You won't find Trump in the Epstein Files 🤪

Finally employment bill passed and this makes a real difference to the most vulnerable etc .. any praise ??

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

This needs highlighting!

🏠 It's clear that for many households, the cost of living crisis hasn't gone away. ✅ In today’s budget, the Chancellor announced increases to the minimum wage and the living wage to provide extra support where it’s needed most.

This Labour Government has frozen rail fares for the first time in 30 years — and it’s welcome news. There’s still much more to do to improve our rail network — from better reliability to stronger accountability — but freezing fares is a move in the right direction.

Have you seen our viral new database? COURIER created an easy way for you to search all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. (Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)

Alright now can the BBC hire a Director General who ISN'T a card carrying Tory?

let this never be forgotten or brushed under the carpet. The Tories enriched themselves and their mates during the pandemic while my patients and colleagues were dying.

Tackling inequality. Protecting the planet. Creating the public services of tomorrow. The Labour Party is the progressive party facing the future, delivering modern Britain. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories were complaining about "the last Labour Government" the day before dissolution in 2024, 14 years since that government left office. That was apparently fine, but Labour pointing out that prisons were left in a mess is apparently passing the buck and blaming everybody else.

👀 Yesterday Nigel Farage teamed up with the Tories and Lib Dems to vote against key measures in Labour's employment rights package.

Wait what?

The hard right are telling young people where I come from that it doesn't matter if they work hard in life, they can't get on. Theirs is a politics of simple slogans, of scapegoats and traitors, of betrayal and division. The only way to beat them is to unite and deliver.

Seems like a good idea TBF

For every lion cub today opened up their horizons - amazing lionesses! ( please can our next victory not involve penalty shoot outs though …not sure my blood pressure can take it..)!

For this win and so many other reasons! Congratulations to the amazing lionesses. Inspirational.

How much fun was that to watch?! I'm Welsh and rugby is my game and I was on the edge of my seat! Well done #england

Hampton, Hampton, Hampton! Well done the Lionesses 😁⚽🏆

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’

NEW: 549 Palestinians now killed in the last 30 days. Itself shocking. But, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS KILLED AT A FOOD AID STATION. A unique war crime. Firing squads using aid as bait. Palestinians in #Gaza face two choices: starve to death, or risk death to get food. 🧵

I must get a life! 😁

As Google celebrates 20 years of Google Earth, make sure you watch the movie 'The Billion Dollar Code' (Netflix) to see how they stole it from the people who developed it!

Says a lot. A "ranking of every MP’s media visibility across the UK’s leading publications over the last 3 months." (Source: www.mp.govspendbase.uk)

Message from Google for Android users: "Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off." Translation: you didn't want Gemini AI. Tough shit!

Farage's latest grift explained: 1 Abolish inheritance tax so his mates can pass on their ill gotten gains tax free 2 give a few hundred pounds (means tested) to the less well off to pay NHS fees (which will go to Farage's mates)

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

Fill up your cars and vans. It's going to get a lot more expensive very soon

BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament approves the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Decision needs ratified by Iran’s Security Council. It would trap 20% of the world’s oil supply and send a catastrophic shock through the global economy.

Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like illegally bombing another country

This week I have mostly been hooked on a series called 'Halt and Catch Fire' (ITVx streaming, all 4 series). Not available on DVD in its entirety, this is the second time I have watched it all. Think Mad Men, but about computers, games and the internet, it's a study in relationships. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This. Israel and the USA are going to create an oil crisis. Good for, say, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Very bad for us.

I need to buy 10 pints of milk, go to my supermarket, they are 95p each but only have 9, so I buy the 10th from the corner shop for £2. I do not go back to the supermarket, pay the difference, so all 10 cost me £2 each. That would be insane. But that is how the electricity wholesale market works.

They sold Poundland for £1 😏

According to the BBC on a number of news summaries today, Mel Stride has 'said' something on Kuenssberg, while Rachel Reeves has 'defended' and 'insisted' on the same programme. It's just drip, drip, drip.

Great idea

11 days without a boat and suddenly the media's quieter than Suella at a diversity seminar - they can’t risk pissing off Reform’s angry granddads innit. #ukpolitics

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

The chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warned that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on Nato territory

Big change of heart from the government on winter fuel. Last winter just over 10% of pensioners got winter fuel, this winter it will be over three quarters. At Resolution, we estimate that 43% of the winners from today's announcement are in the top half of the income distribution.

The thread by Emma is a brilliant analysis of why the Mail article (a hotchpotch of lies, assertions, anonymous quotes) is bollocks.

Brave woman in Paramount, LA

Pundits and their media mates need to talk about the hype over the so-called “polling guru” Curtice - God, how I hate this stupid journos' bluster. The way the media is hyping him up is farcical and shows exactly what Labour is up against with the media in this country. He can’t predict jack sh*t.

FFS didn’t take long for BBC News to start polishing the Turd the Reform UK is and spin a success for them even though Labour won👇🏼👇🏼😡🤬 It’s not so much what labour is doing wrong that is pushing more people to Reform, it’s the constant PR by MSM which is gaining them voters❗️🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Serious politics: 'the bookies were offering longer odds on a Labour win last night (11/1) than they were on Aberdeen winning the Scottish Cup final against Celtic (8/1)'. (BBC on the Hamilton By-Election)

Galling as ever to see BBC turn victory by Labour into limp only just “squeaked through on a thin margin” headline👇🏼 If Reform had won their headline would be “Reform continue to gather momentum with yet another win” Their right wing bias is paid for by licence payers & makes Reform seem powerful

Never really understood why the Hamilton by-election was "crucial" but, now Labour's won it, apparently it isn't really. Funny that! 🤔

Labour seems to be getting attacked daily by the Media, so I thought I'd draw your attention to the #FullFact Government tracker. It shows that in 11 months Labour have already delivered or are on track with 42 of 59 Manifesto pledges. Tories barely did 3 in 5 years fullfact.org/government-t...

"No good ever came from staying too long in the pub." Except for the three Slade brothers who stayed in The Grapes in Southampton a little too long to be allowed on board the ship they were supposed to be working on - the Titanic. True story.