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.

THIS

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.

Absolutely. Make it stop #AI

This is what a statesman and President writes

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

This new one just dropped. Signed it. Lets go to another 100000,folks🇬🇧

Any signs that the full National Security Strategy is translated from Russian?

The second debunk in the Brexit Benefits autopsy: CBAM. Turns out the big win is checks notes… running two overlapping carbon regimes and charging ourselves for EU top-ups. Truly inspiring stuff.

The second instalment of my Sisyphean debunk of 75 supposed Brexit “Benefits” will be out later today. Yesterday I looked at whether we got all the same trade deals for free when we toppled out of the single market, and more importantly, whether maintaining the status quo is actually a benefit. 🐻

Given the latest US strategic review setting out the current administration’s opposition to international bodies, presumably the US is now opposed to FIFA, so that national bodies can better regulate the game in their own countries?

I thought the westward shift in the focus of US foreign policy was originally an Obama administration thing?

Brexit harms the UK. It was designed to harm the UK. Those who promoted Brexit, whether they knew or not, did not care. They were doing in their own or their (often overseas) friends’ interests.

"Why is it that the media wants to convince the electorate of Reform’s apparent impending outright success? Perhaps when we examine who owns these media and social media outlets, whether it be Rupert Murdoch or the tech billionaires, we begin to understand the motivation." #Democracy #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...

@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social what about some viral videos of British people who benefited from FoM but have now lost out? I remember @femi-oluwole.bsky.social interviewing young people who could no longer get seasonal jobs. Broaden it? And highlight the implicit damage to the UK?

Be part of the UK-wide campaign to reverse Brexit and defend our place in a free, open and democratic Europe. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk today! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join2025

A little appreciated fact largely ignored by our “simplifying” media: the EU, including Freedom of Movement, was not just “them”, but also “us”.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n... “Emboldened by the UK voting to leave (and thus weaken) both the EU and our country, the objective the Kremlin has been pursuing for years, …, Putin had set his sights on Kiev.” Join the dots.

the price of populism

Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔

The petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy is now up to 45k. Let's get it up to 50k before midnight. Please keep sharing the petition far and wide. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

@stephenkb.bsky.social where does this leave us?