Let's take this bit at a time. The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome. 1/

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?

Here I am slagging off Keir Starmer for accepting some free glasses. Because that is so much worse than accepting £5 million from a crypto billionaire or using the house of a convicted fraudster while he pays for my staff, security and social media.

Bosnia enter the chat...

NEWS! FIFA confirm USA goals to count double for remainder of World Cup tournament

“At 250 years old, America still needs written legislation, amendments, backed with the force of the state—to tell people not to commit hate crimes and that people with different skin and hair shouldn’t be treated badly.” - Karen Attiah, @karenattiah.bsky.social

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:

In the West Midlands, 59% of all Op Snap reports come from drivers, 16% from cyclists and 25% from pedestrians.

I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!

When I was at Cambridge I THINK I was the only black girl in my entire year at my college (and I’m mixed race) unless I’m remembering wrong - and I know I was one of very, very few at my entire college by the time I left - this guy just chats nonsense day in day out Simply race baiting

1/ ❓What happens when you get sick or have a baby? For millions in the UK, these life events can quickly lead to financial insecurity. Today, my colleague @meriahlberg.bsky.social and I are publishing a new @jrf-uk.bsky.social report on the UK's in-work protections. 🧵

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid any possible conflict of interest www.bbc.com/news/article...

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail. TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜 So what's the reality behind this headline? 🧵 1/23

In my recent interviews I boasted about having claimed "zero personal expenses". Which is not surprising when you consider that there is no such thing as 'personal expenses' for MPs, so nobody has claimed any. But I have claimed over £150k in office expenses.

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and

Although when you ask about it, Reform stop inviting you to their events.

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Brexit: a coping strategy 🧵 The plans for Brexit are on display in the darkened basement of the Department for Exiting the European Union at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Unicorn" #HGTB

It’s the 10th anniversary of Brexit. Let’s have a look at how that’s going: 1974-2016: 7 prime ministers 2016-2026: 7 prime ministers I said it then. I’ll say it again. It’s a shitshow.

Local paper has a sense of humour… #watfordfc

Being a train driver with many years experience, I’m aware of the scenarios that might’ve have caused the rail collision near Bedford today. However, I won’t be speculating. For those who are, especially those who don’t work on the railway, please stop. Your lack of detail is unedifying.

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Over 40% of the people of Makerfield voted for parties who want to deport my wife, so forgive me I'm not exactly seeing the positives here.

Since the mainstream media distort what I say, I have started a newsletter, Nigel's Notebook, to speak directly to the people of Britain. Read my first essay on white privilege here, then subscribe for free to get them straight to your inbox. 😉 open.substack.com/pub/parodypm...

Nigel Farage claims he "cannot be bought". In other news, he has been privately lobbying the Bank of England to drop plans for a state-backed cryptocurrency which would massively hit the profits of his billionaire crypto donors, saying he would be "prepared to go to prison" to stop them

This is where the ethno-nationalist campaigning by Farage, Lowe, Yaxley-Lennon, Musk et al is taking us. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Race riots on British streets, incited by a man currently in Moscow and amplified by a South African paedophile. But your engagement.

Someone has forgotten who the Immigration Minister was when this man arrived and was given leave to remain. A certain Mr Jenrick.

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

11 hours.

A reminder that Infantino said in 2017 that all qualified teams, their fans and officials, need to have access to a host country, otherwise it can't host. There are already numerous (predictable) US visa issues with the World Cup about to kick off and likely more to come.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

www.msn.com/en-us/sports... “Africa's best referee denied entry to USA, set to be ruled out of FIFA World Cup”

Two tier justice?

Now let's compare that with a map of important groundwater aquifers and think about what the consequences might be if pollutants migrate into the wrong geological layer (facilitated by the newly generated fractures). doi.org/10.1177/0309... Any thoughts on this @seismatters.bsky.social ?

A real headline in the United States today

🚨FURY as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees 🚨 Apparently...🤔 Who are all these furious people, making this newsworthy across several newspapers, TV channels, radio shows and countless YouTube videos? 🧵 1/23