This is good because McSweeney is clearly a total snide, but also because, yet again, Starmer is not making the decision, underlining his lack of agency. Which means he can't stay in post much longer either

AP News: "At least 556 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a U.S.-brokered truce came into effect in October, including 24 on Wednesday and 30 on Saturday." Life is treacherous for Gazans. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can take care of her family. And to others. 💕

Breaking: The European Commission said on Tuesday it would investigate Mandelson, who was European trade commissioner from 2004-8 before leaving early to return to UK politics. Mandelson draws a pension from his time there and has to adhere to a code of conduct for former staff.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Everyone knows very well that Crick is correct and that this entire thing was a cruel, idiotic shitshow that could not possibly have succeeded without 100% media complicity. And yet again: nobody can now speak openly about this without incriminating themselves, their colleagues and their bosses.

UNISON stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will push for Israel to be held to account for its crimes — and organise to end our government’s complicity in them. Join us tomorrow. I’ll be speaking at the end of the march ⬇️🇵🇸

Anybody who accepts to serve on the board with Netanyahu, confirms they have absolutely no respect for international law and no interest in peace. The whole thing should be dead in the water now

But how will he find time outside of his principal role as chief advocate for Israeli football hooligans?

Interesting use of the word "cancellation", even more interesting burying the why of all this right at the bottom of the article: This MP is the vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel and visited since the genocide began.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

This looks to me like a special “If a Libyan militiaman you’ve been allowing and maybe helping to travel back and forth to a warzone then blows up a lot of children at a concert in Manchester, a two-line excuse will prevent any further official scrutiny of your actions” exemption.

We may be doomed, but so are Labour

🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. 🙋We asked its customers what should happen next. 54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector. Read the full results here.

They always gave the position of the people in power, no matter how ludicrous it might have been, counterposed against people saying what’s actually happening. This just looks especially bad now, because the people in power are so very obviously malignant liars and fascists.

Coote given 9 months SUSPENDED SENTENCE for making indecent images of children. English law is a JOKE.

The most generous explanation for this is that he's an idiot who just hasn't even bothered to look at how vaccines work. The worst is that he's deliberately spreading misinformation that will put actual lives at risk, in order to please his conspiracy-theory loving base

There we go. That there’s a headline.

I can help you out with that John mate

Huh, curious

the darvo government 'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood 'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting 'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves 'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson

Sam Altman speed running a preventable global mental health crisis while melting the planet and setting up financial markets for the biggest crash since 2008 demands way more coverage than it’s getting imho 🧵👇

And she's since been rewarded by Starmer with a seat in the House of Lords

The government claims it wants to stop small boats crossing the Channel, yet its new policies will make it harder for refugees to bring their spouses and children safely. This will push more women and children onto dangerous dinghies. I asked the Home Secretary if this is really what she supports.

This is the guy who thought making asylum seekers live in a barracks in Inverness was too good for them and that they were too close to the city centre

The most incessant racist faction in British politics takes this message to be "racism works" (It has shifted politics + policy) (Laws believes it is important to racially harass minorities online and in person. He has left Homeland because it is too soft on forced removals of UK-born minorities).

These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard

Wife of complete nut, Lord John Mann

This complete nut (Jo White mp) on #r4today reckons processing asylum claims in IRAQ - setting up offshore processing centres with British civil servants processing claims IN IRAQ is actually a sane or even money saving plan??? 🤯🤯🤯 Lost the plot entirely.

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

This would be a much better use of British unions’ money than giving it to the Labour party

Really baffling why people try to make out there's some qualitative difference between Reform & the Tories

Poor guy. Those ballistic vests are designed to protect officers from the impact of bullets, not delicious, well-seasoned sandwiches

George Osborne 2010 before implementing austerity that caused 190k excess deaths: “we’re all in this together” Rachel Reeves 2025:

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

First Cuomo got Trump's endorsement, now he's got the endorsement of the richest man in the world. It's clearer than ever that there's only one candidate for NYC Mayor who will actually stand up to the oligarchs: Zohran Mamdani.

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

After a video seemed to show Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner, Israel has... arrested the lawyer who authorised the release of the video www.ft.com/content/0456...

Yes, this is crackpot insanity caused by politicians and journalists winding each other up to hysterical tantrums *that he and his colleagues do not approve of and won’t participate in, this time*, because that IMO is the key difference with the late 2010s.

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.

When a racialised Other commits a violent crime, Goodwin concludes instantly that the reason is their nature as a racialised Other, separate and distinct from an imagined British nature. This belief in intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability is called Racism. bsky.app/profile/samf...

If you were ever to compare the early parliamentary views and voice of Suella Fernandes MP (elected 2015) to her later views and voice developed as Suella Braverman, the jigsaw pieces do suggest that Mr Rael Braverman (married 2018) may have been quite the vector of radicalisation!

The police continue to investigate the motive for last night's stabbings. Their initial statement is they don't have grounds to believe it was a terrorist motivated attack Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack

@alexsobel.co.uk Hi Alex, asking as a constituent, are you still on Twitter/X? Can't check myself, obviously, cos I'm not on there.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

This Nick Boles, what a guy