This week PPE Medpro missed its deadline to pay back the millions it was ordered to at the start of the month. The government has to keep pursuing the suppliers who ripped off the people, the money they earned, and the ministers who brought them in. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c629rdgyzl5o

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

Northampton Reform UK councillor who tweeted racist and sexist remarks calls for schools to teach children 'responsible smartphone use' www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/...

It’s not the teachers that are convincing kids that you’re racist, Nige, it’s your actions, words and policies.

Liz Truss should have gone to prison, instead she got £115,000 a year for the rest of her life, tax free, for failing at being PM for 49 days. And she gets to go on Right Wing troll rags and give her 'expert advice'. Why? Should be everyones question.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

Greta Thunberg MUST get the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine how much Donald Trump and Netanyahu would rage.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

"The parents we meet outside the school gates, the neighbours we chat to on the street and the colleagues we share a drink with after work could be tracked down, arrested and disappeared....No amount of posing with pint in hand and fag in mouth can mask the malice, division and hatred..."

Can someone please explain to the guy speaking at the United Nations that he did not end 7 wars and everyone knows he is a liar. Oh, he does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. And please, ask him about the EPSTEIN files.

Reminder that in the 9 years that Adolf Hitler was rising to power everyone appeased him and tried to work with him, because they thought "Actually he won't be that bad." Guess what? He was worse.

Brexit Britain in one image.

I'm not shedding any tears but it's all about the club, and whether this leads to any significant policy changes in relation to club's relationship with fans or transfers remains to be aeen

Until the likes of Robbie Gibb are removed, the BBC will be dominated by hate-mongering, racist and genocidal voices. Question Time has been a cess pit of far right shadily funded propaganda for years. News & Current Affairs - anti Palestinian fascists who don't report UK participation in genocide.

The greatness of a player is not measured in stats or trophies. It's measured by the indelible mark they leave in the memories of their club's supporters. By that rule, Son is a modern legend, a Spurs great forever. Farewell, you wonderful man.

I've seen Gascoigne, Klinsmann, Sheringham, Ginola, Berbatov, Modric, Bale, Kane and more. But Son Heung-min is my favourite, not just for the breathtaking goals but for the person he is. A pure soul in a game that doesn't have many. Nice one, Sonny. #thfc #coys www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

The absolute disgrace of the water industry and its poster child Thames Water, has one clear solution - take it all back into public ownership. And run it properly, in the public interest - not private interests.   For the many not the few. 2/2

David Lammy must realise that we’re past the point of threatening sanctions. Every day the Government sits on its hands, more innocent civilians are being killed in Gaza while over a million are at risk of starvation. Sanctions are needed now, including against Netanyahu.

100% agree - Andy Burnham, Manchester Mayor “Let me say something about this situation. The biggest rupture in all of that [Nigel Farage and Reform gaining votes] – is Brexit. I think partly, what Labour now needs to do, is talk more about Brexit, and how it has damaged this country’s prospects”

Thank you everyone who supported this case. Todays judgement in the Court of Appeal is a massive win for democracy in the UK🙏

As if we needed more evidence that Farage et al are divorced from reality - their big idea is to cut spending from local government, which has suffered more in spending cuts than pretty much any other sector over the past decade

Billions wasted in Covid PPE fraud (benefiting the wealthy) while billions need to be saved by slashing benefits for the most in need… What a sorry state of affairs…

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

The UK has fully privatised Energy, France fully nationalised.

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One from the archive: Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...

It's got to the stage, surely, when there is no defence for Enic. Even if you blame the players, or more likely the manager, recruitment team - who employs them? Who sets strategy and leadership? Who signs the cheques? This is on the owners, and no amount of yeah buts will excuse them.

Enic appointed a manager to transform the style of play, challenge the elite, and do the long-overdue rebuild. He has an MO that presumably they wanted and believed would work. And yet have not given him the tools to do it with. The worst of both worlds. Incomptence and hubris on a grand scale.

Denmark telling Mr Trump to fuck off. If this is a message you endorse, spread it.

Daniel Levy. A man who wanted nothing but first class stadium and training facilities and bust every sinew to make sure that he built them. But doesn’t expend the same energy and resource on building a first class football team. Bricks and Mortar FC. #THFC #COYS

We need better rivals

In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines. Then sewage dumping increased 20x. Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe. Now it is by far the dirtiest.

It really is difficult to fully comprehend the shamelessness of MPs who did nothing on an issue for 14 long years when their party was in government only to express moral outrage on that same issue months into a new government. These people are everything that’s wrong with our politics.

'Stop saying I crashed the economy' says person who was responsible for crashing the economy.

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

Jimmy Carter

For the sake of balance, what Liverpool showed us yesterday (squad depth) is where this club should be or at least aspiring to be. This is the task that requires a 100% completion score by the board. Back the manager. Be competitive. Be ruthless. Stop cosplaying ‘big club’ and be a big club.

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

Chaos at Euston again and across the railways this weekend. Sorting this mess out needs to be a top-level priority for the Government in 2025 - starting on day one in the New Year. People are truly fed up with it and it is damaging the economy.

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise. Water Power Royal Mail Rail National Grid Telecoms Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices. We want to own it.

The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath

We are just Germany in the 1930s instead of blaming Jews we are blaming migrants. But they aren't responsible for Austerity, Brexit or the profiteering crisis.