The Kings Speech shows why Starmer must go. What a wasted opportunity! Where’s the urgent transformative programme to redistribute wealth, tackle the nature & climate crisis, bring water into public hands, & introduce rent controls & wealth taxes? No hope, no story, no vision

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Xbox think they smart and shit, with the Xbox 360 and that... geometry. But now? They can't even count, they went from 1, to X, to S... then to AI? AI ain't even a fuckin' number, they call it Arti-fishy-ate Intelligence cause that IQ ain't even real homie. Fuck that shit aight"

Petition to bring back everyone's favorite @mta.info video now that bus lane enforcement cameras are rolling out on more routes

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!

A new Connectivity Tool gives England and Wales a national measure of how well places link to jobs and services, helping planners locate sustainable development. A free Lite version lets the public explore local connectivity. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Great British Railways is unveiled with new branding, a ticketing app, and frozen fares. The Railways Bill aims to unify 17 organisations under public ownership, creating a simpler, more reliable, and passenger-focused railway across Britain. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result: 🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0) ➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2) 🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9) 🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3) 🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2) 🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New) 💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2021.

Good to see such a positive turn of events, I hope it works well for him, I really do! Also didn't know that Greater Manchester has a neuroinclusive code of practice, hopefully other regions will copy this. I'm university educated and autistic and work is so hard to get, it needs to change!

What a bunch of assholes Waitrose are! Next time benefits are attacked, this is what the disabled face trying work! He may have volunteered but clearly liked the routine, he needs to be paid. Obvious exploitation & discrimination from a multi billion pound company! www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉 📈 125,000 members and counting.

The sequel to The Thick of It is a bit shit without Malcolm Tucker in it lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3l6...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

Seems especially true with invisible disabilities. I used to be really good at masking my autism and was described as ‘higher functioning’ when I was diagnosed as a child. Now I have less tolerance of sensory issues(since Covid) & even family take issue. But I always struggled, I just hid it before!

www.gov.uk/government/n... Please price it sensibly! About time we got train routes like this.

god this reminds me of the day Theresa May's conference speech went wrong in about nine different ways, and there were people saying things like, "I don't know how you can feel so little sympathy you want to make jokes!" and the answer was "REALLY EASILY SORRY, I THINK MOCKING POWER IS A MORAL DUTY"

A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...

The concession made by the government are welcome but don’t go far enough

Thank god for the archiving websites!

Cue the screams of "It's Labours fault for not giving us more money" while sweeping under the rug that they helped remove local government money over the years when wearing dark blue.

Something marvellous has happened in Hertfordshire but i bet the press won't mention it. I've now got a Green/Liberal Dem council, Liberal Dem/x county Council and Labour MP. 10 years ago this was a Tory stronghold. Please stop going on about Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

Hertfordshire Council Result #LE2025: LDM: 31 (+8) CON: 22 (-24) RFM: 14 (+14) GRN: 5 (+4) LAB: 5 (-2) IND: 1 (=) Conservative LOSE to No Overall Control.

Absolutely brilliant letter.

If you see this post, share a pic from your device with no explanation

Buses are vital for our local area but have been neglected for far too long, this must change! Please sign -https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-london-buses-to-cheshunt-and-broxbourne

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJB2... We all need a good laugh right now @michaelspicer.bsky.social

Nice comment from a reader on my blog this morning (which I've only just spotted) responding to Pat McFadden

Utterly indefensible. Labour are choosing to cut vital support from vulnerable people. They are also choosing to protect the wealth of the super rich. If this makes you angry, do something about it. Join @greenparty.org.uk and challenge this Government.

Me: "Do I qualify for any health-related benefits? I can't work because of kidney disease and heart failure." An AI civil servant: "You can make a hearty and healthy steak and kidney pie from this recipe. It won't fail. First, take several kidneys..."

People aren’t out of work because their ‘aspirations are low,’ MP Jo White. They’re out of work because they’re disabled. Because their communities have been starved of opportunity. Because vital resources like the NHS and social support have been gutted cementing disability.

Actually Labour is unfair and indefensible.

“The answer to a politics of scarcity is a politics of Abundance. A politics that asks what it is that people really need and then organizesaround government and markets to make sure there is enough of it.” -@ezraklein

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

"There are projects the length and breadth of this island that will never top the Treasury priority list, but would be transformative to communities, if only we let them raise the money themselves."

Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share? metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...

Patriotism is seeing the best in your country and celebrating it. It's not seeing the worst in other countries and blaming it.

London could absorb Slough under English Devolution plans www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon... London could get a bit bigger, as an option being considered by Slough Council could see it merge with a west London council or even become part of the Greater London Authority.

Throwing pedestrians and cyclists literally under the bus is 1960s transport policy, and is bad for health, the economy, and congestion. Do they say where all the additional cars will go at each end of the journey? Which other roads they will congest?

What could English Devolution look like after Local Government Reform? Based on rumours, news reports, and past proposals, here’s a potential map featuring 32 Combined Authorities across 152 Councils: (Control based off current no. of district councillors).

To celebrate the historic East End textile industries that inspired the London Overground’s Weaver line, a new woven roundel is now in place at Hackney Downs station. London textile artist Dalia James created the roundel with pieces woven by Londoners at community workshops.

You can believe in yourself, and you are on the Right. Or you can believe in everybody, and you are on the Left.

Google Street View Contrast, Nine Elms, Wandsworth, South-West London: 🅿️ 2008: A Sainsbury's car park and fuel station. 🚇 2024: A Tube station, with a Sainsbury's supermarket nearby and apartments above.

“Labour needs to stop blaming the Tories,” I just heard on @BBCRadio4. FFS, Labour has been in power only 5 months. The Tories blamed Labour for FOURTEEN years. And I can’t remember the BBC saying “The Tories need to stop blaming Labour.”

Philomena Cunk is back - and asking the questions that really matter December 30th #BBC

Did you know the Orient Express built for Kenneth Branagh's film Murder On The Orient Express is now parked up by Bassenthwaite Lake in England's Lake District? And you can have a meal or cream tea there... www.basslakestation.co.uk