One of the (many) exciting books @leverpress.bsky.social has coming out next year is the second edition of @effjayem.bsky.social's book on Heinlein. With this incredible cover:

These people are playing to an American audience with dreams of a future as far right grifters in a market where there are far bigger rewards than dominating Great Yarmouth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very much looking forward to this!

📣 We're hiring a Communications Manager 👀 This is an ideal opportunity for a candidate with storytelling background, who can develop our strong relationships with journalists from across the political spectrum to secure agenda-setting coverage. www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

New - Fraudster Cottrell was introduced as Farage’s chief of staff, says ex-Reform candidate Story by @benquinn75.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'The vice-chancellor of Durham University [Karen O'Brien] has branded the incoming international student levy “absolute insanity” as universities plan to lobby the next prime minister to overturn the controversial tax.' 1/3

It may have cost a lot of money, but at least right leaning voters are now more satisfied than they were before about immigrant numbers.

One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...

🧵 So Farage is preemptively attacking the Commons standards committee in what's a great example of the weaponisation of the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt against institutional authority to avoid accountability. The sort of thing Russia did against the OPCW, or Trump does with "fake news media"

Former MI6 officer Christopher Steele told a conference on Russian interference on Tuesday that the UK's 2024 GE cost roughly £94.5m in total, compared with around $2bn in the US A single Wisconsin Supreme Court judge election drew about $100m It makes UK elections comparatively cheap to influence

Wondering if talking about Bonnie Tyler with younger colleagues in today will raise blank expressions. Going to find out soon.

'Separate data from Kerb, the street food collective behind some of London’s best-known food markets, points in the same direction. Almost three-quarters of its founders have university degrees, including one in four with postgraduate qualifications.'

I'm not sure "he's not even a real bin" is the winning electoral argument some of Count Binface's opponents imagine. I think the voters of Clacton had pretty much already realised that on their own.

New: @weownit.org.uk's @cathobbs.bsky.social warns talk of 'public control' of services is a 'fudge'. "We have control already via regulation – it’s been failing. We need public ownership – for true accountability and re–investing profits.” Interesting debate on Burnham plans - link below

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

The second and final part of my list of my favourite anti-fascist novels, including books by Eric Ambler, Naomi Mitchison, Jonathan Coe, Frank Griffin, Muriel Spark and Hanif Kureishi... open.substack.com/pub/davidren...

Our final Guest of Honour will be announced next week for Edge-Lit next week, but we already have so much talent confirmed for the event - a great day out ahead for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire

"This is a moment of maximum peril for Farage and his political chances, made more delicious by how it's entirely self-inflicted."

Good grief, even our parody election candidates have to be Oxbridge.

"This is a moment of maximum peril for Farage and his political chances, made more delicious by how it's entirely self-inflicted."

In my view, part of this vendetta - for that is what it is - against universities can be traced back to crap experiences some leading MPs had of HE in the 1990s.

Not even the worst political chart I've seen

I really question whether I'll still live in the UK a year from now.

These absolute arses have removed funding for teaching grants from NURSING courses.

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Story breaking now about Richard Tice and Reform.

"This is a moment of maximum peril for Farage and his political chances, made more delicious by how it's entirely self-inflicted."

"This is a moment of maximum peril for Farage and his political chances, made more delicious by how it's entirely self-inflicted."

Go on Clacton, pull off the laugh of the century.

Five quid for a box of After Eights. Outrageous.

Fittingly on the topic of fake politics and performative struggle, from scratch I have written 2,000 words today on a paper about Baudrillard.

Labour source: "Causing an unnecessary by-election because you’re annoyed about being asked questions about your undeclared £5 million donation and all your gifts from your aristocratic mates, so you can try and say you’re not a part of the establishment." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

With there being no real political difference between Reform and Badenoch's Tories, I cannot see anyone on the left arguing for a tactical vote in this case.

In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

They are trying to force some universities into bankruptcy. Total madness. Remember - they have pledged more money to a privately owned theme park than they‘re going to spend on the teaching grant.

So much great talent already confirmed for Edge-Lit 12, and we'll be announcing our final authors - including a fifth Guest of Honour - over the next couple of weeks! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #derby #derbyshire #scifi #fantasy #horror #fiction #writing #writers #authors

"Trump is trying to implement the classic autocrat’s playbook by chipping away at the restraints on executive authority. He has made dangerous inroads, but in most cases, the opposition has been significant. A struggle is underway, and the prospects for his success are dimming."

OK…who made this???

Conservatives used to believe in the rule of law & in a conventional moral code ("Victorian values"). Their epigones seem to be showing us that these were just tribal bullshit.

"Fascist forces treat the distribution of social murder as a therapeutic form of economic, libidinal, and material redistribution, a bloodletting for the health of the social body of the Volk." Absolute banger here from @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/26/t...

We had an in-depth look at the misinformation targeting City of Sanctuary last summer. How it spread from the mainstream to the online far right, and how the charity was inundated with horrific threats. This is part of a worrying and growing trend. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

There is a non-zero chance that Farage could leave politics again.

There is a non-zero chance that Farage could leave politics again.

Just want to remind all y'all that there is a Bsky starter pack of the 2026 Hugo Award finalists so you can follow them all with relative ease. Handy tool that I hope @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social and @brisbane28.org will emulate.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

There is a non-zero chance that Farage could leave politics again.

The Conservatives are for "the super rich" says Robert Jenrick, whose own campaigns have been funded by a billionaire Israeli mining heir and a firm controlled by a sanctioned oligarch