Very worrying polling out of France today, showing the far right winning the presidency in every second round possibility :/

Discussions are taking place between Senedd Members about the possibility of changing the electoral system for next year’s council elections in Wales, we have been told ✍️Martin Shipton

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

"Good news, boss: the dodgy money stories aren't cutting through!"

A proposal: Did you know that, if we spread bin-raking activities to more evenly harass and denounce politicians of all kinds, then we might have fewer clown Prime Ministers and fewer criminal powers-behind-the-throne who turn out to have been deeply compromised by foreign intelligence operatives?

Of the 949 people detained in 2024's racist riots, 1 in 5 have been subsequently reported for domestic abuse. These thugs aren't protecting anyone, let alone women. The racist narratives they spin actively undermine efforts to tackle violence against women and girls.

In Rip off Britain, education has been treated as yet another commodity. And those who work in education are treated badly over and over again. Awful for educators and awful for students. I'll be speaking tonight at the University and College Union 👇🏼

Cuts to youth services, apprenticeships, and affordable public transport have left young people worse off, and now as adults they face a world of unaffordable rents, AI, climate change and a mental health crisis fuelled by austerity. More cuts is never the answer.

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

Has Blair got a new war out or something

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

There was a very lengthy and forensic inquiry into this resulting in a very detailed report that stopped just short of calling Tony’s conduct a criminal enterprise, so naturally it was chucked in the bin in favour of continuing to invite Blair, Campbell and Mandelson into TV studios for interviews.

Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35°C Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8 °C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Nothing at all fishy going on here over the weekend, I assume

Bob Dylan's 85th Birthday Celebrations on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/.../s-m-24-b...

This is excellent news - I hope this gets confirmed. Oxford Union should not be using its history and prestige to launder the reputation of an Islamophobic criminal like Tommy Robinson.

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

Today my heart is with our trans community, treated so abysmally in this country. Draft guidance means trans people are barred from services they could previously access & inclusive service providers will be at legal risk. Green Party statement: greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

Wall's Kinky Ice Lolly (1968-circa 1971): A bar of strawberry and vanilla ice creams coated in rainbow sprinkles (or as they are known in the UK where this was sold, "hundreds & thousands"). Leaned HEAVILY into the psychedelic/peacock revolution aesthetics and youth culture of the time for marketing

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

"Burnham did not say when he would like to see these changes introduced or whether he would commit to starting the process if he becomes prime minster this year." We're still waiting for the referendum on PR promised in the Labour manifesto. The 1997 manifesto.

Another laughable attempt by nasty transphobe Wes to appeal to the left. But the BBC is wrong in its reporting on how this proposal differs from Green party tax policy. Greens would introduce exactly this reform to capital gains tax *as well as* a true wealth tax. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Change?

I think the time has come to ban the Labour Party and everyone in it.

Always happy to be reminded of this piece of genius

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho keeps saying the "UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses". It's completely untrue. Denmark, France, Spain & Ireland have all done the same. She went completely unchallenged on Talk this AM when she repeated it.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

This International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we celebrate our recently elected LGBTIQA+ councillors. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/17/t...

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Labour wouldn't, for a second, consider stepping aside for The Greens under any circumstances. Start from there.

I personally would prefer it if Burnham could be swapped in quickly and easily, and it’d probably be better for the nation. But I see no reason why the Greens should now help people who just spent two weeks calling them hateful racist cranks trying to give heroin to children.

In other news that's likely to get buried "The cut of more than £800m to the UN’s Green Climate Fund is likely to undermine developing nations’ response to global warming." www.ft.com/content/98dc...

This is an appalling case and Germany deserves far greater international opprobrium over it and similar actions. It also shows why citizenship-on-probation, and other measures that create hierarchies of rights within the same society, must be resisted without compromise.

So, from very quick research/replies here, it seems our new shiny Health Minister believed trans women are women in 2022 but declined to answer the question in 2025. Another spineless fuckwit that blows with the right wing wind.

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

That 17 minute meeting in full... "You're crap!" "Fight me then." "I will." "Go on then..." "I'll do it when I want to." "You're scared!" "No YOU'RE scared!" "Your Mum smells." "My Dad was a toolmaker." "Yeah, he made YOU!" "I'M seeing the King. So there..." (The grown-ups are in the room)

MPs are back in Parliament tomorrow. Make sure they speak out so we can rip up the EHRC's transphobic guidance once and for all. https://action.goodlawproject.org/force-government-rip-ehrc%E2%80%99s-transphobic-guidance

Look at that growth 😍 💚 From 164 councillors in 2016 to 1319 in 2026 - a 704% increase! We're not stopping here. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

he won’t be able to dodge questions ahout his £5m gift forever observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage was asked for a Cameo clip to “talk about how the world is going to shit and how secret societies are controlling everything”. He appears to have volunteered several Jewish conspiracy references himself to that request. Wouldn't all hell break out if Corbyn/Polanski did this on camera too?

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BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

someone in a Labour strategy meeting crosses out "BE MORE RACIST" on a massive flipchart, thoughtfully picks up a marker, writes "BE EVEN MORE RACIST??"