In a world of cowardly CEOs and appeasers, Peter Ettedgui is a model of courage.

Elon Musk is a global enemy to democracy.

BBC News rrrrrreally doesn't want to cover the Nigel Farage racism story, does it... #RobbieGibb

Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in. Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour. www.ft.com/content/db73...

An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated." www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

This is basically going to be "Get off your phone and into work" isn't it?

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames Water risks being forced into special administration. 40% price hike. Doubling of operating profit, sewage in rivers. Era of water poverty - 8.5% of the TW customers are on bills subsidised by those who are paying their charges, 4% not paying bills at all. It's a scam. archive.ph/k6QX0

"U WOT MATE?!"

What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?

And right on cue, the Murdoch media has joined forces with none other than disinformation artist Bjorn Lomborg himself to promote:

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”

UK resettled just 7,271 refugees this year — a 26% drop. Safe routes are shrinking, while Ministers promise “new” schemes for only a few hundred people. When legal pathways vanish, desperation grows. Families deserve safety, not slogans. #UKPolitics #AsylumSystem #HumanRights

Left: Financial Post, "Canada reaches deal to join EU's flagship defence program" Right: Bloomberg, "Talks for UK to Join Flagship EU Defence Fund End in Failure" Labour's 'make Brexit work' disaster #...

When the AI bubble does bursts, we’ll have think pieces reflecting on how the totally predictable thing happened, with zero accountability. This con is a media-driven one, and it will take down the last remnants of trust in the media with it.

The same story over and over again. “The tech we’re creating is either so good it will change everything or so bad it will destroy everything.” And media outlets keep on publishing the exact same story. Until the bubble bursts www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

You can see him crumbling in the face of her galactic stupidity. He wants to help her out. She will not be helped

2025: Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression" 2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad

We're entering a geopolitical world that divides green energy countries and oil countries that go to war to control access to oil

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...

Abolish the Home Office, knock it down and build a community centre where it once stood. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Tory-linked brokers on various PPE VIP lane deals alone received nearly £100m for their involvement in contracts awarded to a number of companies, with much of the equipment provided by some deemed unfit for NHS use: goodlawproject.org/fixers-vip-l...

I've checked and Robbie voted in favour at every stage of the Public Order Act 2023 passage through parliament. Maybe he didn't read it. Maybe he thought it wouldn't apply to farmers.

Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

On Today before 7 a former Trump official claimed without challenge that US spending on Ukraine far outweighs that of Europe (at least contestable) and that Europe was now irrelevant to the peace talks. 30 mins later Steve Rosenberg made clear that Europe’s irrelevance was a Kremlin talking point

Fantastic(ally depressing) article and this rather sums it all up

Left: Shabana Mahmood as Lord Chancellor, "It is right that we have an independent judiciary in this country" Right: Labour have removed a judge who was due to hear and rule over the legality of the proscription of Palestine Action Labour are interfering in the independence of our judiciary

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵

If the Labour government was to heed Maurice Glasman's call for the reintroduction of the stocks, I can't think of a better candidate for the inaugural rotten fruit pelting:

Yes, great legal scholars like Professor X, Professor Calculus and Professor Plum would definitely agree.

The Starmer-Ultras going full Corbynite in their replies to this post.