In little over 24 hours, the petition for government to stage a UK-wide briefing on the climate & nature crisis has passed the 10,000 milestone. Please help us get this to 100,000 to secure a parliamentary debate - by sharing widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated James Sidlow has resigned as a councillor. That’s 30 in 3 weeks.

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

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As a Russian drone hits a civilian building in NATO member state Romania, everyone's wondering about NATO's response. Today, there'll be much consultation behind the scenes, no doubt. I wish I had more confidence in NATO head Rutte, but his pandering to Trump has been unconvincing, to say the least.

What do Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon and Tommy Robinson have in common? All funded by the same network of US tech billionaires #techbroligarchy Al Jazeera's Mohamed Hassan dives into the shady financial network of Europe's far-right. #PinchPoint @aljazeera.com

It's #buyastrangerabook day. Yes it is. And @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £15! If there's something in particular you're after, let us know! UK only

Hey. here's another #buyastrangerabook day offer. It's half-term this week, and @jenillustrates.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a kids book up to £10. So if you'd like a particular book for a kiddo, just let us know and I'll post it to you courtesy of Jen. UK only.

My Dad passed away in 2010 (I still miss him 💔) . I remember him once saying to me of our family home: "When I bought this house I could walk to a grocers, bakers, butchers and newsagent. Now I have to drive to a supermarket, and they call it progress." 16/22

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

Reform's plan: sack 450 planning officers to make planning more efficient. Small problem: there are only 445 planning officers in the whole country. So they're going to employ 5 more, just to sack them? Or maybe they're just idiots. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So it's already started.... excellent point made by the Green Leader, if the council can now fly the "flag of a saint born in Anatolia, why can we not also continue to fly the flag showing our solidarity with Ukraine?"

This record being surpassed by a full 2 degrees is frightening. The BBC may be doing its usual vox-pop bullshit and claiming the temps are "glorious", but if you're not alarmed you have not been paying full attention. This is nothing to celebrate.

Overtime rates will disappear and a flat rate 60 hour working week will be normalised.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

💔 Ukrainian business that can't be broken An hour after the strike Yevhen opened his café in Podil and was already back serving coffee despite blown-out windows His mum offers sweets to everyone who comes in Ukrainian business today: under shelling, but for ppl. Hogo café, 6 Spaska Street, Kyiv

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May 2026 has been a month of endless humiliations for Putin. This is what the Kremlin does to try to cover up for it: engage in terrorism. A 🧵about Putin's nightmare month. bsky.app/profile/savc...

NEW Stewart Lee column Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Well...very low visibility and fog as far as the eye could see this morning on Glastonbury Tor. The sun was trying to break through but didn't quite manage it before I had to leave.

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

“Be kind to people.. not because they’re nice But because you are “- Stephen Colbert

“A Reform UK councillor who vowed to try and address anti-social behaviour and "people feeling unsafe" during her campaign was convicted of assault four months before the local elections.”

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

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My cotoneaster and side show bob!

Iran as a distraction from the Epstein files, Cuba as a distraction from Iran, then what next: Greenland a distraction from a Cuba disaster?

After auctioning Late Night Show memorabilia, Stephen Colbert raised nearly $2.5 million for @wck.org and the humanitarian efforts of José Andrés and chefs feeding victims of war and disasters around the world. 👏🕊️❤️ latenighter.com/news/late-sh...

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

The UK government: We're with Ukraine for as long as it takes. The "it" in this sentence apparently being "realising we're actually more worried about people having their holidays cancelled".

May 19, 2026

Oh dear fucking god…

A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

Reform UK Gone Since the Local Elections Dr David Bull has been sacked as Chair.

💩Then it was discovered those fees were still in his company accounts when the house was bought 💩And says an enquiry is unnecessary, becuse we can trust him www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

💩Then said the £5m secret overseas donation was a reward for campaigning for Brexit 💩Then denied he'd bought the house using that money 💩Then said he used appearance fees from I'm A Celebrity to buy the house

💩Then claimed he didn't need to show where his partner got the funds 💩Then said he took a secret £5m donation to pay for the security he didn't need because he wasn't doing constituency work 💩Then admitted the security service DIDN'T tell him not to do constituency work

The neverending story of Nigel, his house and money: 💩Said he bought his Clacton house himself 💩Then said he didn't need to do constituency work because security services told him not to 💩Then claimed his partner bought the house

Why don't you like the flags everywhere Jane? Well, it's because of people like Tommy Robinson and the rest of Britain's Worst wrapping their hate in national symbols to divide us, and I'm really tired of them pretending this is ok. It's not.

This is absolute quality. #ChooseLove

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So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When I was young, I was poor. After years of hard work...I am no longer young.

Reposting this one. Level playing field anyone? You’ve got to be kidding me! In a nutshell. #embroidery #angelarayner

This leadership shit, even now, is still not as important as the fact that FIVE MILLION QUID HAS BEEN PAID TO THE LEADER OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST POLITICAL PARTIES

In today’s Russian papers: new restrictions on reporting drone attacks, new rules for expelling foreigners, new local governors, new data shows financial situation worsens for ¾ of large Russian industrial companies. The joke at the end is about old lifts. #ReadingRussia

Wes Streeting tomorrow morning:

There are quite a few unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offers today. I have more to offer too. Look, it's not a "repost & follow for a chance to win" thing. Just ask for any of the books on offer, and I'll send you the book (if nobody else hasn't already asked). So check it out. UK only