Responding to the chancellor’s #Budget2025 speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour. As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.

🫵 We need you. The fight for a wealth tax is heating up. 🔥 📨 Join our mailing list today to hear from Faiza Shaheen, Jake Atkinson & the rest of our team on how you can help us turn pressure into policy. taxjustice.uk/join-the-tax...

Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

European Movement UK polled Britons on how to fund the NHS and public services, and 77% backed joining the Single Market and Customs Union as the best way to bring in the money those services need.

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...

Donald Trump defended Steve Witkoff late last night after a report revealed the US president’s Russia envoy had secretly advised the Kremlin on how to sell a Ukraine deal.

I've never directly called Farage a prick but I can assure you I think he's a prick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost every single societal problem @georgemonbiot.bsky.social refers to in convo with @zackpolanski.bsky.social links back to billionaire hijacking of our Fourth Estate.. We need the #MediaSovereigntyAct to reclaim our media for the 99%. youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...

Here is my eco-populist column in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on how to cut electricity bills for low-income households... @zackpolanski.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

I see right-wing journalists are attacking me again over a wealth tax. Here's a simple fact they never mention: British billionaire wealth has more than DOUBLED since 2010 ▪️2010: £250 Billion ▪️2025: £620 Billion Yet workers' wages have been flat. Tax extreme wealth, not workers!

Can you let me know when Johnson’s trial for gross misconduct in public office/gross negligence manslaughter will be? Just asking for a country beyond sick of having to suffer the consequences of these charlatans and their don’t-give-a-fuck-cos-we-don’t-need-to abuses of power.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

The new evidence is grim: Brexit has made Britain is smaller, poorer and less productive. No wonder Reeves found a black hole in the budget. It’s been carved out by a decade of lost growth of 6-8% - a hit of £180-£240bn - that’s far worse than was predicted.

TLDR: The Rich are holding our government to ransom. We either Tax The Rich (assets, not income) or we will become permanently enslaved to them while they get fatter and fatter. No difference between working class and middle class in this scenario. youtube.com/watch?v=g0lE...

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

#r4today talking about Robbie Gibb and not mentioning his involvement with GB News. As though it's not relevant.

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.

A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon

Public outrage about corruption should become even greater than it was after the Watergate scandal in 1974.

So Osborne's guy basically saying we can't possibly change the status quo as it'll upset the bond markets. The same markets heavily influenced by large corps, the super rich and hostile nations, whom the status quo benefits so bountifully.

Farage engaged in racism and antisemitism but didn’t intend anything as a result. So, not only is he confessing that he’s a racist and an antisemite, he’s also confirming that he’s a fucking idiot.

This is a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation about the purpose of music criticism — much deeper than the headline suggests www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/p...

"The point of the Inquiry was to learn lessons. Are we learning those lessons? Reports come out, they make headlines, people get very angry, but is any money or resource going into systems' reform and preparedness for the next pandemic or the next whatever?"

The BBC is in crisis with many calling for it to be broken up and political attacks at home and abroad - time to save it from interference by partisan elites by putting the public truly at the heart of our public service broadcasting and mutualising it. Democracy not Donald must be its future!

there is a better way forward rooted in Labour values that also ensures control at our borders. That’s why I will be a voice for common sense and compassion on asylum. My article for the guardian here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #trueLabour 2/2

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next? www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT

And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.

No shit, Sherlock!

Christiane Amanpour, "Antisemitism is a major problem. How do you navigate that?" Zack Polanski, "I think it is a powerful message to have a Jewish leader and a Muslim deputy leader" "Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin" "And the best response to hatred is solidarity"

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

Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then.

Art I did for my SA Secret Santa this year, of their cat. Not quite a full piece, but a bit more effort than a daily sketch. Black ballpoint pen on Bristol paper (as of writing, it's STILL in the post, so they don't know about it yet) 🎨🐡 #art #cat

"Far from unleashing a new era of growth and investment, yet more evidence shows how damaging Brexit has been." 🎯 https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/loss-of-business-investment-caused-by-brexit-by-this-year-could-be-between-275-billion-and-400-billion/

Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.

This by @anthonypainter.bsky.social is a really useful reflection on what went wrong with globalisation, what went wrong with its critics, and where we might go from here. (And Im not just saying that because he very kindly mentions my book.) Have a read: anthonypainter.substack.com/p/after-popu...

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

His association with Donald Trump is a *liability* for Nigel Farage - even given that half of the Reform 2024 14% are pro-Trump, once Farage is trying to go beyond his base. Labour is in too fragile a position to prefer the unreachable insatiable Reform base to its own voters or to swing voters

Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.

Have we entered a racism timewarp? Why does X routinely defend the racist abuse that it has a legal duty to remove? A binary choice: must we tolerate the use of "paki" as a racist slur in the Britain of 2025 - or will government act to Make Twitter Lawful Again? www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...

A good day to resurrect this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEA...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA