🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to eight bribery charges while an elected member of the European Parliament. The charges relate to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money during his time as a member of the European Parliament.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

That "progressive fightback" in full

Blair would head a body with “supreme political and legal authority” & chair a 7-10 person board with “at least one qualified Palestinian representative" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I’m not sure that we can just move on from all this with a cynical shrug. Of course we all know the Labour Right are horrible. But it is still a big deal that, in a 2 party fight, 1 party was hobbled, then changed beyond all recognition, by a known conspiracy of donors, advisors and the press.

Watching #AllThePresidentsMen. Finding it fascinating how - when they find out about the big secret political slush fund - they actually follow up on how it was used to #ratfuck opponents and subvert democracy, because that seems an important bit of the story.

The world is run by narcissistic egomaniacs because people have higher standards when they choose a gardener than when they choose political representatives. There is no scenario in life where "evil, but less evil" is an acceptable concept except politics. Imagine choosing a less evil babysitter.

Amazing, how the most insane crank conspiracy theories can turn out not only to be entirely correct, but so true that people need to get fired over it. And all it takes is for one well-connected party insider to get fired in disgrace for the third time, now that the lads want to notice things.

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Am I meant to think that deporting my friends would be ok if it was 'properly funded'? Is Labour going to start work on a 'workable' way to retrospectively strip people of their settled status? Is this your 'progressive patriotism'? I cannot state my contempt for this government strongly enough.

Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, on the UK recognising the state of Palestine #bbclaurak

There is no excusing or escaping this: The A-Team New Labour ‘rolled-up shirtsleeves’ crew have well and truly royally fucked it in scarcely more than a year, and every fuckwit in the press who was writing fawning op-eds about how it was all plans, work and business from here on out have nothing.

British students are adults with votes in British elections who can see you slagging them off for no reason.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I understand many in the UK who identify as liberal oppose Donald Trump; both the man, as well as the politics he represents. So, when his admin says, "We are going to use anti-terrorism laws to crack down on liberal groups," it would behove them to notice what is happening in their own back yard.

If we have built a machine that’s supposed to make Serious Politicians with The Sensible Moderate Policies Britain So Desperately Needs, and it only ever spits out increasingly weird, belligerent, unconvincing Thatcherites saying much the same shit, then: What kind of machine have we built?

No words.

A lot of journos seem to think: a) abusing Diane Abbott is repugnant, and b) is it really though?

I agree: it probably is quite jarring for the public to work out how we shifted in one week from “Keir Starmer is excellent, Morgan McSweeney is a genius, Peter Mandelson is a cunning master of politics” to “These people are nonce-friendly imbeciles whose hapless, clowning idiocy shames Britain”.

I love learning about new geniuses every time it turns out that they're addicted to being pricks about purported colleagues in group chats. "You don't know Paul Ovenden? Why he's the smartest and most important boy who ever lived! Anyone who's anyone knows that! Why you must not be in the loop!"

I question what sort of workplace culture these journalists and political staffers inhabit that engaging in degrading sexualising discourse about a senior party figure - one who receives more abuse that anyone else on account of being a Black woman - on official channels isn’t an open-and-shut case.

I'm shocked that a policy platform of pissing off Jeremy Corbyn and being disgustingly weird about Diane Abbott hasn't translated into successful governance

Yup.

We are noticing that Diane has been disrespected. Things are speeding up. “It is chilling that a private conversation from nearly a decade ago can do this sort of damage” Indeed. Just think of the chats from *nearly a decade ago* that won’t look great in daylight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If an effective counter-movement to the Right fails to coalesce before the next election, it will be in part because Morgan McSweeney took the primary political organ that could have united people and reduced it to a cynical right-wing clown car that now has neither credibility nor any constituency.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

"young models, mostly adults" 👁️

Oh look, here’s the Times explaining that this was always obviously true, even though all the people who knew very well that it was said at the time that it was actually an extremely racist conspiracy theory. Whatever could’ve happened here?

Just to emphasise the point: The campaign to smear Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite that led to people describing his pronunication of 'Epstein' as a dogwhistle was spearheaded by a man who was Epstein's "best pal" and who defended him when he was jailed for soliciting minors for prostitution.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

It do be like that

If the current Labour leadership are 100 times smarter, more professional, more capable and more in tune with the public than their predecessors, as explained by this country’s smartest political analysts, then how come everyone hates them and their polling is in the shitter, and nobody can explain.

I cannot put into words the deep and heartfelt sympathy I have for all of these people, who gleefully and deliberately got themselves into this situation, cackling about how fucking smart and Machiavellian they were as they went, and are now looking down like Wile E Coyote and assessing the drop.

Adults in the room. Lol.

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

It is concerning to me that the upper echelons of the Labour Party apparatus and the New Labour faction that now completely commands it appears to have been structured around running cover for a man who was best friends with a paedophile and who mentored the PM’s Chief of Staff. I am concerned.

Has anyone ever asked Mandelson why he seemingly had no problem with this side of Epstein either?

"In May 2006, police [moved to charge Epstein] with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor [...] One of the alleged victims was 14 years old. The next month, Mandelson [wrote,] 'Worried that I haven’t heard from you. Are you seeing them off and winning?'" Source: archive.today/1qDwm

What if all this was – stay with me now – a “single life”

"stop making mistakes"

Well that’s something.

In 2022 Iain Anderson tweeted “I’ve been a Conservative for almost 4 decades. I’ve worked with Liz on economic reform. She has fresh ideas and real energy #LizForLeader.” Starmer’s govt has appointed him as a non-exec director of the Dept for Business & Trade. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The problem with Jeremy is […] he has no idea how to conduct himself […] I resent it, and I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of his tenure in office […] however small it may be - an email, a phone call or a meeting I convene - every day I try to do something”

TELEGRAPH: Emails that reveal how Mandelson brought ‘best pal’ Epstein into the heart of Labour Paywall: archive.ph/6dIRL

"In an email from June 2008 [...] Mandelson wrote to Epstein: 'I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened. 'I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release”

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