Nobody knew who Driscoll was until a week ago. The US throws in another yes man, with no diplomatic or foreign policy experience to sort the job. I just don’t know what else I can say🤦‍♂️

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys @jasonburke.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform. The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.

I take issue with the video somewhat. I don't think it was a case of Polanski capital-letters schooling Davis. Davis asked all the right questions, Polanski gave all the right answers, both did their job very well. We can be too cynical. Frost and Ridge both sang his praises on Sky News as an...

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

There’s no more a depressing symbol of our national decline and reputation on the world stage than a tatty, frayed, torn and dirty nylon St George flag, made in China, hanging on by a single cable tie, wrapped around a lamppost on a city centre bypass. Well done patriots.🫡

France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.

“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”

Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

As net migration figures plummet, is now the time to point out that the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) estimate that the UK loses £7b in tax for every 100K drop in net migration.

Let’s take a moment to remind ourselves what Farage thought of Truss’s budget that cost Britain about £30,000,000,000.

Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.

There is a dishonest Labour MP trying to claim wealth taxes “don’t work”. Wealth taxes DO work. I know, I used to live in Norway, where they have had a wealth tax for more than 130 years. All public services are much better and poverty is far, far less than in the UK. 1/3

"Ordinary people are going to see their income tax bills increase" @adrianramsay.bsky.social explains how Labour's budget fails to address unprecedented cost of living pressures- and how a wealth tax would raise revenues to fund our infrastructure and public services.

Budget 2025. Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation. No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel. No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends. No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.

“Isn’t it significant that Rachel Reeves used her big TV moment to attack the Greens? She knows huge numbers of people really find what we are offering attractive.” Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.

we're still paying off PFI-1 PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use

🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH

My Budget Day opinion: Budget Day should be abolished. Performative nonsense that (by accident) leans into 'politics as entertainment'. Measures should instead be announced when they are individually ready to be announced – at any time in the parliamentary calendar.

"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas." Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.

Labour Party seems to have moved from: “We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.” To “Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”

Ex Lab minister Ed Balls, who happens to be married the Foreign Secretary, invokes 'economists' to attack the Green Partys proposal for a wealth tax Well done to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for pointing out economists aren't impartial arbiters of truth but are often protecting power & wealth

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

Israel has continued to violate its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching attacks across Gaza that killed at least four Palestinians and wounded several others on Monday.

Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine. Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.

UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves. Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable. Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves. UK can find better uses of £20bn+.

What would the Green Party do at the Budget? 💡 Cut energy bills by ending profiteering 🚰 Cut water bills by bringing water into public hands 🏠 Give councils the power to control rents 🚸 Lift the two-child benefit cap and extend free school meals to all Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes… And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say …funny that.

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A sovereign nation decides the size of its own armed forces, the treaties it makes and the international organisations it joins. That’s what Putin seeks to deny Ukraine - its sovereignty.

Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "A household economy is nothing like a national budget, and we really need to break that metaphor"

Dear president Zelensky, please tell trump, Rubio and witkoff to fuck all the way off.

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

Given that 20 Palestinians are being killed on average every day by Israelis in Gaza (37 on Wednesday), it seemed a little premature for the UN Security Council to give its approval to Trump’s real estate grab / ethnic cleansing plan for the Strip.

I’ve no doubt more are involved in Russian spying ring but political corruption is like mycelium that spreads for miles under the ground and only occasionally throws up a mushroom. It’s why I don’t think everything in the Epstein files will ever see the light of day. Who’s watching the watchers?

Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Another massive milestone! Welcome to all our new members Do I dare to dream... 200k by the end of the year?

One might say Farage is not a good judge of character? Or even worse, maybe he is?

On the eve of the G20 Summit in South Africa, Patriotic Millionaires International, with Oxfam SA, hosted a powerful panel on A Fairer Future, calling for bold action to #TaxTheSuperRich. Leaders, academics, and millionaires sharing one message: tax extreme wealth for people and planet #G20ZA

Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin. Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill. Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy on russians: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you.

Once Nathan Gill is sentenced, investigate all the MEPs. Nigel Farage Richard Tice Dr David Bull Paul Nuttall Martin Daubney Alex Phillips #ReformRussianBribes

Loving the Leeds spirit