January’s record tax receipts: the real story that was not told www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

PLUGGING THE MARS WAS RUBBISH ETSY SHOP! It's good stuff. Endless talking point at parties. Graeme needs to eat sometimes, you know. Artists cannot survive on Gauloises alone.

What would happen if Britain deported two million workers? youtu.be/bvcGSGdyfB4?...

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Deport Billionaires Patch. Abolish ICE, create DABA (Deport All Billionaires Agency). collabs.shop/fhgxv3

This is probably one of the most important pieces I have ever written. Robert Lowe MP is proposing the forced expulsion of millions of people from the UK. Full-on fascism is being put before people. We have to decide. Do we want a politics of care, or of hate? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Why Defending 'Woke' Defends Democracy youtu.be/hRd6GLC_p5c?...

Such fun. What NOT to do! Better that watching the TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsx...

Neoliberalism was designed to fail ordinary people, and it is through its politics of destruction. youtu.be/8LpJTB7shXs?...

Imagine being so "patriotic" that you protest the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for saving lives. Racist morons fuelled by hate.

Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation. rnli.org/pages/ig/new...

The main argument against rejoining the EU is that it would "embolden Farage". Bullshit. It would expose Farage. It would force him to oppose the majority of voters, remind them that his last "Great Crusader" left us poor and powerless, and force him to admit he wants us to remain that way.

You are not disposable – and any politics that treats you as if you are is dangerous youtu.be/g8VOypobBr8?...

Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent

Blimey. If you're of a radio bent, hearing someone speaking Russian on 5MHz at this time of day in the UK is rare. Hearing them using a double sideband radio is like listening to a museum talking (from a T55 tank). Quite amazing. HM Coastguard Operations must be wondering what they're hearing! #sar

This is absolutely hilarious from #PMQs today. Ayoub Khan MP says rubbish is "building right beneath my very nose" as he looks down at the Reform MPs sitting below him "It's becoming a serious problem in Birmingham"

Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies? This Call for Papers is for you! Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference! Link in the reply.

It has been reported that Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein files 38,000 times. That is a lie. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said that when he searched for Trump in the unredacted files, Trump’s name came up “more than a million times.” We should be calling them “The Trump Files.”

Nigel Farage has just called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance They’ll be suggesting we send kids up chimneys next Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

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Dear Keir You've been given an unbelievable opportunity to reset this government and remember (a) you're Labour and (b) what Human Rights are. Please take it. Yours in forlorn hope A voter

So. The new French vidoconferencing system to replace #Teams, called #Visio is actually called 'La Suite Meet', which sounds a lot more French and could also be a nice piece of Turkish Delight.

By popular demand, we are removing the paywall from this informative and prescient article by @adambienkov.bsky.social from last July's print edition The Myth of Morgan McSweeney subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/75/t...

Don't usually post stuff to do with what I do IRL (radio spectrum management), but this is an interesting insight into my world (not by me) for those of a technical bent, or just bent technically. 🙃 senzafili.com/dna-will-reg...

Time for the Superb owl #superbowl Votive Pot, Vindolanda Owl – PottedHistory share.google/AjODzECExGMo...

A Labour MP tells The House’s Sienna Rodgers McSweeney’s resignation will mean “full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism”. Which sounds good to me, but is also very telling of the beliefs of the faction McSweeney championed.

The Lego reports continue to come in thick and fast. Many thanks to our friends Julian and Jess Tredinnick, who sent us these pictures of their beach clean today at Marazion in Cornwall. "Two bin bags of rubbish hardly made a dent," they told us. "But we did spot some treasure."

This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how. Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

Lots of new people are joining MK 🥳 Welcome to Cllr Talan Blamey, parish councillor in Gorran and new member of MK. Ober da! Proper job. Great to have Talan on board & he's already met with Michael Bunney our party development officer to get more involved 🥳Kernow bys vyken

Politics has now run out of road eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/pol...

Although it may be better to grab a cuppa and watch it from the start on C4+1 in 20 mins. That's what I'm going to do.

We don't want the people who vote for us to vote for us. We want the people who will never vote for us to vote for us. And the people who vote for us - we want them to vote for somebody else, who we basically agree with, but now hate because they're getting more votes. I are an genius at politikz

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

In Wales/Cymru make sure you vote @plaidcymru.bsky.social the only party putting Wales and ALL her people and their prosperity and future first NOT Westminster and it's parasitic tumours and their toxic ideology and divisive, one-sided slave union that serves only England

It is genuinely insane/deeply disingenuous to be calling for the PM’s resignation while red-carpeting Farage into No10. If you’re serious about calling out abuses of power and the undermining of democracy through political corruption, you investigate and expose all of this 👇 too.

Will Trump’s bubble burst with crypto? youtu.be/FWdYlnZy04I?...

How can we maintain the right to hold the powerful to account? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

100% As a veteran techie who deals with these companies daily, I can also tell you that their sales methods are utterly ruthless, it's a battlefield and their products are terrible. They're in this to save themselves, not us.

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy! Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence. Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 488 investigatores antiquitatis nuper carnycem in Icenis effoderunt (Archaeologists recently dug up a war trumpet in Iceni territory). Minimus carnycem suum inflat; Silvius eum iuvat (Minimus blows his own war trumpet; Silvius helps him). @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

The irony is that Trump's right about US electoral interference, but it was all done in his and GOP's favour, and by disinformation campaigns mostly on social media, not by fiddling with counts. Just as it was with the EU referendum in the UK.

Two things. Mandelson being given ambassador job. Utter disgrace. But this type of Shitefull behaviour was an everyday scandalette under Johnson. The current administration still aren’t a patch on the last bunch of inept and corrupt posh boys.

Tech in China. Our new podcast, First episode, let us know what you think in the YouTube comments. Elliot Richards, temporarily known as @handle.invalid and I discuss the latest tech developments and trends from China. youtu.be/fC04DDiVRIk

Growth depends on people having money to spend. Do you need a pay rise? youtu.be/Axr1N93Fq0U?...

Is Starmer over? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02... Of course he is. But that's not the end of the story.

Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.