Thousands of you have already told your MPs that it's time for a Royal Epstein Inquiry. We can't let off now. Email your MP, link below. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein

Knuckleheaded economics.

In case you were wondering, this is actually what Communist totalitarianism looked like in practice. Education by the fiat of the ruling party. History only as told by the politicians. Certain questions and topics cannot he discussed. But yeah, let's make sure the Neo Nazis get freedom of speech.

Academics *literally have nowhere else to go*, and UK employment law and standard employer expectations do not account for that. You'd need to take 20 years' pay to make it worth quitting. Unless, ofc, they coincidentally also make your job unbearable and undoable. Oh I see

Once again--Trump is weakening Ukrainian air defense to help Putin kill Ukrainian civilians and damage Ukrainian infrastructure. How many times does this need to be said before people will get it.

We need to end all donations in order to properly clean up politics - and end foreign and tax exile influence in our democracy.

New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% in 10 years. Investment down 18%, employment down 4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the magnitude of the impact, but...

Here’s something to consider, with all the hype and heat around immigration. First it fell nearly 70% year on year to last June. Second at 20k it’s one fifth of what it was under the Tories, Labour have this very much in control. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/reachin...

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Have any of your colleagues recently been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? What has been the effect of redundancies on departmental morale? We are keen to hear your views

The problem is, inevitably, women, in particular childless women and academic childless women.

Appalling treatment of people in a so-called democracy.

This is big.

Labour announce £1bn in funding for community energy projects! Community centres, places of worship, libraries, leisure centres and more will benefit from owning & generating their own energy, and create revenue from it. The Local Power Plan will see GB Energy deliver this biggest ever investment!

Of course Starmer has made mistakes but his mistakes didn't cost 20,000 lives, destroy our public services, leave our armed forces living in squalid housing, make us a laughing stock on the global stage and ruin our relationship with the EU. 14 years of misrule can't be fixed in 19 months.

We can assure you that to the families of the dead represented on our Wall, who were unable to be with their dying loved ones because they obeyed rules made by and then cynically flouted by those in power, it was not just 'a bit of cake'. It was devastating. Breathtaking insensitivity by Madeley.

Farage sold farmers (and fishermen) a lie, along with the rest of the country. Proof is in the numbers. Brexit did great harm. So when Farage rails against his latest faux enemy - net zero - and tells us we’re better off without it, let’s remember all the broken Brexit promises. buff.ly/FhuTJkd

ICE HELL Irishman 🇮🇪 lived in 🇺🇸 for 20 yrs. Built own plastering business in Boston. Valid work permit. Married to 🇺🇸 citizen. No convictions “not even a parking ticket”. Green card application underway since April 2025. Would normally be granted. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

Well done Ed Davey. Maybe we can turn attention to the misogyny, and questions of control of and access to women’s bodies that lies at the heart of the camaraderie of patriarchy in the Epstein affair.

Know Your Parasites

Incredible and outrageous. Incredibly this rare, ancient 21 mile long chalk stream is officially a road. Outrageously it’s being used for 4x4 fun - destroying nature in the process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Such an interesting part of our history, and an extraordinary woman - thank you for linking, @histoftech.bsky.social!

Just incredible.

Tonight, Labour MPs voted to scrap the two child limit – a move that puts us on course to drive the biggest reduction of child poverty in a single Parliament. The Tories and Reform UK voted against it. Don’t let anyone tell you voting Labour doesn’t make a difference 🌹

Labour's new National Cancer Plan will have a long term commitment that 75% of people diagnosed with cancer will either be cancer free or living well after 5 years (from 60%). This would represent the fastest rate of improvements in cancer outcomes for a century and save thousands of lives. 1/5

Labour hasn’t abandoned the left. Breakfast clubs, extra free school meals, best start centres, 30 hrs free child care etc are all left wing policies. Polanski’s policies of leaving NATO, Nuclear disarmament and talking to Putin to get peace are naive at best but I’d say reckless.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Waterstones event was fantastic—standing room only! I’m grateful to everyone who attended and asked great questions about THE CROWN’S Silence. I’m especially grateful to @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social for serving as my conversation partner and making good trouble day in and day out.

This is so shocking. But as Jo rightly notes, it fades in comparison to what Palestinians experience every day at the hands of this brutal regime.

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I just want to point out that Alex Pretti became a registered nurse in early 2021 -- the height of death from Covid. And he chose the ICU, the sickest patients, in Veterans Affairs.

Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.

REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead. You'd honestly think this was newsworthy. But apparently not.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Another brilliant far-right review: My "arguments are illogical, irrelevant and historically illiterate." And who should we listen to instead: Nigel Biggar, of course!! LMAO. Threatened much by the facts?? @alanlester.bsky.social par for the course...

Good news for the post-Brexit Brits on the Costas who never got around to doing their paperwork

On BBC Radio 4 this morning the 20mph speed limit was listed as a reason that Labour are unpopular in Wales. Where introduced it has reduced dangerous incidents by one third. (Literally) go figure.

Senate House lit for #holocaustmemorialday. Praying for compassion, empathy and justice in our world.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

Absolutely.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

This is awful news. Stephen was an outstanding historian of early medieval England. As his recent work on Domesday Book showed he had so much more to give. This is a huge loss to the subject - and obviously to his family and friends.

As we approach the 10th anniversary of Brexit the British government needs to pull its finger out.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...