Amol Rajan provides a long list of uk problems (youth unemployment, housing crisis) that Starmer has ‘failed’ to deliver solve. FFS he’s had TWO YRS to fix problems that have been in existences for at least a decade! #r4today

Voters in the UK are looking across the ocean at 🇺🇸 and thinking “hmm I like the look of total chaos” #r4today

I read a ton of books and articles and book chapters across multiple disciplines.This doesn’t make me unfocused. It broadens my horizons and enables me to create connections across disparate fields, disciplines and methods.

Christ alive. Nick Robinson, shut the f&@k up and let the man speak! #r4today

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

I’d have more time for Mandelson-gate if we hadn’t had 14 years of governments that frequently floated all norms of governance—proroguing parliament, installing Russians w/kgb links to the Lords, frequent lying to parliament. Whataboutism? Sure, but why judge Labour w/ different standards? #r4today

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

This is such a tiresome morning of news. Seems like such a trivial agenda compared to the major ongoing issues around the world …also Badenoch is so awful #r4today

Calls for Starmer to quit over this latest Mandelson revelation seem pretty desperate. #r4today

Justin Webb might be one of the most gullible ppl to ever present a national news programme. Pure GBeebies stuff. #r4today

The North Sea oil and gas issue is the same as the anti-net zero issue. It’s fossil fuel industry lobbying via Tufton street. They’re scared shitless about the green transition (which is far more simple) and will do anything to stifle it. #r4today

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

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We told you, but would you listen?

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

How is it that British Airways website is so monumentally terrible?

25th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else?

Labour getting the key message across loud and clear!

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

Guy from Blackrock: “get in your place plebs, manual labour for everyone except me and my friends.” #r4today

Five-time draft dodger says what?

When will these ‘pioneers of business’ understand that you have to spend money to make money. It tells you something valuable about their ascendance that they missed this valuable lesson and continue to advocate for austerity. #r4today

This is why I just can listen toJustin Webb #bbc. Just a crazy interpretation of Megyn Kelly as some totally middle of the road political commentator. Insane. #r4today @sturdyalex.bsky.social

It seems to me that one Middle Eastern country has attacked at least three (or four) other countries in the last 2 years. Yet we’re being asked to support military action against Iran bc they pose an imminent danger? #r4today

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

Anna foster is “sad” that our army can’t go and join the party in the gulf. What is this nonsense? #r4today

What happens when Trump declares victory and Iran says “cool, we’re going to keep bombing Israel and blocking the straight Hormuz”? That win will seem rather painful if it continues to push up oil prices and block trade. This all seems out of his control. #r4today

Farage is a traitor.

Another morning, more tepid coverage of the Iran conflict by #r4today. Too afraid to criticise the U.S., coverage seems increasingly one sided.

Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.

When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’. Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line. They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.

This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f1...

Bit rich from the Israeli president. The only country I’ve seen launching mass bombing campaigns in the region has been 🇮🇱 #bbclaurak

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

I don’t understand our press. If 🇬🇧 launched attacks against 🇮🇷 there would be a 💩 storm…Starmer is a poodle, not learned from 🇮🇶 etc etc. Don’t launch attacks bc of illegality and it’s the same story. #r4today

Kemi Badenoch is monumentally thick. How does she plan to cope with the thousands of Iranian refugees flocking to Europe? #r4today

Labour and the liberal media should be hammering this at every opportunity. The ppl calling for greater involvement in a Middle East war are the same ppl that will be complaining about Iranian refugees turning up on our shores in small boats in a yrs time. #r4today

When will Justin Webb do his fucking job? For many years the US blocked allied countries expanding their armed forces. What is this softball shit? #r4today

Virtually every line of Webb’s questioning has come from a right-leaning debate position. What happened to balance #r4today?

As usual, Justin Webb, despite all his education and privilege, is desperate for us to follow the path of stupidity. #r4today

These Middle Eastern countries are such a constant threat that they have invaded precisely zero allied countries during my lifetime, yet this is the 3rd, 4th, 5th time we have intervened in the region. #r4today

You just can’t trust anything any Israeli official says anymore #r4today

Sorry for anyone affected by the violence in the Middle East and that sympathy extends to Isabel Oakeshott and her family. Perhaps this experience will help her reflect on the fear and suffering of millions of people who suffer far far worse and are obliged to flee famine and war.

A new politics of hope was born this morning. We do not need to be the cruel nation that Badenoch, Starmer and Farage want. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party have shown us we have a choice.

I’m struggling to follow Nick Robinson’s line of questioning here. #r4today

The midterms mean v little to a President that has totally subdued congress. It will just tamp up the constitutional crisis #r4today

This one hits hard.

Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem" www.ft.com/content/649d...