This is extraordinary. Read the the account in the link. The editor in chief of the principal journal of the ADA is escorted from their national conference by police for handing out his editorial, in their journal, that criticises Trump biomedical research policy.

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

If the government doesn't act, there's a serious chance that Twitter rubbish leads to somebody being killed. We regulate broadcast media but Labour seems terrified to regulate broadcast social media. Why?

“…today the White House unveiled major changes to how federal funding is allocated & distributed. For the 1st time, they’re sharing plans to permanently & systematically move American science from a system that values evidence-based evaluations to a political patronage system.”— @chanda.blacksky.app

How about: a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.

It’s pretty clear this chaos only stops when Andy Burnham is allowed back into Parliament. It’s what most Labour members, MPs and voters want and the NEC/powers that be should just get on and make it happen asap. The alternative is Farage in No 10.

One problem here is that members have been given powers they should not have (like picking prime ministers) and denied powers they should (like choosing local candidates).

It was not a carnival of democracy watching 0.25% of the public, who no one had elected & no one could hold to account, decide whether Boris Johnson/Jeremy Hunt, or Liz Truss/Rishi Sunak should wield the highest office in 2019/22. It was a wrong turn, made with good intentions. It needs reversing.

For the love of God, when will the labour right understand this? There is a right block and a left block. Voters move within their blocks but v little between them. Reform voters will not vote for Starmerish reform-light but he can massively piss off the left vote by trying to woo them.

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

Ahem #ReformUK

If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.

Even before the latest fiasco of sky-high ticket prices, calls for a Trump World Cup boycott keep growing meme via Ian Almond

UK govt take note: "we’re living in an era when a handful of large firms, mostly from Silicon Valley, are embedding themselves deeply into the back end of government, in ways that are designed to be hard to remove" - Ben Tarnoff in NYT How ever they behave we will struggle to get rid of Palantir

And the deeper problem underlying this is a political culture where populists who simply lie with abandon are on the rise and moderate incumbents, terrified of these opponents, have become incapable of telling voters uncomfortable truths they don't want to hear.

On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT

Why gas sets the price of electricity, and why the economics behind it makes no sense www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.

Palantir is such a great fit for the NHS.

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened

www.fitovazquez.es/2026/02/ataq... @marujatorres.bsky.social

You can kill people with air strikes- but there are always more people and quite likely they will be worse

Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.

Far Right thugs beat someone up, then the Police arrest the VICTIM. What the hell?

This is the chart in question

I am pleased the Government has done another u turn. Attempting to cancel elections, on top of scrapping jury trials, mandatory ID cards, criminalising peaceful protest and harassment of journalists is part of a disturbing authoritarian trend of this caretaker Prime Minister.

The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE. If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

All of this 🔽 A large lab majority should have been a generational chance to do important stuff. It was a 'change election. What we got was timidity and staying inside the Tory defined tramlines of economic policy

This is so on point 🔽

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Baffling, really, that a government created, & until recently run, with such heavy influence from this man, (albeit often through proxies like McSweeney) should find itself at record lows of mistrust, dislike and unpopularity, I really can’t explain it

Told ya www.thetimes.com/article/d318...

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Douglas Alexander claims on R4 that the rule used to block Burnham’s candidacy has been in place “for several years”, and isn't challenged by Nick Robinson. Lazy, when everyone who’s paying attention (such as the FT journos 👇) knows the rule was put in place a year ago, precisely to stop Burnham.

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

“Trump is acting like an international gangster” Ed Davey

The USA is no longer a liberal democracy. It has diverged so sharply from cultural values still held in Europe that we cant now think of the USA as our partner. Its not just Trump, or Greenland. It is now a very different place. Homophobia and intolerance are rising. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

"What struck me most was how they've turned the right-wing argument about UBI on its head. Rather than disincentivising work, as critics claim, they show that UBI actually removes perverse disincentives in the current system. It eliminates the fear of losing benefits…" @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.

The central tenet of the US gun lobby is that citizens must have the right to bear arms as the ultimate safeguard against an authoritarianism government. So, where are you, guys? Or was that another made-up reason to keep the bucks rolling in for the gun industry?

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.