New idea. The BBC shouldn’t do news. It certainly shouldn’t do issues-based rage-bait news following the talking points established by old and new billionaire media giants. Because the market already provides that.

US Christian nationalist and Defence Secretary Hegseth has said that humanism is ‘an infection’ in the US armed forces chaplaincy. This dehumanising language to talk about the non religious is a growing feature of the US administration. A disgrace. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Starmer is absolutely right about this, but he would also have been right about it had he said it two years ago. Why has it taken him so long and why is his Government still using X as its primary message delivery platform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only evidence of two tier policing I can see is people being arrested for peacefully holding up Palestine Action signs yet Farage incites a race riot and hasn’t received as much as a warning.

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

🚨 Economist Mariana Mazzucato on Brexit: "What both Farage and Johnson did... was to lie and lie again, and still have not been held accountable for such a problematic policy."

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

the fact that an utter mediocrity like Goodwin keeps getting invited on the television to chat absolute shit despite getting his ass handed to him at the polls suggests that if there has been a decades-long regime attempting to crush whitey, it’s not been a very successful one

I stand with trans and non binary people. This is a difficult and scary time - and the Govenrment must reject the framework. It's vital that everyone is treated with dignity and care and far too often trans and non binary people aren't. Solidarity always 🏳️‍⚧️

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

When Blair and his tech billionaires come with demands to pay workers less, the Labour government caves in 48 hours Workers rights are not rights at all unless applied to one and all. Pay all workers the same rate for the same job. Now.

“In the coming days I will be setting out our path to break with the status quo once and for all” – Keir Starmer, three weeks ago

The commercialization of higher education has been economically harmful in every way possible. It’s driven social exclusion, saddled a generation with perpetual student debt, starved foundational research, and traded teaching for job-justifying admin.

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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also, saying “the government’s priority should be preventing increases in energy bills” is not the same as “the government should stop prioritising clean energy over cheap energy”, this is shameful editorialising

What's really striking about this clip is that I laid out some of the nonsense against me - and why it was disproportionate. Journalist agrees some of it is "overcooked." But none of my explanation nor the danger around my personal safety has made the cut....!

Journalism is often a noble profession with people in war zones sometimes losing their lives in the pursuit of truth. But far too often the media acts to protect the power and wealth of the super rich. We badly need media reform.

Blair's ideas are either vacuous, or commercially suspect, or irrelevant to the modern period. What a sad end to the most talented politician of his generation inews.co.uk/opinion/tony...

Incidentally, Blair is actually correct in his core point: Good governments "start with an idea, a project, a governing purpose, an analysis of what is wrong and a plan to put it right". It's a shame that the rest of his piece is so weak that no-one will ever pay attention to it.

The only thing this tells us is who’s currently paying Tony Blair’s bills.

2000 words on Hitler & Mussolini ‘competing for the right wing vote’, please. Keep it friendly. We need to maintain access to both of them…

Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…

To be fair, she had always talked absolute shit with maximum confidence.

UK is more likely to be tipped into a skip. There is no legal or constitutional rule which requires a general election if a PM is changed mid-term. Since 1974 every UK PM has either entered or left office mid-term (or both). Silly, misleading stuff from a senior politician.

"we're going in a new direction"

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The upstairs carpets are too hot to walk on.

the thing about hurling homophobic insults at Owen Jones is that it just shows you feel comfortable hurling homophobic insults full stop

I want to mock the attacks on trans people by the UK government, but it's too horrible. This is a deliberate, calculated attack on a group of people in a manner designed to prevent them from accessing public life. Pause a second. Imagine that. "Horrific" is not sufficient.

it would be nice if an intrepid journalist on a national paper (or similar) did a piece on how these organisations were bullied into complying in advance with a law that turned out not to be applicable, and the sort of people who might be responsible for that, and what else they might have done

It’s shocking how this poor man never gets any help with the various crimes committed against him despite the fact that he always reports them to the proper authorities (i.e. a newspaper some considerable time later).

Probably chose the wrong day to clear out the loft whilst wearing a bear costume.

It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

I mean if they don't expect that this whole "actually it's fine, you just never had rights in the first place, we've not changed anything actually" approach isn't going to make a whole bunch of minorities suddenly sit right the fuck to attention, good luck to them

The narrative of "negative net migration" is "congratulations, you've made Britain so shit more people are leaving than are attracted to come here". A future of this being the standard is a future of an increasingly poor and isolated country locked in to permanent decline.

Once again, Labour are making policy based on the demands of Britain's most ignorant people. See also immigration and trans rights.

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Yet another glorious victory on the cards for Kemi Badenoch here! Can’t wait for the speech.

This didn’t happen by accident. It was the intentional, short-termist choice of subsequent governments of the 80s and 90s to pay benefits rather than invest in struggling regions. So here we are, 30 years later, paying the compound interest of managed decline – and politicians are acting surprised.

I am admittedly not in charge of vetting candidates to stand in a by-election but if I were I would think “quick sweep of their social media posts to check if they’ve done a big antisemitism in the last few weeks” would be pretty much the first thing on my list

“British politics is tired,” Andy Burnham told his supporters on Friday, as he launched his campaign to become MP for Makerfield. “It needs a new script.” It’s hard to disagree with this assessment. Unfortunately it’s becoming just as hard to work out exactly what he wants to change about it

In 2021 we warned that government-backed faith academy trusts would mean more religious influence over state education. This expansion shows that concern was well founded. This is not just about one trust. It is about the growing power of faith-based academy chains to shape state-funded education.

Knightmare is here... And truly, it is the most unfair show that could have ever existed. Good.

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I didn’t think they’d have the audacity to issue guidance that ‘women’s’ facilities are only for ‘obviously-cis-looking’ cis women, and everyone else (including trans men) should fuck off to the ‘men’s’ facilities – but they did. They’re not even consistent in their ‘biological sex’ bullshit bigotry

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?