On budget day, here's a timely reminder of the vital public services we've lost over the past 15 years through government cuts.

The BBC misquotes Trump in a report accusing Panorama of… misquoting Trump. The BBC censors criticism of Trump in a lecture about… the cowardice of elites in standing up to authoritarianism. You couldn’t make it up. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Brexit has turned us into a joke country, economically crippled, diplomatically neutered, power and prestige all but vanished, laughed at and pitied by the rest of the word. Nice work Nigel.

BBC cowed and Donald Trump’s objective achieved.

Absolutely evil man. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

“The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley… have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Nigel only goes in for kind, supportive racial abuse.

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Is it just possible the chasing voters on the far right fringes is not the road to electoral success? Labour, are you paying attention?

Twentieth century fascists tended to be clinical, disciplined and organised. It may be our good luck that their modern iteration are bunch of incompetent ass clowns.

The far right are not patriots. They are traitors and foreign infiltrators. There’s an opening here for a progressive party that wants to show what real patriotism is - and if they are brave enough to take it.

If this grifting, bigoted, fake ‘man of the people’ was subjected to a fraction of the scrutiny regularly applied to other politicians, he would sink without trace. He’s a nasty little nobody who should never have been allowed to achieve such influence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

Brazil shows the rest of the world how to deal with insurrectionists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Communities seeking asylum here - Huguenots, Poles, Jews, Somalis, Ugandans, Syrians, Afghans - have all enriched the UK. They make us what we are. Now Labour intend to terminate centuries of history, pull up the drawbridge and leave us to stagnate in our own bigotry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Compulsory volunteering. That’s a new one.

What they fail to understand is it’s not ‘the trots’ they’ve pissed off, but millions of their natural supporters. People who actually wanted them to succeed, understood the difficulties they face and were prepared, for a long while, to give them the benefit of the doubt. All squandered.

I recently read Kate Atkinson’s (excellent) novel ‘When Will There Be Good News?’. It feels like a very relevant question.

Thanks to months of pitch rolling, the Labour government has now effectively told anyone paying attention that income tax rises are necessary, but they’re not going to do them because they’re politically weak. Let’s see how that plays!

We already knew that the attacks on the BBC are not being made in good faith and that board members are actively trying to undermine their own organisation, but just in case you’re in doubt - here’s the author of the internal report accusing the BBC of doctoring quotes…doctoring the exact same quote

To be very clear - questions of whether Epstein provided compromising information on Trump to Putin - which then in turn explains Trump’s dangerous subservience to Putin - is back on the table.

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

CONFIRMED: the gold snot covering the Oval Office is $58-apiece onlays from Home Depot that have been spraypainted. When Laura Ingraham confronted Trump about this in the Oval—specifically and correctly noting that the tacky garbage was from Home Depot—he lied to her face and insisted it wasn't.

“If public debate lacks shared facts, then it becomes a contest of shouting rather than reasoned argument, and power wins by force or by spectacle rather than persuasion. “The fight for truth is a political struggle: against oligarchic media owners, corporate capture, and authoritarian impulses.”

Are we all now expected to enter this fantasy world in which the BBC is too left wing or do we have the option to retain our sanity and decline?

Remember that traitor Farage’s allegiance, for all his performative, flag waving ‘patriotism’, is not to this country. It’s to himself and the global far right. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Has anyone else noticed how Christmas adverts are all horribly red and orange? It’s giving me a headache.

So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC. Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points! 🧵

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

It’s been an impressive 24 hours in front of the camera for Donald Trump.

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This photo is incredible. It's like a portrait of his soul.

Federal agents using unprovoked violence on peaceful protestors and then repeatedly lying about it. The judge has absolutely eviscerated them.

Utterly damning.

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

“Britain’s minorities are being left to live in fear so that politicians can avoid a little discomfort.” We deserve better politicians. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-f...

The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

When Musk told us he wanted to X to be a haven for free speech, he was knowingly lying, planning all along to use it as a tool for boosting far right extremism. The mainstreaming of open racism and the anti-asylum riots here in the UK haven’t just happened by random chance. X needs to be shut down.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. Built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by immigrants” 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is wrong with this govt? We all knew their pledges on tax were reckless, unnecessary and self harming. This will be a disaster for Labour. It will taint the whole of the remainder of their time in power. There will be no recovery from this.

I was at Rachel Reeves' first speech of the election where she promised not to raise income tax, NI or VAT. She was asked the question in different ways by every journalist in the room, we could not believe she was ruling it out for the whole parliament. It seemed an extraordinary thing to do.

This is so powerful. Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further. vist.ly/4cmrj #NHS #publicownership

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

It’s almost as if the words ‘nasty’, ‘little’ and ‘shit’ were invented specifically for Matt Goodwin.

In Donald Trump's mind, there is only him. He is everything. Everything is his. Everything is about him. Nothing else, no one else, matters. In his own mind, he is the law. Everyone must follow him. He is the only one who gets to say what is right and what is wrong. ...

Every time there is a tragedy now we might as well get used to the fact that we can’t just be left to think about the victims any more. We have to endure this predictable chorus of nauseating buffoons, all yattering away on social media, doing their best to stir up hatred and make things even worse.