The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

If this was any other party it would instantly be the BBC’s top news story

Reform, ladies and gentlemen. There is no level too low. If they ever take power people will die Wake the fuck up before it’s too late

This isn’t someone expressing ‘legitimate concerns’ about immigration, it’s out and out extreme racism. The fact they knew about these comments and let her stand anyway tells you everything you need to know about Reform.

Scottish Reform candidate who backed deporting all Muslims elected MSP

The Scottish people have spoken … and now Westminster will ignore our voice A pro-independence majority will be elected once again in the Scottish Parliament. And once again, London will deny a referendum This is a democratic outrage and it must be resisted My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Thoroughly depressing stuff

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

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BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

This is absolutely astonishing. Offord didn't know that most sex crimes are committed by men known to their victims, and Kerr thought Scottish police didn't collect statistics on the ethnicity of the perpetrators

The State Department has finalized a plan to put a picture of Donald Trump in passports. A portrait of an actual president has never been featured in a passport before, let alone a living one in office. This is dictator stuff.

‘There’s evidence the BBC is biased’ I talk to the nation’s leading academic expert on the media about government interference in news reporting from the Middle East to Scottish independence; the ‘ideological conformity’ that favours big business and collapsing trust In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Offord on the telly again talking about getting '800,000 economically inactive people back to work'. High time journalists start properly interrogating this abject nonsense. bsky.app/profile/step...

Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

We could've phased out fossil fuels the gradual, smart and painless way starting in the 1990s The fossil fuel industry decided we have to do it the painful, unfair and cruel way instead. because that gave them an extra few decades of super-profits

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EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish Reform UK candidate hiked the rent on a men’s mental health charity causing them to quit their tenancy, The National can reveal 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/25951826.scottish-reform-candidate-hiked-rent-peterhead-charity/

One of Reform UK's Holyrood candidates has been banned from acting as a company director after he diverted tens of thousands of pounds from a taxpayer-backed Covid loan into his personal account. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2595266...

Christian right-wing figures espousing misogynistic views are gaining a disturbingly large following of young men, including in the UK

I’ve written a bestselling book about it & still despair at everything described in this excellent thread.

'To hell with America for that, and to hell with its filthy war, and to hell with those Brits who would betray our national interests in their bid to grovel at the feet of a wannabe global tyrant' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @neilmackay.bsky.social

There seems to be widespread denial about just how extreme Reform is From setting up a British ICE to ‘undoing the sexual revolution’ this is an extreme policy platform - and one clearly inspired and influenced by Trump’s US and its outriders

There was a complaint from a young woman at GB News about Matt Goodwin's behaviour. Farage knew about it before the by-election selection. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There are plastic particles in the brains of everyone on the planet yet every year the amount being produced and dumped into the environment goes up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Plants like CO2 Plants don't like droughts, floods, fires, unseasonal frosts or being out of sync with their pollinators, which excess CO2 causes This intelligent man knows all this, but he's using his platform to lie because he owns a coal mine So much worse than genuine denialism - it's evil

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Great job opportunity here for an experienced Project Manager looking for a new challenge . Fantastic team doing really innovative work to address health inequalities

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

Elon making plans to go to Epstein's island:

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

Wow -- incredible!!!

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Reform’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection will be Matthew Goodwin. James Bloodworth profiled the controversial right-wing populist last year, calling him a “morbid symptom of the digital age”:

Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed. The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media. Beware.

Can’t stop thinking about what we will happen closer get to elections in 2026 - and even more importantly in 2028 - that MAGA will be on course to lose

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

WHO removing Us Flag

A National Security Assessment highlighted nature as a national security risk earlier this week. Yet yesterday’s Habitats Regulations report shows many of England’s most important habitats are rapidly declining. Just 3% are in good condition. And half are in an unfavourable and worsening state 🧵

This could have been the lead story from every news organization in the country if any of them cared that the president is deeply racist.

Blistering thread.

Freedom of speech except for when reporters are asking awkward questions apparently

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.

Fox News is going all-in on manufacturing consent to murder liberal white women: