Have to say, particularly liked @mattchorley.bsky.social ‘s line of questioning with Zia Yusuf yesterday on whether Mr Farage had accepted any more money from elsewhere (yes/no/don’t know): very well crafted question.

It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!

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Brexit has been an incontrovertible success (for at least one person).

Apart from the question of the illegality of this threat, it may well please Reform supporters who appear to relish hurting other Brits, but it fundamentally misreads the national character that reacts obstinately to being threatened.

Maybe Cuba should just preemptively grant citizenship to all the children of South Americans deported by Trump? 🤷🏽

Bleachers cover The Waterboys’ Whole of the Moon youtu.be/RWRJTU50LGA?...

Iranian defies odds to defeat Trump.

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

To whose benefit?

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Given the venal nature of the current US regime, how much are its individual members, the president in particular, making out of its support for various foreign governments?

Will Iran be the US what the Ancient Athenian Democracy’s expedition against Syracuse was to it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indeed. If you add a profit motive or just extra bureaucracy, both of which would be introduced by an insurance-based system, those are costs that would take money away from paying for medical care. 1/

“We could be Norway!”

Reform UK really do inspire community action in the most unexpected ways.

“A light unto the gentiles..”

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

This is cold, hard logic, not laced with with bigoted promises or easy, misdirecting solutions. Has my country got what it takes to unshackle itself from the chains of benighted prejudice and embrace a future with hope?

@markemuk.bsky.social with an interesting piece on the geopolitics of Brexit. The dogs in the street knew it was a geopolitical mistake even before Putin, Donbas, Trump, Iran, Venezuela and so forth. 1 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/trump_war_mu...

This is good: youtube.com/watch?v=F1MA...

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

@fotoole.bsky.social - who is on here and well worth a follow...by quite a distance, one of the best brexit commentators - articulates what you describe very well.

#QuestionTime last night. I was heartened by the wide applause given by the audience to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but finally realise how deluded we are as a nation about the UK’s relative power in the world with the multiple incredulities about the lack of UK naval power. 1/

@sophyridge.bsky.social it would have been good to see you challenge the migration minister repeating the anti-migrant line that refugees must seek asylum in the first safe country they enter, which isn’t what international treaties say.

The Greens win Gorton and Denton, a white market trader from Essex delivers a heartfelt inclusive poem about England on BGT and then this. Have people finally rumbled the faux-patriotic, whiny shit-stirrers of Reform UK Limited and their racist fellow travellers?

Gorton and Denton made history last night. Reform lost. And Farage couldn’t accept it. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and what we do next.

Congratulations to the Green Party (and to your new colleague @greenpartyhan.bsky.social ). Well done. Please make decency (and hope - and hope for decency) normal again 🙏 Enough of hatred already!

A full house for the debate in Westminster Hall today on the Impact of the 2016 EU Membership Referendum on the UK, as a result of over 11,000 of you writing to your MP to urge them to attend. Stephen Gethins MP has started the debate with a strong opening speech.

I note the dissonance between “people born in struggling areas inside the UK won’t relocate” and “people born in struggling areas outside the UK will just up sticks and move here en masse.”

@bbclaurak.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and all of you.

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social would it have been helpful if one of your researchers had read this before this evening’s programme? I appreciate time and resources are finite but am also tired of seeing politicians taking advantage of knowledge gaps to promote spurious arguments.

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social oh, what about, “So we can’t trust what you say about people whom you don’t know well?”

Economist, who understands economics, explains, at length, how Tory Brexiter, who is an MP responsible for making our decisions and laws for us, clearly doesn’t understand economics. Yet another indictment of our current electoral system:

OTOH, it was a fascinating microcosm of what’s wrong with our politics: lionised celebrity platformed to spout inaccuracies to reputable journalist who is incapable of challenging them.

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Being a nemesis of something toxic isn't quite the insult they hoped it would be! Please give my petition a boost, if you think the premise is reasonable? I believe think-tank funding to sway media and policy needs to be debated and made transparent: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

I’d just like to commend these two Americans for what they are doing for small, independent restaurants and cafes in the UK: www.facebook.com/share/v/185T...

So, if we gave an AI platform enough prompts, it could come up with the complete works of William Shakespeare?

www.persuasion.community/p/after-davo... What Europeans need to do in the wake of Trump. No mention of the UK:

This whole thread makes the “go-it-alone” Brexiters who want to tie us to Trump’s America seem so woefully out of step with reality:

2026: Nigel Farage lies about the vaccine rollout claiming the UK did it faster because of Brexit 2020:: Dr June Raine (CEO of the MHRA), "We have been able to authorise the supply of this vaccine using provisions under European law which exist until the first of January"

Great piece on BBC Sounds by Eleanor Barraclough visits Highgate Woods in London, I thoroughly enjoyed working with this wonderful team, to reconstruct and fire one of the Roman pottery kilns which operated from c40-150 CE. We could do similar for your project www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

No, Trump is not a fascist ft.trib.al/HUAQv3c

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

Byline Times: Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...

The BBC censored my line about Trump's corruption, turned off the comment section, and sat on the video versions for three weeks. Still, I’m genuinely glad to see so many people watching (and commenting on) my Reith Lectures. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...

Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government… An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.