This is great work. But this article in particular should be raising eyebrows and a LOT of questions www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

This is crazy. Inside the hall, the Labour Party votes to accept the fact that Netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza. Yet outside the hall, people protesting against that genocide are being arrested because of laws brought in by the Labour Party.

Nathan Gill got caught. Other Putin tools remain at large.

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry. 🔥

But he also embraces the basic Brexit paradigm that leaves the Exchequer £40bn a year worse off from being outside the single market and a customs union. £40bn a year that could have been spent on public services and help heal division. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In fact: in more cases than not, immigration is actually at least part of the answer to address the real issue. So basically: anti-immigration policies constitute a *double negative* - they prevent addressing the real issues by providing the wrong focus and they likely make the real issue worse.

This issue, and Neil Kinnock’s comments, comes up a lot at meetings at the #LabourConference2025 , usually with supportive comments on Neil’s line.

We agree @andyburnham.bsky.social 💯💯 With record support for PR - in Westminster and among the public - a fairer democracy feels firmly within our reach. With election results being less representative than ever, it's never been more urgent. The time for PR is now. #Lab25 #LabourConference2025

Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA

Moldova beat the Russian interference in its election by... 1. Recognising it existed 2. Fighting it. Two things that Britain never did with the Brexit ref. 🇪🇺 🇲🇩

Some really welcome news from Moldova. The lesson, once again: When broadly moderate, liberal voters grasp the magnitude of the danger and unite, they win - and win big. ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

another huge win for Europe tonight! It is now clear: even with votes still to be counted, Moldova has chosen Europe. Maia Sandu and PAS are heading to a decisive majority. Bravo the people of Moldova.

A new poll by YouGov, commissioned by B4B, had found that a majority of people who voted Labour last year have said they think the UK is heading in the wrong direction - and over 3-in-5 of these voters attribute this to Brexit. @emilythornberry.bsky.social Full research: https://bit.ly/4mv524J

So fight them, stop dignifying them, aping them and accepting their framing of the narrative. Push back against their demonization of immigrants, explain why key services would collapse without them and flag up the immense harm Farage’s beloved Brexit has done. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

“Why is Keir Starmer allowing the right wing to set the political agenda with confected crises, rather than engaging with real issues?”

Reading the Sunday papers

BBC reporter Meleri Williams did a good job of confronting former Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill, and asking if he is ashamed for accepting the Russia-linked bribes (apparently not)

Reform… Brexit… UKIP… whatever they call themselves… but essentially - Farage’s outfit - is a traitorous piece of shit operation that routinely risks our national security and has already weakened us beyond all recognition from 10 years ago. Now leading in the polls. Putin is delighted.

Brexit wasn’t a pint of British sovereignty 🍺🇬🇧 It was a Russian cocktail 🍸 mixed with Kremlin influence, US hedge funds, and media moguls. And public got the hangover as elites pocketed the profits. Brexit reality: toxic mix brewed to weaken Britain and Europe. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

Double standards or downright hypocrisy?

↓ Strong argument below ↓.

Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?

It all sounds rather familiar, doesn't it?

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed to be British than I was over the last few days, watching the mango shitgibbon being courted by our government and monarchy like some all-powerful emperor. His crimes, his racism, his hatred of democracy, his support of our enemies... WTF were they thinking?

Russia - The bullying masks the inferiority complex; the insistence on imperial glory conceals the fear that without it, the system will collapse. An excellent article by @johnsipher.bsky.social on the weakness behind Russia's imperial pretensions. tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...

Moscow thinks it can keep its war going. We are making sure it pays the price for it. Today, we present our 19th sanctions package. Every sanction reduces the Kremlin’s ability to wage war. We won’t stop putting pressure on Russia until it ends its war.

28% feel less safe than when Labour got into power.

Would it be too much to ask for the BBC (and others) to cease de-humanising people and call them "people" instead of "migrants"? All of these people are human beings - somebody's daughter, someone's son, sister or brother, somebody's loved one. They have not broken any law and deserve respect.

The UK needs a contingency plan for the very real possibility that the the US ceases to be a functioning democracy within the next year. That has to include accelerated re-integration with the rest of Europe.

Glad to see someone else raise this point.

Labour MPs are cheering on getting deeper into bed with Palantir.

A lot started to go wrong when we ceased to a very large extent to have journalists on TV talking to real people about real life - their lived experiences - but plumped instead for journalists talking to journalists about what their media organisations perceive to be real life.

Rip-off Quarter of the average UK energy bill funds profits. 2010-2025: Privatised energy companies paid £70.7bn in dividends In high winds, turbines turned off as system can't transmit/store electricity. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Many businesses destroyed by high energy bills.

Another one bites the dust... bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/by-elec...

One way to bypass the unwelcome and unnecessary appeasement of Trump by the UK gov. Well done Channel 4.

“Love of British royalty should not be confused with respect for the country’s political system.” Starmer will talk of shared values. “But that would be a polite fiction. In reality, Trump shares values with Farage, leader of Reform and the man who wants Starmer’s job.” www.ft.com/content/37b4...

How Project 2025's Blueprint Links Trump's "Freedom Cities" to Britain's Corporate Coup. Musk's speech at Tommy Robinson's far-right protest was not random, it served the broader project of destabilising democratic institutions to accelerate the free zone agenda. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the Prime Minister to rule out any future contracts the Government could have with Tesla after Elon Musk told protesters to “fight back or die” and that “violence is coming” at the far-right rally over the weekend

Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation. "Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lib Dems now saying that the Government should target Tesla in response to Musk’s call for regime change in the UK. “We need to hit him in the pocket where it hurts,” the source said.

UK Govt must change course. Increase purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. WRONG At the very least abolish VAT on domestic fuel, reduce std rate of VAT, lift personal allowance by £1,000. Shift the cost to the rich.

If this doesn't motivate him, what will? bsky.app/profile/blad...

Violent thugs not patriots

The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s. The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.