Hope is like sugar: irresistible in the moment, but corrosive long term It is a friend when you’re desperate for one, & a silent killer when you least suspect them We'd much rather aimlessly hope, than actively work to create conditions under which a positive outlook would have been justified

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

It’s high time that the Secretary of State model is abolished, I can’t remember the last time the role was carried out as it should (Wales voice in the cabinet). Instead it’s always the UKGov’s voice in Wales, often enforcing political shithousery on Wales. Scrap it.

Anarchy in Londonistan.

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

Society is about to endure physical & emotional stresses beyond anything humans are biologically designed for, let alone prepared to acknowledge 8 billion of us are fighting over land, water & diminishing food resources while the biome is driven to complete annihilation

I had a laugh at these #AntiTrump #protest signs from #Scotland. I had to use a dictionary! This is a thread. I looked up the definitions for you! #humor #ProtestSigns #Trump Bawbag - It's a highly vulgar, offensive word, stemming from "baw" (testicle) & "bag" (scrotum) - #Scottish slang term.

Jehovah's Witness Advent Calendar From the Private Eye archive. Issue 757, December 1990.

Steve Richards, "The number mission of this Labour government is economic growth" "If Labour want it, they should go back into the EU Customs Union as quickly as possible"

Earlier this week, Norway stopped all deep sea mining in Arctic waters until at least 2029. A huge win for ocean protection. Now Norway must join the 40+ countries calling for a global moratorium and protect our oceans for good. #StopDeepSeaMining

Starmer says he’s "taking the gloves off" and that the Greens are "nuts" Big talk from the PM of vibes based cruelty and trickle down cowardice. Join.greenparty.org.uk

RESISTANCE is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance . wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

Police search for Nigel Farage whose not been seen since an unhinged rant about Bernard Manning, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and The Black & White Minstrals Show as concerns grow over his mental state.. “It’s so strange he didn’t appear on Kuenssberg this weekend for the second week in a row” a PC said

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

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OMG, further Proof of Trump’s Big Lie and proof Trump is Inciting Violence. Recently he stated that the six Members of Congress that reminded Our Proud Military, that their Oath states it is OK to not follow an Illegal Order, enraged Trump, who said All Six should be Killed. No military, NO COUP👊⚖️🇺🇸😎

Reform UK Durham’s Councillor Andrew Harrison has some explaining to do… Full list of North East businesses fined over £1million after employing illegal workers: www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e... On this list is Churchills Management Limited of Seaham. Fined £40k.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec... This suggested move to no juries, digital ID (WHICH WAS NOT IN THE ELECTION MANIFESTO AND WHICH NO-ONE WANTS) and the Home Secretary’s shocking plans for vulnerable refugees- paints an ugly picture of a harsh, authoritarian state. ( And this is a “Labour” gov!)

Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

👇👇👇 I’m not surprised

Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards! These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party. And it's just making membership rise & rise! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.

Clacton, another Friday with no Nigel Farage MP surgery. In fact doesn’t appear to have even visited. #AnywhereButClacton

Laura Kuenssberg gets paid over £395,000 a year to produce BS like this👇🏼 Read it if you can be bothered and tell me how there’s good news for Reform❓🤷🏼‍♂️There’s no correlation to her click bait headline and content of the article 🤷🏼‍♂️

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...

Farage now trying to dodge questions from Harry Horton raising serious allegations of racism from his past. If he has nothing to hide, why respond like this?

Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026. To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Not trying to burst any bubbles; but Spotify is over. They are airing ICE recruitment ads, the CEO has been investing in military/AI tech, they barely pay their artists; sometimes a percentage of a cent per stream, they promote “fake/AI artist” playlists, and there’s major concerns about data use.

Blatant corruption on full display.

The fact that Farage says Reeve should face a sleeze inquiry is proof that irony is not dead.

The United States joined 90 other countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to demand Russia "ensure the immediate, safe and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported" and urge Moscow to stop the practice. www.reuters.com/world/us-bac...

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland. Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

Uganda stops granting refugee status for Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians

I notice that Farage says that Reform will do a reverse takeover of the Tories before the next General Election. In which case, I hope that Cymru will tell the London government that we shall be off!

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

Putin did not show any respect to the U.S. - U.S. delegation had to wait for three hours for Putin and then he rejected the U.S. peace plan.

“There is no other way to put it. They were trying to rip a food bank off.” Energy giant SSE says it supports communities. Fort William's Lochaber food bank, which was faced with a £24k energy bill, finds that hard to believe. Read the story here: theferret.scot/fort-william...

Feeling proud of the intelligent multi-lingual children in our city! This tweet and the Farage video in it about "the cultural smashing of Glasgow" is getting rightly roasted by the good people of Glasgow on the other place...

The Tories will merge with Reform before the next election because their billionaire donors will tell them they have to. But they will continually deny it until it happens the very next day.