So @kevmag.bsky.social wants an elected second house. But we already have too many career politicians. So I think my idea is better. bsky.app/profile/ldw1...

To accompany the video, here's the tonnage of fossil fuels versus precious metals mined today.

Some info on the founder of Blue Labour. 💥2011: called for a dialogue with supporters of the English Defence League (EDL). 💥2011: called for some immigration to be halted and for EU freedom of movement to be abolished. 💥2016: campaigned to leave the EU. 💥2024: celebrated the victory of Donald Trump.

What the F*CK is this man doing? He wants to align the UK with Belarus and Russia? Is that right or have I misunderstood? Who advises Starmer to say all this dangerous bullshit?

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct... ‼️ This sets a precedent! If he interferes with ECHR then it’ll be easier for Reform/Tories to do the same!! Has🌹learned NOTHING from introducing tuition fees? What started as 1k has morphed into 9K! Tories legitimately say🌹introduced them! Not Thatcher! Labour!

Busting another myth. This one on how much mining is needed for fossil fuels versus renewables. We will need orders of magnitude fewer mines and orders of magnitude less mined material in a clean, renewable energy world. www.youtube.com/shorts/8NZ0E...

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

🔥 38% OF RUSSIA’S OIL CAPACITY DOWN AS YAROSLAVL REFINERY BURNS Vlog 1184: War in Ukraine youtu.be/wy88vELekjI

She’s called Kemikaze for a reason. 🙄 yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

tone deaf from the Royal Society on E. Musk FRS

Ethnicities. And identities. Are. Made. Up. We get to choose. Someone can be a Leeds native, a Yorkshireman, a Brit BUT not English. Just take me out and throw me in the sea. I’m done.

That deeply shocking #bbcpanorama investigation into the Met is what you expect the public broadcaster to do. Very good work despite the weird break in the programme.

Wondering where Rebekah Brooks is now? She's been promoted and is now CEO of News UK. #TheHack

Along with everyone else, I call bollocks on this. The median voter wants this crap called out, and won't be voting Reform in 100 years.

Zack Polanski: we need to do politics 'with' people, not 'to' people www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Who’d have guessed? Nigel’s ‘honest, decent, honourable man’ has admitted taking Russian-linked bribes💰

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

#GreenParty leader, Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been included in this year’s #Time100 Next list, an annual list naming the 100 leaders shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism greenparty.org.uk/2025/09/30/g...

OFCOM needs to get involved. Is this journalism or is this Reform Party propaganda?

⚡️French military intercepts Russian ship suspected of launching drones into European airspace, Guardian reports. The French military has boarded a so-called Russian "shadow fleet" vessel suspected of launching drones into European airspace, the Guardian reported Oct. 1.

Unbelievable but true- when News UK were spying on @jacquihames.bsky.social and her family,they claimed it was because they thought she was having an affair. With her husband. The real reason? Maybe it had something to do with News UK reporters' alleged role in the Morgan murder cover up... #thehack

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist. Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall. Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

This is unquestionably the finest piece of writing that I have read in a month of Sundays. A massive BRAVO to Sarah Dempster. 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

STOP THE FARAGE BOATS!

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

Funny how we can afford useless nuclear power, unworkable CCS, PPE contracts with Mone et al, tax breaks for the wealthy and so on. But we can never afford to lift people out of poverty. Strange.

Good. This is an important victory. It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Speaking at an event at the Labour conference, Sadiq Khan says: “I think it is a badge of pride that bad people hate London.”

🌍 Big climate wins announced at conference yesterday: ✅ Full ban on fracking ✅ Expansion of Solar panels for schools & hospitals ✅ Clean energy jobs plan – doubling jobs to 860k by 2030 Tackling the climate crisis isn’t optional – it’s essential for our economy, our food security, and our future.

This is great obvs… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live Now how about Dido Harding and her £39.5 BILLION??

So was *The Sun* ‘inciting violence’ against Nigel Farage in 2014 when its editorial described his racist comments on my show as ‘racism, pure and simple’? And would somebody who interviews these ghouls on a regular basis at least ask them this question!

We now have two v prominent advocates of Reform - both Matthew Goodwin and Isabel Oakeshott - arguing that Shabana Mahmood (so Rishi Sunak and Paul Ince) can't be English. That was a settled question long before this match in 1998. This kind of radicalisation by online racists would harm Reform

Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales – report

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

"Pragmatism is only possible when feasible alternatives are available. Where climate breakdown is concerned, there is no alternative. The climate doesn’t recognise pragmatism. We either slash emissions now or we are in deep, deep trouble." 💯

Gentle reminder that the USA emits more than twice as much CO2 per person as the UK (adjusted for consumption) ourworldindata.org/grapher/cons...

Wow! Now over 37,000 signatures! 🙏 For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account. You can support the campaign to change the law here👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

This is fantastic news and a strong testament to @london.gov.uk’s leadership and vision for cleaner air in #London. It demonstrates that effective policy truly makes a difference! Thank you, Sir Sadiq. Other cities and countries should look to London as a global leader in reducing #AirPollution.

Nick Robinson on Today this AM was completely wrong to suggest that pumping more oil & gas from the North Sea would lower bills, something even former Tory Energy Secretaries have accepted. We’ve burned most of the gas and export the vast majority of the oil—and oil is basically what’s left…

Telegraph admits article by Conservative immigration spokeperson Katie Lam used entirely fictional stats from Centre for Policy Studies (no, *not* the £234 bn, different ones!). Publishes entirely inadequate correction which still makes false claims about migrant wages. archive.ph/FkywM

“Our women, our daughters are scared to walk the streets,” claimed Tommy Robinson at the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally. Suddenly, the radical right seems concerned about women’s safety - but this isn’t genuine care. They’re recycling an old, racist trope. Watch and share.

Trigger warning: if you actually care about those affected by baby loss you don't start hassling them in the street about it. Anti abortion campaign groups have reached a new low - whether you are supportive or not of legal abortion access this kind of behaviour has no place in democracy.

Quite bizarre to think there was a co-ordinated campaign to vandalise ULEZ cameras with like 5,000 incidents and people getting criminal records all because Sadiq Khan introduced a policy that's reduced pollution and saved people's lives.

tapping the sign

Weird how The Times had Farage's "shocked" reaction to Starmer's speech published before Starmer's speech.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

As ever follow @jdportes.bsky.social and @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on immigration policy, facts and figures. They're for more informed and better at articulating the utter guff that is out there than I ever will be.

FWIW this isn't a new thing. Asylum seekers make up some like 5% of all migration to the UK. Yet they are the more emotive element of the debate. The conflation is deliberate.