The party that just wants to protect women and girls strikes again. And again. And again.

Blimey www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sources tell Guardian they were aware of the woman’s complaint against Goodwin and that GB News had undertaken an inquiry. One source said: “She was very upset at the time, and her colleagues were upset on her behalf that she was so distressed by the situation.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage decided it didn't really matter. "Just Matt being Matt..." These are people who would 100% have accepted an invite to Epstein Island. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There was a complaint from a young woman at GB News about Matt Goodwin's behaviour. Farage knew about it before the by-election selection. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Film director Carlos Saura's empathetic lens on the poverty striken Spain of the early 1950s. Perhaps many of these people had moved to the cities within a decade. Many on today's Spanish right seem nostalgic for the social relations, deference and power structure which governed those years.

today in casually not giving a shit about women's safety... ban the pervert glasses

Europe must stand with Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/20/european-defence-meeting-ukraine-war-russia-latest-news

New Omnisis poll of Gorton and Denton by-election gives Greens a *two point* lead over Reform and four points over Labour. Basically neck and neck and within margin of error. Hannah Spencer (Greens): 22% Matt Goodwin (REF UK): 20% Angeliki Stogia (Lab): 18% Charlotte Cadden (Conservatives): 3%

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

If you want to hear how long sports governing bodies like the IOC and IPC have been bending over backwards to promote Soviet/Russian athletes despite widespread rule-breaking, listen to the latest episode of @coldwarpod.bsky.social and the interview with @beastofberglund.bsky.social on his new book.

Harold Harvey was better placed than many artists to turn WW1 restrictions on painting coastlines to his advantage, he developed from a typical Newlyn landscape painter into a wholly original one equally adept when painting interiors and portraits. This is from 1919.

Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

One of the most tiresome tropes the Brexiters used to trot out was about "graduate unemployment in Greece and Italy" and that being a reason we needed to leave. As with so much else they've shut up entirely about that one.

🇺🇦 Les athlètes paralympiques ukrainiens boycotteront la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux de Milan Cortina le 6 mars, pour protester contre la décision du Comité international paralympique d'autoriser les athlètes russes à concourir sous leur drapeau national.

Who pays Reform's candidate? What do they want for the money? How is this in the interests of UK voters? Why do our laws allow it?

Reform’s by-election candidate Matt Goodwin received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary 👀 https://goodlaw.social/pif5

BBC keeps claiming it broke the story about Prince Andrew sharing government documents about an impending trade trip I’m pretty sure my colleague @reporterrwright.ft.com first wrote it several days previously www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

Three legal reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey - new petition to UK Minister from @friendsofthedales.bsky.social Details & link to petition in blog 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/19/t...

Bob the toothless whippet's recovery from surgery continues.

Done with them all. Bang average people with awful childhoods and no perspective offered immunity and riches beyond belief. We can do better, and should move on now.

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Interview with @bethgardiner.bsky.social - author of new book Plastic Inc. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EXCLUSIVE: The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

L'ex-prince Andrew, arrêté jeudi matin suite à des allégations de "faute dans l'exercice de fonctions officielles", a quitté dans la soirée le commissariat du Norfolk dans l'est de l'Angleterre où il était en garde à vue, ont indiqué plusieurs médias britanniques.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

For the day that’s in it would really recommend reading this piece and watching video with Andrew Lownie about carefully curated narrative was created around Andrew - and ‘policed by armies of lawyers and PR people’ and a pliant media. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

This twat can't be serious You literally gave an award to the most powerful racist in the world

I've been spending the morning covering cracks with considerably more success than the Royal Family.

Britain’s global standing, and a service of tremendous value to the world, being destroyed by little, little people, with little, little imaginations, and their little, little accounting ledgers.

Thinking today of the berk of a private secretary who demanded a written apology from me for being insufficiently forelock-tugging to Andrew Windsor when I was working in the Foreign Office. I’d had the nerve to suggest he might not be the reputational asset we needed as a trade envoy to Ukraine.

Which is why the habitats they fight to return to must be protected. Weakening protections for key sites for nature would push our already struggling wildlife closer to collapse. Yet the UK Government is considering doing just that. Tell your MP to stop this: action.rspb.org.uk/page/186397/... ‼️

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

"It's bigger than that Chris, it's large."

"Opposition is a defined constitutional role - not something you can just claim... It is utterly depressing to see all media cover Farage's shadow-shadow cabinet nonsense as if it is of any consequence or has any substance. I might as well announce my Bermondsey Olympics team for Los Angeles 2024."

💯 accurate @bjennings90.bsky.social Reform UK is a one-man band.

I'd forgotten how vociferous Boris Johnson was in defence of Prince Andrew as the Epstein scandal started to rattle the iron railings of Buckingham Palace. Here he is in 2015 1/2 youtu.be/q8sclKL37JU?...

Thames Valley Police have absolutely no consideration for @quietriotpod.bsky.social deadlines.

“Forgive Prince Andrew” Public Urged.

There was a time when Francis Road was a typical residential road. Then it was pedestrianised! Now it's known across the capital, and everyone wants their high street to be just like it.

I really wish this article focused more on the criminality and deadly impact of drug-driving than on teeth. In the UK, hundreds lose their lives every year in collisions linked to drivers impaired by drugs — a road safety crisis that deserves far more attention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP Tice - family money multimillionaire Yusuf - multimillionaire Jenrick - millionaire Zahawi - multimillionaire But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.) God, they’re hideous.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Farage caught in another lie. A big one, despite being years ago, because it demolishes his "Origin Story" as a plucky anti-establishment figure. He's none of those things truly or by choice. That's why he delights at the reversal of Tories being under his control now. youtube.com/shorts/laVQX...

Lots of good advice in this article on how to reduce the cost of a marathon. Supporting your local marathon is great for reducing costs, reducing carbon emissions (over 90% of emissions for events arise from travel) and supporting your community. Great to see recommendations re preloved kit.

Bob the toothless whippet is home after having half his teeth removed, and racking up a vets bill so big I've gritted mine down to stumps. He was a model patient though, and has been fed chicken and ham all evening, which is more than I get! I'm glad he's home.

Sad news about Tom Noonan who brilliantly played the terrifying Francis Dollarhyde in the original (and best) Hannibal Lecter film "Manhunter" alongside Brian Cox, Dennis Farina and William Petersen. A superb performance in a superb film which showed that quiet menace is far scarier than loud rage.