How do we fix this mess?

Quite objectively, this is one of the best political adverts I've seen in England for several years. The concept, the tone, the images, the length, the music, the message ... All are perfectly constructed. 👏👏👏

Splendid. As all broadcasters should be doing Same with Musk as Trump likes to use the State to leverage untrammelled power to the tech bros - esp Musk

“As long as humans continue their futile battle against the physics of the ecosystem, they will ultimately always be a casualty of that ecosystem” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡 Free Palestine! Free the 6 counties!

No drama Starmer getting shit done at home and away. You can’t imagine another UK political leader speaking confidently on the global stage like him because they’re just third rate wannabes. Let’s start now with some well earned respect for our PM. He’s done good for UK.

This posse to the White House has a very "Birnam Wood to Dunsinane" feel about it. They've definitely had enough of McTrump's bullshit! Zelensky will be flanked at the White House by von der Leyen (EU), Macron (France), Merz (Germany), Meloni (Italy), Stubb (Finland), Starmer (UK) and Rutte (NATO).

We have every reason to wish to dismantle an economic system which has become an existential threat. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

> @governor.ca.gov

An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.

International embarrassment.

we need this on uk tv asap

Hope your listening @KeirStarmer @labouruk.bsky.social 'Without a big reset, then the keys to Number 10 are being handed to Reform and Nigel Farage.' leftfootforward.org/2025/08/labo...

Since when do we do crossings numbers to include two summers? Do you remember that being a metric for any other government? No, neither do I. ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So fighting for Freedom makes one a terrorist? Bollocks - bad laws are meant to be broken 😡

She won and we are living in hell, for what reason?

Renationalise Water. Spread the message!

It’s more than three months now since the government was defeated in the Court of Appeal in its attempt to curb our right to protest. It should now be reviewing all arrests made under these unlawful powers @libertyhq.bsky.social youtu.be/vbQxagbctoc?...

Starmer has an election trump card that literally nobody is talking about It would turn the contest on its head. A 2nd referendum on EU membership would be audacious, risky & guaranteed to dominate the campaign. It would give Labour something it desperately lacks, a defining, future-shaping offer.

Arresting Quakers, former Guantanamo inmates, blind disabled activists... This is the largest political mass arrest since the Poll Tax Riots 35 years ago. A government for nobody, hated by everyone, cowering behind a thin blue line. Pathetic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another Brexit benefit is coming soon. From October, it's going to be much more painful to travel to the EU. What fun! The real question is, will the queues be visible from space? (If Britain were still an EU member, the new rules wouldn't apply to Brits.) www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Brexit dividend: our swimming waters are MUCH more polluted than any EU country's because we no longer have to follow EU environmental law since Brexit so water companies can get away with just about anything. (Just one of many pesky EU rules Brexiters hated.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Response from Sadiq Khan’s @london.gov.uk office. ~AA

Dear U.K. Labour. The fact that VPNs can easily bypass large parts of the Online Safety Act is *not* a reason to ban VPNs. It’s a reason to rethink the Online Safety Act. We did tell you. Many times. Don’t throw good money after bad.

Petition: Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Why the UK economy depends on migrants youtu.be/kp7pDedYWEo?... As boomers retire, there aren’t enough young people born in the UK to replace them. That’s why migrants are stepping in — and why we need them. In this video I show how migration supports our economy, pensions, and future security.

Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?

"If East Anglia Bylines can find the evidence that the protests in Epping and Diss are merely organised right wing thuggery, how is it the rest of the media haven’t done so?"

No. It isn’t “absolutely right” These protests are the result of endless disinformation and a wholly prejudiced debate on immigration as well as govts’ refusal to take responsibility for their own failure to support communities, clear the backlogs and argue firmly for the benefits of immigration.

In case anyone from USA doesn't understand why Scotland doesn't like Trump... and this was way back around 2006. You hurt one of us, you hurt all of us.

She gets my vote for world leader...

London's crime rate now is half of what it was in 1990 and nearly a quarter of 1975. But all Farage has is BS and lies.

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, has revealed what he thinks is the best line of attack on Nigel Farage. It seems fairly obvious, but the answer to stopping Farage’s rise, he says, is attacking him on Brexit. leftfootforward.org/2025/07/alas...

Two things happened today... 1) The UK brought in draconian new laws requiring adults to identify themselves online (or at a minimum prove their age) 2) The IDs of millions of women who used the Tea app leaked. If you can't see why 1) is bad when given the evidence of 2), there's no helping you.

The GOP is shutting down Congress to avoid revealing evidence that the President is a r*pist. This cannot stand.

No one who voted for Labour voted for this. Peaceful protest is our hard-won historic right. Getting arrested for holding up a non-offensive sign is something you expect from Putin's Russia. There's no difference here between Yvette Cooper, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel. Totally undemocratic.

As TN State Rep Justin Jones reminds us, our elders and ancestors in the fight for equality were fighting for us. Now, it is our job to fight for the next generation and the generations to come after that. Join the fight in your community.

We need Columbo on this one

BREAKING: Trump says he will sue Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal because they published a letter that Trump allegedly sent to Epstein. NOTE: This is what authoritarians do to squash free speech and truth.

I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour. Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines. The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering. The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.

Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.