Xi: "The world order is crumbling into disarray."

Excellent news for 130 cultural venues, museums and libraries! Labour announce almost £130m of funding them them today, to help protect them for present and future generations. It is part of the Arts Everywhere Fund, which us £1.5 billion package to support cultural infrastructure projects. 1/2

We heard today's #BirdOfTheDay theme was #reflection... and couldn't resist joining in with these stunners. 😍 👇️

Germany and Ukraine have signed a defence cooperation agreement in Berlin.

This is what you’re voting for on May 7 Housing & planning Basic council services (bins, roads, street cleaning, parks) Community safety Health & social care Local economy & high streets Transport & connectivity Schools & young people Cost of living (local support, council tax)

Andrew Tate holds lotteries and competitions for big prize wins and when he gave a Lamborghini away last year the winner was someone he knew... do we want this kind of thing in our politics? youtu.be/aSSHi-kwn8E?...

This is very important

Can radical change solve some of today’s most intractable problems? V good ep of Start the Week yesterday featuring Nerve contributing writer @natashawalter.bsky.social talking about her new book ‘Feminism for a World on Fire’ Host @tds153.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Starmer has set up a new cabinet committee to deal with the fall-out from the Iran war, the BBC reports. That means the government is expecting a long-term impact on the UK economy from a completely unnecessary and illegal conflict. The Middle East Response Committee meets shortly.

“We are underprepared. We are underinsured. We are under attack. We are not safe... Britain's national security and safety is in peril."

The Hungarian success to remove Orban against the odds will cause fractures for the RW everywhere. I don’t think we comprehend exactly what has been achieved. Trump and Putin, even Netanyahu and certainly Farage and Le Penn are all damaged. Their blueprint failed spectacularly

The US and Iran could resume talks later this week or early next week, Reuters reports.

Great news for UK life sciences and Labour's Life Sciences Sector Plan in the industrial strategy. Labour have announced 3 additional companies are investing another £80m in the UK, bringing the total life sciences invest this year to support the sector plan up to £600m. 1/3

Minister for the cabinet office Nick Thomas-Symonds explains what the governments UK-EU Reset will mean

Lord Robertson has criticised the Labour government, particularly Starmer about defence spending. He singles out the welfare buget as the reasons we can't spend more. This has been interpreted by one poster as Labour policy is to cut the welfare budger. Give me f*cking strength.

The governments plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable & marginalised -when did that become the policy of a Labour government? youtu.be/G7uTFllI5ks?...

“Globally the Far Right exist in a supportive ecosystem, a transnational system of corruption, repression and hatred. From Trump to Putin, Milei to Bolsonaro and all the mini-Fuehrers of the European white supremacist parties, the success of one strengthens the others.”

TODAY MPs WILL VOTE ON A VAST EXPANSION OF ANTI-PROTEST POWERS Where is UK media?

From the Statesman. Badenoch is going to struggle to make this case because she is so obviously mad, but I'm glad she's trying. A clear sign of an anti-populist drift which was unthinkable even a couple of months ago.

Oh, FGS - @politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates. That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.

Keir Starmer: Brexit caused ‘deep damage’ to UK economy The prime minister has defended plans to let ministers sign up to certain EU rules without a normal parliamentary vote www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starting to look like Trump might be on borrowed time after Jesusgate. (Pearlygate? Demongate?) The knives are out all over MAGAWorld.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni takes a swing at Trump over his Pope criticism.

Dropping like flies. Swalwell went earlier, now Texas Rep Tony Gonzales has resigned from Congress. He had an affair with a staffer who later took their own life.

OBLITERATED. Which is why I have to destabilise the global economy with a blockade and beg Iran to come back to the negotiating table. Man’s off his rocker.

They’ve gone back to blowing up small boats. “Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 13, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen Francis L Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. 1/

Just in case you thought the Bannon/Farage/Orban Hook up ended it 2018. It carried on right until now…

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

I am incredibly proud to be one of those Editors-in-Chief and even more proud to be part of what Bylines Network stands for. Join us as we discuss Women, Justice and Equality 👇🏻

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Matthew Goodwin spoke in Budapest this afternoon - to an audience of 18 people, including @jonworth.eu He has given no indication on X that he is in Hungary after a major general election, finding nothing at all to say about the 2026 result

We are liking the new Hungarian Prime Minister more and more. A few days ago Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that the UK should rejoin the EU if the US abandons NATO. Now #PéterMagyar is going further... Let us get on with it #RejoinEU

Trump has become fully unhinged and we should talk about it. www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband. The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Farage and Kwarteng doing a Bitcoin deal has to sum up the sheer stinking rottenness of their brand of politics. This is not democracy. It’s certainly not public service. It’s pure corruption. And repulsive, piss-taking greed.

Trump is considering a possible second in-person meeting with Iranian officials before the ceasefire expires, CNN reports. He’s panicking.

I’ve just signed the petition to ban councils using bailiffs to collect debt. With council tax going up this month, we need to act now before millions of people have the bailiffs come knocking. Can you sign and share? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

When Lennon quipped that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" in an interview in 1966 it nearly derailed them in America. The KKK burned their records & merch on pyres, there were repeated death threats and it was one of the factors that led them to stop touring Trump’s done far worse today

Telling that one of the accounts this racist Tory candidate was responding to was Nick Timothy. When does the big national debate about the anti-Asian racism crisis in the Conservative party begin? bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

Trump completely and unsurprisingly lying at a presser as he bizarrely accepts a McDonald’s delivery. Did you post that picture of yourself as Jesus Christ? Trump: I did post it, I thought it was me as a doctor. It's supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better.

Excellent work from @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

If you are not following @jonworth.eu then today might be the day to change that.

This does seem to be quite a sensible idea, doesn’t it? Baffling that some people think otherwise.

I’m so impressed with Keir Starmer. We have an outstanding legal mind checking and protecting our country from harm. Leading all our allies. Guiding and supporting them. We are lucky to have him. And so are our allies.

TACO.

“Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and it is open for us.” That’s a pretty firm line drawn. Can’t see the Chinese backing down. 2/2

Chinese Defence Minister Admiral Dong Jun with a message for Trump: “Our ships are moving in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. We have trade and energy agreements with Iran. We will respect and honour those agreements and expect others not to interfere in our affairs. 1/2

Stop listening to the liars that brought us Brexit. We will continue to rebuild our country and align ourselves more closely to Europe. Start believing Keir Starmer can rebuild Britain. Will rebuild Britain. Start being thankful he’s our PM.