🚨🚨Breaking: @bsky.app Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Translation: the Sec of State for Health can, and I have no doubt will, sell your data to the highest bidder in spite of denials. Claims it's for "planning for the future" or research are nonsense. Don't want your data shared with Palantir? Tough, cos that's where it's going. This must be stopped.

Wes Streeting’s final shot as he ran out the door Your NHS data is not going to be safe You will have NO meaningful OPT OUT of data sharing GPs have seen this coming & will stand with their patients Palantir et al will have access & Government controls medconfidential.org/2026/wes-str...

GP practices are patient data protectors The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

Europe has no future with budget cuts, deregulation and privatisation. We need quality public services - for democracy, equality and social justice. 📸 @etuc-ces.bsky.social Executive Committee is asking for investment to end #PublicServicesEmergency! For all!

That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon

President Pavel: The fate of Ukraine is central to European security. I am convinced that Ukraine is not only defending Europe, it is transforming Europe, its defense industry, military thinking and strategic culture.

This country isn't ungovernable, it's ungoverned from the top down. Ask the state services: companies house, HMRC, standards in public life, OfWat, OfGen, the police, the court system, have all been hollowed out of people and funding. Tories did this. Now every rule, regulation and law is flouted...

Loosing 4x its voters to Greens than Reform. So how's that blue labour approach gonna work?

NEW The UK will adopt one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets as Labour takes on Reform opposition to net zero and moves to neuter the Green Party’s rise. Ministers have accepted @thecccuk.bsky.social's recommendation for an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Net immigration drops to lowest level since 2012. Bad news for Nigel Farage and chums who will soon be in search of another moral panic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

The more I read from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, the more he impresses me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not Wes Streeting out here highlighting the injustice of lower capital gains tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Agreed. We can stick to the rules, or we can rebuild the country. But we cannot do both. 99-percent.org/fiscal-rules...

And that’s the problem @99organisation.bsky.social @garyseconomics.bsky.social @neweconomics.bsky.social @martinwhitlock.bsky.social

people are acting like Labour asking supermarkets if they might voluntarily cap the price of a handful of products is some kind of Stalinist state intervention but Boris Johnson did something similar in 2022 without facing the same criticism here’s a reminder

Then why did the money NOT leave Farage’s media company, Thorn In The Side company, into which the I’m a celebrity fee was paid at the time he bought the house?

Pretty cool. "Powered entirely by renewable energy, the site will feature 36 ultra-rapid charging bays capable of adding up to 100 miles of driving range in just five minutes." www.energylivenews.com?p=361671#:~:....

Absolutely: I do think the Brexit debate should be reframed around the hub that the world and our place in it has changed A LOT in the 10 years since the referendum. It has the advantage 1/ Of being true 2/ Of giving those who think they may have made an error a face saving way out .

Data centres are to global warming what an accelerant is to a house fire. They need to be stopped, not treated as inevitable by right.

🎤 The Dutch labor market in a nutshell: high employment, high productivity, fewer hours. We dig into it on this week's Reuters Econ World podcast reut.rs/4fDleB4

Once in the sea, wildlife such as dolphins, fish, birds + otters can become exposed to PFAS: share.google/1Adz9P0NJ3v6... 4/6

“Though the current sense of national decline in the United Kingdom has many parents, few carry more blame for our reduced and chaotic state than Nigel Farage…he promised miracles with a policy that instead delivered misery and retreat.” “Has he been punished by the electorate? Not a bit of it.”

Increased defence spending, a boom in defence technology and dual-use AI, and a drive towards technology sovereignty could reconfigure the race for artificial intelligence. Read @katjabego.bsky.social's latest analysis for Chatham House ⤵️

Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/far...

Data centers' impact on energy and water supply is well documented, but a series of new studies have revealed another potential impact.

Nigel Farage keeps changing his story about why crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gave him £5m in 2024. Ex-MP and professor of law David Howarth examines whether any of his explanations pass muster. www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...

Trump & Vance need to stop meddling in British politics and sort out the mess they have created in their own country. Here’s a message back: we don’t want your division, conspiracy politics or MAGA culture wars. And we don’t want unarmed civilians shot in our streets. Britain is better than that.

Nine.

In the last decade, we've had: 6 Prime Ministers, potentially with the seventh just round the corner. 8 Chancellors. 9 Home Secretaries. 9 Foreign Secretaries. Yet Keir Starmer still has confidence in First Past the Post to deliver strong and stable government. He must be the only one.

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

Barrister boasts that HMRC are too intimidated by him to prosecute his clients. HMRC prosecutes him instead www.ft.com/content/a97b...

Nothing sums up the death of accountability like the prospect of Nigel Farage in No 10 | George Monbiot

Dear Prime Minister, you said to big tech: 'If you profit from harm & abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate' - yet you've done almost nothing to tackle scam ads? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister from MSE and Which? highlighting the Govt's repeated, ongoing, flaccid treatment of scam adverts

People coped with the actual Russian oil/gas shock in 2022 without rioting. It's not actually really hard to explain that "all the oil is stuck in the Gulf so there's less to go round". You can show it on a bloody map.

🚨🚨This is a MAJOR political and strategic mistake by the UK and a policy which I think has very limited popular support. Loosening sanctions on #Russia is very much playing directly in the hands of #Putin. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Massive strategic error by the UK government in loosening sanctions on Russian oil, resulting in massive finger-pointing internally about who was responsible for the decision. The EU isn’t going to waive sanctions which has now caused a policy split.

What an utterly repulsive headline

.. General Trade Licences for sanctioned processed oil products prohibited under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. (2/2)

I have granted the following urgent question in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk nt.uk today. From Andrew Bowie MP to ask Peter Kyle MP the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make a statement regarding the Government’s decision to issue .. (1/2)

novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/n... I support #NovaraMedia

Dozens of Labour MPs want to rid us of the broken first past the post system. Praise be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Billionaire Trump donor, private equity boss in line to make millions from Thames Water bid. Attempted to fund Robert Jenrick’s bid for Tory party leadership. Wants exemptions from sewage dumping fines. Will extract returns, customers will be fleeced. Privatisation of essentials has failed.

15m Britons not saving enough for retirement. Result of low wages. State pension will be the only/main income for millions of retirees. It is less than 50% of minimum wage. Neoliberals want to cut it. Cut tax relief on pension tax relief for the rich, boost state pension.

“The weirdos. The misfits. The losers. The mostly elderly desperados who cling to the certainty they were right all along. Untroubled by all the evidence to the contrary. Unaware that many of their arguments contradict one another” The Brexit bells have a reunion… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🔴 NEW: Justice secretary David Lammy has told Parliament the government will "bring forward legislation" to tackle Slapps - abusive lawsuits used by oligarchs and the super-rich. Comments come in response to Democracy for Sale's recent investigation: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-investi...

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich says ICC is seeking his arrest Smotrich vows to retaliate by waging ‘war’ on Palestinian Authority and orders evacuation of a West Bank village | International criminal court | The Guardian share.google/SSL3QB2u5Y43...