What is the point of a university that doesn’t offer English, history, or philosophy?

Newcastle Green Party candidate Tina Ion says "Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist.". Is Ion one of the "99%" of candidates whom party leader Zack Polanski stands behind?

UK: Head of government appointed as ambassador someone who was friends with Epstein. Huge scandal. US: Head of government was friends with Epstein. Has not appointed ambassadors to most posts. Not much scandal.

If this is genuinely the design for the new US passport, then I won’t be renewing mine when it expires next year.

High streets become deserts. Meanwhile Amazon pays no tax.

Fun fact: while the party leader bloviates about being on the side of workers, it's likely that Reform voters are significantly less likely to work than the supporters of Labour, Green Party or Liberal Democrats.. (Estimates from Gemini)

The pay premium of the median teacher, or university lecturer, has also fallen

Teachers have taken a significant pay cut since I started my training in 2003, and our job hasn't got any easier.

It’s hard to see how any of this can shift the mood of people who just don’t like migration. We already make migrants pay twice for their NHS care, has that satisfied anyone?

UK (GB), YouGov poll: EU membership referendum Join/Remain: 63% (-2) Stay out/Leave: 37% (+2) +/- vs. 12-13 March 2026 Fieldwork: 16-17 April 2026 Sample size: 2,104 ➤ europeelects.eu/uk

It’s not just the remarkable 63% who say they’d vote to rejoin the EU. It’s also the fact that this figure continues to rise slowly but steadily. Brexit has failed and is seen to have failed. And geopolitics brings Britain and its neighbours, with whom it shares interests & values, closer together.

🚨Our new report shows: The majority of Brits want to rejoin the EU. 💰And: EU membership delivers the most growth. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/half-britons-support-rejoining-eu-10-years-brexit-vote

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote

REJOIN "is the rational and the patriotic approach," Neil Kinnock says at the launch of @bestforbritain.org's new report. "In an era of Trump's tariffs and tantrums, colossal Chinese advance, Russia's war on the West, and turmoil in the Middle East, our 'special relationship' has to be with Europe."

We need to have a serious conversation about the UK's membership of the EU www.bestforbritain.org/is_time_eu_m...

He's an enemy of liberty and a friend to tyrants.

Imagine the Roosevelt administration cutting off all aid to the Soviet Union in 1943 giving a boost to Hitler’s war effort and boasting about it:

Direct empirical confirmation of my theory of the "immigration doom loop" in UK politics.... ☹️

Kind of remarkable how nativism have done far more damage to business interests in the UK and US than any imagined left-liberal program of regulation and taxation could possibly do

Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

Brexit going well

Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.

"One school of thought in government sees a willingness to upset Labour members as the litmus test of getting it right for the public on immigration. That thinking is under more pressure now: a governing party which has lost half of its support can no longer afford to gratuitously offend supporters"

Obviously I disagree with the plan to extend ILR to 10 yrs but it hadn’t occurred to me that recent arrivals from the Commonwealth have the right to vote against it. Labour should reverse course on this policy. It won’t persuade xenophobes, just make people’s lives precarious and miserable.

Meanwhile, the decision to Brexit has never been less popular. 30% Right to leave 58% Wrong to leave

I'm no expert but I don't think that's how it works

All of Reform UK's 'shadow cabinet' went to private school.

If you're interested in history and the complex personalities and motivations of most important figures, it's fascinating how un-complex the Trump administration is. In almost all cases, if you just said "This guy is dumb, this guy is evil and this guy is crazy" you would not be oversimplifying

Gosh just from eyeballing the graph I wonder if anyone can think of something that might have happened around idk 2016 to cause a further deterioration?

Trump has doubled his net worth since being reelected through blatant and egregious corruption. The salary is peanuts.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Standing in endless airport queues wasn’t on the side of a bus, but it’s now part of the reality of travelling post-Brexit. Longer queues, stricter restrictions, and more expensive travel - is this what we were promised?

Brexit is a catastrophe that needs to be undone.

The solution to this, and many of the nation’s other problems, is to rejoin the EU at the earliest opportunity.

Kate Nash says that she doesn't think that she would have been able to have the career that she has if she was starting out now. This makes us wonder, how many talented, emerging musicians are being priced out of touring by post-Brexit barriers?

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The public were told we would get £350 million a week, yet almost 10 years on, trade has been hit, costs have risen, and the country is still waiting for those promises to materialise. The leave campaign was fuelled by lies and misinformation: we must repair our relationship with Europe.

Even Brexit is in the Epstein files!

This is the video to share and show anyone who thinks brexit hasn’t been done ‘properly’ yet and going further would be good for this country. Join the @labour4europe.bsky.social and let’s take back control. Click their account to do so.

The Brexit campaign was fuelled by misinformation, and new polls have found that the majority of Brits want to reverse it. We must continue to fix our relationship with Europe, and rekindle our ties with the biggest free market in the world.

It is more important than ever that Europe stands together as friends. Lets work together again. Join our movement here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-fb

YES, the EU regulates. But, regulation isn’t just paperwork, it’s what quietly makes everyday life across Europe simpler, fairer and more sustainable. 🇪🇺 Better with EU! Courtesy of the EU Commission Luxembourg

Is this the darkest period YET?

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Spot on ⬇️ "Leaving the EU has altered the texture of everyday life in Britain in ways that are now impossible to ignore: at the border, in the workplace, in the cost of food and increasingly in the country’s diminished ability to shape the world around it."

Sorry but why the fuck would you *not* want to recreate 2006?Pre-financial crash, pre-austerity, pre-Brexit, pre-inflation. Britain's economically healthy, decent public services, largely competent government, fairly amiable political disputes. What kind of person prefers this period to that?

In the face of growing global threats, it is now more important than ever to work closely with our European neighbours to strengthen our shared security. Cooperation with Europe is essential to upholding stability in an increasingly uncertain world.

Let’s be clear about what the Trump regime is saying to Minnesota: “We will continue murdering your citizens unless you help us rig your election.”