Because they can't stop doing the same, stupid, destructive things that makes voters despair.

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is playing with fire. Not only is she handing the reins of the Prudential Regulation Authority to ex-Barclays banker Katharine Braddick. She’s also kowtowing to the finance sector’s demands for weaker regulation. @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Today marks 50 years since the UK ratified the United Nations International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) To read more on our website, visit: www.equality-network.org/50-year-anni...

This utterly ace. Give it a listen. Volume up.

Morning ☀️ Here is the full version of the live performance of ' Sweet Feather & the Storm ' from my album ' LIAR Love Isn't a Right ' ttikaram.lnk.to/LIAR The awesome #cello solo is played by zosiamusic.co.uk Enjoy 🙌☀️❤️ #singersongwriter #livemusic #cellosolo www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bd...

At this point, is the obsessed section of the Scottish press going to demand everyone wear badges with their sex, race, etc?

This.

We’ve been lucky to receive high-profile support since we started our campaign, and we know visibility and vocal allyship matters. It doesn’t come much higher than Sandi Toksvig, who’s done so much for women’s equality and inclusion. Thank you 🙏 notinourname.org.uk

Farage and his money. Farage received £5m from a Thai billionaire, didn't register it with parliament. Claimed it was a gift for his security, later it was for Brexit campaigning. Soon bought £1.4m house for cash. Claimed it was paid with TV show cash. That narrative challenged. archive.ph/N10qn

Very proud of Magdalen student Angus Barrett. And the poem is truly chilling... www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale...

Hey Andy Burham, here's a chance to lead the country and fix the terrible broken stuff that is killing us all. Burnham: er, no. I'll be PM but I'm just going to keep doing crap.

Hampstead Ponds - are you a trans user? I am working with a trans-supporting organisation likely to apply to intervene in the Hampstead Ponds case to ensure that trans and trans supportive voices are heard in the High Court. Trans men would be particular welcome.

A Reform UK Councillor who last week apologised for a single social media post he claimed had been 'misinterpreted' as racist, posted a series of other racist and offensive posts. Messages uncovered by Byline Times shows Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches who will "take over" the country

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Almost zero coverage of the worst anti Muslim hate we have witnessed in the UK in our lifetime. This is deeply concerning and hugely damaging. How the nation responds in these immediate days is vital. A lack of response is the worst possible response.

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine. The Economist's tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023. A massive humiliation for Putin. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

‘Buy me more people and brand them’: the horrific truth about British slave-owning women emerges I talk to the historian who has uncovered the role of women plantation owners. Until now, they were thought of as gilded heiresses. In truth, they were practised sadists In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Record number of UK people turning to crowdfunding to cover rent and household bills. Average real wage hardly changed since 2008. Millions rely on food banks. Healthy life expectancy shrinking. Record number of billionaires. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

The UK and 45 other countries just agreed a deal to send people to camps, including in Rwanda, overturning the one thing less hostile than the Conservatives on asylum, where they are likely to be trapped indefinitely, or sent to countries they are at risk in. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Another troubling read. "It has less in common with political journalism than it does with the kind of puppy-dog prose you’d have found in 1970s annuals dedicated to the qualities of David Cassidy and Donny Osmond." - See also Royals, and faded celebs who tweet negatively about Gary Lineker.

The UK Government today convinced the Council of Europe to weaken Article 3 and Article 8 of the ECHR. We’re horrified at the possible ramifications of this on minorities in the UK. Key points in Friday’s declaration include a statement that the bar for something to be considered

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

Won't someone please think of the billionaires?

Memo to Labour: Andy Burnham is not the messiah, he’s just a very average boy Labour is losing its collective mind as it implodes and putting all their hopes in Burnham saving their skins. It’s not going to happen. Even if he becomes PM it’s too late to save Labour In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

New Zealand got her number:

📌 ICYMI — Ministry of Defence Slammed For ‘Incompetence’ After Sending F35 Jets to Gulf Without Spare Parts The MoD's Permanent Secretary warned of severe staff and equipment shortages, with some of the jets also grounded due to rust

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Since Scotland established South Arran Marine Protected Area, seafloor life has thrived: 3x times more organisms and twice as many species. Europe’s seabeds are so damaged that to find a reference for a healthy ecosystem, researchers used 150-200 year old records. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Folks, I have a journalist looking to link to a piece from a year + ago saying that Starmer's turn on trans rights etc wouldn't help him. I can vouch for the journalist and would be good to link to a trans writer if possible.

If only the victims of 'SLAPPS' were as powerful a lobby as the perpetrators.

I thought this FB post from a retired university lecturer friend of mine deserved wider reading.

NEW | A look at an example of politics’ most self-serving art-form WES STREETING: ANATOMY OF A RESIGNATION LETTER It's all over the media right now, but what does the Health Secretary's self-serving statement really mean? Time for the scalpel... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...

Farage now insisting he is “not and has never been a crook”. Lucky there’s no political history of “I am not a crook” as a line of defence coming back to bite anyone.

Anyway, just so you know, trans people have been biding their time and have now given the command for a Labour meltdown. Streeting was ordered to humiliate himself with a career-ending challenge. Not finished yet with Starmer.

A friend who shall remain Dawn Foster went to university with him and described him as a “right wing lickspittle cunt”, which seems on the money

It impossible to overstate the damage done and deaths caused by Wes Streeting to trans people during his time as Health Secretary. May he rot.

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigns, says he has lost confidence in PM's leadership after pledging loyalty. He shouldn't be allowed to become PM without a proper contest and policies. Streeting has thrived on corporate money, handed NHS contracts to private equity, pushed Labour to the right

The Farage undeclared £5m bung from a dodgy offshore billionaire is THE story of the week and the news that there will be an investigation is a big deal. Editors who are partisan themselves or have bosses who are, are trying to minimise and suppress the story. Don't let them.

The secret £5 million payment to Farage by an overseas billionaire is the most astonishing example of political corruption. Don’t let up.

It was a heavy attack. I'm still shaking, even though we spent the entire time in the shelter. russians erased a block of a residential building in Kyiv, w people still trapped under the rubble. I can't comprehend how anyone living safely in the free world could support this.

Wes Streeting held a meeting with: • Genspect • Bayswater Support Group • CAN-SG • Integrated Psychology Clinic • LGB Alliance • Transgender Trend "To discuss gender policy issues"

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

These new commissioners have been appointed to a deeply discredited, unrepresentative and transphobic body, which many people regard as a *hate group* in its own right. Are they happy to be part of it as it is, or are they going to try and change that?

Delighted to do so

I look forwards to Wes Streeting, the Member for Palantir, resigning as Health Secretary.

I am among 6 new commissioners appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I look forward to contributing to the board's strategic role overseeing the EHRC's work to enforce equality laws + protect human rights, and to helping to renew its relationships www.gov.uk/government/n...

Drought fears in central/southern England, dry April leaves rivers low. 1trn+ litres of water a year lost to leaky pipes, 41.4trn litres since privatisation. Companies paid £85bn+ in dividends. Sewage in rivers. No national grid for water. Investment neglected. People fleeced. Nationalise water.

I'm quite surprised that I hadn't heard sooner that Morgan McSweeney's wife, Imogen Walker, was elected as a labour MP in 2024 with the help of a £10,000 donation from Labour Together and immediately appointed as PPS to Rachel Reeves, and then as Assistant Whip. www.thenational.scot/news/2606038...