As Reform is pushing another set of insane deportations policies today.... here's my post from last year on what would happen if they actually tried to do this stuff in government. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

How do they actually think the country will function?

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Also, don't forget how Shabana Mahmood's disgraceful language on immigration is pitch rolling for Zia Yusuf.

No words 😩 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

“Reform’s candidate, an oddball far-right former academic turned GB News presenter, is facing allegations of sexual harassment, while their “interim” campaign manager.. has been exposed as a holocaust-denying anti-semite” Please god, G&D, don’t inflict this on us. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

If your priority is stopping Reform you need to know who to vote for to do it. This site has the answer. 👇🏻

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

Whatttt???!!! Am I living in an alternate reality? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The best protection against measles is making sure you and your loved ones’ MMR or MMRV jabs are up to date. Contact your GP to check. Learn more about the vaccine and the symptoms of this potentially serious infection: www.nhs.uk/conditions/m...

“‘I am begging my fellow politicians, my fellow Americans to realize that right now in this country we are not fighting over policy or political party,’ Pritzker said. ‘We are fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness—or one rooted in cruelty and rage.’”

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone. @sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP Tice - family money multimillionaire Yusuf - multimillionaire Jenrick - millionaire Zahawi - multimillionaire But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.) God, they’re hideous.

3D reconstruction of human liver tissue at cellular resolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com

Reform incapable of putting forward anybody to be foreign or defence secretary And the four cabinet ministers proposed are utterly inadequate and pernicious Anybody contemplating this bunch as our next government should read this with horror www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage has announced his Shadow Cabinet, with no Health Secretary. Presumably because if he becomes Prime Minister, there’ll be no NHS.

Of course not. The press in the UK is hopelessly biased.

Why does Farage and Reform get all the air time and not The Lib Dems and Greens? It’s outrageous.

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?

Giving Braverman the education brief is quite a choice for Reform. I was on an education commission with her once before she went completely mad and she knew absolutely nothing at all.

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the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

The fact that Lyse Douchet's salary is lower than Mason's or Kuenssberg's shames the BBC.

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends" Indeed. www.science.org/content/blog...

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

"As a survivor of sexual abuse which began when I was a young gymnast on the Olympic pathway in Australia, I know how this trauma can scar you for life". If you are an athlete based in the UK experiencing sexual abuse please do get in touch via our confidential channels so we can help.

This is really encouraging. It's not too late to stop this.

Incredibly proud to be chairing this editorial board. I mean, just look at it. Actually a bit ridiculous how impressive it is.

We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out. They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.

#EvilAdministration #ImpeachAndRemoveRFKJr

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

🥲 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

God Farage is a bore. He voted against improving workers’ rights. He doesn’t want us to have control over our lives. He demands that we live within the stifling confines of his stale old prejudices and resentments. Fewer rights. Less protection. More exploitation. That’s his plan for the rest of us.

Bhattacharya’s NIH 😢

oh look another Reform scandal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are other parents as revolted by this language in The Times as I am?

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

Key workers keep London moving. They deserve to live in the city they serve. That’s why I’m proud to have launched the Key Worker Living Rent scheme, which could save key workers thousands per year in rent.