A must read article 👇 www.standard.co.uk/comment/uma-...

Lovely tribute to The Lady Killers but what's striking is how much better almost everything looks today. www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-...

Reform councils have spent twice as much on private sector contracts in the six months since the election compared to a year previously www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Reform spending your money to pay their wealthy friends, because how will they pay for this, by raising your taxes. bsky.app/profile/refo...

I said *cocks hammer* we won't go until we get some goddamn figgy pudding

When I was a child I entered a colouring contest and my mum got my nan to post me a toothbrush, pretending I'd won it as a prize. I hadn't thought about this for years but I see that Trump has been awarded the FIFA Peace Prize and for some reason it came into my mind.

This amendment would force every applicant to provide a negative pregnancy test – regardless of age, sex, or medical condition – a requirement that is medically baseless and needlessly cruel. It is a wrecking amendment, and it lacks all common sense #AssistedDyingBill. humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...

I've just seen the WI trans statement. I strongly support this government's domestic policies but what's is now happening to trans people, a tiny minority, is shameful and indefensible. www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre....

If you're worried you suck at picking baby shower gifts, remember that myrrh is something they'd rub on corpses to keep them from smelling.

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

Here is the latest update on this Labour government's achievements (including the Autumn Budget 2025): This government has Nationalised the railways and British Steel, allowed for locally owned buses, created GB Energy, the National Wealth Fund, and created the National Housing Bank.

It's not a high drama budget, though some commentators are screeching that it is a far left tax raid on working people. Again and again, people get upset if public services aren't there for them then are furious when they're expected to contribute.

This is a long and laudable list and what is in the media? - tax goes up and Starmer out. Let's hope people see the improvements in their lives and in services and come to the right conclusion. Do I think this government is perfect - definitely not - do I fear an alternative - definitely.

What spending was announced / funded / committed to in the 2025 Budget? It's a long list - and likely incomplete, so will add more if I hear of them! + recommits to £120bn public investment across the Parliament + doubling local roads funding - now over £2bn 1/10

Budget Day, and I'm confident that although it probably won't go as far as I would want it to in taxing the fantastically rich, it will do something. I hope there's something that helps people live in safe, secure, affordable homes. Just now the housung is problematic from top to bottom.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

🚨 NEW: Labour is boosting support for our veterans and launching veteran support centres across the UK. A one-stop shop for guidance on health, housing, and jobs. 🌹Find out how many veterans are in your area, enter your postcode here to find a shareable graphic: social.labour.org.uk

Which one is more English?

I've created a 78 account starter pack for anyone wanting to find out what the Labour Government in the UK are ACTUALLY doing! - official government department / bodies accounts - personal accounts of secretaries of state and minsiters - official Labour party accounts - Labour Mayor accounts 1/2

Sheffield Friends! Join Graphic Novel Reading Room for their 4th Birthday Celebration! Monday November 10th 6pm-9pm at the Treehouse Boardgame Café. Congratulations on four years, Gabi! What an excellent achievement. Find out more here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...

A new restaurant inspired by Sikh ideals of community is arriving in Sheffield this week #Sheffield www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...

Labour delivering on the economy, child protection and speeding up Windrush payments. It’s just in a week’s work for Labour only you don’t hear about it in the amplification of our Media for RW politics. This is what left wing politics means. Every day!

OMG. What an ad!

I think I've found the iceberg that The Titanic hit, in a cocktail in a Bristol bar.

Reform UK in Kent was supposed to be the flagship, their ‘shop window’. Leader Linden Kemkaran has created chaos, losing 7 councillors since May, DOGE finding little and being declared a failure, and is considering raising council tax.

For those who regularly tell me Labour are just Tory lite. They really aren’t. You’re being mugged off by the media who want you to believe that . I can give you multiple examples like this to prove my point. But this is worth a read esp if you’re outside London.

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

Reform doesn’t have many policies. But it has one : to cut public spending by £274bn. That’s more than five times Liz Truss's unfunded tax measures.

We are deeply concerned by reports of a violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester today. We unequivocally condemn this act of violence.

🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts 1/ Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense. Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇

The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

🚨 NEW: Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced maintenance grants will be reintroduced for the most disadvantaged students in England

Recently back from a glorious holiday in Albania and North Macedonia. It's glorious, fascinating Ottoman towns, beautiful landscapes, history, seaside (or lakeside in N Macedonia.

Another busy week with Labour stepping in to save JLR jobs/supply chain, announcing 12 English new towns and more trains going back under national ownership. All info Google-able for detail.

Ok you Starmer bashers, in the PMs own words, spoken at the perfect time alongside the Labour conference after proper consideration & stating actual evidence. Eat it up!

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor. What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig

Andrea Jenkyns has awarded herself an increase of £150K to “run her office” as Mayor of Lincolnshire. Council taxpayers will now have to fork out £262K per annum for her immense talent and expertise. Reform U.K. Ltd, always knowingly grifting.

The Public Office (Accountability) Bill more commonly known as the “Hillsborough Law” will be introduced today in Parliament by Labour. Labour continue to deliver on their manifesto commitments www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very worrying for all supporters of a tolerant society to see the London rally this weekend. Besides the the many violent incidents recorded, there were so many blatantly racist signs and Christian nationalist slogans in the crowds. 🧵

Good news you may have missed: Tories left our schools & hospitals crumbling & unsafe. Labour is rebuilding Britain from the ground up by removing dangerous RAAC in our public spaces NHS waiting lists have fallen month on month with Labour & 5 million extra appointments delivered since July 2024

Researchers in Germany have uncovered a hidden receptor, GPR133, that plays a vital role in bone strength. By activating it with a new compound called AP503, they boosted bone density in mice and even reversed osteoporosis like symptoms

“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words” 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

Labour said they'd deliver 2 million extra NHS appointments. This week, they hit 5 million. That's the difference with Labour.

Violent crime plunges 13% in London. In 2024, London had 1.2 homicides per 100,000 residents - lower than New York at 4.0 and Toronto at 1.7. Homicides in London are also lower compared to most north European cities such as Berlin (3.4), Brussels (3.2), Paris (1.4), and Copenhagen (1.5)

For the second time in recent history Farage has managed to groom a large chunk of the UK, this time into believing 168,000 destitute people with nothing have smashed to bits our country inhabited by 68 Million thus we must leave the ECHR and give up our human rights.

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

Can we take a minute to recognise Angela Rayner has taken accountability by owning up to her mistake, correcting it, referring herself to ministerial standards & now resigning. Not one single Tory MP did this & was always backed by the prime minister especially Boris Johnson. #UkPolitics