"When Nigel Farage angrily denounced the BBC and insulted one of its presenters for raising questions about his alleged schoolboy racism, those who have been studying the tactics of the right noted that his behaviour felt familiar."

Hear, hear!👏👏✨ I’d add onto this - Ban all overseas donations to UK parties & individual MP campaigns, no matter the amount! Remove from UK politics lobby companies, think tanks & any wealthy individual, especially living overseas, from influencing & interfering in UK politics!☹️

Streeting and Starmer can bugger off. Support the NHS properly, especially for MH, and people are encouraged to work. Without support it's little wonder people can't face the daily stress work places on an already difficult condition. It'll come down to data they can flog off to private companies.

Farage and Johnson supporter, Harborne, also has a 12% stake in this company which is being investigated for facilitating Putin's Russia to evade sanctions and launder money. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The fact a cryptocurrency investor living in Thailand, who owns private aviation companies gives Reform UK £9 million tells you everything you need to know about what sort of policies and country Farage’s backers want from him. One that serves them, not the masses. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

"Against this tide, the Greens under Zack Polanski stand out, already facing heavy fire from the establishment for campaigning to tax wealth over £10m and resisting billionaire‑funded propaganda from Farage’s #Reform, which thrives on othering the vulnerable and dividing society." #EU #UK #WealthTax

What a recommendation! Thank you @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & @rory-stewart.bsky.social both for recommending the podcast AND backing @the-citizens.bsky.social campaign for an inquiry into Russian interference in UK politics 👊👊👊

Russian money flowing through from right wingers of the media owners straight to Reform. Yeah let’s talk about Rachel Reeves playing chess at 14 instead. Fck me what a country.

#Farage #Reform #racism Nigel Farage's Reform lands one of Britain's biggest ever political donations ground.news/article/nige...

William Blackstone called juries “the principal bulwark of our liberties”. Now David Lammy, the justice secretary, wants to curtail them. What should we make of his plans? I explore the past, present and future of jury trials in this week’s Economist: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

🔴Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War Chest as ‘Billionaires Wait in the Wings’ to Back Nigel Farage for PM The self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ party took almost four times more from big money donors last quarter than any of their rivals bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/r...

Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.” bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

Excellent in-depth article about the negative externalities of big cars & what governments are doing about it by @theothebald.bsky.social. A really good read. #EconSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data” www.euronews.com/business/202...

The EU Parliament's JURI Committee just released "The Economics of Copyright and AI", written by @cpeukert.bsky.social It recommends a statutory licensing scheme for compensation of creators whose works are used in AI training. #copyright #ai #econsky www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Epstein was small potatoes compared to Meta. Disgusting! “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly testified. SHUT DOWN YOUR META ACCOUNTS!

Crashing the economy, death & deportation is the Dark Enlightenment plan. theplotagainstamerica.com www.authoritarian-stack.info www.vcinfodocs.com

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.

To make it even more on the nose, Sir Oswald Mosley’s grandson Louis works for Palantir… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are we in a game of chicken to see how far a handful of freaks can push things until we bring back consequences and / or guillotines? How have we hyper-normalized them saying this shit out loud in public?

@thanedar.house.gov, thank you for being willing to stand up for human rights, even if some of your party isn’t willing to stand beside you. This is the kind of leadership we’re looking for - Representatives that will hold Trump’s regime responsible for actual murder.

ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country" Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB

Juries are not just part of our legal system — they are vital defenders of the right to protest. With anti-protest laws still in place, I asked the Government what risks getting rid of jury trials will have on our democracy. #RightToProtest #Democracy

Seeing through Hegseth’s blame-shifting as he drives the bus over admiral Bradley

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

An alarming account of how dynamic-pricing algorithms undermine #affordability in gasoline, groceries, and more. In housing, AI tools advised landlords to price apartments above market rate and leave them empty rather than reduce rents. An urgent call for AI policy! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive? Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy? Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet? We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.

It’s done much worse than harm our economy. It’s destroyed our society. Brexit was a Pandora’s Box of racism, English entitlement, hatred and intolerance. We now have snarling, pseudo Nazis attaching flags to lampposts, in displays of scent marking ‘patriotism’. All curated by NF and his Reform UK.

Disturbing! Libby added a new AI feature to recommend books. The top rec under “political manipulation and historical revisionism” is by an oligarch shill and 2020 election denier. Libby is an app for people to borrow ebooks from their local public library. #booksky #disinformation #ai

Would this goddamn bubble burst already so this planet can have a rest from these freaks. They're literally ruining everything and our governments are tripping over themselves to institute this bullshit into everything. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching this continue to inflate.

"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social #NYT

So often the story on climate leaves us in despair. But for Prof Jules Pretty, there's plenty of good news after COP30. Solar costs are plunging, EV adoption is soaring and countries choosing renewables are saving billions. The story is turning. Read the good news here ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

"Wildflower Habitats Are Disappearing Fast" via Soft Step

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

The War on Christmas is not a fight against Christianity, tradition, or joy—it’s a battle against billionaires and corporations who believe obscene wealth entitles them to buy policy, widen income inequality, and push the rest of us into servitude. Your wallet is your weapon. Use it wisely.

It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

“Critics have likened Jack the Ripper’s approach to the mass murder of women, while others have chalked it up to the cost of women existing at night in Whitechapel.” Media in the United States is completely broken. A crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. Media cowardice is media cowardice.

“commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck” “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive..’The order was to kill everybody,’ one of them said” We are being governed by psychopaths

As I posted in August on the other place… Still thinking about (& waiting for *any* journalist to ask about): Trump’s claim that heads of other countries are “getting rid of non-productive people” — a plan he called “brilliant for them” — and what he meant when he said “so would I”…..????👇

Pope Leo's envoy to the United States is raising the alarm on JD Vance’s political ideology — warning it’s authoritarianism disguised as religion.

Read this. A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets

Another inexplicably vague headline I now must fix. Well, here we go. (📢) BREAKING NEWS: America to Launch Illegal Unilateral War Against Venezuela At Any Moment; Invasion By Land to Commence "Very Soon" to Distract American Voters From Trump-Epstein Pedophilia Scandal

Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indeed. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference. Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.

A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.