At least a third of EU citizens in UK report discrimination by public bodies

"The excuse most often provided for turning away from green measures, for expanding fossil fuel production, for ignoring the science, is pragmatism.... this is dangerous drivel". @profbillmcguire.bsky.social hits the nail on the head www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PODCAST | Transformation of Auschwitz Listen about the process of turning Auschwitz concentration camp into a killing center for Jewish people from all over German-occupied Europe: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/transformation-of-auschwitz-concentration-camp-/

Wow Starmer finally drawing a line! "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation... If you say that they should now be deported, then mark my words - we will fight you with everything we have".

A Labour MP has said ‘not a single tax’ would have had to increase if Britain had not left the EU. More of this please. A lot more! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour voters overwhelmingly cite Brexit as the number one cause of our current difficulties, with 69% naming the decision to leave the EU as the main reason behind the country’s problems. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

💥 The independence of @electoralcommission.org.uk must be fully restored to safeguard the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, our new report warns. Covered exclusively by Rowena Mason in today’s @theguardian.com 👇

The decline of political interviewing in the UK grows apace. Today #trevorphillips said part of the Labour Party "first wanted the country [UK] to be Russia & now Venezuela" which is OTT. While #bbclaurak only talked process with Starmer & wanted him to admit he was in trouble.

Euronews.com: Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...

Can't argue with a single word of this. (Smart of the SNP to put this out without the usual "...and that's why we need independence". It allows people like me to endorse it.)

Sad news, but his principled stand on many issues - hunan rights, European unity, and of course his opposition to the Iraq war will be just part of his lasting legacy.

Before Vladimir Putin’s invading forces came swarming over the border, eastern Ukraine was the country’s beating heart of sports. Now, that has been all but wiped out in a trail of devastation.

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

Today the cross-party @CommonsHomeAffs publishes our report on the disorder last summer. July and August saw widespread disorder, following appalling murders of children in Southport. This was violent disorder, not legitimate protest. It was properly policed as such. (1/9)

Poland has become a global leader in participatory budgeting, through which local residents decide how some public money is spent. Over half of all such schemes in Europe are found in Poland, and they are quietly transforming its cities, towns and villages, writes Callum MacRae.

Hi All, After Trump's extraordinary outburst yesterday I just released this free piece. For once he spoke the truth. Ukraine can win, liberate ALL of its territory, and Russia is much weaker than he and others have been claiming.. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr. He went on to say “science is never settled”. Dangerous.

Sure. I left Twitter because I do not intend to legitimise an Apartheid-nostalgic, Sieg-Heiling, drug-fuelled narcissist by lending my weight to his right wing propaganda platform, knowing that he minimises my reach anyway. Each to their own though, I suppose.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

The road to this happening has taken years and I genuinely found it very odd listening to the end of the debate today thinking “this is just going to… happen now?”

Latest research on public attitudes from me👇 “The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”

Good post on latest ECJ judgment issued in relation to Poland's (still ongoing) rule of law crisis. While ruling is compelling, case law has become messy. Eg. unlawfully appointed 🇵🇱 Sup Ct "judges" cannot lawfully adjudicate or submit 267 TFEU requests but can adopt internal measures (eg transfer)

Three in four Scots worry about climate change, and 2/3 want bold action. That's why this week, we're backing the @sccscot.bsky.social mass lobby of the Scottish Parliament. Hundreds of people are heading to Holyrood to tell MSPs: end the inertia, act fast, act fair. See you there? bit.ly/3IhI7fl

Under First Past the Post, a Reform overall majority of 80. Under PR, 46% for Reform and Tories, 48% for centre-left parties @compassoffice.bsky.social @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

🚙💰 UK Forfeits almost £2bn by Remaining a Tax Haven for SUVs. 💡 The solution? T&E UK proposes a simple weight-based levy, ensuring larger vehicles pay their fair share. www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-ki...

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows

85 years ago: 15 September 1940; the Battle of Britain reached its climax leading to the RAF's defeat of the Luftwaffe. So many things to be proud of including the fourteen nationalities who made up the RAF & huge role of Poles & Czechs. The defeat of fascism does not belong to the far-right.

Apply the same rules to Elon Musk as to others is a good thing to keep pressing. He & his platform both act as if they are above the law. We need the rule of law for all

It would be a fitting apology to Diane Abbott, for these utterly disgusting messages, for Labour to immediately let her back into the Parliamentary Labour Party

Politicians from all parties must come together to condemn Elon Musk’s dangerous call for violence and make clear it has no place in our country.

Such is the atmosphere stoked by politicians and media, that if you’re a coachload of young men from varied ethnic backgrounds arriving in an English town, it’s currently about 50-50 whether you’ll face abuse, threats or potentially worse.

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

Boris Johnson was paid £240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amid a soaring cost-of-living crisis, tighter EU import restrictions, and the spread of animal disease in Europe, the U.K. faces the risk of a major disease outbreak from a surge in illegal meat smuggling, all in the absence of direct oversight of the issue. www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-l...

This is a very important initiative, and urgently needed. Neal Lawson from @compassoffice.bsky.social is absolutely right to say this is a perilous time for Labour (and of course it is a moment of peril for progressive values and the future of democracy itself in the UK).

The claim that PR will “let Reform in” is misleading. Our new publication, "The Temper Trap" by Stuart Donald shows coalition governments neutralise extreme policies. Under FPTP, Reform is more extreme than its European peers in government & has forced the Conservatives Rightwards regardless.

Exclusive: the first poll of the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support. It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired www.newstatesman.com/politi...

This is a very important initiative, and urgently needed. Neal Lawson from @compassoffice.bsky.social is absolutely right to say this is a perilous time for Labour (and of course it is a moment of peril for progressive values and the future of democracy itself in the UK).

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year. The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph

🚨🚨‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle". If anyone forgot about it, this is a reminder of the still disastrous effects of #brexit that still brings misery and pain to Britain. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/brex...

England remains invisible in the UK’s devolved constitutional set-up. Could this be the real root of English grievance that Farage so successfully taps into – not Brussels, not migrants, but Westminster itself? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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