IT NEVER WORKS. NEVER. EVER. NEVER WORKS. IT HAS NEVER WORKED. AUSTERITY LEADS TO ENROLLMENT COLLAPSE LEAVES TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE. EVERY TIME. ALWAYS.

Labour delivering deeds, not words, to improve our country! In this case lifing over 550k children out of poverty across this Parliament. Thank you Bridget!

I’ve just lined-up my Christmas reading, by purchasing ‘Warfare in the Global Middle Ages’ by père et fils the late Bernard and David Bachrach, now available from Routledge with a 20% reduction, P&P free (£32); a bold project which I shall enjoy engaging with.

So the £10.9 billion lost to fraud and error could pay for... *gets out calculator* ...more than fifty covid inquiries?

Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here. Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc). archive.ph/rycVD

You really need to get down to local figures to bring home what’s happening as a result of the budget.

+ full cost of apprenticeship training covered for under 25 year olds in SMEs (as mentioned in the Budget) + £140m of the funding for Mayors to pilot local schemes connecting young people with local employers This is on top of the £820m support package announced yesterday. Thank you Labour! 2/2

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

Disgustingly racist act from a petty dictatorial idiot.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Dead fish eyes… Also, his party has just taken a £9 million donation from a Thailand resident = inconsistency or what?

Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand This is not normal www.ft.com/content/db73...

The threat for Britain, the prime minister says in an interview, is not the Conservative Party. It is a potential Reform UK government that would “do huge damage to our country, to our society, to our global standing, and destroy much of our country” econ.st/4ry6iYR Photo: Tom Jamieson

The MSM ought to be asking themselves just how far things would have to go before they would admit what is increasingly obvious to everyone, that the POTUS is in the midst of a steep cognitive decline? (My guess is very very far indeed).

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.

Just a vicious, lawless regime. The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago

What first attracted a cryptocurrency investor to donate £9,000,000 to a party calling for cryptocurrency deregulation? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farages-reform-uk-handed-36351307

My employer just laid off 1000 people

Ever heard of Carillion? Contracted to build PFI hospitals but it went under = the state had to step in at an extra cost of £148m.The hospitals opened 5-6 years late. Private profit. Public risk. That's PFI. Now they want to bring it back 👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...

I took part in a live edition almost 20 years ago! It made for an unpredictable and lively debate. It was then edited down for a shorter version broadcast that evening. I didn’t realise that the format had changed; but approve a return to the old one.

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

There have been zero small boats crossings for days. The fact that the media have shut up about it, and have instead resorted to demonising benefits claimants, proves it was never about helping "our own", and always a cover for racism. The bigoted, racist, misogynistic media needs dealing with.

This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X. Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’ It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.

Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...

70 quid a week to feed and clothe that 'extra' kid. Thats hardly living it up, Kemi Badenoch has no clue. Benefits are a lifeline not a lifestyle. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Which bit of Magna Carta is supposed to guarantee trial by jury? Chapter 39 famously says no free man will be arrested, imprisoned, etc., 'except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land'. That final 'or' clause means Magna Carta does NOT guarantee judgement by peers.

Nick Robinson on BBC’s Today programme this morning interviewing a doctor about upcoming (potential) strikes: a masterpiece in offensive verbiage, topic-shifting and sophistry. Not fit for purpose. 😒

Who benefits from changes made in this budget? Low-income families with children, particularly with three or more children, are clear winners. In 2028-29, a low-wage single parent with 3 children who receives UC will be £4,960 per year better off, thanks to the removal of the two-child limit.

well, well

Apparently not widely reported 🤔

The NHS asked for support. The public asked for transparency. Nobody asked for PFI. Yesterday's budget brought it back anyway. So who did ask? 🧵 Read full investigation👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

Read all about it @ Babelfish.news

Happy indeed!

Big move in the budget to lower energy bills by £1bn a year - by scrapping the energy efficiency tax. It’s welcome. But it comes in the same month that a new tax was added to our energy bills - a nuclear tax to pay for Sizewell C - and it’s also £1bn. Kinda standing still aren’t we..:)

A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.

One small step - now let’s take a long walk.

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

This is how we bring our energy bills down - reform our rip-off energy market, it’s impoverishes millions and holds back our economy - our new report shows. Read all about it at Babelfish.news  www.mirror.co.uk/money/labour...

A leaked conversation between Steve Witkoff and a Vladimir Putin aide shows that Witkoff continually “encourages the Russians to think they can get Trump on their side”—and in doing so has prolonged the war with Ukraine, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

"exiting the market" is a fun euphemism for thousands of students left without a school, thousands of people put out of work, entire local economies destroyed, and priceless knowledge lost.

Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid. buff.ly/r8yeFmJ

"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers. Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties. Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor. A healthcare crisis in the making.

The NHS is seeing a costly old mistake return: PFI-style deals. 💸 They've drained billions; now similar plans are back. We’re watching closely. Read more & help hold them accountable: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...