Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Putin also did nothing to help Armenia in its recent war with Azerbaijan. This is despite Russia and Armenia being members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which Azerbaijan isn’t

Truly, truly, truly disgusting. Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

Uncut Trumpism. No election is valid unless they win it. Farage and Reform UK are outright enemies of democracy and the Mail is actively aiding them.

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Exactly - all from the Trump playbook. Because that’s all they have. Reform has no ideas of its own

Reform seems like little more than a US Republican Party overseas franchise. All their ideas seem to come from them, and like the Republicans they don’t believe in democracy and will surely take it from us if they ever get the chance: “They only value democracy if they win”

Very dark, very Trumpy, very racist

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Good grief. If this is how they treat their own … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the one hand, the Trump administration is telling Europeans to take care of their own defense. On the other hand, they are supporting leaders and parties who are pro-Russian, opposed to European unity and don't want Europe to defend Ukraine or anything else. Which is the policy?

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

It’s long fascinated me that the Maori word for sweet potato is also what some Indigenous groups in the Andes call it, and is very similar to its Korean name

“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.” — @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize

Voluntary and mutually agreed language has never gotten us anywhere.

The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Losing my ability to understand anything about the USA these days - world leader in biomedical science but with malevolent wreckers put in charge www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

That‘s the spirit.

Yes. Universities are “vital hubs in towns and cities” and are big employers of local people / support local businesses

Refreshing to see a rhetorical device often used by anti-migration politicians flipped by @alanbeattie.bsky.social "More people attend English League Two football matches to watch the likes of Accrington Stanley and Crawley Town in an average week than arrived by small boat in the whole of 2025."

Why isn't this a major news story?

According to these figures London is safer than many if not all major North American cities. In 2025, there were 1.1 killings for every 100,000 residents of London, compared to 2.8 in New York, 5.6 in Los Angeles, 10.5 in Houston and 12.3 in Philadelphia www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Trump - only I can go to China. Ego as strategy. Ego as commentary. Chaos as outcome. Rest of the world just has to get on balancing the US, China, Europe etc. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Small-scale farmers produce more of the rich world’s food than previously thought – new study theconversation.com/small-scale-...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

An Africa country being used in Kennedy's apparent determination for people to die from preventable infections www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The disturbingly long reach of Kennedy's dangerous anti-vax crusade www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Once again, these people aren't "patriots". They hate their own countries and have built an entire career out of attacking them, while cheering on any foreign leader who does the same

The initial letter of support from the US on the founding of the WHO pointed out that infectious diseases know no borders. I wonder what has changed.

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.

I do wonder if Americans understand quite how insane he looks.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.

Watching GB News or reading the Telegraph you realise there is a slice of right-wing opinion that would happily betray this country.

A lot of us feel this way.

Oh. www.timeout.com/london/news/...

The same people who spent the last 4 years arguing that Russian expansionism is not a problem, and that Ukraine being invaded was the fault of the West, are now arguing the US must take Greenland by force to stop… Russian expansionism. It is astonishing how dumb their supporters are.