Always and in all ways ❤️

This should be a no brainer! EU is pushing for a rapid deal for UK to rejoin the Erasmus+ programme to allow student exchanges from January 2027 Negotiations are at a critical juncture and a deal is needed by the end of October if the UK is to join the scheme in a little over a year

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

Autism doesn’t need to be fixed. It just needs to be understood. 💙

Just when you think there must be some sensible voices in Reform on medical matters ….watch to the end to realise why none of these people should be anywhere near public health in our country. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdsyAfHn/

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

Politico: In calling for Reform to 'radically cut away' at the civil service, Arron Banks, Farage ally, told the FT that Bolshevik revolutionaries who killed intellectuals 'had a point' "The self-declared 'bad boy of Brexit' [claimed] he was speaking in metaphor" It's Schrödinger's joke. Dangerous

What won't solve anyone's issues, a simple one-liner like "take on the bond markets" or "raise taxes". Or even "change". Going to need something a bit bigger.

Watching with interest to see whether Polanski can develop beyond inclusiveness (a good start) into something that goes into the many other challenges.

The serious question regarding all the Burnham / Starmer stuff is who on the left is doing the new thinking about having better answers that fit the many challenges we face.

It's embarrassing that Reform UK won't contradict Trump's widely disputed claims about Tylenol. It tells us everything we need to know about this party.

Autism isn’t the problem. your expectations are.

From January 2026, UK firms face an £800m hit from new EU carbon rules, with costs passed to consumers. The answer is simple: align with EU standards to cut red tape, stop unfair charges and protect people from higher prices. The government must act now.

If you think autism has to “look a certain way,” you don’t understand autism. You’re not helping autistic people you’re just loud, wrong, and disrespectful.

Reform has gone too far on immigration. Abolishing Indefinite Leave to Remain is the policy of a protest party, not one ready for government. @bwalker.uk

The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds. The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago news.sky.com/story/royal-...

Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from London parks www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

If everyone watched The Hack on ITV right now, we could start to repair our media, our discourse & our country. It is TV drama at its absolute best. I know most of this stuff & I’m reeling.

“We never in our wildest dreams would have expected a 75% slowing of clinical progression," None of the patients who have been treated are being identified, but one was medically retired and has returned to work Others in the trial are still walking despite being expected to need a wheelchair.

Reform’s attacks on migrants are a distraction from the real reasons Britain is broke: austerity, cronyism, tax cuts & Brexit. Read The Bear’s analysis ⤵️

The foreigners aren't coming into the UK and 'eating the swans', but they are coming and buying £885,000 houses in cash with money that they earned from *checks notes* being a waitress. I'm sure Nigel Farage would agree, that needs investigating.

"Byline Times stress-tested Reform UK’s numbers against the OBR’s modelling... "We found that over five years, the economy would be about £49bn smaller, while the Home Office would face £7bn in direct costs for detention, flights and enforcement, according to analysis of OBR projections."

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

I am not shy to say when I disagree with Sadiq Khan. But I also think it's important to say out loud when other politicians get it right. This is exactly what the leader of a diverse and vibrant city like London should say. Thank you Sadiq.

The Norfolk Broads: home to a quarter of England’s threatened species. Also home to some of its dirtiest rivers. More than 90% of them are in failing health, a new study has found. Read more here ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

I’ve noticed a huge drop off in engagement recently on BlueSky around EU, Brexit and Freedom of Movement. Can you help resharing things? Has anyone else noticed that? #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM #fbpe

Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...

Truth is, millions of self-employed and employed service providers have already been replaced. Translators, commercial artists, copywriters, proof-readers, logistics planners, accountants and many more. They're just the dead canary in the coal mine. There's no area that AI and automation won't hit.

Farage’s evidence that Muslims want to takeover London: Wait for it. Taxi drivers. In Buckinghamshire. I’ve heard taxi drivers tell me lampposts are watching us, Covid was a scam and Aston Villa will win the premier league!!

I think voters are saying the same thing as Zack Polanski.

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London: "People will be wondering what it is about this Muslim mayor who leads a liberal, multicultural, successful, diverse city. It seems to me that I’m living rent free inside Donald Trump’s head."

Reform’s £234bn claim about migrants is based on discredited numbers, says the Bear. Policy built on lies is not policy, it’s theatre.

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

Migrants to the UK tend to really LOVE this country. My aunt married my uncle in 1992 and she had to learn English, she’s been treated horribly coz she’s not white, she’s worked for decades in care for shite money and she STILL chooses to stay here and loves it.

Rayner - made a genuine mistake and was misled by faulty advice from supposed professionals leading to the loss of her role as Deputy. To play devil's advocate, ok fine maybe, maybe not Deputy material due to ignorance. Farage won't give answers about this house, won't release his tax returns - Hero

In other non-news... #r4today bsky.app/profile/henr...

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

You would never pay £6 million for something you wouldn't even consider doing. This has all the hallmarks of "if there's smoke, there's fire". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Kind of the same sentiment, but also the other way around from me. Why the clucking bell did British leadership squander all that pampering on an infantile prick who forgets everything the moment someone new is in his ear? All that UK shame and dishonour, wasted to zilch in days. Less than zilch.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is one for you @labouruk.bsky.social

Labour should be hammering home the ‘Farage is Trump’s poodle’ message. The trouble is….

A good post but I noted that Mr Thomas is the recently elected Lib Dem MP for Tewkesbury. And God damn I feel so much of the media doesn't talk about how crazy that is He's the first non conservative MP for Tewkesbury since 1880. And one of the two Cotswold seats is Lib Dem too?

Of all the horrors unleashed by Russia’s war, none cuts deeper than the abduction of children. We will not rest until Ukraine’s children are home. The EU will host a high-level international summit to bring the world's eyes to the fate of these children. link.europa.eu/CJ9PwR

Sadly the knuckle draggers won’t get it. They’ll still vote for face eating leopard.

The Home Office are fanning the flames of hate again over on Twitter. x.com/ukhomeoffice...

Reform UK are not in power, Keir Starmer's changed Labour Party is. Can people stop being distracted by Farage, and expose what Labour are actually doing to the country? A stealth takeover of the UK by carving it up into deregulated free zones, tax havens for corporation with 25 year licenses. 1/2

Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper wants to position the UK at the UN as opposing Israel's attacks on Gaza while announcing no change to UK military, arms, intelligence and trade support for Israel. Does the Foreign office expect the world not to notice? www.gov.uk/government/s...

If we are going to talk about deportations, then let's deport Farage to Russia, the country he has loyally served for some twenty years. Please repost if you agree.

One obvious part of Europe's Trump handling is not to give too much weight to each individual utterance, but to stop the US going completely off the rails. In the absence of a domestic version, arguably even "the adults in the room"

Chris Mason’s defence of the BBC over Farage coverage goes badly wrong Soon after its political editor denied giving Reform an easy ride, the Beeb broadcast 56 minutes of the populist’s press conference, live www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...