I'm on the fence about Andy Burnham but both of these pledges would be positive and would transform British politics. The two party system is dead and the political class will eventually have to admit that. But we need much deeper reforms if we want to turn Britain into a genuine democracy.

This is typical UK media framing. That the US bombed Iran this week is undisputed, but that it breached the ceasefire is merely an Iranian 'claim'. It's an article of faith that 'we' cannot breach ceasefires, although we might occasionally do things 'in spite of' them. #r4today

Israel cannot 'order evacuations' in a foreign country. This is a bomb threat.

Do we have comparative data with other mammals on what one needs to do to a species before it begins to stop reproducing? BBC News - 'It's not a nice world out there': Birth rates hit a 50-year low - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The US Goverment has always largely been run by venal, corrupt, criminal, bigoted, and aggressive colonialists. What has changed is that it is now bejng run by venal, corrupt, criminal, bigoted, aggressive, and colonialist idiots.

Sky News must have a specific autocorrect rule for the phrase, 'Israel violates ceasefire'.

Just 12 hours after murdering four medics in Lebanon, Israel targets and murders three more Once again, Israel proves it has a bloodthirsty agenda against indigenous Arab civilians wherever they are - not least in Lebanon www.thecanary.co/global/world...

@radiofreeskaro.bsky.social FYI, chaps. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

There's no such thing as a ceasefire with Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US attacks Iran during peace negotiations for third time. They really have fully adopted the Israeli policy on 'ceasefires'. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's always an angle... (For those not following NBA economics: these are the cheap seats)

The last line of this paragraph written by an utter fool says so much about the attitude of the American ruling class: That diplomacy is a regrettable last resort when violence doesn't work. x.com/LindseyGraha...

Mad Mel being mad. Amazing, this mad woman ever has a platform. youtube.com/shorts/ec6wU...

Presidential emoluments, presidential emoluments, unconstitutional presidential emoluments.

More useless words from states complicit in genocide. aje.news/znu2to

Latest allegations from the activists of the Samud flotilla. And still, the UK trades with this genocidal Aparthied state. aje.news/vs90gh

Appears that Johnson’s producer tells her that Goodwin’s comments have to be ‘withdrawn from the record’, presumably because they are racist. What they did expect from a man of his calibre? A rational, evidence-based analysis provided in good faith?

When are we going to have an honest conversation, and acknowledge that Capital has always been driven to reduce employment to a minimum?

We need Iran to show leadership... form a coalition of the willing and liberate the Palestinians. The international community cannot turn a blind eye... we have a responsibility to protect... something must be done... and I for one cannot stand idly by. Etc.

Israel is literally driving the Palestinians into the sea.

Trump and AIPAC Take Out Thomas Massie “The Republican who championed the Epstein files release and opposed Israel is toast, the president's latest revenge victim in an insanely expensive race. In DC, another Trump tax bombshell explodes” Read by @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-and-...

Don't listen to what Trump or Pete Hegseth (a child in a slightly older child's body) say about 'controlling' the Strait of Hormuz. Listen to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle. breakingdefense.com/2026/05/stra...

Goodbye Michael Keating. The Vila of all our hearts. He was in the first thing I ever wrote, playing a mutant piglet who thought he was Hercule Poirot. In quiet patches he did the odd ushering shift at ENO. I never saw tickets torn with such panache.

Sad news for us Blakes 7 fans. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/mi...

The last sentence of this is chilling.

Labour lost nearly four times as many voters to the Greens as Reform. Yet all you hear about is Reform's threat to Labour. Why? Because a) the left aren't treated as legitimate political actors b) Labour's masters prefer bashing migrants to challenging wealth and power

This is what our great friend and ally, Israel, does to pesce activists on camera. Imagine what they do to Palestinians when the cameras are off. #r4today youtube.com/shorts/6Nuif...

Some good news for a change. Free Palestine. #r4today aje.news/iw8dix

Both parties fucked you over - allowed the 1% to steal all the wealth, let a child sextrafficking and criminal enterprise run rampant for decades, accepted 100s of millions in bribes from Zionist Israel, completely ignore the will of the people.

Latest 'everyone else is Hamas' news. aje.news/o7v97x

This year, five major countries (Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands) boycotted Eurovision in protest, with Ireland’s main broadcaster not airing it, and Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez posting that Spain is “on the right side of history”.

The Butlerian Jihad begins...

A mainstream UK news broadcaster uses 'atrocity' in connection with current US actions. Is that the sound of people skating in hell I hear?

".. they picked through the body parts of children.. their children died in the most horrendous of ways.. [one mother] described how all that was left of her son was a piece of torso & a bit of his arm.." Dominic Waghorn at the site of the Iranian primary school bombed by the US

So Lee Anderson, who said Islamists have "got control" of Sadiq Khan, wants to close every food bank in the country, and is committed to bringing back the death penalty, has now been made Chairman of Reform UK

Ukraine, and by extension Europe and the UK, have attacked Moscow. Now, how do we think Russia, a nuclear great power, is going restore deterrence? #r4today news.sky.com/liveblog-web...

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

AT LEAST SIX AMERICANS EXPOSED TO EBOLA* *Out of 350 cases and 90 deaths overall, but presumably only among the Lesser Races, so they’re relegated to the body text. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest news from the UK's great democratic ally. #r4today

Dr Assal Rad— "This is apartheid by definition."

871 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the so called ceasefire. aje.news/y30jbm

Oh to be a fly on the wall, when Steve Reed and Morgan McSweeney started bragging to those journos about how smart and devious their idiotic schemes had been, and how wildly successful they were in smashing Britain into Boris Johnson and diamond-hard Brexit.

It’s striking that everyone is too embarrassed to bring up the EHRC bullshit shenanigans any more, except for the most crackpipe-hitting dead enders.

The Bible forbids eating shellfish but merely attempts to regulate human slavery.

Ita embarrassing, how UK backing for Aparthied Israel and its genocide has reduced British journalists to habitually writing absurdities. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

But it was funny up til then, Max? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Green Party source responds: "The problem is we just don't know which Andy Burnham is going to turn up? The Blairite politician who went along with years of privatisation and welfare cuts, or the one who publicly supported PR and changes to the failed economic model? We just don't know."