‘Look! I think I can see where Nigel Farage is hiding.’

As someone who was classed as SEND in my school years, I can sense that Bridget Phillipson really wants to try and get things right, not just for her career's sake, but for those with SEND. Whatever problems that may arise with the changes, the tenacity to get them right is admirable.

🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 Starmer: "But the £5 million question is, why did the Reform leader keep this donation secret? I see. He is not here to answer." "And what did the billionaire lining his pockets ask for in return? Those questions need to be answered. That's why he's not here."

I was just remembering that Farage didn't hold any surgeries in Clacton for months (I mean, does he now?) citing the fact that he was very vulnerable because gov't had not given him enough public money to keep safe. But it now turns out that he had already pocketed £5m for security. Hmm. 🤔

So I went on a deep dive last night into the archives of the suspended X account of Reform UK’s Makersfield election candidate, Robert Kenyon. This is what I found… bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

BBC's second top story at 6 o'clock was the Chancellor getting heckled by some shouty twat. Not even news. Let alone top news. Into the actual item, mentioned almost in passing, the fact gov't has frozen fuel duty. It is impossible to deny the bias. You have to REALLY not want to see it.

Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill Within a year of receiving £5mn from a crypto billionaire, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK published a draft crypto bill | Anthony Robinson @anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

🦊 Need an exciting and subversive summer read? Why not buy my book Reynard the Fox, described by Marina Warner as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling." bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/...

I, a 54 year old man, would like to make an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/maybe-its-...

"The media covering Trump should use the word 'corrupt' more often...it’s abundantly clear that a corrupt enterprise is operating out of WH. The media shouldn’t keep it a secret." I like this test from @markjacob.bsky.social: Will coverage convey full measure of his corruption to *casual* readers?

The Entire Chump Family Should Be Arrested, Tried And Convicted, Of Enriching Themselves, During Don The Con's Time In Office......

7pm 2nd June St Matthias Church Richmond upon Thames a concert by Jacqueline Schwab featuring traditional, vintage and global music. Admission On the door, pay what you can, around £15 Jacqueline has played for Ken Burns films and documentaries; concerts and country dancing. #piano

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

BREAKING: A handful of Senate Republicans are finally starting to join Democrats to pull the emergency brake and end Trump’s war with Iran. Now is the moment to keep pushing. Call your members of Congress.

HUGE: The Senate just advanced a War Powers Resolution aimed at ending Trump’s illegal war on Iran. Before the final vote, contact your senators (especially if they’re Republican) and demand they vote YES: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Reform UK Gone Since the Local Elections Dr David Bull has been sacked as Chair.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

"Nigel Farage himself, where does one start? He allegedly sang Hitler Youth songs as a joke and was allegedly a racist abuser while at school" We cannot allow divisive politics to become normalised in our country. Diversity is our strength.

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social Gross seeing the disrespect from you on LK saying Starmer shouldn't run in a leadership contest. You'd do well to remember that the party was on life support when he took it on. All this will come back to bite all of you. LK could barely hide her delight. Very silly move.

This is a reminder of what politics is really about. A Labour government delivering for working people and making sure all of our children get the best start in life.

A Reform UK Councillor who last week apologised for a single social media post he claimed had been 'misinterpreted' as racist, posted a series of other racist and offensive posts. Messages uncovered by Byline Times shows Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches who will "take over" the country

He seems to be doing a great job for WE, the People

"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't." @maitlis.bsky.social

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Easily, the most corrupt president in history:

It’s the news millions of fans have been waiting for! The return of the one-man band who represented a generation. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1658, September 2025.

Disgusting Islamophobia on the “Unite the Kingdom” march yesterday. A good time to reach out to Muslim friends in solidarity. We will not allow our great country to be infected by Islamophobia and antisemitism. Bigotry and hate are not British values. And never will be.

Wenn der Tag zu Ende geht. 🍃 When the day ends. #eastcoastkin #forestfriday #ECK #scape #trees

The most corrupt president in history:

Sign and share people, sign and share!!!

What yesterday’s tiny turnout tells me is that Britain has had enough of far right agitators attempting to subvert our democracy, weaponise tragedies, divide us all, and flood our streets with racist wife-beater addled pissheads who literally piss all over our beautiful capital.

China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

Well those who wish the UK harm must be rejoicing. Because a coup is close to toppling our hard-won Labour government. The five years stability needed to create beneficial change and begin righting Tory damage is being thrown away. While MPs and party members are publicly denigrating each other.

If Ben Habib can prove his allegations then the consequences for British democracy are very grave indeed and overshadow everything that has been happening in the Westminster Village in the past 48 hours. Unsurprisingly, none of the morning news bulletins have even mentioned this story.

Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

Serious question.. How many “Reform councillors elected in May 2025 local elections were then shed by the party before May 2026, lasting less than a year❓ 73.. yup that’s right Seventy Three - the reason for each is listed in @markpackuk.bsky.social list👇🏼 A business couldn’t survive like that 🤷🏼‍♂️ 1

It is true to say that, despite a raft of positive changes, things remain tough for many people. However, creating instability when people need us to focus on the job would be irresponsible. The Conservatives lost their ability to govern because of their infighting. We can't make the same mistake.

I'm posting these again, I know it pees some people of who complain about Starmer supporters just posting lists of achievements as if they don't matter but tough, scroll on by if you don't like it. This is unprecedented in under 2 years and how else should we judge a Government.

Prejudice toward one community is prejudice towards us all.

Actually, this photo is PROOF that gullible dimwits will believe a Shakira concert in Rio is London and it will be wildly shared and liked on Musk's X because it is designed to encourage and reward such lies and misinformation.

The pattern people in the progressive space must break (I include myself): I support Leader A; all teams except A are evil. A has disappointed me. I am transfering wholesale huge expectations overnight to B. I support Leader B; all teams except B, especially A, are evil. B has disappointed me, etc.

Not yet a pandemic, but has the potential to spread fast.

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

I've done talks about sea otters to bigger crowds.

Can we stop calling Burnham "Future PM" please? He has several hurdles to clear first.