For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks. ✊🏾🌈

Reform UK said they would walk in and wave their DOGE wand and sort it. It was all just lies. Never trust Reform UK. 10% Council Tax hike coming and services cut. No 'Plan B' for Worcestershire if £71.9m bailout fails www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2577174...

Reform reveal their new branding…. It’s clear: Nigel Farage’s Reform is just the same old Conservatives that ruined the country in the first place.

Thank you to @newscientist.com for this fantastic review of the National Emergency Briefing. The briefing now needs to go to the country. So we're making a film. Please support our Crowdfunder. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people... #neb2025 #climatecrisis #NationalEmergencyBriefing

I had completely forgotten that Robert Jenrick was nothing at all to do with the disastrous Tory governments, despite being part of it for ten years and holding ministerial posts in Housing, Health and Immigration.

Dunno about you, but I don't want a Russian asset running the UK

The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

If you want the actual headlines about what Labour have are actually doing to turn our country around, then check out my Substack. I try to give details several times a week (every day if I can) of the key events and how it benefits us. Lots of the same stuff I post here, but all in one place.

Have just sent Wikipedia a birthday present. Please emulate.

Let's not forget the *actual* big news today 🏥 Not only did waiting lists fall by over 86k in November alone, but they're down by more than 312k since we came into power. Delighted to see this drop in numbers at @mkhospital.bsky.social. This is what Labour in government does🌹

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🟨 Print Edition — The Covid Inquiry – 230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment The Covid Inquiry’s second report has helped expose the UK’s ‘closed club’ approach to dealing with the pandemic – which cost so many people their lives, writes former WHO director… 🔗 …

The government has today committed to upgrade and electrify key rail links across Yorkshire, fix capacity at Leeds, and build a new Bradford station. As Mayors, we worked with Lord Blunkett, to make the case for Yorkshire's Plan for Rail and the government has listened to us. 🚆

The Society of Labour Lawyers has decided to close its account on X. We ask our followers on X to follow us instead here on BlueSky or LinkedIn. Full statement available on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/societ...

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 a picture speaks a thousand words. These men disgust me to the core of my being. As does every Reform voter.

We would do well to heed the words of this US Citizen, because Farage is Trump's UK representative This is the time for UNITY - ignore the posts on social media trying to set us against each other - they're a distraction, and are designed to split our votes, so that Reform get into Government

So this is what Farage wants to do with his precious Brexit ‘sovereignty’: sell out our NHS to Trump’s America and grub for power in the misery of its collapse. Such a cynical, malignant politician. Happy to lie to our faces, weaken our rights and break what we value, if it enriches him. (iPaper)

Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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New guide to help you fight far-right party Reform UK

A huge day for the North East Government is backing our plans for a new railway line through County Durham 🚆 This is a once in a generation project that will make a massive difference for our communities!

A lot of nonsense is said about the cost of renewables. The key fact in our auction is this: the average price we have secured for fixed offshore wind projects is £90.91 per megawatt-hour – much cheaper than the cost of building and operating a new gas plant. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unless we UNITE behind one left wing party in the UK, this is what the future holds with Farage and Reform

DELETE your X account. Poor Elon Musk would hate it if this poster appeared in every town and city. It comes with a QR code that leads people across the world to delete their accounts. It’s time. Because who the f*ck would want to use social media with a built in child abuse tool? Link in bio x

You can’t get the Brexit people voted for because it doesn’t exist. It was a con. A prejudiced, arrogant fantasy created by a cynical campaign of dishonesty. This is however the relentless, tedious Brexit reality. An ongoing national scandal. A betrayal of a country by its politicians and media.

If you take a step back, and look at the long-term picture, now, more than ever, we need to unite behind Labour (perfect or not), to ensure this Country doesn't fall to fascism (Reform/Tories) Labour ARE carefully planning for a better future for the UK, even if you can't see it right now

Huge news for South West Wales. The first Celtic Sea floating offshore wind project (Erebus) has been confirmed as part of a record breaking auction for wind power. This matters for jobs from Port Talbot right across to Pembrokeshire www.gov.uk/government/n...

Carole Cadwalladr is one of the most valuable journalists of our times - she was the first to spot the unholy alliance between big tech & the far right, & she did great work exposing the links between Brexit & Putin's regime (for which she paid a heavy personal price). This will be a must-watch.

If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

More Reform failure. Running a local council is about getting the basics right to make every day life easier & seamless for residents. But here we see Reform have failed to do this in Lancashire. Scotland/Wales: you have seen what is happening in several English councils - is that what you want?

It seems that we have a new wave of people and organisations choosing to leave the other place and set up on Bluesky. So now is a good time to resurface this starter pack of LGBTQIA+ orgs to help get you going here on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/PSBhHbT

The media ecosphere moves on so quickly....and rarely, if ever, touches on many stories. So I'm sharing my look back at what our Labour government did last week again. With the media already moving on, if you missed any of this last week, you'll likely never hear about it!

#NeverTrustATory For once, we agree with Nige: "NEVER trust a Tory. You get that? I'll repeat that: NEVER trust a Tory. They will always let you down. They will always betray you." And in other news... 👁🔎

As Trump ramps up his cruel deportation machine, it's more important than ever to know your rights if ICE comes to your door. Spread the word.

A senior Tory MP once told me the ‘worst’ conservatives gathered around Boris Johnson. When it comes to Tories defecting to Farage and Reform, we can be sure they are the worst of the worst - la crème de la crème ou la merde de la merde

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

The UK government says, of the images created by X /Grok: "It is illegal to share or attempt to share them. It is illegal to create or attempt to create them. Nudification apps will be banned. And VPNs or not, the platforms have to make sure that their duties under the law are fulfilled."

“Zahawi's defection strengthens the argument that Reform is increasingly functioning as a refuge for Conservative flotsam and jetsam.” www.politics.co.uk/news-feature...

Three years later...still stands 👇 https://theguardian.pulse.ly/4vwo5aqqq4

The message from Ed Miliband and I has been clear: energy suppliers should pass on every penny of the £150 savings to consumers this April. My update on their response ⬇️

#NextPM The man suspected of supplying the bomb that killed the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is part of a group which funnelled €200,000 into a European Parliament party and foundation with close links to Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2019/12/03/h... @caoilfhionn.bsky.social

Reform - a receptacle for Tory bin juice.

This is DELICIOUS to watch

The Tories Mark 2 😅

This is priceless 😅

We've done a Quiet Riot starter pack for all those (finally!) heading over from the other place. bsky.app/starter-pack...