This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

Its doubly galling because Starmer and Labour have (and not without reason) spent years insisting Reform curious voters should be respected and taken seriously. Then with the Greens they're all "LOL you've been taken in by those nutters, U morons, don't be daft." Its playground level ignorance.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Dear Keir, a good 90% of the electorate has no fucking clue who George Galloway is. Pull your head out of your Westminster arse, you daft bastard.

The latest @humanists.bsky.social Freedom of Thought Report highlights a growing, global trend of 'traditional values' & 'religious freedom' being weaponised against the rights of humanists, the non-religious, religious minorities as well as women & LGBT+ people globally. Invaluable resource.

20 months in and they're just about starting to deliver the absolute bare minimum. Good work, Keir.

❌ "Equality laws will be abolished, says Suella Braverman, with warnings to girls of the ticking clock of their fertility." ♥️ We must support those who choose to have children. We must also protect a women's right to make that choice by herself.

You do not have to condone book burning or the defendant’s views about Muslims to recognise that this judgment is a vital affirmation of the principle that free expression – however offensive – is not a crime unless it directly harms others. It's vital that blasphemy laws do not return.

In a free society, the right to protest religious ideas, however provocatively, should not be a matter for the criminal courts. This case was a divisive distraction that the CPS should not have pursued. This ruling provides the legal finality we need to move forward.

Oh no! Kemi Badenoch has hit the Conservative Party with her car! But don't worry, she's brought a shovel to finish the job off.

Replace ‘Muslims’ with ‘Irish Catholics’ and you can find exactly the same sort of thing in the politics of 1880.

Badenoch speaking as ever for the 1%. Well, 1.9%, but they’re getting there.

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

Huge win for the Greens, but 1.8% of the vote to the Conservatives is the stat that stands out to me

Starmer notes that 29% + 26% > 41% and concludes that the party’s journey towards “never knowingly disagreeing with a bigot” must continue.

But I am a populist, protests the losing candidate.

The conservative candidate in last nights election was known literally for one thing; she led the anti trans activity in the police. Seriously that was her background, and why Badenoch backed her. And what happened? It’s time to give up the lie that transphobia is popular

The impending by-election result nobody can predict will affirm the pre-existing views of everyone.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

To be fair, Peter Kyle is one of the stupidest Ministers in a very competitive field.

Think I might be the only person in the Gorton and Denton constituency not to have been interviewed by the media this week.

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This. No idea who'll win Gorton & Denton but 50 votes either way can be the difference between 'existential crisis for Starmer, Is Politics Remade' & 'Starmer lives to fight another day'. (either way the underlying story is; a safe Labour seat shouldn't look like this, but the vibes do matter)

If schools admissions are to be truly fair... No child should be blocked from attending their local state-funded school because their family is of the 'wrong' religion or belief. We welcome this review, and will make sure ending religious discrimination is part of it. humanists.uk/2026/02/24/s...

You don't have to be young to spot large-scale intergenerational theft.

Woah. Are they finally getting something? Ps it's not just young people. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Australia has the Alternative (Ranked Order) Vote to avoid these bizarre situations. We could have had it too in 2011, but sadly we weren’t visited by a dishevelled doom-monger from the future

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

🇺🇦 Boris Johnson said he supported Ukraine’s membership of the EU and Nato, adding that Brexit had caused a “pretty big vacancy”. Johnson has some cheek to go out batting for Ukraine's EU membership after taking the UK out of Europe and into a period of deep isolation...

🧑‍🏫 "There is a very real risk of making degrees something only those with family wealth and security are encouraged to pursue." 📄 Whether it is the student loan crisis, cost of living or the fallout from Brexit and lost opportunities - Britain's youth are getting a rough deal.

Again, the right in the UK has absolutely *zero* ideas of its own—it's just constant cut-and-paste US christofascist horseshit. They fundamentally despise the UK and its people and wish Everything Was America this very instant.

Arguing on live TV with Martin Lewis about consumer finance has to be number 1 on the list of things not to do if you hope to become PM at the next election.

To build a cohesive future, we must start by acknowledging the Britain that actually exists, not a mythical version of our past. National confidence comes from embracing our reality as a vibrant, pluralistic, and majority non-religious nation, not from governing by nostalgia.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Most people in our country are not Christian in identity, in beliefs, or in practices. Much of our heritage is influenced by Christianity, but pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post Christian influences are just as important. Christian heritage can simply never be the basis for a national identity.

Based on new information, I deleted a post where I said King Charles was Prince Andrew's dad. THIS is what holding yourself to account looks like.

Didnt write that very well but what im saying is that the best chance there is of abolishing the monarchy is letting Keir Starmer try to save it

Has an electoral coalition ever been so misunderstood?

To be clear, they did not “let it slide” – they were highly active in throwing every minority under a bus in the hope of winning one more vote from a bigot.

AI is like they invented a way to sometimes turn gravity down to 20% and everyone went "yay, we can just moon-bounce everywhere!" And now they're all "oh no, my gummy bones!"

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

When they changed the design of Sonic for the movie I thought it would be funny to send some really graphic hentai to a friend and it was one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made

EVERYBODY should be removed from the royal line of succession

Johann Hari and Jordan Peterson on a shelf labelled “smart thinking”? The terrorists have won

As I've said before: ‘austerity’ is a euphemism for ‘underinvestment’.

Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)

Reflecting a little more on this, this could have been a proper feature on public policy (and the long-term consequences of social and economic change), yet it's framed heavily around electoral politics.