He's repeatedly insulted our country, our leaders and our military, is pushing up our prices and threatening our national security, yet the self-proclaimed 'patriotic' right-wing press still finds a way to put themselves on his side

I long for a sane leadership team for either RefUK or the Tories. We need a well balanced, competent centre right choice as an alternative to Labour. Not much chance currently. RefUK isn't actually a political party, it's a vanity project owned by dodgy Nigel, and Kemi is round the friggin bend.

Just when you think Britain might have their shit together with investigating Andrew and others with their Epstein connections, King Charles agrees to visit Trump. Talk about not reading the room, dude! Don't do it, the only message that comes out of this is - weak bastard!

I really agree with this. Starmer's been hand wringing about the risk of an "Island of strangers" but now his policies seem set out to create one.

I do wish the @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social BBC would stop trumpeting Trumps grandstanding duckspeak every day. His "thoughts" and threats over Iran make no sense, they're pure fabrication.

The ‘mission’ will fail. We aren’t dealing with a rational person. We need to cultivate friendships closer to home.

In an uncertain world there are some fixed points. Whenever a decision is to be made, Starmer’s first instinct is to plump for the worst.

It’s not only the far right that view politics as basically a licence to be as much of an appalling, malignant prick as you can

Trump-like brinkmanship from Starmer. Another silly unforced error, dialing up the head to head. Why don't they try listening to and understanding the doctors concerns rather than threats? He seems unable to get anything right.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

Where's the money coming from to fund this? I guess it's the old Tory magic money tree again!

I suspect this is true, sadly.

#MAGAs. He is killing your country. He's made it his mission. Is this what you wanted?

Marching yesterday, and police estimated numbers as 50,000. I've been in more football stadiums than I can name with 50,000 in them. I know what 50,000 looks like. This was definitely more like 500,000 than 50,000. Why do the cops always get it so wrong?

Extract from an article: "From the nixed endorsement of Kamala Harris to paying $75m for the Melania documentary, Bezos has shown that he'd rather spend his fortune sucking up to one demagogue than helping to enlighten a public of millions." They may be billionaires, but really they're just scum.

This is a great point, and illustrates that Greens are realists, clear sighted about current military geopolitics.

This view I'm sure won't win me many likes, particularly from the left, but I've known people like this, and it's too common. it needs a crackdown. It's gross fraud and there should be better detection and bigger penalties.

I have to agree, it's infuriating and one of many things that reflect badly on Starmer. Perhaps Badenoch, Davey and all others could end each question with "and could the PM answer this exact question, not some other of his own invention?"

Does a transfer to Reform entail some kind of Zombification? Only a half wit would fail to understand that if you quit being a Tory you can no longer use the Tory office for your HQ!

Has anyone else started to think the unthinkable? That as Donny Boy has his party spoiled by Iran and becomes more and more enraged and frustrated and humiliated, he's going to wonder about reaching for that nuclear button?

Accurate reading. Generations of UK politicians have treated the US as a reliable, cast iron ally. This was foolish. In the 19th century they decimated their indigenous population & had a civil war. In the 20th they kept attacking other nations & assassinating ppl. They were never really stable.

One image I can never unsee is the unctuous smile on Starmer's face as he handed Trump the letter of invitation "from the King" for his SECOND state visit in five years, an unprecedented privilege. That worked out well, didn't it?

It's hard to know which regime I find more loathsome, Trump's corrupt MAGA thugs or the Iran revolutionary guard.

Across protest rights, surveillance infrastructure, stop and search, and free expression, the new UK Crime and Policing bill creates new criminal offences, grants police significant new discretionary powers, and builds a biometric surveillance architecture without dedicated statutory safeguards

Never forget this Israeli atrocity.

There's a pattern here. I'm still gobsmacked that gov officials, including PMs, are allowed to carry out official duties without any form of backup. It's also incredibly convenient. I'm also surprised it's legal.

Its Robbie Gibb the BBC should have seen the back of, not Tim Davie.

I'm not a Powell fan after her stupid, misjudged letter during the by election (see following post) but she's mostly right here. The bit she misses is that Labour needs to stop doing this awful "aping Reform" right wing cruelty politics.

Hahaha, good luck with that, Birmingham city council! I don't think you know narrowboaters as well as I do.

I'm afraid Bluesky has become rather stuck. It's increased, but movers and shakers aren't really flocking to it. As of now, only 50 or so MPs are regular users. It tends to be a platform of the left, and hence an echo chamber. I occasionally look at x, and it has right and left. Know thine enemy!

I have a contender for "most useless design concept in Britain" It's those supposedly "resealable" cooked meat packets in supermarkets. They're utterly pathetic.

I wonder if Farage still thinks the sun shines out of Donald's arse? A man with this poor a level of judgement should never get anywhere near power.

Did you know that the US is doing exactly what Iran has done in the Strait of Hormuz, except it is doing it to Cuba? The US has a naval "blockade" denying shipments of oil to Cuba in order to extort the government there. www.npr.org/2026/03/21/n...

People who say "the West" is not "having enough babies" to cover things like taking care of the aged, etc and the SAME PEOPLE who oppose immigration. "Not enough babies" means WHITE babies. Opposing "immigration" means NON-WHITE immigrants. Every time. "Immigration" means RACE. Every time.

This week, Libby thinks we’ve all heard quite enough about Peter Mandelson’s hijinks and we don’t need to hear any more. I can’t say I agree, but I see why some folk would rather the whole thing just went away. Which it may well do.

That was a poor interview Rajan conducted with Mark Gardner. The supposition kept being repeated that the ambulance attack was carried out by Iranians or Muslims and it wasn't rebutted anywhere near strongly enough.

Iran wasn't attacking anybody. We attacked Iran and Iran hit back. but Iran is reckless?

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

The US and Israel have lashed out at Iran. The UK government: "Iran must cease its reckless attacks" according to Yvette Cooper. Where's the balance? Where's the understanding of why Iran is doing this? Iran is actually fighting a very clever war, which they wanted no part of in the first place.

Sounds familiar huh?

The US elected: - A Rapist - A Paedophile - An Insurrectionist - A Warmonger - A Narcissist - A Neo-Fascist - A Putin lover - A tax dodger - A dementia victim All in one fell swoop And he was obviously ALWAYS as thick as 10 shithouse seats. Why did they do it? It'll astonish me to my dying day.

The principle of ‘relying on charities to fund public services so the rich don’t have to pay taxes’, has been a cornerstone of Conservative ideology for generations.

The governments of the UK have presided over the creation of 15,000,000 people living in poverty including children. It should not be up to the kind and decent people of this country to do what governments have failed to. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Starmer now allowing direct attacks on Iran from British bases. Classic scope creep. He's on the slippery slope. Utterly predictable. He never sticks with any decision.

It's time lying in politics was criminalised. I'm sick of hearing cheap lying jibes from Labour about Green party policy, particularly the lie that policy is to immediately leave NATO. This is one of dozens of reasons I don't vote Labour.

The big demented orange buffoon will go down in history all right, but certainly not for the reasons he hopes. It's not impossible that this Iran disaster will trigger a global recession.

It may have shifted, but the shift is irrelevant. It matters not what they acknowledge while ever they trot out the same nonsense about an "ever closer relationship, but no intention to rejoin anything" It's the same cake and eat it strategy that's already been rejected over and over again.

Nye Bevan would be turning in his grave. What kind of Labour values are these? Not any that I'm aware of. What is this money buying?

To be fair to Johnson, I think Kennedy had left him in that unenviable position.