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.

How’s this Nobel Peace Prize thing coming along?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

My letter in the Financial Times today. Don't insult cockroaches by comparing them to the dodgy companies fueled by private equity #Biodiversity #FinancialSector

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - being allowed to pollute our water for 15 years. MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership. But here's the truth. #OFWATsayNO vist.ly/4jbqu

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

corporations are composed of humans but are not human. The reality they respect and respond to is not ours. They are INCAPABLE of understanding the harms of pollution, exploitation, climate change. The most important function of government now is to curtail their natural tendencies.

On 4 October 2025, Trafalgar Square saw the Lift The Ban protest, where hundreds were arrested for showing support for Palestine Action after the government banned it under terrorism laws. 1/4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xf...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... It is time for Europe to understand what normal life in Gaza was BEFORE THE WAR #Gaza #Stop_occupation

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

This from @roylilley1.bsky.social latest blog post "The NHS struggles to modernise because its complexity outpaces leadership capacity. Short-term political cycles undermine long-term reform. Finance and workforce crises drain transformation energy."

As @roylilley1.bsky.social reminds us there’ve been three major long-term national plans for the NHS in England since 2000: The NHS Plan (2000), the Five Year Forward View (2014), and the NHS Long Term Plan (2019). Will this one do any better?

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

Air pollution must be recognised as a public health issue. Our report 'A breath of fresh air' highlights evidence on the increased range of health impacts linked to air pollution. The government needs to treat #airpollution as a serious & preventable health risk. 🔗 ow.ly/F3yq50Wc7wr #CleanAirDay

One thing social media has taught me (though I have definitely experienced it in other media too): a lot of people, even quite smart people, are worryingly bad at reading comprehension. For instance: many have trouble distinguishing between someone *describing* a thing and *advocating* that thing.

The tech companies have massively overhyped the capabilities of AI and massively downplayed the dangers. And the UK government has fallen for it, hook, line and sinker.

If a Large Language Model (LLM) - a workhorse of AI - sees something repeated a lot, it considers it truth. It cannot tell the difference between a novel and a work of non-fiction. The politicians are out of their minds swallowing the hype of the tech companies and letting this technology run riot

Performative, empty grandstanding from Streeting as per www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Someone show this to Starmer. (Idealy while locking McSweeney in a cupboard) And the rest of this thread too: UK voters exist in 2 'blocks' - left/liberal and right. There is much voter movement within the blocks but litttle between them. The coveted hero voters are largely unavilable to Labour

The story about Reform's successes in the elections overlooked the fact that the left actually did better than the right. So that'll be media bias again. Welcome to this week's Pecksniff's Diary from @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

The brilliant @mrhenrymorris.bsky.social of the famous Papua New Guinea Courier wins the internet this morning by describing Darren Grimes as "thicker than a boxing day turd" 😂

Standing against genocide Greens ✅ Lab ❌ Taxing wealth Greens ✅ Lab ❌ Standing against NHS privitisation Greens ✅ Lab ❌ Calling for public sector pay restoration Greens ✅ Lab ❌ Nationalisation of energy and water Greens ✅ Lab ❌ join.greenparty.org.uk

There isn’t a policy reason and it isn’t what people want. A whole sector will go through a lot of needless pain because some Labour advisors can’t understand that voters do not (1) react to all immigration the same or (2) want all immigration reduced at any cost

(... which is more than Reform, by the way)

To pre-order the paperback 👇🏽 www.waterstones.com/book/unheard... It’s also available in hardback, audiobook and ebook at the usual outlets.

Tl;dr - one lesson of blue wall 2024 results is that if you keep telling voters you dislike them and will ignore them, sooner or later they will believe you. Labour seem determined to ignore that lesson.

Really important thread. Politicians keep pretending apps & tech can magically make people better, healthier, happier. Too many credulous journalists keep lapping it up. Trial participants keep saying meh, no thanks.

The Centre for Health & the Public Interest said Streeting was talking “utter nonsense” about the private sector providing extra capacity because almost all the doctors it uses to perform operations are NHS staff www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer* i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

Why Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/five-years...

Alan Milburn worked for Centene Corporation, a US healthcare company who owned Operose New DHSC Permanent Secretary Samantha Jones former CEO & president of Operose US private healthcare getting their claws into the NHS with a history of failure & extremely poor care for patients

Dear Keir Starmer, if you really don’t agree with a publicly funded, publicly delivered, publicly accountable, NHS - as the evidence of your appointments of Streeting and Milburn show - at least be honest with us. After 14 years of lies from Tories, we have had enough deceit.

It was a good question!! If you agree with me that Labour should set out what percentage of their 1.5 million new homes will be social housing, get in touch with Any Answers to carry on the discussion @bbc-politics.bsky.social. bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

April 12, 1945: death of FDR. Churchill: "His love of his own country, his respect for its constitution...were evident, added to these were the beatings of that generous heart which was always stirred to anger and to action by spectacles of aggression and oppression by the strong against the weak."

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Slumlords will be upset with this quote …" via TGL - The Good Life

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Lots of differences but the similarity with Truss is that a lot of the market response is less about the specific event and more the realisation that these people really are total clowns and there's no clever plan behind the public statements of blathering ignorance.

The normally measured Adam Rutherford is uncharacteristically incensed about the dire wolves that arent and whatever self promotional weirdness is giving rise to the claim.

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.