Update: Reeves is not going to stop Farage standing down, and I am here for the shade she throws

'Vote Binface to beat Frogface' may not have been the discourse Farage wanted.

This Jeremy Bowen monologue on the Today programme is superb. More of this, proper analysis.

When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions: 1. It's wrong and has to stop. 2. Hurray! Let's join in. Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2. Which tells you all you need to know.

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

For the actual fucking love of god. The person responsible for the gaslighting of thousands of people with ME/CFS with CBT and torturing them with graded exercise therapy, both of which were then tried again on Long Covid patients. An absolute menace to the sick or vulnerable.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

More research💔on what Covid infections do to kids... "Children don’t just bounce back after COVID. A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders." Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700...

If you are a non-White person do not vote Reform. If you are on ANY benefits do not vote Reform. If you are disabled do not vote Reform. If you are a pensioner do not vote Reform. If you ever want to have Healthcare do not vote Reform. You are all on Nigel Farage's list.

They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave. It would make them tens of billions a year. But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.

We all need to be having these conversations.

64% of the richest 10% in Britain got most of their money via inheritance, not by working for it. Such as Allsopp, the eldest daughter of Baron Hindlip, chairman of Christies, who got her start in TV via her art history degree, which she studied at ... Christies. But sure. More austerity.

At its most severe, people with ME/CFS may not be able to stand, sit up, speak, or even eat. Imagine being stuck in your bed for years on end, while doctors shrug. That is the reality for people with severe ME/CFS.

Some economic highlights of life under a Labour government

UK welfare spending "too expensive". Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.

A must read to understand how the law change in Texas banning all abortion is impacting maternal care and risking women’s lives who are undergoing a miscarriage.

When you hear ‘Labour are just more Tory’. Remind them of these: - Family Hubs - Renters Rights - Workers Rights - Nationalising rail - investment in buses/trams - Nationalising Steel - Greatest investment in NHS True Labour priorities

Lots of evidence Sure Start had many lasting beneficial effects so this is an encouraging development

Nigel Farage is either 'deliberately lying' or 'extremely stupid' for promising to reopen coal mines and restart blast furnaces, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

YES! YES! YES! www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/new-soc...

Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Reform's latest tax 'policy' is a £34bn tax giveaway to a small number of very wealthy foreigners. taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...

I have seen 2 patients in clinic today whose (severe) Long Covid started with an infection in 2024. Both had experienced previous COVID infections. This really hasn’t gone away 😢

These days when I talk about #LongCovid I get the question whether it’s still a thing? Yes, it definitely is! and its absence from the post-pandemic public health agenda will come to haunt us in the future. The most common chronic condition in American children👇 www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-m...

Finland gives every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% have a job and are financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandonment.

A reminder about how much the Brexiteers cared about fishing before it became a talisman for their idiotic campaign. Nigel Farage attended only 1 of 42 meetings when he was appointed to the EU fisheries committee www.google.com/amp/s/descri...

Yvette Cooper’s quiet victory – how the immigration policy she has championed for a decade has become the government's. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Imagine a system where the richer you are the more taxes you pay, instead of one where the richest pay none at all. Why can't we have that?

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

3 elections in as many weeks. Centre left parties in two of them take on populist right and win, in 3rd they emulate populists and lose. Could there be a lesson here? And is there even a remote chance U.K. Labour might see it?

Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA

🔥 Astute observation from Prof Chris Ponting It's time the NHS stepped up & provided safe, accessible care for all with #ME 🖇️ tinyurl.com/3jennj85

🗞️ Ponting & Samms breaking #ME research reported in The Times 🚨 2/3rds more cases of #ME than previous estimates 🚨 75% undiagnosed 🚨 Major disparities in ethnicity, region & income 🚨 Women X4 more likely to be affected Experts call for urgent investment 🖇️ tinyurl.com/3jennj85

"There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements... The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality." TAX WEALTH. DO UBI.

Here is my list focused on Top 20 things Labour has done in 9 months to build long term growth. It’s impressive (3 images)

Michael Gove scrapped the £56bn school building project in 2010 that was set to replace every single RAAC school in the UK. He then replaced it with nothing. Fast forward 13 years and they are all falling down. Whose fault is it?

All Donald Trump's crap is made in China. What a shame that will be priced off the streets... Not.

In case you missed it ... Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Says here estimated 1.5 million people affected by long COVID. There is also estimated years ago 250,000 people affected by ME/CFS. How do these numbers compare with increases in disability.

Young people, teachers, parents: Action for Conservation, where I'm a founding trustee, runs free Summer Camps to inspire 12-16 year olds to a lifelong love of nature & conservation. They’re really fun. Applications now open: www.actionforconservation.org/camp Pls help spread the word/RT!

@thenewsagents.com I've recently finished Rory Stewart's book. What might the country be like if he had beaten Johnson in the Tory leadership race?

Finally, here’s the lay summary of our #LongCovid paper on @independentsage.bsky.social Substack! open.substack.com/pub/independ... /20

Now both grandchildren will be snug at Christmas. 😁🥰