To those who pay attention to such things this is grim as fuck, actually.

Tad foggy today

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan www.forbes.com/sites/maggie...

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

There is almost no difference between the UK and French positions on Iran. But Macron's approach has been broadly accepted by French media and the opposition - except for the extreme left. The parallel with the UK is interesting.

Vote Labour

“A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to 'exclude or intimidate'. It warned that the: 'EXTREME RIGHT HAS TRIED TO TURN SYMBOLS OF PRIDE INTO TOOLS OF HATE'” Okay… This is the Daily Mail Headline 👇🏼🙄😖

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended. But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.

Somebodies going to be getting their P45 very soon

Makes you proud to be British

This place has become a hysterical echo chamber. Opens Threads.

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

Full on Corbynista fury in the responses to this. The far-left's occupation of the Greens is yet another reason why the party won't replace Labour - but will hurt it enough to let in the far-right.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social why has your Urdu election advert got pictures of Keir shaking hands with the Indian PM? Doesn't feel relevant to Gorton and Denton. I can hear the dog whistle.

This Green use of Starmer-Modi resembles a leaflet that Labour put out in Batley in 2021 about Boris Johnson + Modi. The party was heavily criticised for that. I think the lesson is not to pitch to voters from one background with messages you can't show + defend to voters of every background.

Suspension of Matt Goodwin campaign manager (due to alleged racism and antisemitism) confirmed - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK deputy leader reshared social media post calling for Labour MP to be shot lancashire.thelead.uk/p/lancashire...

PM words on Gaza: 29 July 2025 www.gov.uk/government/s...

I honestly think I live in a constant state of disappointment when it comes to our politics. Yes I know there are no easy solutions but our democracy needs a healthy dose of realism & honesty, not the glib, short sighted solutions politicians of all parties offer us. Hey ho.

I actually really, strongly, disagree with this. Elected representatives' first responsibility is to those they represent, their electors. It is not to a small, fee-paying group of supporters. Nor should it be. It's the fundimental issue with the classic CLPD approach; it's corruption

Has anyone reported Malcom Bulner to the police?

Reform UK Deputy Leader of Lancashire Councillor Simon Evans has reposted a Facebook post saying Natalie Fleet MP should be shot. The post also has a fake quote designed to stir anger. What is more disgusting is that she was groomed and raped as a teenager. Simon Evans must resign

one of the world's largest smuggling networks has accidentally exposed itself because of a stupid e-mail configuration blunder, which has revealed around 50 apparently unconnected companies are all sharing back-office functions: www.ft.com/content/4310...

aaaaaand: 175 entities in the network were sanctioned today by the UK.

British woman who reported rape in Hong Kong 'could face prison'

Misogyny. Racism. Disability slurs. Homophobia. Just few things I’ve seen on a supposedly progressive social media site. Beginning to think that this kind of stuff is endemic in our society!

Reform says Farage treats all journalists equally. In Oct he called Mishal Husain 'love.' In Novhe told Camilla Tominey she was playing a 'silly little game.' This month he told Anna Gross to 'write some silly story.' Three women, three put-downs, zero answers (h/t Populist Decoder - Rootcause).

If you’re fine with misogyny then it’s a short skip to being fine with racism.

Reform have just made a huge mistake ahead of Senedd elections in May. Their local government pension plans mean: - scrapping the pensions of 1 in 9 Welsh workers - abolishing the largest pension fund in Welsh history, crucial to investment across Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rupert Lowe appears to have a weak case in High Court: unfair for him to be subject to the independent grievance process of the Commons. His lawyers say risk of process unfairness is because outcome of the allegations, which are not public, could be career ending www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh

It’s remarkable how many ‘left wing’ men are perfectly fine with personal abuse being directed at women.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Watch: Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw commanders order fellow troops' killing

One wonders how much of this is due to the tech being used in school vs. the children being surrounded by tech in all other aspects of their lives as well

“hackers had exploited the bug to breach European and U.S. military contractors”

NEW: There have been a seemingly endless series of critical flaws and cybersecurity incidents related to Ivanti's VPN appliances in the last few years. Turns out there was a major one in 2021 that wasn't reported until now, according to Bloomberg. techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/v...

Support in mainstream schools has been hollowed out. Help often only comes once a child qualifies for an EHCP — by then, it’s crisis point. Earlier intervention means more kids get support sooner — better for families and better for the taxpayer. 📺 @harryqp.bsky.social on BBC News👇

This level of abuse should have no place in our democracy

Reform have looked at what’s happening in America and decided that they want to bring it to the UK. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

What you can always ask clueless people like this is: Why doesn’t Russia have more troops in Ukraine, then? If they recruit 30k a month and have low losses, their troop numbers should keep increasing at a high pace. Yet they don’t. And no, no one is expecting anything from Ireland

Education secretary: ‘no one will be losing support’ with SEND changes www.channel4.com/news/educati...

It’s almost as if you can’t have polite debate with people anymore. And that ideological purity trumps everything else.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Mencap, the learning disability charity, has welcomed the government’s Send plans. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Thinktanks welcome Send reform plans www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... #BBCM

There’s a very good chance that Hungary would veto any U.K. application to join the EU www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Good. Now let’s open an investigation into Farage

Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...