Today I will mostly be trying to bribe people with cheap petrol, in the hope that they will forget that I have been cheering on the orange idiot whose war is pushing up fuel prices.

Today I am taking time to remember the hundreds of thousands of people in Britain who lost their lives in the pandemic, and to pay tribute to all those in the NHS and public health fields who worked tirelessly to manage the disease and save lives. #CovidDayofReflection

Women are too often dismissed when it comes to their health told it’s “anxiety”, “your age” or “all tests are normal” #LongCovid is following a pattern many women already know. Women living with Long Covid deserve to be heard, believed and supported. #IWD2026 #NoMoreGaslighting

Something the Government want you to forget...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Farage is like a failed football manager, Club backed by foreign billionaires Failure in Europe, so keeps plugging away in England Has a gang of misfits in the club, who are only there for the money and will jump ship as soon as they can, And has a support base of those dreaming of sunny uplands.

He’s right!🤔⬇️

You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.

Ban Second Jobs for MPs. MPs should do their jobs and represent you on a full time basis as they are elected to do. Since mid '24 Nigel Farage has been revealed to have pocketed over £1 million from his side hustles. Let's stop this. Sign here 👇 act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-seco...

Worth noting - because professional services firms try to stay out of the media - this "multi-year, multi-million-pound investment by PwC" in Palantir. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Denmark's best weapon

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead Pic of the day #photography

If he thinks he got the Peace Prize but we all know he didn’t, can we just give him a scale model of Greenland with some sort of PowerPoint certificate?

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

The reason Gold Bullion Direct paid Farage over £400,000 is because they know his followers are really gullible. But this comment is particularly ridiculous. If I'm out walking a dog & it starts chasing wildlife, I control it. I don't encourage it to chase things down and rip them to pieces.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

You don't want to share this, because it will upset Nigel Farage.

English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.

“400 million people around the world have experienced long COVID, not to mention the millions of people living with ME/CFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness, and other IACIs—and more people are getting sick every day,” says David Putrino, PhD, the Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center. “

Listen to this American still working 40 hours a week when he's 88 because his wife got sick and he had to sell his house. This is what they want to do in the UK.

BOOM!! 100,000 signatures! Now let’s have a date for the debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Farage's great political achievement was to get the BBC to normalise the politics of the NF and BNP. Reform are identical to these fascist parties of old but their treatment by the media is totally different. Our peace and security is being pissed away by idiots.

Richard Tice publicly sticks to Reform’s police that renewable power is a “massive con” and supports its plan to tax solar farms. But behind the scenes, he just can’t stop installing solar panels in his businesses… www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

Jamie Raskin, who I’ve never heard of before but now has my regard. Talking about farage. Good words.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

A reminder that you can listen to the newsletter as a podcast if you prefer using your ears to your eyes. This morning I got a little bit worked up.

Be afraid

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice.bsky.social

87% of musicians report financial losses, with average EU tour earnings down 45%. For 59% of UK musicians, touring in the EU is no longer viable. This is not just a blow to income; it’s a cultural and soft power loss. Without European access and exposure, young UK artists are less visible abroad...

Nigel Farage is either 'deliberately lying' or 'extremely stupid' for promising to reopen coal mines and restart blast furnaces, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

This is an extremely important point ⬇️

Over on Twitter, Grok's owning the Brexit knuckle-draggers...

More trouble for Starmer on the way - for as Boris Johnson showed, a large absolute majority is worth little if you can't convince your ministers and MPs to back you:

this opinion column dissects a 2024 study that concludes chronic fatigue patients just don’t wanna. “effort preference”, not fatigue, is why we struggle. i am weeping because more doctors are going to read & believe the malformed study than the column dissecting it. more dismissal & gaslighting.

Born in the decade after WW2 we had many advantages, gifted to us by the sacrifices & collective values, of our parents’ generation. My wealth came through hard work, luck, but also a supportive state. I should be paying back. Rachel Reeves should be taxing me more...

Nigel Farage wants to dismantle our NHS and replace it with this ... meme via Clare Underhillhead

DAILY MIRROR: Reviving community spirit: How All Souls church defies Keir Starmer's 'island of strangers' narrative and fosters unity across Bolton’s diverse neighbourhoods. - by Ros Wynne Jones, Claire Donnelly

The ultimate irony of halving net immigration numbers: You can do it without reducing small boats crossings at all!! This is Nigel Farage’s immigration doom-loop & Starmer is up to his neck in the death trap like the Tories before him 🤦‍♀️