Labour really is a nasty little government of xenophobia at this stage. This policy is pure cruelty, and a total abdication of the UK's responsibility to provide asylum. Once more Labour looking at Reform and saying "we"ll have some of that". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If you tuned into the BBC this week, you may have mistakenly thought you were watching a Reform UK party political broadcast t.co/wvOjQTuLQH

Absolutrly. And their anti immigrant policy will drive staff away

Carol, strength to you! My case I'm still being treated. Both our cases treatment would be unaffordable under RefUK. But it's not just about us. We've come to terms with where we are. It's about RefUK wanting to destroy the one political gift ever given to the nation for their gain. It's just wrong!

😷😷😷 Cancer: 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed every 8 seconds I have Stage 4 metastatic bone cancer. I am being treated by the NHS: Free Reform want to make the NHS insurance based. They all have private health insurance NB: you can’t get medical insurance if you have an ongoing critical condition.

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

We've got this amazingly cosmopolitan patron saint. A symbol of an outward looking England that borrows influences from other cultures and always has done. More should be made of it.

🇪🇺 In an increasingly volatile world with an expansionist Russia, belligerent China, and unpredictable White House - we must choose Europe and build our ties with our closest and largest trading partner.

Chris Philp on C4 News again talks up leaving the ECHR and again, as with Reform politicians saying same thing, goes unchallenged on what that means for our trade deal with the EU. It would destroy it. And we would be back to a no deal Brexit even worse than the rubbish deal we have now.

🇬🇪🇪🇺 Day 512 of the Nonstop Pro-European protests and The 3rd Overnight by Parents of Children with DMD demanding Access to Medication in Georgia! #TerrorInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests (Copying True Georgian's X post) 📷 MOSE

It remains a terrible, terrible idea for the King to go to Trumpland.

The Times, "Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department" "None of Leave's 'heady promises' had materialised"

🤩 Big news for 🇪🇺 A senior civil servant who ran the Brexit department from 2017–2019 has just said Britain should start talking seriously about rejoining the EU. Philip Rycroft in The Times today: none of the Leave campaign’s “heady promises” have materialised.

“On Tuesday, the Energy Secretary gave a speech with one overriding message: “Every solar panel we put up, every wind turbine we build, every heat pump we install, every EV on the road makes our country more secure.”

And I BELIEVE this is very, very different from what most people of faith, & those of no religious beliefs, want & hope for in their lives. Most of us want safety for our families, a reasonable standard of living, a place to call home. We do not want war. 5/5

So when Christianity is used as a justification for a war in the present - that’s something with a 1700-year-long history. It’s not new. It’s not surprising. When it’s developed into a new cult for the super-rich, with ideas of victory and dominance linked to material gain, that’s not new either 4/5

With all that’s going on in the world right now, I feel it’s really important to draw a distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘faith’. I’m not religious, but I have a humanist worldview which prioritises rational thought, empathy and kindness. I know many people of faith who hold similar values. 1/5

As a former NATO chief identifies the necessity of ending UK military dependence on a no longer reliable or trustworthy USA, we thank our lucky stars we haven’t done anything really stupid, like let Farage, Johnson & co persuade us to turn our backs on EU allies… open.spotify.com/episode/2ANY...

A fortnight of positive news for the UK economy – Labour deserve more credit www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/a-f...

A Ukrainian drone strike in Donetsk destroyed a command base of the Russian Federal Security Service special forces. 12 Russian servicemen were killed and 15 injured.

You'll probably get mad or sad looking at socials on your lunch. You'll probably get frustrated playing a mobile game. But you'll never be unhappy if you spend your lunch reading a #TerryPratchett #Discworld book (until you have to put it down and go back to work)

🚨 NEW: The BBC and ITV have ordered Labour to tone down its party political broadcast after deeming it too offensive The Ad contained comments from Reform councillors. Why can't Labour attack Reform when Reform has its own propaganda machine with GB News??

Love to know which Tory donor via what oblique investment vehicle, had an interest in this firm. And who were among the central figures in this contract? Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick. Both now bleating about tHe cOrrUpT eStAbLiShMeNt from Reform's ranks. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire in Lebanon, as in Gaza, and today targeted two journalists, killing one. There has been no word from Western officials and little media coverage. When is enough enough? The IDF won’t stop until it’s stopped.

I say the earth did shake when I was born.

Farage's Brexit Party MEP had the WORST attendance record, yet now draw massive EU pensions Last month Farage MP - 0 constituency surgeries - 0 votes in Commons Still a skivver "How Truant Brexit MEPs are making a Mockery of Britain" bylinetimes.com/2019/04/11/t... meme via Fibbymcfibface i

Farage missing from #PMQs, just like he was missing from the security vetting statement yesterday. Anywhere that’s not Clacton or Parliament!

“aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, instead updating him at meaningful moments, a senior administration official said.”

#EU approves €90B loan to #Ukraine 🖊️ Gregorio Sorgi #Hungary and #Slovakia lifted their vetoes after oil flows resumed through the Druzhba pipeline. www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...

St George exemplifies everything about the Far Right. They will celebrate a Palestinian, even though they hate Palestine, who never even visited England, but they claim he is 'English'. And of course his greatest achievement, slaying a dragon. Spoiler, that's fake too.

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "Yes, for about a year now he had been living in our monastery and, it appeared, was preparing to lock himself up in it for the rest of his days." Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamasov. Penguin E Book, David McDuff translation.

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: She did not sob, she did not weep; she said not a word. Maggie O'Farrell, Hamlet, Vintage Books

4th July 2024: UK General Election 5th July 2024: Right wing media: 'Labour have broken Britain!!!' and in a similar vein every single f*cking day since.

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bring-th... THIS is why the government is SO unpopular! (Although this is just one of a myriad of reasons!! )

Over the years of his unfortunate relevance I have sought in vain to find Nigel Farage defining what he likes about this country - and it’s astonishingly difficult to do – which is weird really because he is without a doubt the most influential and best known English nationalist of our era.

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Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

Poor Chris Mason !!! And even this headline shows their true colours .. How about “Vast majority of Labour MPs back Starmer “ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Now that Farage has ditched the £ for crypto, presumably he won’t object if the UK does the same and joins the €.

🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄 We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment Putin must be laughing his head off.

Well this one carries a trigger-warning... Starmer drama, Tice's taxes… the usual week of nonsense But also... A deeply disturbing website where men share tips on drugging and assaulting their partners Barely bloody covered - and where are the arrests?!

And even two fifths (39%) of Conservative supporters and 1 in 5 (18%) of Reform UK supporters back this policy position, further shoring it up - in conjunction with the resounding support from left-leaning voters - as the most sustainable policy path forward overall. /6

@pimlicat.bsky.social stated: "We've crunched the numbers to assess the relative economic merit and political pain of each of the alternatives, and it's plain to see little appetite exists for the halfway houses of a customs union or single market entry, relative to the resounding and

Tom Bruffato, lead author of the report, said: “As the UK faces alarming volatility overseas and worrying economic stagnation at home, our findings indicate that the government revisiting its approach to Europe is set to become not only legitimate, but essential."

Neal Kinnock former leader of the Labour Party and VP of @ec.europa.eu said: “With an erratic US President playing war-games with all our lives, as he launches inflation-spiking conflict across the globe, it is now more obvious than ever that our ‘special relationship’ has to be with our neighbour

in our continent where the UK can have the power to share decisions and exert proper influence. Recognition of that rational economic, political and security reality is gaining increasing public support, as this report shows. It ... will bring electoral appeal & serve the future generations."

🚨🚨New @bestforbritain.org report argues I think convincingly that a push for UK membership of the EU would galvanise support among progressive voters, recognising that other halfway options such as customs union or EEA are would offer to limited benefits. 🧵 www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_...

Do Not vote for Reform UK. #farage #ReformUK

Ein Deutscher in London 🇩🇪 Who said the Germans have no sense of humour?