Farage dictated government policy under the Conservatives. Now he's dictating government policy under Labour. When will the UK get a political leader with the courage to stand up to this aristo-populist demagogue?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Be more muppet

What I don't get about McSweeney is that he seems to hate most Labour members, most Labour MPs and most of the people who actually voted Labour or want to vote for it. Why is he there? Why does he seem so unable to accept that it's not the wider Labour movement that's the issue in this, it's him?

🔴 TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop ‘Slippery Slope’ Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics Paul Nowak tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’ on migration, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash from Labour MPs over her asylum plans

Farage, Glasman, Bannon, Thiel, Yarvin, these people are all interlinked. Labour is way too close with the Trump gang. They love to show off how close they are, as if this will show how statesmanlike they are to the public, but we see how polluted the party now is.

Another holiday shot of the beautiful hoopoe. Almeria 🇪🇸 #birds🪶 #birdphotography #Naturephotography #birdsSeenIn2025 #NatureTherapy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaz... I first heard this song in an English translation, by the Lagan at St Andrews Folk Club in 1983-84… Love it.

Mexico might consider regaining occupied territories… commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Me...

If this is true, I have questions… For starters, what is it that all fascists seem to have in common…?

The cost of chasing capital: how our cities are forgetting their own Focus on private foreign investment is killing local enterprise, an organic renewal of homegrown business leads the way forward By Mike Chitty @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @mikechitty.bsky.social

If Labour stop pandering to arseholes and start doing things that can make a difference they might have a chance. The window is closing fast though. What I hear about the budget suggests the window will be closed before Christmas.

The Economic Impact of Brexit even worse than previously thought says an American study www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Portraying weakening the European Convention on Human Rights as the answer to the issues society faces is extremely dangerous. It opens the door to us one day leaving the ECHR altogether

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What's missing from the immigration debate - apart from any shred of compassion or decency - is the fact that Brexit ended the system which enabled returns to other countries in Europe. Along with lack of safe routes, Brexit is the biggest driver of small boat crossings. Please remind the Brexiteers

Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"

Really good to hear Stella Creasy on @newsagents.bsky.social saying students should be removed from immigration figures. Of course they should! And they make up a huge chunk of the figures - around half. They’re part of the success story of global Britain - coming here to get a great education.

Cannot express how disgusted I am with Blueshirt Labour… Farage introduced Glasman to Bannon. Let that sink in. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...

Marvellous!

You don't defeat "dark forces" by embracing them. Mahmood's proposals for refugees in particular completely ignore the fact that people - especially children - have lives that grow and evolve. For some "home" may become safe, but may no longer be home. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Yorkshire Photo of the Day - Autumn in Beverley.

My take on the BBC/Trump controversy in today's Yorkshire Post.

The Rejoin EU Party 🚨A Brexiter Reminder: 1.James Dyson – moved to Singapore 🇸🇬 2.Jacob Rees-Mogg – opened his business in Ireland 🇮🇪 3.Nigel Lawson – applied for French residency 🇫🇷 4.Farage – tried for a German passport🇩🇪 Give Us A 🔥 Hell Yeah 🔥 if you want to Stay Fight Rejoin.

“From Moscow’s perspective, the UK is more isolated than at any time since 1914 and can be picked off” #Brexit is a crime www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Bannon is a pal of Farage & of Lord Glasman. McSweeney is Glasman's protégé.

Here's the latest data on what Brexit has done to the UK economy ... GDP down 6% – 8% INVESTMENT down 12% – 18% PRODUCTIVITY down 3% – 4%

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youtu.be/sPt8EvpZWF8?... Interesting mix. Not heard this in years.

60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’ www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

Refugee rights are not linked to your value to the economy, they are linked to your inalienable value and rights as a human being.

I can't see this as a Labour government. The LP died when Starmer & McSweeney decided it should take on board the cruelty, bigotry, & incoherence of both the Tories & Reform. Maybe it will rise again, but not in my lifetime, I'm in my 70s.

Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept www.der-postillon.com/2019/11/pizz...

Don’t know who did this, but it’s a legitimate question. 🤣

The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.

Spain, an EU member, has, as I'd often said, the second highest number of bodies (+120000) in "known" mass graves after Cambodia. But, often forgotten, we we don't know how many in mass graves from Maoist China, Stalinist Russia, Suharta's massacre of Indonesian Communists, Congo etc

If you see this, share a redhead… Can't ignore the von Elphbergs/Rassendylls! @romgothsam.bsky.social @nickdaly.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social

@mlinton.bsky.social @petermcphee.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @ser-1789.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social Extremely useful, esp for analysing portraits. The chapter on mourning dress is esp good!

Choked on my coffee 😂

Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget Wealth hoarding is a pandemic. Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋 📍 Brixton

Current state of Labour: Authoritarian ✅ Anti-immigration to the point of being racist ✅ Alienation of minorities ✅ Performative punishment of the poor/sick/disabled ✅ Appeasing the far right ✅ Bowing to corporatism ✅ Wrap it up any way you want, Starmer has turned Labour into a Fascist endeavour

Labour 👋 Drop the immigration red meat. Come out of the darkness. Sack your advisors. This should be really easy. You could even make the UK a nice place to live.

Looks like a vicious racist home secretary to me, following and out-competing tory vicious racist home secretaries. Talks like one too. UK government is a complete horror show. Why not join @greenparty.org.uk for intelligent and compassionate politics? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quelle surprise... Steve Bannon was secretly collaborating with convicted sex offender Epstein to build the MAGA movement I vaguely remember the same people telling us the Democrats were part of global cabal of child molesters

After almost 40 years of voting primarily for whoever might keep the Tories out locally, I think I can now say I will never vote Labour again until the people responsible for the current abominations are thrown out of the party. What would be the point of encouraging them?