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🚨 NEW: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon previously claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want” He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am”

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Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

I'm flabbergasted. I went to trump's truth social page to see what the dumbass is posting. I get a pop up ad about farage which sends me to a fake website with AI imagery pretending to be the BBC with a made up event that never happened on Question Time. So many morons are gonna fall for this.

🔴🌳 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Murillo has signed a new contract with Nottingham Forest, extending his stay Forest until the summer of 2030. #NFFC

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

On Newsnight, fall in net migration was attributed "spectacular ... Shabana Mahmood at Home Office obviously making some real changes happen there" by Helen MacNamara, former dep Cabinet Secretary. Net migration data (Jan-Dec 2025) not impacted by Mahmood becoming Home Sec on 6th Sept 2025

You must understand: Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class. Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.

It’s hugely welcome that the Chancellor is lifting mileage rates – a longstanding UNISON demand and something I raised with her in our latest meeting. Frozen rates were punishing workers just going about their jobs. Now we need urgent action to drive wages up and bills down.

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

New from YouGov today: Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens than to Reform UK in the local elections "Just 46% of 2024 Labour voters who voted in this May’s council elections were loyal to the party, with more switching to the Greens (22%) than Reform UK (6%)"

🚨 BREAKING: Southampton lose appeal in attempt to overturn expulsion from Championship play-off final for spying on opponents. #SaintsFC spot goes to Middlesbrough; #MFC to face Hull City at Wembley on Saturday 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

American money is behind so much of the UK far right, from little Tommy to anti-abortion activism. It’s not even hidden

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Please enjoy this picture of Nigel Farage putting something into his pocket while looking shifty, also there is a story attached www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Farage said Brexit will make you richer - lo and behold, it did make one person much richer!” Nigel Farage says the £5m gift he received was given as a “reward” for campaigning for Brexit - but we thought it was for security...

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

If only there was a very recent and highly prescient example for Sinn Fein to draw on here. Like the story of a supposed left wing party imploding because it disenfranchised its core voter base in a futile effort to woo non existent right wing swing voters. But where would you even start to look?

A 79-year-old president who’s been having poor results lately blames the media and says he wants to stay in office longer. apnews.com/article/flor...

This is now like some bizarre piece of performance art.

The conclusion "Reform won the seat from Lab therefore biggest vote swing is Lab to Reform" does not follow from this pattern. There are multiple vote flows here: Lab to Grn, Lab to abstain, Lab to Ref, Con to Ref, abstain to Ref...Lab to Ref is only one part of this, not typically the largest

The government's cowardice in failing to aggressively respond to X/Musk after the summer 2024 riots and the 2025 Grok CSAM scandal are illustrative of why it finds itself struggling even with ideologically sympathetic voters.

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

UNISON general secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social responds to PM Keir Starmer's speech: "There were plenty of warm words, with precious little on the fundamentals of how to fix things." Read full response: www.unison.org.uk/news/2026/05...

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Labour will die if there isn’t a radical change in direction. That means standing up to markets, investing in our hospitals & schools not weapons, and ending the attacks on migrants. My Guardian piece ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what normalisation looks like.

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

Was just on LBC to talk about what the local elections mean for Starmer and his leadership bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

The cold light of day thought on UK election results is the near impossibility of sensible democratic politics in the social media age. A global phenomenon which is systematically under played by nearly everyone but because every more obvious.

ANDREA EGAN: 'There’s no point sugarcoating it, these results are a disaster for Labour and entire country' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

🗳️✊ Your vote is your power. UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS.bsky.social on why using it matters for your community ⬇️

Reading a lot of Green Party leaflets over the weekend it struck me how many of the policies being promised are identical to Labour ones. Not just locally, but policies literally made possible by the Labour government’s legislation.

As this article shows, it’s pointless telling Reform-curious voters that their policies won’t work and Nigel Farage is an odious charlatan. They already suspect that and want to pull the fruit machine handle. You need to show them why they personally will be worse off. www.ft.com/content/dbfe...

This is the offence of "undue influence" under the 1983 Representation of the People Act. Its potential applicability to these electoral communications may depend on the scope of the prohibition to "intimidate in any other way"

EXCLUSIVE: 'This country needed us - why is it changing migration rules to penalise us now?' Care workers trapped by the government rule changes speak out. The current sponsorship system isn't fit for purpose and is open to abuse by exploitative employers. unsn.uk/4n8Yrz9

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Went to see Kyle Eastwood (son of Clint) tonight at Peggy's Skylight. Great gig at a great venue

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“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

A Labour Government, in policy and rhetoric, attacking a group of care workers. How has it ended up here? @guardianheather.bsky.social calls it out. Absolutely rightly. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Got a government appointment who needs vetting? Checking whether they appear in Private Eye is a good place to start. IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

BREAKING: @unison.org.uk WIN! Workers at the National Coal Mining Museum have accepted a significantly improved pay offer. It brings the strike, which began in August, to an end. Read more 👉 unsn.uk/NCMMwin

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Today, UNISON members are leafleting the Home Secretary's constituency. We will not accept her cruel and self-defeating proposals to extend indefinite leave to remain. We need Labour to stop attacking migrant workers and start defending their rights. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...