From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain | Claire Jones

ZNN isn’t a news station. It’s a propaganda station and they’ll do whatever Israel tells them to do cuz they’re not real journalists. They’re agents of Israel lying and covering for a foreign state. Just like Fox News.

For many people, the theft of their bike means the end for them cycling in London... 🚲 If we want a truly cycling city, this can't go on - sign our petition calling for action: bit.ly/4bRyUXr

Looking forward to hosting @guyshrubsole.bsky.social today 415 pm to explore this history of land ownership in England and its role in nature loss and recovery. In person and online - all welcome !

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social thanks Simon, it’s just arrived

Are pensioners who are most prone to using the NHS for free anytime, and at the same time vote for this lying sack of sh*t, going to wake up? #UKPolitics

This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC. Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators. Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth

Feargal Sharkey: "English Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres p.a., dump sewage for almost 4 million hours p.a and roughly 35% of your bills goes on more dividends & interest payments".

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

Claiming he "won the Gorton and Denton by-election among British-born voters" because he knows he won't get away with "white people have been cheated out of victory by black and brown people". Every senior politician should be in and on the media today calling out this blatantly racist agitation.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

SATURDAY CLEAROUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

All this fitted into our Tern this morning. Definitely in the smug zone as we sailed past traffic queuing to get into town then to queue some more for parking. #CargoBike 💚

The latest @humanists.bsky.social Freedom of Thought Report highlights a growing, global trend of 'traditional values' & 'religious freedom' being weaponised against the rights of humanists, the non-religious, religious minorities as well as women & LGBT+ people globally. Invaluable resource.

Shabana Mahmood will continue to pitch-roll for Reform and to try and ban legitimate protest against Israeli genocide. Wes Streeting will continue his war on trans youth whilst lying about it. Bridget Phillipson will continue with her new section 28. And Labour will continue to haemorrhage votes.

Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

Yes, you SHOULD absolutely print off our ads as posters and put them up around your office, home, barber shop, coffee shop… Plus please just share them A LOT on social media. #UrbanTruth

Forward.

Reform UK just announced their planning to bin hard won workers rights and anti-discrimination laws - sign the petition to demand they cancel their plans NOW: 38d.gs/reform_right...

Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.

My Easter collection is now available on my shop! 🐰 All the eggs, bunnies, and mini eggs are ready to go. They’re delicious and just waiting for someone to eat them… I also have a few plant-based options this year! Feel free to order now or reshare if you know someone who’d love them! Thanks!

My latest political digest. I would appreciate reposts please. centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-l...

I have written to Criterion Capital expressing my deep concern at reports that they are mass evicting Londoners from their homes, and urging them to reconsider.

I have now done a detailed breakdown of these MoD-Palantir contract awards - and it will be published about 2pm. This will show the "working out" for the FT column quoted below.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air

There are so many horrifying details to this story of ICE locking up a British grandmother for 2 months who was visiting the US legally as a tourist. Among them is the fact that the 🇬🇧embassy refused to help her. That's been a consistent theme to these stories of European tourists getting detained.

Disgusting and reprehensible though this is, because of the "unique way political neutrality works" in the UK, it is useful for someone to say the quiet part out loud because then it becomes a real thing to be deflected, rather than a hypothetical political imaginary to be lightly conjured

Classless.

Labour has been pushing lies about the Greens’ policy on reducing drug misuse. This is a policy that has already been very successful in Portugal. It has reduced harmful drug taking by ending the so-called “war on drugs”.

Today I learned that the performative creep Farridge, turned up at the Chagos islands🙈. Not the C place he’s supposed to be in, not anywhere near it. Anyway, as it’s a military base that he tried to enter he was turned away. More frightening is the form his vile party is taking.

New post/ substack on missing the snow, the Bloomsbury lot at home, a doodlebug, a rallying winter ghost of 1947 (& when the snow buried a train & 1,000 people.) It took me an age to write, & is free. Tho' if you'd like to, there is a Ko-Fi button. Love & thanks x nicolachester.com/2026/02/21/g...

Pure contempt for these two

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

A few years ago over 2000 angry people signed a petition against Church Street bus gate. They said nobody agreed, it would hurt small businesses & destroy the high street. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2110921... Watch how it turned out here: youtu.be/nLrliKaAjnU?...

Always a financial motive behind everything he does

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Astonishing story of a British woman with a visa and no criminal record shackled and imprisoned for 6 weeks in America BECAUSE ICE AGENTS ARE PAID A BONUS FOR EVERY PERSON WHO IS DETAINED.

@robespierre1794.bsky.social I too am shaken to the core watching this 😞 Just because someone persuasive and erudite made some transformative changes yrs ago, it doesn’t mean that they’ll always have a higher purpose. It seems that wealth + privilege can corrupt anyone. youtu.be/_jcDDSiQUeo?...

I reported this defect on @london.gov.uk network last Saturday through the Streetcare website. The report has been updated to say: "If this defect is confirmed as a safety issue this will be made safe within two hours. If a permanent repair is required, we will aim to carry it out within 28 days."

Not just a quirky property story; an early case study in how pro‑Kremlin money and influence were normalised in London, and how Johnson’s “harmless chancer” persona helped insulate him from serious scrutiny when national security and public money were on the line.

#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Yes,Especially Now,In Chumplandia....... 👇👇

And for the weekend Financial Times I put my public procurement hat on to set out - from a close reading of public domain documents - why the Palantir contracts with MoD are so concerning. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

CAN I GET 70 MILLION REPOSTS ON THIS? Send this message across America! Let's go for it!

Matt Goodwin’s academic project was debunked as ‘total garbage’ Reform’s Gorton & Denton by-election candidate left a right-wing think tank ‘with his tail between his legs’ when work was exposed. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health."