More broken promises from Brighton & Hove Labour. Staff working at Brighton's iconic Royal Pavilion, as well as at the city's three museums and Preston Manor, were previously promised that their wages and working conditions would be protected from cuts. www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/04/10/m...

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Just pre-ordered this!

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

April fools... but the only joke is Labour refusing to nationalise water to protect our rivers and lower our bills

I'm currently working towards Accredited Indexer status with the Society of Indexers. I've found them to be very helpful, thorough and professional 📚

Labour saying Starmer 'keeping Britain out of the war' will be part of their local elections campaign. But it's untrue. There are 27 US B52s at RAF Fairford, launching bombing raids. Starmer has made Britain part of Trump's war. He could have just said no, like Spain's PM.

🤮 If you’re using AI to ‘write’ your book, you’re not a writer. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You've only got a few days left to object to Brighton Marina's application to dump dredged sediment on a rare chalk reek, in a marine protected area. Join thousands of people and send your objection email today. https://f.mtr.cool/haazgdbxpx

Labour, the Conservatives, AND the Greens are all currently polling at 17.7%... electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

Incredible alt text alert 😂

Scratch a transphobe, uncover a fascist! ‘Gender critical’ transphobes are exposing their/ radicalising themselves into racism, homophobia, and misogyny as they self-exclude themselves from humanity and only interact with other fascists.

Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths

A cross party committee of MPs has warned that the UK and our allies need to prepare to defend Europe without the US. It's time to face up to the threats that we're facing - and we urgently need to end our reliance on the US. news.sky.com/story/uk-and...

It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. A powerful message from @mothinali.bsky.social: youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA

Support for slave trade reparations in principle, by 2024 vote Green: 53% support Labour: 34% Lib Dem: 28% Conservative: 7% Reform: 4% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Erm.... Are these people ok? I don't think they're ok. Join.greenparty.org.uk

ALSO worth reading about Dr. Alan Hart, who pioneered the use of X rays in detecting TB. He was also the first trans man in the US to get a gender affirming hysterectomy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_L....

Wow, this is quite a story

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds

Madness

Pretty clear what’s happening here—people are making a lot of money off of these wild swings:

And this is an exact reminder of why we must stand against both Antisemitism and Islamophobia. The cynical forces who seek to divide our communities must never win. We will stand together.

33.7% of the electorate voted Labour on a wave of optimism to boot out the Tories. In less 2 years they’ve lost half their vote & are doing as badly as the Tories they replaced. Yet even without billionaire donations the Greens are replacing Labour & challenging media/billionaire-backed Reform.

Of *course* AI was used to come up with the ban list. Of course.

Happy World Poetry Day! I'm not a poet, but most of my research is about poetry, counterculture and Romanticism. Check out my talks about Blake, Wordsworth, Dylan and Ginsberg, and my writing about all those plus many other British and American Beat and counterpoetic figures!

In which we see - the first? - admission from a (presumably) well-placed Labour Party source that @greenparty.org.uk now has more members than Labour!

I’m pretty sure there used to be lots and lots of people willing to do this sincerely and for free, at one point. Not now, obviously.

Daniel Kebede told a press briefing that the Greens and its leader Zack Polanski “align very closely with the education policies” of the teachers’ union. schoolsweek.co.uk/neu-teachers...

💚 Wow, @carolinelucas.bsky.social is on fire here! 🔥

We’re living inside chaos and it’s hard to get perspective, but this two month timeline shows just how irrational the US has become. The failure to impeach after 2020 was an act of national suicide.

🚨 BREAKING! 🟢 Yes: 70 🔴 No: 27 It's official! Scotland has voted for our bill to ban greyhound racing!

#GoodNews #CampaigningWorks www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

In 2020, Keir Starmer said he would bring in legislation which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs. He has not done this - so I have, tabling the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill earlier this month.

The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.

The city centre car park has had its day. There is now a significant opportunity to put the land previously used for car parking to much more productive use. Land that could be used for tens of thousands of homes in city centres. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today is Monday, March 16 Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell. People have the power To wrestle the world from fools✊

🔴 The Elections Watchdog Doesn’t Know Where Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Are Coming From The UK’s electoral watchdog tells @bylinetimes.bsky.social it wants tough new legal powers to prevent overseas donors from secretly bankrolling British political parties bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/t...

At present, the National Seed Bank of Wales holds just 11% of Welsh flora. This new funding will enable the National Botanic Garden to increase this level by targeting 100 priority plant features found on Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) across Wales. So, very much a good news story.

"JEFFREY Epstein illegally supplied Peter Mandelson with drugs while he was a government minister, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today." [Mail on Sunday front page] "Mandelson tells the sex offender that drugs thought to be Xanax sedatives are ‘all very well but you need someone to use them on…’"

In a study in 2001 (Pickrell and Loftus, University of Washington), about one third of subjects shown a faked print advert for Disneyland featuring a child shaking hands with an actor dressed as Bugs Bunny (a Warner Bros. character) subsequently remembered meeting the character at the park.

"Iran is our enemy because it is an Islamist theocracy that denies human rights to women and LGBTQ people, brutally beheads political dissidents, violently attacks its neighbours, and funds terrorism. That's why today I'm visiting our close friend and ally, Saudi Arabia."

What did I say? I said: when Sir Keir has outlived his usefulness, you will not be able to miss it.

He did the meme.

'Capitalism is solidified egotism.' - Allen Ginsberg, 1974

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?