I’ve warned for some time that Labour can’t keep taking its base for granted, and Gorton and Denton makes that plain. People say they don't recognise the party they once trusted. We’ve moved away from communities that built us. If we don’t change, others will step into the space we have left open.

The League of Women Voters has joined with other civil rights groups and filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court calling out the administration’s attempt to narrowly restrict birthright citizenship to advance its ideological agenda. We object! www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvus.bsky.social

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech. Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

Most people will know @peteregan46.bsky.social from Ever Decreasing Circles but having just finished watching A Perfect Spy (BBC iPlayer available now) I will say he was truly magnificent in that.

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

Good luck to them and I hope they join. Whatever their choice is, let's respect it. We are all Europeans, in or out of the EU.

Ireland is seeking closer co-operation with the UK and other Nato countries to defend its vast maritime area as Russia intensifies its surveillance of vulnerable undersea cables that criss-cross Irish waters.

“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?” #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for anyone in Britain? On this day in 1982, the @echr.coe.int ruled that teachers hitting kids in UK state schools was not OK👇 🔗 go.coe.int/tqT6M Millions of people have since been educated without the threat of physical violence. #ECHR

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities." By: @tylermcbrien.com inkstickmedia.com/the-us-immig...

Don’t have or want kids? Reform’s Matt Goodwin thinks you should be taxed extra as punishment…

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

While on BBC2 at 9pm, there's AI Confidential with Hannah Fry, a series which begins with the story of a boy whose relationship with an AI chatbot ended with him attempting to assassinate the Queen. Fry is an excellent guide in this chilling study, which asks pressing moral & ethical questions

I love this city. “Abolish ICE” and other anti-ICE names made up nearly 80 percent of all submissions”

Reform UK has today unveiled Donald Trump-style ICE plans. In the meantime UK news shows continue to fail to call out Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s completely untrue claims. If UK media can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return ● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+ ● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000 ● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

No, I won't. Because I cant be sure you won't lock me up for being foreign.

The US shows that abortion rights can be curtailed without sudden shifts in public sentiment. A small organised political movement can restrict rights without ever winning a majority. Enter Reform UK @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

The BBC and the rest of UK media along with UK Labour seem to have collectively decided that the only problem with fascism, mass deportations and concentration camps is how it will be funded.

🔥 Update from Almetyevsk

Sophie and Hans Scholl, & Christoph Probst, all executed on this day in 1943 for their resistance work in Germany. #WhiteRose

This still infuriates me. The Mahmoud immigration hard line - ‘The effects are already being felt by businesses, public services, and universities. The latter are particularly affected by another damaging conflation, that of overseas students and immigrants…’ (Chris Grey)

Had a fantstic idea to help the public finances: a new tax of £5,000 per year, but it's entirely voluntary. We'll call it "road tax", and to volunteer to pay the new tax, you just need to say "I pay road tax" in any public forum.

‘It is certainly true that the media are addicted to political drama and spectacle, gleefully recycling rumours and anonymous briefings, and calling it reporting…..1.

In case you missed it:

the most balefully influential. At all events, the consequence of such an approach is negative in a double sense. It saturates the airwaves with silliness, and it denudes political discourse of serious analysis, in this case of the real leadership crisis face by Starmer.’ 3. from Chris Grey’s blog.

‘It’s an approach embodied by the giggling fatuity of the BBC’s Political Editor, Chris Mason, treating politics as a cross between a spectator sport and a game show. Mason isn’t the only offender, of course, but he is one of the worst and, because of the status of the BBC, probably…2.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela Pic of the day #photography

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

Hungary blocks $106 bn EU loan for Ukraine, demanding Russian oil transit via the Druzhba pipeline be restored Final EU vote is on Feb 24 — two days away euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/21/h...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “‘Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.’”

NEW: Tom Homan declared last week the ICE surge in Minnesota was over + the drawdown of federal agents would carry on through this week. But ICE is still all over. “It certainly hasn’t stopped,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told me. "People are very much on edge." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Martin Bartkovsky 🇨🇿 Journalist ”I will never forget my experiences from Dnipro. 🇺🇦 needs our help! This winter, perhaps more than ever before. It's -19 °C outside—sirens go off every day. Electricity & heat only work for a few hours a day. Missiles & drones kill civilians anytime & anywhere.” 1/10🧵

“Farage…decided the complaint was not serious enough to warrant a rethink about Goodwin’s selection… [He]characterised the complaint as “just Matt being Matt” Hmm. Not sure a pair of misogynists are the best people to judge what’s “serious enough”. Let’s ask her. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥 Seriously?

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump does NOT have the authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs — delivering a major blow to Trump’s sweeping “emergency” tariff regime.

Though constituency polls always need to be taken with a lot of salt, this does fit with what I've heard from campaigns - that's it's three-way toss up and no one can call it.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

President Zelensky said he hopes another round of negotiations can be held in February and could bring tangible results, after hearing a report from the delegation. He also stated that a prisoner exchange is expected in the near future. #Ukraine

Day 1455 of my 3 day war. We gained negative 200sq km of land that Ukraine retracted forwards into in a panic. I remain a master strategist.

Just a reminder that TWO MONTHS have now gone by since the deadline for releasing ALL of the Epstein files. Trump's corrupt DOJ has released less than half, and those that were released were illegally redacted to protect pedophiles and their enablers. (Victims names and images were exposed.)

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Kemi Badenoch, I shall be interested to learn about at least one important way in which your party’s policies differ from that of Nigel Farage’s.

Only days after rushing two month old Juan Nicolas to the hospital ICE deported him-and his entire family This is the inhumanity which defines Donald Trump and his government One day-hopefully soon-this administration will be gone But the stench of its atrocities will last for generations