Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

Dear @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu #EUCO #MarkRutte, drop the "Daddy" and the ring-kissing, Albanians are showing you how to respond to the Trumps. 🦩🦩

Discussing the Israel lobby is not antisemitism. Indeed, the Israel lobby and what Jewish Americans think are completely different things.

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaie Delap spent Christmas and her 79th birthday behind bars because the prison service couldn’t find an electronic monitoring tag that fitted her. It was cruel, unjust and should never have happened. We helped her get released from jail last year. Now we’re helping her sue for false imprisonment.

'All the West is talking about Hamas attacking Israel but no one talks about the daily attacks here' says West Bank resident

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

On invitation of a member of the European Parliament I'm sitting in the room to discuss the @EUCommission's attempt to dismantle people's #gdpr / #Privacy rights. 2 participants from civil society 1 academic 20 industry lobbyists Of course corpos all want to weaken #consent and make sure […]

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark.” Rubio: “For now.”

In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.

“In the past two years alone, [TB] has delighted us with his opinions on Iran (we should have gone in with Trump), digital ID (loves it), net zero (hates it), along with other hobby horses.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Maybe the Commission and #EUCO will finally understand that giving in to extortion will not appease but encourage the Tangerine Tyrant. They should instead turbo-charge the completion of the Single Market. The benefits of that far exceed Trump’s Tariffs.

“Following the release of the report, the victims’ relatives said the “burden of blame and prejudice that has lingered for so long” over their loved ones had been lifted.” www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Still true: “We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life.” The remedy is to recover the simple pleasures of enjoying local food and respect for the knowledge, skills and heritage of those who produced it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...

I’m so sick of this career criminal.

The present govt wants to do away with that, a judge decides what evidence the jury is allowed to hear and govt wants to deny jury trial in many cases. A barrister was charged with contempt of court (later dismissed) for reminding the jury of what is plainly stated on a plaque outside the court.

Europe creates its own ICE, including home raids, deportations and indefinite detention in far away countries. There will be gross and large scale human rights violations. This is pure far right policy and anyone endorsing it does so knowingly. Don’t let anyone ever pretend they did not know.

Dear @euronews.com (and everyone else) can we please stop calling EU deportation policies "strict" when "inhumane" is the correct term? We don't refer to ICE policies as "strict" do we?

Nochmal: Hört auf, Menschen zu fragen, ob sie an den Klimawandel "glauben". Fragt stattdessen, ob sie ihn verstehen. Es ist Wissenschaft, nicht der Weihnachtsmann. Historikerin Valorie Clark derklimablog.de/politik/die-...

Muhammad Shehada explains that Israel refuses to allow the disposal of the giant piles of garbage in Gaza and is blocking the entry of essential items into the strip, including toilets, water filters, crutches and wheelchairs.

Revealed: How Britain weaponised terrorism laws against activists www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

Emily Thornberry for Foreign Secretary? Under Burnham Prime Minister? Would such a government then do what she rightly says must be done re Israel? I am not holding my breath … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Retroactive reservations to the ECHR are not permitted

References to Palantir have been redacted from the Mandelson files on the grounds that they would be "prejudicial to UK national security or international relations"

We were in the room watching in horror as Tennessee botched its execution of Tony Carruthers. There’s no humane way of executing a person. While Tony recovers from the pain he endured, we keep fighting to get forensic evidence tested that could prove he was wrongfully convicted.

"Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes" - Wes Streeting, in a private message. So it turns out that government ministers were not, after all, incapable of understanding what is happening there. Just incapable of saying it in public, and of acting on that knowledge. #MorallySupine

....en vervolgens klagen dat migranten niet integreren. Wanneer houdt de hysterie rondom migratie eens een keertje op? Dit soort idiote voorstellen gaan niet om nuchter, verstandig, stabiel bestuur, maar om de moordende competitie op extreem-rechts. Welke partij durft een rode lijn te trekken?

“Als je een commercieel bedrijf toegang geeft tot informatie over je nationale veiligheid, dan kun je die nationale veiligheid niet meer garanderen.’ “ @robjetten.bsky.social @barbarakathmann.bsky.social Dit is eng, héél eng! www.ftm.nl/artikelen/om...

Terrible, indefensible cases! Yes: “The government really needs to grow a heart and treat migrant workers who are the foundations of our health and care systems, with more respect.” Sadly, it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Meanwhile in #germany the conservative government has: * Removed the legal right of #migrants to access public defence. Most will now go into #migration detention without a lawyer. * Empowered itself to unilaterally define "secure return countries" aka places from where people lose their right […]

Cyprus wants to prevent Donald Trump from using the island’s British bases for wartime attacks and is asking the U.K. for guarantees in case right-winger Nigel Farage becomes PM.

Israel destroys 2000 year old priceless castle to further it's illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing. Is the real headline, but of course the BBC gets its headlines straight from Tel Aviv.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

I support this call. I've seen evidence firsthand. At one of my schools, two of the worst bullies devised elaborate games for torturing animals to death. They enjoyed hurting other animals as much as they enjoyed hurting humans. It's a flashing red danger sign.🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Yet another useless “regulator: “Essex trading standards declined to confirm whether it was investigating.” www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

NET MIGRATION HAS FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK YET NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED It’s a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows youtu.be/WuSKdLtKHCs?...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

“Wie steeds opnieuw suggereert dat trans rechten of antiracisme de burger naar extreemrechts drijven, formuleert een eis: geef ons minder gelijkheid, anders stemmen wij op de man die haar afbreekt. Dat is geen politieke analyse. Dat is chantage.” Geweldig me analyse van Selm Merel Wenselaers! 👏

This article wrongly glosses over that Germany too abused anti-terrorism laws to prosecute non-violent “moral support for a terrorist organisation”, eg in the “motorway slogan spraying” trial of Sybille Haag I observed for Amnesty International in the early 80s. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Göttingen und seine akademischen Buchhandlungen. ❤️

Cloudflare protects a quarter of the internet from cyberattacks, including Follow the Money. The downside? The US tech giant needs access to an enormous amount of sensitive data to do so. That’s why we’re switching to a European alternative.

This is devastating. Spread this news before it’s too late‼️ SAY NO TO IDF‼️ No merger with Israeli military #Genocide

Meta's latest attempt to stop the progress of my 2018 GDPR access complaint dramatically failed in the Irish High Court last week www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

That *is* an answer.

Essential thread 👇. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @eppgroup.bsky.social have turned rule of law standards into a matter of political horse-trading. I am happy for the HU people to get EU funding, but it should be disbursed after a thorough analysis and publication of the results. Not “negotiations”

The government has no mandate for this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice. youtu.be/x6NIiM9G5ag?...