An affordability crisis is sweeping the US, as high prices of food, rents and healthcare force lower-income Americans to cut back on necessities just as the Trump administration curbs government supports. on.ft.com/48gJPqm

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...

The BBC belongs to the public, not political fixers. If trust is to be restored, Robbie Gibb must go now.

Had Trump been US president in 1940, he would have sided with Hitler. Think about that. This is how dangerous he is. To all of us.

The Gill case is not an isolated incident. Far from it. As @carolecadwalla.bsky.social explains on Novara Media, the network exposed in court reaches far beyond one man - and that should alarm all of us.

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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”

🇬🇧 "In this country we like to think that we live in a meritocracy." 💷 "Clearly this isn’t the case, when there is a record wealth gap in Britain today, with a mere 50 families owning more wealth than the poorest half of the population" https://bit.ly/4oU6fVv

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

Remember how we kept getting told that a European Army was a REALLY BAD idea?

On the plus side, Nick Clegg's house in California looked terrific.

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Gordon doesn’t like Begovic anymore

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

So now I have to go into work 🙄

#totp 1979 ….. and I thought it would be good 🙄

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Baby Euan ❤️ Grandad Dave 😜

My daughter having seen what was happening in the London hospital she worked at told me to stay at home on the 2nd of March, three weeks before the lockdown was introduced………. Will anyone face any consequences?

But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.

They missed opportunities to save lives…. But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals.. Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives. Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

@ianrpearsall.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @daveproudlove.bsky.social I didn’t know I was getting the book but then again I didn’t know it was coming framed 😂🙏 When I first opened it I thought it was a bit duller than I expected but then I noticed it was condensation from the cold 😜 😍

BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry. Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.

My story from a day reading the very long and very damning report by the official Covid inquiry into the actions of government during the pandemic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨 NEW: The UK saw the largest increase in relative child income poverty of 37 high-income countries between 2013 and 2023, an increase of 34%, new research from UNICEF UK shows. If the two-child limit stays in place, child poverty will continue to rise. Is this really a record we want?

Looks like I could be a Grandad soon 🤞

Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…

Terrific

There is a direct line between Donald Trump trying to destroy the BBC and him excusing the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump hates the independent free press – whether in the US, Saudi Arabia or the UK. We will always defend it.

First Blackcap in the garden for a while ✅

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Outside the box for me 😕

C’mon Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😀

Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures

I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime. Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.

45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform. 71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform. And immigration has fallen 50% in a year. What possible reason is there for this mess?

BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...