This is just weird. Loads of these were originally written in other languages and are translated, so how can they count? And it doesn't include Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz which is an epic and a masterpiece, so this list is highly flawed. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

There are 5 sitting Reform MPs who are former Conservative MPs. They all think Labour should call a General Election now that Andy Burnham may be coming back, yet none of them considered stepping down and triggering a bye-election when they defected to Reform. Hypocrites all!

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

Anyone else on @duolingoverde.bsky.social unable to access any content? Had a problem since yesterday evening and keep getting an error message.

This👇

my biggest takeaway is that voters think there’s something intrinsically English about the Farage brand, and yet his policy preferences owe more to MAGA radicalism than to traditional English shires

Which one is the Ukrainian drone?

East Sussex has the highest pensioner population in the country, and it now has a Reform party with the largest number of seats, who are committed to slashing adult social services. They voted for the own support services to be cut

Parties representing liberal / progressive views have 51% of the vote share. The meeeja have got to stop acting like “everyone’s a little bit racist”, like liberal values are some lofty wafty niche. It’s about half-half, skewing slightly in favour of Not Deliberately Being An Arsehole For Effect.

Add to this a ban on working from home, which I've been doing for the past 20 years. They want us at home, but not at home.

Isn't this David Attenborough birthday tribute on BBC1 just wonderful? What a life and legacy.

- July 2016: Theresa May replaces David Cameron, no election called - July 2019: Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May, no election called - September 2022: Liz Truss replaces Boris Johnson, no election called - October 2022: Rishi Sunak replaces Liz Truss, no election called

Has to be really bad for Farage to cry off Laura Kuenssberg this morning. When accused of something shitty, normally, he’d relish the opportunity to play victim and turn it back on the media. Why’s he not able to do that today? 🤔

Love this idea!

#Caturday A relaxing start to the weekend for Tyger and Lily.

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I didn't speak English until I went to school but learned in a matter of weeks. Baffled what this policy is about other than appeasement of the easily offended/irrationally fearful hearing people speaking other languages. Bizarre when UK lacks skills, education and expertise in so many areas.

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

I need to watch that Idiocracy film.

Trump voter pulls yet another stunt?

Trump still hasn't understood only Americans elected him. He's not the "leader of the free world" or the head of NATO. He is just the president of the US and needs to stay in his lane. And the UK needs to speed up it's re-entry into the EU and European partnerships.

May I politely point out that today is an exceptional day for solar power generation in the United Kingdom. It’s not always like this, I’m very aware of that, but when it is this sunny all day, it means we have to pay for less imported gas. It’s not that hard to understand.

Trump threatens UK with tariffs if it doesn’t drop digital services tax on US companies. Trump is a threat to UK sovereignity, holding govts to ransom. Trump has already forced UK to pay higher prices for NHS drugs, £64bn more by 2036. UK must free itself from the US, must develop local industry.

Trump's obsession with nuclear weapons is well-known among American political commentators and scholars, as I've heard it mentioned multiple times. He is deranged enough to push the button, too. And yet we wake up this morning and he's still in the WH. What a shit show.

Why America? Why would you tolerate this and put your children at risk?

🔴 Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and I'm enthusiastically along for the ride. Thankfully I'm not alone. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/b...

If the media succeeds in getting rid of Starmer who exactly will take his place @mrjamesob.bsky.social ? He's offering strong leadership in the face of the clown show in the US. What on earth are we doing here? The public doesn’t care about this minutiae. Tighten up the procedures and move on.

Ordinary people are not riled up like the media. Lots of clips out there indicating the media has lost the public over Mandelson. They moved on when he was sacked 7 months ago. Pity our hacks can’t read the electorate.

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What the actual f*ck is this, BBC?

We have a rescue, and now I have something in my eye...

In a nutshell. 😊

“I was brainwashed by Nigel Farage.” We asked people in East Wiltshire, the constituency of Danny Kruger, if Brexit was a mistake. Here's what they said. ⬇️ Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership: https://www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_paper_eu_membership

Good to see this. But common sense itself would suggest it's unsustainable.

“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Heard today of a Y11 girl who's not allowed to attend her school prom because she was absent for more than 50% of the school year. She was hospitalised with illness. People have lost their minds. This attendance hysteria in schools, fuelled by the government, is completely out of control.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

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Wonder where Orban/Hungary sourced that kind of money..?

I like him even more now

What's your red line, Americans?

Some good news at last.

LA humiliation! Back to school for the Mail.

He's right. There's no time to lose.

Kushner is so weird and creepy. *shudder*

He’s never ever done anything nice has he, he’s never cooked a meal, he’s never grown any fruit or vegetables, he’s never planted any plants or tended a garden - for Trump everything is pure destruction.

I lost my Wordle streak yesterday because I'm not well and simply forgot. It will be October 4 before I can exceed it again 😭

Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get. Good for wildlife, too, when done properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...