I completed my first day challenge of 26. I'm going to get into the habit of meditation. Hopefully. 10 minutes a day of thinking about nothing. And our local party could do with the donations. (We're not funded by oligarchs, developers or shady foreign interest groups)

Leafletting kit - cut resistant gloves a new addition for extra finger protection.

Today I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of new artworks by local secondary school students. These fantastic pictures transform a Hertford subway into a gallery. Thanks to Herts County Council for leading the initiative. #Hertford #PublicArt #Herts #MayorofHertford #Hertfordshire #HCC

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec... Labour in this current blue labour hard right incarnation are just appalling. It's not just that they are legitimising far-right arguments: it seems they are fully onboard with them.

This is fantastic news. Well done to everyone involved for not giving up on Ward Freman Pool.

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK. What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.

Great read as always.

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

Wow! Are Labour trying to get their polling down to single figures?

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

More cities will follow in time as they realise they are poisoning their citizens

🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳 Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform. Are you in? Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️

Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

One of the most important political messages on the internet.

We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Another extraordinarily stupid & gratuitously nasty policy from Labour, sold under the entirely false pretence that it will promote "integration". Who do they think they're kidding with this nonsense? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Keir Starmer says he’s “taking on Reform” in today’s speech. But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them. #LabourConference #StarmerSpeech

Dehumanisation as policy. It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will. It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades. news.sky.com/story/shaban...

This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.

Could Labour MPs just....stop doing this, cheers? It's not tactically advantageous coz literally nobody goes "hey that's cool, they really admire Thatcher", I know Shabana n chums really do think Maggie rocked, but could they keep it to themselves?

I repeat, and will keep repeating, the question: why is anyone listening to this lobbyist for tech billionaires and dodgy oil regimes? He's been that far longer than PM www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton

I did not realise it was possible to hammer nails into your own coffin from within it.

How much more evidence does our Government need before it ends its complicity in this genocide? Where is the red line for real, moral action? The British public supports a full arms embargo and sanctions, the Government must now finally listen.

How do we fix this mess?

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

A local resident said: "I asked them not to put a flag up outside my daughter's bedroom. "It terrified her the previous night & I asked them not to look into her window. "They refused and... threatened to come back later and look through her window." www.edp24.co.uk/news/2545769...

.@TheGreenParty now has more members than ever before. In these dangerous times, people are desperate for a party that speaks truth to power, has courage of its convictions & will take on the far Right. There's never been a better time to join our movement join.greenparty.org.uk

I agree with Graeber; the centre is perfomative, stands for nothing while maintaining a false sense of moral superiority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9af...

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗ Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

Via Ronald S. on FB.

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Israel have bombed another hospital. Waited for medics to arrive - and then bombed again. Britain keeps selling arms to this genocidal regime. Starmer & Lammy say they're "horrified". They condemn. But they do nothing. All the war criminals must face justice.

🔴Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

The idea that @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's bold message is divisive is blown out of the water by this poll. Voters from all parties want clear and decisive leadership not fence sitting or more of the same.

Another day, another Reform UK fail: Joseph Boam, one of the party’s youngest councillors, has been sacked from the job. www.leicester.news/joseph-boam-...

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

West Wales 16 years ago. And now my son is going to leave home in autumn to study mechanical engineering.

We should never forget the suffering that resulted from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. Oh wait, I’m told this is Gaza today.

Just got home: 10 days in Brittany and 5 days in Shropshire. 2.5kg heavier!

If we're looking for the source of our current economic woes, the plot makes clear the pivotal event was the late 2000s financial crisis Understandable & correct to identify suboptimal & counterproductive fiscal, monetary & political responses since then, but they weren't the primary cause...

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?