First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

By refusing to condemn the illegal attacks on Iran, Trump's British lapdog makes it clear that he supports a world where anything goes, where might is right, and wherein fascists and warmongers can do whatever they want Sickening, but no surprise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

Facile, desultory, puerile and banal. Or, as the BBC and Laura Kuenssberg would have it: 'In Depth'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

If there was ever an example of the redundant nature of this so-called ‘Union of equals’, it is Scotland's energy sector. It’s Scotland’s energy. Let’s make it work for Scotland as an independent nation.

Opaque shell companies in British Overseas Territories used for $8bn trade to bust sanctions against Russia. BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar are key nodes, as in illicit financial flows. Banks, accountants, lawyers involved. UK govts pretend not to know.

Re-peopling the glens with woodland crofts rather than subsidy fuelled hill sheep or ecocidal grouse shooting. Eco-village with crofts and affordable homes planned at loch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Again, #Bodø/Glimt show #Celtic fans what they could have had: a well-run club with a coherent strategy, punching above their weight in Europe, unshackled by an old, unimaginative, complacent and hopelessly conservative executive. #SackTheBoard www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

We can’t accept demands to tactically vote for Labour when Labour alone have the power to change the voting system and end tactical voting for good -and they still choose not to. That’s not a tactical choice, it’s extortion!

Hundreds of Londoners can breathe easier tonight after a company controlled by billionaire landlord Asif Aziz halts plan for one of the largest mass evictions in the UK capital’s history.

Yorkshire Water fined £733,333 for dumping sewage in a Chesterfield country park stream. Events go back to 2018-2019. Why 8 year wait? Company has 125+ criminal convictions. No exec ever fined/prosecuted. Fines announced in 2024 were later waived. The same likely again

Just when I thought #Scotland might have a soupçon of a scintilla of a glimmer of a chance against #Ireland in three weeks' time...😅 #6Nations #SixNations #M6N #ENGvIRE

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation' New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

Tony Gilroy’s recent interview sheds light on a crucial irony: creating art about fascism while facing censorship. Disney’s request to avoid the term highlights a disturbing trend—corporate interests stifling vital conversations.

Hannah Fry on our accelerating relationship with AI: ‘So far, society has been based on exchanging labour for money. Our tax system is based on taxing income, not wealth. I think those two things are going to have to change.’ www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️ With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇

Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood. Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties. Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.

Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s

The US fascists’ obsession with Hungary is so strange. It’s as if the Nazis had decided to ignore Japan an Italy and prioritise their relations with Thailand.

This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand. The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.

When a peer makes headlines for the wrong reasons, there's virtually nothing the public can do about it. This is a democratic scandal. buff.ly/GNXnFru

MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed. Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue' Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.

Fossil companies dropping CCS ambitions aligns with my theory. If the "targets" fend off scrutiny and regulation, why keep them when there's no longer any threat of scrutiny or regulation? Equinor were *never* planning to recapture their toxic waste. We already knew this :) archive.ph/D23Q3

So the UK has been allowing a firm run by a guy who videos sex and torture of children to buy up freeports? Freeports that are subsidised by public money.

Anas Sarwar is about to call for Starmer to resign for his appalling judgement when it came to Peter Mandelson. The same Anas Sarwar who proudly posed with his 'old friend' years after everyone knew that Mandelson stuck with Epstein despite his conviction for child sex offences.

Today MPs will debate Russian interference in our politics and democracy. This is why a full inquiry is still necessary 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/britain-st...

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

Scotland was a priority target for Morgan McSweeney, and Labour moved from one to 37 seats in 2024. However, eight Labour MPs received £10k cash donations from Labour Together NOT registered on the Electoral Commission website. revealing the names…

“The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face. Worse, I have come to think that it sometimes contributes to decision-making delays.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

If China’s clean energy industry was a country, it would be the 8th biggest economy in the world cf - China makes more from clean tech exports than US makes from fossil fuel exports cf2 - China's Belt & Road project is bigger than US Marshall plan after WW2 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a distinct yawning "signature"

Steve Bannon, "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We're not going to let you steal the country" "You can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want" "But we will never again allow an election to be stolen again"

Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...

“We built this society together – and then we stopped.” Miranda Sheild Johansson hears from pensioners reflecting on Sweden’s welfare state describe regret, complacency and a loss of collective purpose after tax cuts. eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.