Rejoining Erasmus+ gives young people from every background the chance to learn, train and build confidence beyond borders. Now, it is essential that we continue to rebuild our relationship with Europe, and restore all of the opportunities that were lost.

This from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com is utterly, sublimely brilliant. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Totally agree. The UK is on it’s knees & we’re all having to make ‘tough decisions’ because of Putin’s brexit. Why can’t they investigate the obvious Russian interference & present the facts to the public. & maybe jail a few traitors…

Why are journalists spending so much time on what Farage said as a schoolboy in the playground? And not focusing on how he has operated as a Quisling for Putin for decades?

Former UK chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI Lucrative appointments for failed ministers. They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment? Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.

£240,000 per job to temporarily safeguard 500 jobs at a firm run by the UK's 7th richest person, an ardent Brexiter worth £17 billion. Is it really worth it when firms that don't get a penny in government support collapse with greater job losses every few weeks? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK govt war on bats and newts, part 328 Small building developments will no longer need to worry too much about the damage they cause to nature Or as London Wildlife Trusts say "We’ve got a flatlining economy, I know what’s to blame: hedgehogs" www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This thread shows that we have known about the relationship between Brexit and Putin for nearly a decade If sensitivities around the EU referendum make it impossible to be clear about this, then Putin has already won

This enquiry is welcome but far too late and its scope too narrow I was calling for this after the EU referendum back in 2016 Why is the government afraid to seek evidence of Putin's involvement then? The nexus of UKIP/Brexit/Reform and Putin is not a coincidence share.google/NsScp2W5OYHD...

Massively overdue. Very glad to see this happening Comes a week after a Labour MP in Commons cited Democracy for Sale’s cash for access investigation as evidence of how weak Britain’s are

Good to see this Depriving our young people of the opportunity to travel their continent was a classic example of shooting ourselves in the foot

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

"If leaving the ECHR is meant to be about booting out criminals, it will have the reverse effect and it will make it easier for criminals to come to the country. Just like Brexit, it's going to backfire. Remember, with Brexit, immigration was meant to go down, and trade".

🎁 Today is Day 1 of 12 Days of Democracy 🎁 Every day, we will be opening a present and revealing one good reason to support a fairer voting system. Let's see what we've got today - and stay tuned for more!

"It's completely misleading to suggest challenges in the immigration system are anything to do with the ECHR" @elliechowns.bsky.social discusses how watering down human rights panders to far-right narratives and distracts from real solutions to issues with our migration system.

Masterful questioning

So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...

'Human and ecosystem exposure to synthetic chemicals has surged since the end of the second world war, with chemical production increasing by more than 200 times since the 1950s' Time to join your local organic community Farm www.theguardian.com/environment/...

😡 This petition was rejected On basis that government is not responsible for 'the particular individual' 🤪 Boris Johnson appointed Robbie Gibb! If it's our public service broadcaster we need clearer governance So we can use petition system to require Parliament to debate unsuitable board members

Once more for the haters...

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees... All that remains of the 3 much-loved lime trees in #Falmouth that local residents fought for many months to save. #Cornwall Council contractors & chainsaws arrived before dawn, accompanied by many police & "private security" heavies 🧵

Hi @channel4news.bsky.social You just broadcast footage from the Reform rally in Scotland that included details on how to join Reform and how to donate Please could you find a way to remove this before you broadcast future footage or just not show it at all

76% of people who believe Brexit has damaged the economy support the UK rejoining the Single Market and Customs Union. It's time for the Government to listen.

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

UK governments - Tory & Labour - have handed contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to Palantir, the US corporation run by this far-right lunatic. NHS data, Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office & various other government departments. What the hell were they thinking?

Football, a working,class sport stolen by the elites are now run entirely for greed How did you let this happen, guys?

Is there anything more despicable than watching Labour and Reform compete over who can deport the most migrants? The Green Party reject this toxic and divisive rhetoric and call for an immigration system grounded in humanity and compassion. Join us: Join.greenparty.org.uk

The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.

So true

Big rise in mental health diagnoses in young people Failure of UK productivity It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity And is a threat to our economic success

💥 Excellent article in @economist.com about the absurdity of election results under FPTP - and its consequences: "When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke." 💯💯

"This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our political parties have become on a super-rich few," says Transparency International bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

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Your reminder that political spending isn't regulated or recorded outside an election year So public will probably have no idea how the biggest donation in British political history is spent Why we urgently need political finance reform - sign petition here you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Harborne, who lives in Thailand, makes largest ever political donation Reform is a party of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy We need to spread the word and change electoral law so that such vast donations by people who don't even live here are no longer possible bit.ly/4pHwaj0

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Trump's move against Venezuela has so many echoes of Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia almost exactly 90 years ago. Trump is following the Fascism For Dummies playbook to the letter.

If you would like to know the actual problems with the budget I set it all out in detail here. As Stephen says the problem is the headroom isn't really there. Not that Reeves had loads of spare cash... samf.substack.com/p/survival-f...

This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻‍♀️

This week's Guardian prize crossword included IRON LUNGS I recalled the wards full of people who were kept alive by machines because their chest muscles were too weak to breathe Something that was ended by the advent of the polio vaccine It set me off on a brief but furious rant

Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves. It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson. There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies. #r4today

This confected attack on Reeves's integrity is just so depressing We can all remember that Boris Johnson was just a bare-faced liar but was treated more favorably And it distracts attention from the very serious economic problems we face that we need to address together

Losing your mind felt like it should be a metaphor But with constant input, much of it with powerful emotional manipulation attached, it appears to be becoming a reality

Corbyn has to make his first ever speech to their party conference calling for unity And Sultana doesn't turn up at all It's almost as if it was scripted by Monty Python news.sky.com/story/zarah-...

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. All the stuff you didn't get taught in school!