Whenever I feel down about British politics, this little bit of Tchaikovsky helps - especially today on November 5th😈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkiM...

I became a mathematician by accident, because my school wouldn't let me combine my favourite subjects, History and Chemistry, at A level. Quite recently someone asked me "why history and chemistry - they don't seem connected?" My answer was "think of Guy Fawkes!"😈

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Let this be a lesson for us all.

Why is Rachel Reeves panicking? Apart from anything else, she's out of her depth. Via @richardjmurphy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUq...

Vote Reform: Pay more - get less.

Vote Reform, get tax rises bit.ly/4qZ2YFV

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

This is over an hour, but well-worth watching, as Andrew Lownie explains the background to and context of all of the scandals involving the former Yorks. They were all part of a breathtaking and much wider web of corruption and worse www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...

Early Day Motion 2154: tabled on 27 October 2025 by Jeremy Corbyn: That this House urges the relevant parliamentary authorities to provide independent media outlet Declassified UK with a parliamentary press pass to ensure media plurality and press freedom edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

In the Church calendar, we are in the midst of Allhallowtide which encompasses All Hallows Eve (Halloween). All Hallows (All Saints' Day), November 1st, All Souls' Day November 2nd, plus other observances. But I feel there is something missing: I feel this would fill the gap😻

Perils of private clinics Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted. Failing to spot problems in pregnancy. Anybody can call themselves a sonographer. Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.

"Mr Andrew MountAnything Sandringham" ... always read the small print in Mr Rowson's cartoons😈 Persnally, I think the Royals will come to regret the decision to append the name "Mountbatten" to the lesser Royals. Philip was actually Glücksburg, but renounced that for political reasons.

Nine Years ago today - my old front garden in Saundersfoot. Chaotic but colourful🥰 Alas, afterI left it was flattened for extra car-parking ...

Don't miss our @empirepoduk.bsky.social double bill: GEORGE ORWELL: FROM COLONIAL INDIA TO THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Granny Weatherwax!🧙‍♀️🧹😍

5463 😀

👉NEW -- Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Martin Shaw Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction. www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...

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Orwell served as a policeman in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Here he would get a firsthand experience of the pathology of power, as well as the surveillance mechanisms that he later abstracted into the total, perfected tyranny of INGSOC in Nineteen Eighty-Four. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Eric Arthur Blair- Orwell’s real name- was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar. His father worked as a Sub-Deputy Opium Agent in the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the production of opium for export to China. He was, in other words, a nepo-narco-baby... linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk

The petition is getting tantalisingly close to 3 million signatures, including 5,462 in my own constituency, Mid&South Pembs. Boost this petition and help send a pessage, ie 🖕, to 10 Downing Street. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

18 months ago when I rocked up for my debut as a @greenparty.org.uk councillor on #BBCPoliticsNorth, I’d never have thought that by now we’d have @zackpolanski.bsky.social being asked by @bbcrichardmoss.bsky.social about Greens possibly running Newcastle Council in May…. but that just happened! 👀

In the last 30 years. University has become unaffordable. Homes have become unaffordable. Healthcare has become unaffordable/non existent. Heating has become unaffordable. All the jobs are Minimum Wage. The screws are only turned on you so billionaires can become trillionaires

Hard to take Labour’s outrage at Sarah Pochin seriously when Starmer mimicked fascist Enoch Powell, calling us “an island of strangers” and claiming migration caused “incalculable damage”. Labour is Reform with a red rosette.

What is the point of our national broadcaster if it can't get the official Opposition to answer questions like this?

Mexico has told the USA that it will not stop supplying Cuba with oil after Trump demanded it. ¡Viva México! Stand up to Fascists, don't lie down for them.

From a Daily Express journalist calling for my deportation to a Reform MP saying it “drives her mad to see adverts full of black and Asian people”, the mask has truly slipped. This poisonous politics fuels far-right violence against minorities and migrants. We all must unite against it.

Congress established an emergency fund to ensure that millions of Americans on SNAP continue to receive nutrition assistance when funding expires in November. Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.

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A fantastic result for @Plaid_Cymru in the #Caerphilly byelection. A high turnout, and more votes than Labpur has *ever* had in the constituency. It confirms other reports suggesting #LabourIsDead in the valleys - IMO, killed by #Starmer's right wing control-freak regime!

There should be a house tax, and the more houses you own the faster it should go up. And if you are a company owning houses it should be double. It should be impossible to own hundreds of homes, instant bankruptcy.

Josh MacAlister: "Weetabix, Sainsburys, Morrisons & Magic Breakfast.. British businesses stepping in" Weetabix is owned by a US company, the largest shareholder in Sainsburys is Qatars sovereign wealth fund, Morrisons is owned by US private equity & Magic Breakfast is a charity

Having killed the locally owned "pound-shop" style stores, Pundland has closed-down in Tenby. the other year we lost M&Co - mismanagement damages communities!

It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) youtu.be/TLEmyUJNsDQ?...

No British prime minister has discarded their claimed beliefs and policies so comprehensively or so swiftly. The biggest political conman of our age.

At least 135 Palestinian bodies mutilated by the Israeli army returned to Gaza. Yet there is infinitely more outrage over racist Israeli football hooligans being barred from Birmingham's streets. The world has been turned on its head.

What an absolute cluster. Private companies in effect alleging the Thames Water bidding process is rigged. Who’d have guessed! Ministers should just fess-up. This charade has never been about the public interest. It was always about keeping water in private hands at any cost.

A nice little site - #Furcups™ everywhere🤣

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One of the Manchester bombers, Hashem Abedi, is in the news accused of the attempted murder of three prison officers. What the media won’t be reporting is what we know of the Abedi family’s role in the UK’s 2011 war in Libya. www.declassifieduk.org/manchester-b...

Victoria Derbyshire, "You want to spend a lot of public services and welfare, is the wealth tax a panacea? Zack Polanski, "I don't present it as a panacea. It's not close to a panacea, it's just the start of the things we need to do" "We need to bring Capital Gains Tax in line with Income Tax"

Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair. The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year. archive.ph/MVNMw

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All very amusing, but especially this: "The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support." www.politico.eu/article/labo...

That's why *all" "emergency" or "antiterrorist" legislation which weakens judicial process is a bad thing and should be opposed.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten