Plans to deny welfare benefits to those who worked, paid taxes. Produces false financial savings numbers. Will the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?

Why can't Starmer say this sort of stuff?

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Where’s Rylan? Has he come back from India? 🔗 www.bigissue.com/opinion/refu...

If you are grieving this hate merchant today, you are every conman’s mark. I can guarantee that you will find yourself forever bewildered at how everyone you’re surrounded with takes advantage of you. But don’t worry, at least you hate the same people, which makes it all okay, doesn’t it?

"Researchers have developed a comprehensive tracking project documenting the systematic dismantling of democratic institutions in the United States under Trump’s emerging regime. On 9 September, Christina Pagel and Sandy Laping presented their Trump Action Tracker project..."

“At a time of increasing unpredictability & shifting sands in UK politics, the lunchtime discussion will expand the debate beyond Westminster – bringing in views & experiences from people across the UK to explore how politics is impacting people’s everyday lives.” 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This Labour Government once again choosing to do the work of their vested interests - and not working for people or the planet. My article today in @the-independent.com on Gatwick Expansion. 👇🏼 www.independent.co.uk/voices/gatwi...

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Keir Starmer: "This death and destruction horrifies all of us" So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No So you'll halt all trade? No So you'll impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? No So you'll end all military ties? No. So its just empty words.

BBC News jumps to Reform’s (5 MPs) press conference, with 50+ minutes of unchallenged coverage, only interrupted by a technical glitch. Why so much airtime? When BBC tell us it’s “not-even-half-baked” or it’s a “gimmick”. Day 3 of the Libdem (72 MPs) Conference gets hardly any coverage.

Politics Live leads with Reform immigration announcement and have Reform’s Dr David Bull on the panel. Including discussion of the absurd £234 BILLION saving from this change. #politicslive

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and has such called on governments worldwide to stop sending weapons to Israel. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/un-i...

"It's the immigrants." Look at this picture. It's these people.

James Dyson thinks that being rich 'doesn't make you popular' but perhaps his lack of popularity is down to being a traitorous cunt?

I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry, but this really pisses me off.

Reviewed Nick Clegg’s book. Didn’t think much of it, except for: “Nadine Dorries, while secretary of state for the department overseeing the internet, ‘once called me in high dudgeon, demanding to know why I hadn’t taken down tweets … I had to explain to her that Twitter was a different company’.”

We're in for some industrial strength noticing.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In which, remarkably, while talking about the fiscal bind, and even after Jeremy Hunt goes on about acting in the interests of the country, no one brings up the TWO NI cuts carried out largely if not solely for narrow party political ends. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

"The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money" 😷 Mind-blowing numbers, £5B to one, VIP lanes, waste, privilege, class, NO prison time, NO accountability. Why isn't this scheduled in prime time? Late night on Sunday seems convenient... for some… Oh, they got £5 back. 🔗 WATCH: www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

"Zack Polanski described a second Gatwick runway as a “disaster”. “Ignores basic climate science and risks undermining efforts to tackle the climate crisis. “Labour keeps wheeling out the same nonsense about growth, but at what cost?” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bibi's new spox Shosh Bedrosian: "… the people of Israel aren't going to commit suicide because of the political needs of European politics." UN's Chris Sidoti told us the other day: "I think Israeli responses are generated by AI… no intelligent human being could produce this kind of nonsense"

🇵🇸✅🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 It's Palestinian Recognition Sunday. Mustafa Barghouti: "What is happening… to the Israeli side is exactly like what happened to the South African apartheid system… they think they will kill the 2-state option… we'll demand one democratic state and equal rights for everybody."

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Robert Redford, me, Toby Jones - and a reporter who found corruption in his own backyard. Thoughts on the coming ITV drama, The Hack www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.

16% of Britons have no savings. 39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income. Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

It's hilarious to me that people can say. "Energy is too expensive, food is too expensive, rent is too expensive, my mortgage is too expensive." Then blame immigrants. What about the people who own all these things and who are making vast profits? Are they invisible?

Gaza. A young boy carries his sister, both starving, trapped, homeless and fleeing from Israeli genocide. On the other side of a wall other kids play at swimming pools and eat fast food. This is what the UK/EU and US support.

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Given Walt Disney was a proud McCarthyist collaborator and noxious union-busting chump, it’s no surprise the company named for him caved to the feelings of a fascist since appeasing the worst humans among us clearly runs in his cowardly blood

The USA is now the only country in the world voting against a Ceasefire in Gaza. These two need to have a date in the Hague.

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Boom bitch! 💥🤣🤣

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

Great to be with @smerconish.bsky.social on @cnn.com this morning. www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/u...

Maria Ressa, "By design, social media platforms spread lies six times faster. If laced with fear, anger, hate, it goes viral. They change the way we vote" This is how they got Brexit over the line in 2016

From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it. They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.