This is why we need @bylinetimes.bsky.social and similar. The privately owned right wing MSM is not working for the people of this country. We need and deserve independent news sources like this.

One mature tree can produce enough oxygen for 2-4 people daily. Forests act as giant air purifiers—absorbing CO₂, pollutants, and particulates—delivering cleaner air that reduces respiratory diseases and supports every cell in your body. Breathe better. Thank a forest. 🌬️

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government. Nigel Farage wants us to leave it. Please think about that youtu.be/Fhrb5Z7ScME?...

“British politics is tired,” Andy Burnham told his supporters on Friday, as he launched his campaign to become MP for Makerfield. “It needs a new script.” It’s hard to disagree with this assessment. Unfortunately it’s becoming just as hard to work out exactly what he wants to change about it

#R4Today - Robinson showing sneering contempt this morning - prior to interviewing Wes Streeting he announced ‘… sat down with Streeting…’ - what happened to ‘Mr’ or ‘Wes’ or some adult prefix - using just the surname in this way is like a high school headmaster disciplining an wayward student 🤔

A UK-EU Customs Union is a vital first step in rebuilding our relationship with Europe. MPs must be free to vote for what is best for our economy and our country. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to the PM urging him to give Labour MPs a free vote on our amendment to the King’s Speech tonight.

Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

Nigel Farage is posting “We now have 200,000 reasons Reform should be in government” The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Lord Rothermere Daily Mail Owner (French immigrant), and Rupert Murdoch Sun owner (Australian immigrant). These are the immigrants destroying the UK.

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government. Nigel Farage wants us to leave it. Please think about that youtu.be/Fhrb5Z7ScME?...

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

Richard Tice will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg because I'm still afraid of scrutiny. I thought the best person to explain why there is nothing wrong with accepting a £5 million gift would be the man who repeatedly avoids paying tax.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Absolutely right

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Seems like a crunch moment Britain. We either let this man get away with it again and become a British MAGA. OR WE hold him to account and draw a line in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Instead of sending Charles+his ex-mistress to pander to the inflated egos of Trump+his ex-mistress, Starmer should have taken lessons from Mark Carney+distanced himself from the Washington regime. You cannot bargain with malignant narcissists; they will always regard you as someone to exploit.

There is no special relationship. There hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever. Instead, there's a parasocial relationship, in which the UK government imagines it's involved in ways the other partner doesn't recognise. States have interests, not preferences. They don't love. They calculate.

How the hell is this person touring the country... why the hell are reputable venues booking her? It's just totally disgusting that such hate figures are mainstream and people just nod along like it's normal www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

HIGNFY - well who knew Monty Don had a mischievous sense of humour? What fun

The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men. Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

The BBC is meant to be a public service broadcaster, sharing info with us so we can make good decisions and understand the world around us. Instead, it continues to fail the public, publishing half baked articles which expose people to bad info which leaves them vulnerable to grifters. (1/n)

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

Who funds Reform? Greens will never take dirty money - our members power our party. People and planet remain our only vested interests. Join.greenparty.org.uk

American tech oligarchs spend billions fighting socialism, yet their unhinged greed is the single best advertisement for it. By hoarding wealth and breaking society to enrich themselves, they actively fuel the very ideology they claim to despise

Vital thread:

Nigel Farage should not be allowed to make incorrect comments on vaccines or Meningitis origins. This isn’t free speech. Why isn’t he reprimanded @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

I may be misremembering but I think Andrew Neil was extremely rude to people on Twitter who explained exactly what GBeebies would quickly become…

Trump can’t expect Europe’s help dealing with Iran while disengaging from Europe and abandoning Ukraine. You can’t demand European solidarity in the Middle East while leaving us alone against Russian aggression. It goes both ways

Everyone knows who and what Reform UK stand for: ⚫️ The wealthy few. ⚫️ Scrapping international human rights protections. ⚫️ And privatising the NHS in favour of an insurance-based system. The worrying part is that some still think it’s worth it because they believe immigration will be stopped.

The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.

Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.

This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts. Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social: