@lbc.co.uk James O'Brien. Are you aware that everyone running a business is now required to verify their identity? Photos are submitted & are then checked against passport / driving licence data. ....

Doctors who are tasked with keeping people safe in extremely difficult circumstances have been flagging up patient safety concerns for months, and *this* is how our Health Secretary responds. Despicable. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

And there we go Poorer households suffer more yet again While the rich barely notice www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As Xmas approaches, 4.3 children in the UK - almost 1 in 3 - live in poverty In the world's 4th richest nation, this is an obscenity, and politicians who are allowing this to continue should hang their heads in shame Always remember, maintaining poverty is a political choice

I think most people living in the UK would be astonished to know that this country is now more wealthy than Germany, and ranked 4th in the world The millions struggling to eat and heat will be rightly wondering, where the f*ck it is? www.forbes.com/sites/lewisn...

Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee, has said that the home secretary is seeking to “use children as a weapon”.

Yes, Matt Goodwin is very, very, very racist. Very stupid, obviously, and doesn't understand the policy, but also, very, very, very racist. #Budget25 #bbcpm bsky.app/profile/drje...

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

How can you have a Judge appointed by the Government be in charge of deciding Guilt in crimes against the Government? (IE Palestine Action supporters) This isn't justice it's BS.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 In the interest of educating, entertaining and informing - this is how to deal with gobshites like Farage & Reform. scottgronmark.blogspot.com/2010/11/priv...

While COP30 descends into farce and UK fossil companies still get £millions in subsidies helping their profits soar, food banks desperately appeals for funds to help poor, old & sick people facing another winter of eat or heat #SocialistSunday Trussell donations www.trussell.org.uk/wintermeta?u...

People are ready to make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk (Source: Evening Standard from YouGov Data)

“The interview which stood out the most was with Zach Polanski, it was refreshing because he does this thing where he answers a question then stops and says next question” Trevor Phillips

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches. Who else was involved,? Party can now add treason to racism, misogyny, islamaphobia, economic illiteracy as its electoral credentials.

For forty years, we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment failed. We import more than we export, our towns are hollowed out, and our prosperity rests on hot money and property bubbles rather than what we make.. youtu.be/mOqUoJ-NirM?...

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.

⚠️Gill played a prominent role in the Brexit campaign in Wales and was one of only two MEPs who followed Farage from UKIP into the Brexit Party. He had told the BBC he had responsibility for The Brexit Party's group of MEPs as its "head of delegation". https://bbc.in/4rd4Qe7

🍺 JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape. https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html

🌏🇬🇧"We only won the First World War and the Second World War because we were joined in those wars by millions of black and Asian people from around the world." A powerful reminder from 2009 of Britain's historical debt to protecting a multicultural society. United we stand.

Absolutely coruscating from Peter Kellner (and @anthonyjwells.bsky.social) on how Wes Streeting's team and The Times basically lied to the British public about support for the junior doctors' strike.

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

50 families in the UK own more than 35,000,000 people. But immigrants must be the problem. Get rid of immigrants... nothing. Get rid of the 50 richest families... double the wealth of half of the UK.

Boris Johnson killing 23,000 people during Covid should be the only story for the next month. It should presage a full police inquiry, a criminal prosecution, & the first incarceration of a British prime minister. Instead, everyone will be talking about Trump again tomorrow, & the budget, & the..

UK Covid-19 Inquiry says govt response to the pandemic in March 2020 was "too little, too late" Imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in England In 2016 govt knew the NHS couldn't cope with a flu epidemic but had no plan. What did austerity do?

🧵 This is a truly interesting piece by @scottsantens.com on the first-ever, proper introduction of Universal Basic Income #UBI. Find the core facts below. The text gives you lots more interesting information and background. scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...

Trump's track record of saying people for defamation (or anything really) is catastrophic. Anyone who actually paid up (CBS, CNN etc) only did so because of some other corporate bullshit, and nothing to do with the merits of Trump's claim. The BBC should take note. bsky.app/profile/madd...

I only remember a handful of Tweets from over the years. But one that will stick with me forever is when someone once said: We have enough money in this world to feed every man, woman, and child. But we'll never have enough money on this planet to satiate the insatiable appetite of billionaires.

And there it is. (I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)

Jeremy Corbyn also supported more House of Commons motions condemning antisemitism than any other MP #ItWasAScam "We tried to tell you." via Eat the Rich

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

It really is disgusting that Trump can insult, berate, single out, threaten, and demean female reporters on a daily basis for asking fair and legitimate questions and you can’t find a single Republican woman in Congress to say it is inappropriate behavior.

If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.

if only there were a lot more of these people.

Iowa City made its buses free in Aug 2023 as a 2-year experiment. Worked so well, city council extended for another year. Paid for with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he is not comfortable with the prospect of families with children being deported - but insists it is the 'right thing' to do. Appalling www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

"Quiet, piggy!"

So fine, wait for the full details. But let's not pretend Mahmood's feeble little brief-the-Guardian-and-the-Mail gambit is balanced in some way. It is very lurid about the bits that appeal to Nazis and very subtle about the bits that appeal to liberals.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.