“Pinpoint bombing”….their first hit was a little girls’ elementary school. Not a military base. Not an energy infrastructure. Trump killed little girls at school.

❗️Thread #1. US-Israel - Iran War Three explosions have just occurred in Tehran. Preliminary information: preventive actions by Israel.

Sometimes when I'm scrolling, I come across a post that makes me think, bloody hell do I follow someone who says that... and then I discover that I've slid over into 'discover' and I think, phew!

Wouldn’t it be wild if a former president struck a deal to avoid this very thing and your boss backed out of it because that president was Black

Very dark, very Trumpy, very racist

He was the only candidate not to applaud Hannah Spencer's win. Then spent her speech rolling his eyes and staring at the ceiling in a determined effort to display how dismissive he was of her. Such a foul individual.

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

Not the first headline you want to see in the NYT if you are the White House the day after the State of the Union.

would love to be a fly on the wall in Reform HQ this morning www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

These SEND reforms seem, unlike the reforms to disability benefits, to be a genuine attempt to wrestle with a complex set of educational needs and fiscal challenges. They deserve a fair hearing. And here's @samfr.bsky.social with the lowdown. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

I read this and thought...yes.

Found this an interesting read as very definitely not an expert, feels like the government has done the right things and proposed a reasonable package, but there will still be many issues and delivery won't be until after the next election. So what does this say about "improved delivery" as a goal?

So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!

Starmer hasn't devoted his life to accumulating wealth as did Sunak; isn't reckless which was Truss's trademark; not corrupt in contrast to Johnson; won a parliamentary majority whereas May lost one; and is rebuilding relations with Europe not gambling them away Cameron-style.

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival. My new post:

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves always said it was a ten year project. They’re not even 20 months in yet. Yet 63 manifesto pledges are completed or on course in just those 20 months. That is seriously impressive. fullfact.org/government-t...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

I spent the morning at a protest medic training. An experienced medic down at the ICE facility spoke of how ICE targets medics first with rubber bullets, pepper balls, tear gas, in order to incapacitate them so they cannot render aid to other protesters.

Do you think he's unaware that they have access to free healthcare?

This one hits hard.

Kensal Green Cemetery in London is the burial place of hundreds of famous Victorian figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins and Harold Pinter. It is under threat from developers bit.ly/4rtv0ZE say local campaigners

The most corrupt Eastern European oligarchs must be nodding with respect at the stuff Trump administration officials are coming up with. This is genius

Labour delivering very good economic news this week alongside some big news for Wales and SEND education. Also new tech for illegal waste is already delivering with multiple arrests. A special call out to Rachel Reeves this week. 👏👏👏👏

Guy who filmed that RFK Kid Rock video 👖🥛

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.

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

A step in the right direction... but i trust the fines will be sufficently punitive for tech firms to participate!

I don't know why the press keep referring to the US talks with Iran as 'diplomatic talks' when the US negotiating team is Howard Lutnick and Jared kushner... neither of whom are diplomats. Surely more accurately described as the shake-down team!

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️ #FirstAmendment #ArtisticExpression

As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?

The Trump regime doesn't want you to see this interview.

Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No! I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary. Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

You've appointed Tories to your top team. Why should people believe your party is any different? Farage: "These were two people who were ministers, but frankly weren't ministers for very long". Suella Braverman was a minister for over 4 years. Robert Jenrick was a minister for almost 5 years.

Don’t be fooled by Kushner’s Gaza fantasy. The plan is to confine Palestinians to hyper-surveilled prison camps and exploit them as cheap labor for luxury developments they’ll never live in, all built atop mass graves. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It's totally disingenuous of the media to claim postponing local council elections is a Labour Government policy. It isn't, the policy is exactly the same as the last Tory government policy, allowing councils to request postponement if certain criteria is met. Who needs facts eh.

Good grief. Vile, ridiculous people

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.