I hate living through Thatcher's twelfth term.

My interview with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social about Hungary's election - and MAGA interference - is also on Democracy for Sale's YouTube channel And available as a podcast on Spotify and Apple podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Police arrest 523 including 87-year-old during mass protest in central London against ban on Palestine Action “This is not policing. This is the state criminalising dissent.” www.lbc.co.uk/article/poli...

Meanwhile, in the UK the Labour government ordered the police to arrest 500 people for protesting against Israel’s genocide, despite an English High Court’s decision the ban on protest is unlawful. Labour is appealing the Court’s decision.

If you vote for Reform you get the man that lied to us about Brexit costing our country Fortune and our country poorer and you get the Tories. But not the capable ones. The disgrace ones. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

BREAKING: Massive Attack musician Robert Del Naja defies the unlawful ban on Palestine Action. He said “the actions of Palestine Action were highly patriotic, because they were pretty much protecting our country from getting involved in serious war crimes, and breaking international law."

Let’s crush Labour!

Don’t believe the tactical voting ‘experts’

🚨 EXCLUSIVE - the MOD told the Canary a British drone wasn't carrying out 'operations' over Lebanon - despite all evidence pointing to the contrary By @joejglenton.bsky.social

Starmer's fed up with high energy costs is he? Wait 'till he finds out that a Labour government could fix the energy market if it chose to, but won't.

Green Party GAIN! Beating Reform by over 5%. Reform has been consistently under-performing according to polling while the Greens consistently over-perform. It's very buoying.

Times: "Tony Blair urges Ed Miliband: Don’t be ideological on net zero" "Britain should produce more clean energy while accelerating domestic oil & gas production" - TBI This would be a tad more credible if the Tony Blair Institute's clients weren't despotic petro-states like UAE & Saudi Arabia.

Protest Is Not a Privilege Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed.

A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has ‘kept Britain out of this illegal war’ has been a lie.

The comments are full of "tsk tsk bloody Reform" when Labour is the GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW and they, get this, are in charge of the NHS.

Yes you are, Andrew (always have been, and a particularly dim one)

Israel is carrying out Genocide in Lebanon in order to ethnically cleanse it like Gaza. It is time for the world to take action against Israel.

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

Odd to recall that, confronted with atrocities like this, the choice of a Labour government was to criminalise protest against it.

Pedro Sanchez is the best leader in the world right now, by a mile.

Palantir's UK head Louis Mosley wants us to believe that tech like theirs is neutral until their clients decide how to use it. People who study science, technology and society have long exposed such arguments as fallacious. My latest column for TNW. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Nothing will be OK until we have a sane person running the world and no good purpose is served pretending otherwise.

🚨 NEW POLL! Yet another poll has the Scottish Greens overtaking Reform, Labour and the Tories. We would become the second largest party in the Scottish Parliament! On May 7th, let's demand better. Vote Scottish Greens. 💚

Is this what Keir Starmer meant by "Israel has the right to defend itself"?

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has today called on Keir Starmer to withdraw US access to UK air bases to prevent Britain becoming an “accomplice to war crimes"

The BBC has decended to a new low, even for the BBC …Making up a quote from an Iranian saying that the US should bomb his own country… youtu.be/1kVI74597aU?...

This Government both want us to believe they've played a leadership role here - and that they don't know the terms of the agreement. It's simply not plausible. While European Allies banned US use of their airspace, we've let bombers launch from the UK.

Oh FGS. Are people really this gullible? Of course Peter, Starmer can be trusted to stand up to Trump

He managed to post about Wireless Festival in that time - so it's a question of priorities.... Apparently nuclear threats and genocide aren't high up on the list.

7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you won’t speak up now, when will you?

Hey, FIFA! You need to cancel all World Cup games scheduled to be played in the United States and redistribute those games to be played either in Canada or in Mexico. The US must be sanctioned! #StopTrump

And why is the US military still able to use UK bases? Why is Palantir - a US spy tech company - so embedded into our vital infrastructure? And why do we have a Labour Govenrment who absolutely cower at the idea of speaking out against the criminal President?

If we wake up and find Trump unleashed devastation, Labour’s silence will be absolutely damning. If Trump has beyond hopefully de-escalated, it’s still damning. In the face of genocide, what exactly is the point of the silent UK Prime Minister?

Famous champion of the NHS, The Telegraph, valiantly chooses to amplify the views of a doctor who disagrees with strikes. You’ll understand that this brave work is being done in the interests of the public, who The Telegraph’s editorial team always have front of mind.

They want to privatise the NHS, they take dark money from profit driven industries. An important side note you will not get on The BBC is Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is not facing any strikes.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

News you can use.

While in another recent byelection Lib Dems beat Reform Ltd and Green Party got very few votes in Rossendale it's vice versa Tactical voting to keep Reform out woks!

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

aside from the whole racist bullying aspect, it just looks so shit #FlagMeasles

Ben Thompson: "Handing out pay rises though pushes up inflation, doesn't it? Handing out extra cash to people means prices go up" What prices? The services NHS staff provide are free at the point of use.

"Matthew Goodwin Has Become an Embarrassment For Reform UK" - t.co/QwqlGTq71E

Far-right group Britain First are holding another “march for remigration” in Manchester soon. A counter-protest is planned: "Once again [BF] will be sent the unequivocal message just like in February - Manchester is Anti-Fascist" (Saturday 18 April, 11.30am, Piccadilly Gardens)

This is perhaps the only downside of Matt Goodwin losing in Gorton & Denton