Wes Streeting claims there are too many diagnoses of anxiety, autism, and ADHD. But when people are oppressed by neoliberalism, and others cannot comply with its demand for uniformity, he is really seeking to destroy evidence of dissent for his toxic worldview. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

It's maddening how the UK remains unable to see things as SAFE as expressions of shared interests *and* solidarity but exclusively as mercantile opportunities 🤦, while its 'leverage-based' negotiating style is about as well-considered as 'gunboat diplomacy without gunboats' 🤷‍♀️

Implying Europeans are not free is not a massive leap from EUSSR, etc. This is a good description of the mood, in green. As I've said, nostalgics and Anglophiles exist but are dwindling. There's honesty is this, which takes balls. 3

Our latest investigation, in collaboration with Democracy for Sale 👇 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of the biggest ways to show weakness is the refusal to change one’s mind. It’s pathetic.

Farage’s Glasgow Dog Whistle | Mike Small in 'Bella Caledonia': #ScottishPolitics bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/03/f...

Dinosaurs still roam the world of the Daily Telegraph.

Someone asked me a good question on here. How do we stop ICE from violating our constitutional rights. We don't. Our local elected officials do that job. Our Governor, or Sheriffs our mayors, Police. They stop ICE. With force if necessary. That's how you stop ICE from pulling us out of our homes.

can’t believe Jared Kushner was unable to negotiate a meaningful and just peace with Putin

4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.

A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.

BREAKING NEWS Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution. They say: "If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again." 1/2

The economics and geopolitical case for this is inarguable, it's the domestic politics that look tricky. I suppose voters might forgive Labour for five years of anaemic growth in disposable incomes because they weren't honest with the electorate in 2024, but I fear that they won't.

I'm not sure he's going to make it, folks. Eyes are closed

So am I.

6. But again and again, legislators seem determined to make idiots of themselves on behalf of powerful industries. They are meant to represent our interests, not those of the lobbyists, but that message seems to have got lost. Vote for those who represent the people, not the money. 6/6

5. Minced meat is meat, but mincemeat isn’t. Nor are sweetmeats, though sweetbreads are. Buffalo wings are an obvious attempt to mess with our heads. Shepherd’s pie, or so the printed ingredients claim, contains no shepherd. And don’t get me started on jelly babies. 5/6

4. If legislators are to insist on food literalism, they should at least be consistent. There's no dinosaur in turkey dinosaurs (and not much turkey). If a vegan hotdog is ruled out on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should also be ruled out, as it contains no dog. 4/6

2. It has *nothing* to do with improving clarity. There’s no evidence that people are confused by terms such as veggie burgers, meat-free sausages or oat milk. It’s a crudely protectionist measure designed to stamp out competition, by forcing plant-based companies to use offputting terms. 2/6

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Farage. Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie. He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but. A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM. Come on UK. Get some sodding self-respect.

Sphagnum moss spore capsules. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking

Sec of State blames doctors for lack of further progress on booking doc appointments online though most appts now made that way bit.ly/4aq8NpI but if it increases demand he should give GPs the resources (ie more money) to deal with them!

"The core of our problem in the UK is housing. Using long-term nationwide data, John noted that the average UK house in 1956 – the year of his birth – cost £1,884. By 2025, that figure was £271,000. That is a 144-fold rise in nominal terms"

Susanna Reid: The BMA says a recent survey found more than 40% of more than 1,300 GP practices had to reduce the number of face to face appointments because GPs are so busy dealing with online communication Wes Streeting: The BMA are moaning minnies

"Assuming no change in the rate of taxation, and all other things being equal, the exchequer will lose the thick end of £100bn in tax revenues this year. Far from having to raise £26bn in extra taxes, Reeves could have chosen to halve the 20% rate of VAT with money to spare."

Democrats removing him and prosecuting him? Thanks for the laugh, but as Pelosi said during his first term, Trump is their best fundraising issue. They will have hearings and endless inquiries, for sure, and not a thing will come of any of it.

Reality Time: If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.

The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...

This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?

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🥴Witkoff and Kushner were supposed to meet with Zelenskyy in Brussels today, but canceled the meeting, – Euronews. The Kremlin stated that they allegedly promised to return to Washington immediately after negotiations with Putin.

Josh Doble of Community Land Scotland: “This is not a fringe issue. Land reform touches upon all of our lives as we face housing shortages, rising food prices, growing inequality and ecosystem collapse.” www.thenational.scot/news/2566814...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect. youtu.be/7UtmjV6LNWA?...

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

The magical Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland, with the mountains of Hoy in the distance. The stones you see today are part of a ring of 12 tall stones and a surrounding ditch from between 3000BC and 2500BC. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Orkney

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

'Carspreading’ is on the rise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚡️ Update: Witkoff, Putin talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine were 'very useful,' Kremlin says. Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev described the talks as “productive.” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov added that the meeting was “very useful, constructive, & highly substantive,” but no deal was reached.

Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social. The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.

Jeremy Corbyn calls Zarah Sultana

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vital point. The expectation of far too many in the UK was that others would bear the consequences: If states could just leave and nothing would change for citizens, why would anybody stay? 1

Scotland goes to the polls in 2026, and Community Land Scotland reminds all aspiring MSPs that Scotland faces multiple and overlapping issues | Charlie McCarthy