The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

I was taken aback to see this on the back of today’s Observer. I don’t pick up the free newspapers in the week so hadn’t seen Reform’s adverts on which this mock up is based. They showed the back of Starmer’s head looked like this. The cost £50k, way over the spending limit for local elections.

Two million airline seats cancelled due to fuel shortages, while private jets keep flying. It’s outrageous. Sign @_wearepossible’s petition to ban private jets, save fuel & protect summer holidays for families✈️🏖️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Good work. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I’m dreading the results of the local elections tomorrow, but at least if the polls are right and Reform wins control of councils more people will understand how shit they are. #allthingswillpass

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church Byline Times' new findings cast doubts on Farage's claim of refusing to associate with extreme elements – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social reports

How is this cartoon of Zack Polanski, published in the Sun - complete with forked tongue and other Der Stürmer tropes - not blatantly antisemitic?

Trump and his oil-and-coal oligarchy should face sanctions for their war on the environment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Reform, Farage and Co, if elected, will pursue similar destructive policies.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid... This both scandalous and dispiriting.

Another Conservative in Harrow has (at last) been suspended after Adam detected his enthusiasm for "Tommy Robinson". Harrow is also the home borough of the unacceptable former Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall. Her fellow Harrow ward councillor is a pal of the two suspended councillors and a twerp.

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Seen at a bus stop yesterday.

In the Observer yesterday Starmer wrote we’re “seeing a rise of terror, fuelled by Islamist extremism”. Is it though? Has that been proved? It seems to me we have players in some parties determined to divide us all so they can rule. The chaos they create means only a route to power.

Revealed: British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industry When it’s all about the money. This sucks. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Violence against women is at ‘breaking point’, says writer of John Worboys drama www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Fossil fuel chaos is harming the planet and putting us out of pocket. I’m calling on the UK government to go all in on renewable energy. Add your name too: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/bre... @friends-earth.bsky.social

Fossil fuel chaos is harming the planet and putting us out of pocket. I’m calling on the UK government to go all in on renewable energy. Add your name too: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/bre... @friends-earth.bsky.social

I'm sick of Labour but Reform is a much more serous threat to our democracy and people need to be aware of the bigger picture. See @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Nigel Farage, said on X ... “If found to be true, it would be very disturbing and an attack on the democratic process itself.” Nigel Farage is an attack on democracy, not so sure about the postman.

🟧 Columnists — @anthonybarnett.bsky.social — Anthony Barnett — Notes on Now — (Edition 85) Lebanon, Lebanon — Under the ‘cover’ of the Persian assault, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel has invaded Lebanon and, as I write, has just carried out massive bom…

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.

I've just signed "Establish a public inquiry into foreign interference" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/fo... @OpenBritainHQ

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A US Defence Analyst’s Warning to Britain: ‘I Watched Our Democracy Die. You’re Next’ A US defence analyst argues that the United States has become a zombie democracy, locked into decline - and that Reform UK is now planning the same for Britain

Nige and Zia set out plan to send ‘Boriswave’ traitors to the gulag www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Protocol be damned: here’s what King Charles should say on his visit to the US www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Perhaps, but i still don't believe he should go.

JD Vance warns Iran against trying to ‘play’ the US in peace talks i don't think approaching peace talks with threats and bristling with armaments will achieve the desired results. Vance et al still think they can bully Iran into submission. They can't. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Sadiq Khan demands stronger action on social media ‘outrage economy’ www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

JD Vance’s claims about Orbán, the EU and Hungary fact-checked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Well what a surprise. Not.

London and antisocial behaviour: a real problem inflated by online panic www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Exactly

@michaeldugher.bsky.social I am sure the working class vote does not depend on the government supporting animal cruelty. Working class people care about animals too. #bangreyhoundracing

The sacking of Reform’s housing spokesperson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen." Reform's Housing spokesperson Simon Dudley on the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left 70+ injured. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

Personally, I’m taking it as a compliment that Trump and his henchmen are slagging off the UK. To be praised by him feels dirty. Now to cancel the Stare visit…

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Regulations are there to protect us. This is what happens when they are not enforced.

The pet I’ll never forget: Merlin the therapy sheep www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Changes to bin collections in England www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Molly the border collie rescued after a week waiting for injured owner in New Zealand’s remote backcountry www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Never mind leading the free world, if Donald Trump were your ageing father, when would you take away his car keys?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/30/donald-trump-leader-of-the-free-world-president-safeguards?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK Better late than never www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He was to third level education what Jonathan Gullis was to secondary education.

In these times, where i despair of the immediate adoption of violence in response to issues big and small, this is a story of hope and humanity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...