Reform dodging serious questions.

‘The late, great Alphonse Capone’ has nothing on this crime family

Pathetic

Picked up John Peel’s autobiography, published 2005. This is on page 5, comparing politics in Peru and the UK.

This clearly must not be allowed to happen: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Will the person responsible for several gold effect dob-ons to Leeds Station please desist.

I’m on a train to Leeds, the landscape is stunning I’m told. What happened to industrial design in this country?

After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about Andy Burnham | Owen Jones

Sharp piece from @joeldodge07.bsky.social making the case for “public factories” as a response to monopoly power. When a few firms control production, supply gets squeezed, prices rise, and markets alone cannot correct themselves. But building out public industrial capacity can.

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A leading 'Raise the Colours' flag activist, who claims to be fighting to "protect our women" from migrants, has pled guilty to assaulting a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Infrastructure is the answer, but what is the question?

It’s all very well everyone piling in on RIchard Dawkins, but I had, on one occasion, an extraordinary conversation about hermeneutics with my campervan, Beauty, which revealed to me that machines may have a soul.

The battle of britain was a significant turning point in the allies’ war against fascism and blackshirts like ‘Tommy Robinson’ – not very bright are they? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Centrist Dads are just boot polishers for the Fash

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

This is state-sponsored murder: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nige thinks that Hard Working British People will put up with dark money and billionaire grift, just as Americans are willing to accommodate with the Trump crime family – is he right? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Martín Sorrel on BBC Radio 4 exemplifies the view from big business that governments should cut their social spending to the bone in order to support…big business. The corporations are addicted to hand outs of publicity money.

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

Don't forget what Reform promised the crypto industry after Farage took the cash: Farage....took an undisclosed £5mn personal gift from a crypto billionaire in 2024, months before pledging to slash tax and regulation on the digital assets industry if he becomes PM www.ft.com/content/6a56...

I hope Great British Railway integration will bring to an end pointless train announcements and the exhortation to passengers to act as paranoid security guards. Get it sorted!

Really, this should be leading the national news.

I had a word – all sorted.

You are joking me? So the GMB and other unions are going to block Miliband – pretty much the only minister who has done some serious delivery of progressive policies, that will reduce fuel poverty & carbon? We are fucked: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apple – ‘with this iPhone 16 Pro Max you can access satellite communications anywhere in the world, for all eventualities.’ Me – I’m literally passing through North London and it says I have 2 bars of EDGE. We were promised great things. I’ve had better comms with two tins and a piece of string.

Due process and all that, but how on earth can it possibly take 9 months and counting for HMRC to work out if Angela Rayner paid enough tax or not? And if it is this hard, perhaps her omission (if such it was) is understandable?

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Streeting as leader would be the wilted rose on top of the coffin of the Labour Party

Meanwhile….

Oh – ten years ago we bailed out the banking sector, and we are still paying for it as a society. They don’t seem very grateful ? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

More questions about Farage’s mystery backer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He has been boring in government and will be boring in the leaving of it.

Bloody good slapping for architects (which we love) and useful caution …*crosses out half of tomorrow’s talk *

Hilariously underwhelming – at the next election we are in danger of an actual Farage government - the architect of Brexit - thanks to this melt.

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

Streeting as leader would be the wilted roses on top of the coffin of the Labour Party

He obviously hasn’t read Aditya Chakrabortty’s excoriation of this ‘adults in the room’ nonsense: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I can’t believe we are back in ‘Chaos with Ed Miliband’ territory

Hilariously misconceived street frontage now revealed on the Google building at Kings Cross – give me boring any time.

This is brilliant. And horrifying.

Brexit was a policy. What's coming next is a regime change. Reform is running on mass deportations. Gutting the BBC. War with the judiciary. A foreign policy authored in Mar-a-Lago and proofread in the Kremlin. 8/12

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Cambridge Labour loses control of the council and poor @cameronholloway.bsky.social loses his place as Leader. I’m sure this hard-working council will have a few things to say to the PLP, and No10, who have abandoned places like Cambridge.

Lammy: “you don’t change the pilot during a flight” au contraire – that’s exactly what you do if that pilot’s incompetence threatens to fly the bloody plane into the ground. #Starmerout

This 👇🏼 Sort it out Labour, before you set up a Reform government

Amazing that a national government is throttling clean energy transition that will put the USA behind competitor economies that are electrifying.

Not a man in his 60s? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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