Well said! @elliechowns.bsky.social: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fomenting his idea that immigration is the problem in this country. "It's completely untrue."

Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.

Quite striking how the argument the Green Party have been making for some time now - and getting called all sorts of silly names for by the Labour Government - is the most popular position with the British public. Funny the things you can just say when you've not been bought and paid for....

Our electoral system is causing ever greater distortions It cannot handle multi-party politics There is an elections bill in Parliament *right now* that could change this Make sure your MP knows you think that it should #FairVotesNow

When even the ultra-loyalists are turning away in despair, it suggests Labour are in even deeper trouble than we realise Really extraordinary to see this www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/02/13/f...

No one trains teachers for this part of the job. Watch The Hardest Lesson - a short film about what it's really like to teach during a #climate crisis. Not the facts. The feelings. The silence. The responsibility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...

Today is about love. But for some, it’s one of the hardest days, especially for those whose loved ones should still be here. youtu.be/UjAL3reW2yg

Putin's regime killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say. No surprise - and it will not worry Trump, Kushner & the other US kleptocrats who are gagging to do lucrative "business" with Putin. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

After more than a month of almost perpetual rain, the sun has finally come out over Falmouth. Seldom has a coffee on Prince of Wales Pier tasted so good!

Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action. Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.

"Keir Starmer has lost the trust of the country. It is absolutely time for him to go.” Ellie Chowns on Labour’s mounting scandals and leadership crisis on #BBCQT

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Absolutely brilliant take-down by @fionaharvey.bsky.social of ludicrous myths & misinformation spouting from Tony Blair’s think tank. Why on earth does he think it’s sensible to make our energy more costly & less secure?

Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it. But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy. Both present major threats to public life.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

High Court: proscription of #PalestineAction was unlawful. Greens voted against proscription, so we welcome this. Govt must now immediately end its authoritarian attacks on peaceful protest, and fully address its complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It was clear from the start that the ban on Palestine Action was a gross breach of civil liberties and a shameless attack on freedom of speech. How much police time and taxpayers' money has been wasted arresting peaceful protesters against genocide? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

In short, while pointing out that breaking news with conflicting perspectives involves publication of competing accounts, pending clarification, BBC accepts it was slow to adjust once it became clear that only one side was engaged in to truth. Key paras in long email here …

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

Well, Nigel Farage has only 2 principles: 1) Self-aggrandizement, whether through racist bullying as a schoolboy or through the attainment of political power 2) Making as much money by as possible, whether through far-right politics or dodgy side-grifts

1/ In September 2018 Rees-Mogg "distanced himself" from Steve Bannon, telling Reuters they'd had no contact since one meeting in 2017. It now appears from the Epstein files that Rees-Mogg was, in 2018/19, conspiring with Bannon, Farage & Johnson to defenestrate Theresa May.

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says the #ICC is necessary to “expose those responsible” and address atrocities - ethnic cleansing - in the West Bank 👇 www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... #WestBank

The mood in Gorton and Denton is clear - Labour have blown it. Only the Greens can stop Reform.

Local government reorganisation should not be rushed through from the centre and dressed up as devolution. Change can work — but only when it has local consent. If ministers truly believe in devolution, they must trust communities to shape their own future. #LocalDemocracy #Devolution

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

We must defend UK democracy from Russian interference and the wider web of dirty money and misinformation which enables bad actors to undermine trust in politics. The Elections Bill is crucial in addressing this - the govt must not delay it any further.

"She is demonstrating what it really means to stand up for local people." @elliechowns.bsky.social discusses Keir Starmer's untenable position and the need for more MPs like Hannah Spencer on Sky News Politics Hub.

So Jim Ratcliffe, anti-immigrant Brexit-backing multi-billionaire who moved to Monaco to avoid tax, anti-union fossil fuel magnate & major polluter... What first attracted you to Nigel Farage?

As something of a specialist in mitigation, “Actually I took my children with me to Paedo Island” is not what I would open with.

Now let’s hear Farage, Badenoch et al screech about foreign interference in our elections

"Culture war" politics by numbers, complete with gross misrepresentation, phoney outrage and playing the victim. Followed by threats to destroy an educational institution. And all done to generate rage among the easily gullible. So very Reform.

Palantir is hand in glove with the Trump administration, which is riddled with Russian assets.. It's likely that any sensitive UK military data the Trump administration gets its hands on will be passed on to Putin. It's absolutely insane to put Palantir technology at the heart of UK defence.

Left wing & liked a tweet by a Green politician? Sorry you can't be a Labour candidate for parliament On the Labour right & campaigned for someone who'd been charged with possessing and distributing indecent images of children? Here's a peerage to represent Labour in parliament

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

A lavish party to celebrate a £241m military AI deal with Palantir. This is the same US firm embedded in our NHS, with links to anti-democratic politics. This deserves scrutiny, not champagne. #Accountability #Democracy

This is the funniest headline I seen in a long time. And bravo to whoever underlined the desperation with the juxtaposed link.

🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

Solidarity with @unison.org.uk workers at the University of Bristol who are striking against a 3.4% real terms pay cut. Since 2009 higher education pay has lost around 28% of its value. It's time for University workers to be paid fairly.

20,000 doors knocked in Gorton and Denton this weekend alone. Only the Greens can stop Reform here.

Hope is with the Green Party. Delighted to welcome Cllr Brett Wright, who represents part of Eastbourne on East Sussex County Council, into the Green Party!

Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.

The Green MPs have written to the Cabinet Secretary urging an investigation into "Palantir's vice-like grip on our Government" and the role played by disgraced Peter Mandelson in brokering it. All contracts with this Trump-supporting spy tech company must be suspended.

A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

"These are not the actions of a state seeking peace; they are the latest extension of a long-upheld system that denies Palestinians the right to determine their own future." - @elliechowns.bsky.social Israel's expanding control over the West Bank cannot go on. The UK Government must act.

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

it really boils down to who do you hate more, rich sex abusers or the left, and I’m afraid that from Thatcher to Starmer we’ve been run by people for whom the answer to that question is “the left”