Guardian on England’s ambiguous flag: "Sport is one of the few things that gives people a genuinely uncomplicated sense of shared Englishness.” Show everyone that your England flag means football, not racism: add the Three Lions! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Dear PM-Apparent Burnham, Immigrants give more than they get. Protesting genocide is not a crime. Water belongs to us. We need bread not bombs. Trans women are women. Musk is a Nazi. Trump is a cunt.

Well it looks like the good people of Makerfield are going to anoint the King of the North. He will have reached Westminster via the road to Wigan Keir. I hope that when he reaches Downing Street he will remember absolutely anything that the Labour Party ever stood for, but I won’t hold my breath.

Burnham’s manifesto: concentration camps for immigrants, cut welfare to buy bombs, keep genocide going, stop trans people from using the toilet. His only progressive policy: nationalise water, which is popular even amongst Reform voters, thus safe politically. We need Bold Politics, not Wigan Keir.

6 Lionesses get MBEs, including Hannah Hampton (probably the best goalkeeper in football), and 3 Black Euro 2025 champions: Lauren James, Jess Carter (subjected to racist abuse during the tournament), & Michelle Agyemang (just 20 years old)! That’s Proper English! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Welcome to World Cup Amerika! Black referees are banned, players from nations that have been attacked by the recipient of the FIFA “peace prize” are interrogated by ICE for hours and maybe thrown into gulags, and if you’re from England, Amerika will steal your kit before you even get off the plane!

There is only one candidate in Makerfield who has the courage to call out the rampant misogyny of the Reform Party in general and Robert Kenyon in particular. Her name is Sarah Wakefield. #VoteGreen bsky.app/profile/gree...

Andy Burnham says he can’t judge if Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. You know who CAN judge that? The International Association of Genocide Scholars. They said it’s a genocide last September, and it’s only gotten worse since then. Wake up, Andy! www.bbc.com/news/article...

On the Road to Wigan Keir, Andy Burnham has gone from “soft left” to hard right in just weeks. He now agrees with: (1) Farage that Britain needs more concentration camps, (2) Trump that welfare should be cut to pay for warfare, and (3) Rowling that trans folx shouldn’t be able to use the toilet.

History of Scotland’s incredible Forth & Clyde Navigation, the world’s first manmade sea-to-sea ship canal. Also the Union Canal & the amazing Falkirk Wheel. Plus, how Edinburgh rejects the hateful transphobic ideology of the TERF Rowling. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Best title for a piece on right-wing Andy Burnham: "The Road to Wigan Keir.” Brexit u-turn, slave to bond markets, supports trans bathroom ban, loves Mahmood's cruel immigration Reforms (capital R)? No thanks! www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-road-t...

Honestly, it’s Angie or no one.

Wes Streeting is a Mandelson bro who is waging a hate campaign against transgender Britons, and he sold all of our NHS data to a company that is LITERALLY named for the all-seeing orb that the evil Sauron uses to rule the world in Lord of the Rings. This your guy, Labour?

Now, THIS is a useful app. It tracks all the Reform councillors who have quit and/or been defenestrated (mainly for being horrible racist bastards) since the election last week. 10 so far in just 7 days, average of 1.4 per day. Keep up the good work, lads! refukked.lovable.app

Is it perhaps a bad sign for Labour if they make the King give a speech outlining their horrible right-wing immigration “Reforms" and then the Government falls within a week?

Is it perhaps a bad sign for Labour that the quotes from their MPs are things like “They’ve fucked it. Everything is falling apart” and “It’s a big shit cocktail. We’re all doomed”? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In the UK’s constitutional system, the timetable for the departure of a deeply unpopular PM who refuses to go is famously established by a head of Tesco lettuce. The lettuce has now been deployed. Starmer’s days are numbered. www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Threatening us with a good time. If the banks fuck off then maybe we can go back to letting the British people decide who should be PM instead of letting the bond markets choose. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Wow. No one at Polanski’s marina knew they were supposed to pay council tax, only 1 boat has paid it in the last 35 years, & the council never enforced it. When he learned he owed back taxes, Polanski immediately offered to pay. And the Green-hating media scream “Polanski dodged council tax!"

Shocking new research seen by The Guardian reveals that British Muslims prefer to vote for the only political party that doesn’t hate them, the Greens! Illustration shows the screaming fascist Muppet who leads the main Muslim-hating party, Deform UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I was recently on holiday in Edinburgh. I got so sick of hearing about JK I actually told a waiter “yeah I don’t need to hear about that TERF.” I could tell from the stickers and graffiti that the city welcomes trans folx. And now they’ve elected two transgender Green MSPs!

Well done, Scotland! The Scots just elected TWO Green transgender MSPs, in a dramatic repudiation of the hateful ideology of JK Rowling and “Some Women Scotland.” Congratulations Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane! britbrief.co.uk/politics/dev...

Keir Starmer: “My party’s epic defeat vindicates my strategy of having no values, principles, or ideals of any kind." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Speaking as an immigrant called Lewis, I am delighted that Lewisham now has a Green mayor called Liam Shrivastava. Congratulations, Mayor Shrivastava!

Delighted to see that Farage’s lot decided to ignore all the “Vote Green” posters in the window of my front room and push a Reform circular through my mail slot…the day AFTER the election. Well done, lads! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations Man City Women, the 2025/26 Women’s Super League Champions!

Left: A House in Denton on 26 February, a Very Good Day. Right: My house on 7 May. Same house! #VoteGreen

Polanski’s alleged falsehoods have not killed anyone. Starmer’s falsehoods have contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian and Iranian men, women, and children. Stop making false equivalencies, British media.

The day before the election, The Guardian reverts to form, desperately looking for any way to smear Polanski in a pathetic and futile attempt to stop the #GreenWave www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The “Labour” Party pretends to support working people but lets the capitalist bond markets choose its party leaders. The Green Party actually supports working people, and lets party members choose their leaders. The choice is clear. #VoteGreen www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The English fascist Farage proudly emulates his hero, the American fascist Trump. When Reform threaten to build concentration camps in Green areas, they are imitating Trump’s appalling, illegal attacks on Democratic states like Minnesota. Don’t fall for it, Britain! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Dear Metropolitan Police, See if you can spot the contradiction between these statements: "Antisemitic violence is abhorrent and should be punished." "Police shouldn't kick a suspect who is already incapacitated." Sorry, trick question: there is no contradiction!

Labour's Home Secretary wants to build concentration camps everywhere. Reform wants to build them in Green areas. Let us hope that on Thursday, Britain votes for the party that doesn't want to build any concentration camps anywhere. #VoteGreen

The Guardian’s coverage of May 7 elections has been exactly like their coverage of Gorton & Denton by-election: avoid mentioning Greens at all cost until a week before the election, then suddenly admit Greens are going to win. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A magnificent day here in the North! Walked the Rochdale Canal towpath from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge and it was absolutely gorgeous. Saw several "Vote Green" signs, along with this. West Yorkshire is making hope normal again! #Greenwave

At last, what we've all been waiting for! An essay in The Guardian which not only dares to mention the Greens, but takes us seriously, and explains why we have replaced Labour as the party for progressives in England (and especially in London). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fixed it for you, Guardian. "Labour Chancellor considers Green rent freeze policy to limit fallout from Labour's illegal war in Iran." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Guardian's political colourblindness becoming truly absurd. They say that Plaid Cymru & Reform are tied but coalition maths mean Reform won't be able to form a government. Somehow they fail to mention the party that WILL join PC in government, Plaid Werdd (Greens) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Guardian has perfected political colourblindness. They literally cannot see Green. Malik laments death of Labour & rise of Reform, mentions Gorton & Denton, somehow fails to name party that won G&D and continues to take council seats from Reform @ by-elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At last! A Labour official talking sense. London Mayor Sadiq Khan: “Don’t call green voters extremists. They’re not. They’re people who are progressives.” Khan points out that Labour may need the support of the Green party after the next general election. Too right! bylinetimes.com/2026/04/24/i...

She is absolutely correct, and this is a point on which Reform and Green voters actually agree.

For the first time, a Labour-affiliated union is lobbying vs. a party policy: Mahmood’s cruel, unfair, unnecessary doubling of wait time for ILR. She won’t care. So on May 7 we’ll turn Birmingham council Green, and at the next GE we’ll turn her constituency Green. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Love Scotland

Oh, Polly. Ed Milliband will not be the Nye Bevan of green energy; he’s too busy drilling for North Sea oil and gas. Green council candidates don’t mention national energy policy in their fliers because councils have nothing to do with that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MattGPT Goodwin used AI to learn how to be a Nazi and how to lose by-elections. Richard Tice used AI to make it look like he campaigns in Birmingham when actually he prevents me from getting lunch in Denton. More here: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This peculiar Edinburgh postbox has no royal cypher, so I can’t tell which monarch reigned when it was installed. Thankfully, a helpful Scottish republican has written “Abolish the monarchy” on it to remind everyone that it doesn’t bloody matter.

Good piece from Hannah Spencer MP. Fossil fuel companies make record profits while British families freeze. More drilling won’t help. “The cheapest energy is the energy we do not waste.” We need wind power, heat pumps, better insulation. Listen to the plumber! www.independent.co.uk/voices/north...

Congratulations Lionesses! England 1 - 0 Spain. Keira Walsh got her 100th cap AND served as team captain as our lasses won a crucial victory against one of the best sides in football!

Good luck to Keira Walsh as she earns her 100th cap tonight! Head coach Sarina Wiegman says Walsh "has enormous vision and game understanding. . . .She is an important player in leading the team in how we want to play.” And how they want to play is Proper English! www.theguardian.com/football/202...