Imagine if this was a Labour or Tory MP. These Reform grifters still get treated like exotic celebs rather than politicians

This is a good read … well done Ed Miliband. Just needs to go a bit further to support rural homes reliant on oil for central heating in homes unsuitable for heat pumps.

He actually posted this. I went on twitter to check. Maybe he meant it as a joke?

Yes, Reform is slipping in the opinion polls, including YouGov’s, says mark pack open.substack.com/pub/theweeki...

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

These are the latest estimates from Paris. GRÉGOIRE - 36.5% DATI - 24.9% CHIKIROU - 13.7% BOURNAZEL - 11.8% KNAFO - 9.7% MARIANI - 1.5% CHAUVEL - 1% SAULNIER - 0.7% PIEROT-GUIMBAUD - 0.2% If correct, Grégoire has overperformed with Dati & Knafo underperforming. A rejection of the hard right.

To which the only response is "good'

NEW: Britain in standoff with Brussels over demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, with row threatening to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset. @kiranstacey.bsky.social reports 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

it’s patriotic to pay taxes, it’s unpatriotic to whisk your wealth away overseas where it won’t pay teachers, feed children, fix potholes, keep streets clean, maintain the security services who investigate Russian bribery etc etc etc

Poor old Jim 🎻

I regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.

“About a third of the global seaborne trade in fertilisers passes through the strait of Hormuz” Time to plant more peas, beans & other nitrogen-fixing legumes, and cut down on excess fertiliser applications - which are also killing rivers & wildflowers: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Schiff: "We are now giving Russia $140 million a day by releasing them from these sanctions when Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to better attack and kill American troops. It is rewarding Russia and punishing Ukraine."

Weird thing about the banknote furore: there is *nothing* more British than preferring animals to people.

My favorite part was when the guy who killed 170 kids in Minab said he bombed only military installations on Kharg Island, and avoided oil facilities there "for the sake of decency" It was one of those moments when you find yourself thumbing through Dante to remind yourself how many levels Hell has

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

WELKER: If you were prepared, why is the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed right now? CHRIS WRIGHT: Because it's right near the Iranian shoreline

Mind you, thanks to Katie Stebbins on The Old Place, we do know that he gave the world this, which she described as “cinema’s greatest minute”, and which is, indeed, unimpeachable

Greatest League In The World update

Happy Mothering Sunday!

I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

You start a war, the consequences are on you.

Americans should choose the next president by lottery. Advantages: 1. Saves $billions in money & time. 2. Democratic: everyone has an equal chance of power. 3. Gives a 99.9%+ chance of getting a better president than the current one.

Okay but hear me out: A nighttime café in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, free pastry samples are served to all who enter, the walls are adorned with van Gogh paintings, there are emotional support black cats roaming about, and Edgar Allan Poe readings occur during every full moon.

Am in Edinburgh and I have ordered a latte with oot milk, as is the law.

For £1295, you too can look like a pub carpet.

Day 2232 of #Brexit: ‘British dual nationals who are EU citizens with post-Brexit settlement status in the UK will not have to use a British passport to return to the UK, the Home Office said in a significant U-turn on its controversial dual national border rules’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

ReformUK's Policy for Women. #Twatzis

📌 ICYMI — The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/13/the-oil-lobby-is-using-the-iran-war-to-revive-north-sea-drilling-but-official-data-shows-it-wont-cut-bills/

Hard to believe this guy bankrupted a casino /s

Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

Well, if it’s 15 March, we could commemorate the 2,070th anniversary of the doing in of Julius Caesar... or we could note that it’s 70 years since My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, and use that as an excuse to trot out one of the finest of all theatrical anecdotes... 🧵

Not sure this thread is visible to everyone so I’ll post my bit of it here; it’s the story of How I Made It Up With James Blunt:

Mic drop

What the hell has this imbecilic US President started? Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. – Bruce Springsteen www.politico.eu/article/iran...

They’re handing out illegal 30-round AR-15 magazines outside Virginia’s Capitol. With children in line. This isn’t patriotism. It’s adults using kids to normalize weapons of war in open defiance of a law Virginians fought for. “Come and take it?” You just handed it to a child. I’m so angry. 😤

It feels like the Lib-Dems have lost the chance of being 'the third way', given that they don't have a visibly coherent raft of policies. One thing I think may be inevitable (crossing all digits) is PR. It might be the only way Labour gets a part in the next parliament - as part of a coalition.

Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.

Biographer of (inter alia) Nye Bevan takes voters for fools.

Apparently, it's only a war crime if white people are the victims.

What’s the word I’m looking for?

The crisis in local govt finances touches every corner of the country - and the new funding settlement will be particularly damaging in inner London. This morning at Conference I spoke on our Lib Dem plan to sort it out - so that everyone can rely on a sustainably funded, active local council.

Love this

This is very nice to hear. For those who don't want to sign in Instagram:

It’s very odd that Netanyahu hasn’t been seen in public for days considering he started the war.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

An actual post by the sitting President of the United States. 🤬

"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.