Hang on. I thought the £5 million was for security upgrades? Or a reward for Brexit? Surely Farage wouldn't distort the truth... www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.

Keir Starmer's spokesman does not deny reports that Morgan McSweeney is now advising the Prime Minister again

The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

Disabled people in the U.K. report rising abuse from the public over Blue Badges as anti-benefit rhetoric grows. Many told The Guardian they have been verbally harassed, with some even physically assaulted. My story in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 1/5

Keir Starmer's niece is council election candidate in safe ward insidecroydon.com/2026/04/30/k... #Croydon #LocalElections2026 #Starmer @labourlist.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @fisherandrew79.bsky.social

Southern Water has admitted further sewage pollution discharges in Kent, some of which took place weeks after it was handed a record £90m penalty for illegal dumping www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Joani Reid has 'vanished' from the House of Commons, it has been claimed, since her husband’s arrest as part of a China spy probe

Kemi Badenoch on the Laura Kuenssberg show is doing a great job of pretending oil and gas from the North Sea will be 'ours' and will bring bills down and increase energy security. Rather than be sold on the global market and be mainly exported.

As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.

One leader is not going to bring socialism. Without organised power beyond the state, electoral victories won't hold. This work will take time - but it finally feels like we're getting closer. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its a disgrace

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

Welsh is a Brythonic language, and was spoken from Wales up to Cumbria, well before English evolved

If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

Too many people are too polite to say this. But holding mass rituals in public places is an act of domination. The druids are taking over.

Welsh is a Brythonic language, and was spoken from Wales up to Cumbria, well before English evolved

Great news. Dartmoor is an ecological disaster zone masquerading as a National Park, as its ecosystems have been grazed out by sheep. Now this must change.

Today I will mostly be trying to bribe people with cheap petrol, in the hope that they will forget that I have been cheering on the orange idiot whose war is pushing up fuel prices.

"The trade war, the affordability crisis, the Epstein files – all these issues made Trump look weak. And he has responded with grotesque displays of violence and domination, in a desperate attempt to restore his strongman image." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

I think she would be great - @GreenPartyHan comes across as so natural. She’d be a breath of fresh air down at that there Westminster

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Boomers grew rich as their economies were financialised, turning them into 'mini capitalists' who cared more about asset prices than wages. But the financial boom that made them wealthy was a one-off - and the next generation will never catch up. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

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...

Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 30.4% (+22.9) 🌹 LAB: 27.7% (-12.8) 🏘️ OL: 16.2% (New) 🙋 Ind: 11.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 8.3% (-15.3) ➡️ RFM: 2.7% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-5.9) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) No Ind (-21.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

What’s wrong with this statement? Trump threatens war with Iran at “Board of Peace” panel.

BBC bosses don't seem to care their right-wing bias is getting dangerously close to election criminality "The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England" via The National Newspaper

Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excl: Keir Starmer's team has been working with Brendan Cox despite his past resignations from three charities after claims of sexual misconduct. Top scoop from @anooshc.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

...and there are few non-apologies as effective as a foreign domicile's non-apology.

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

The departure of Morgan McSweeney exposes Starmerism for what it is: a political project built on deception, created by people guided only by an insatiable desire for power, and a belief in their own invulnerability. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-purge-...

Keir Starmer and the Purge That Devoured Its Architects The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the UK's left are now destroying his project from within, @graceblakeley.substack.com writes. Read: zeteo.com/p/keir-starm...

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...

Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

💥 GOOD. Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition… …after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir… …while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts… Stinks.

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been reported to the police over the latest Epstein revelations The SNP said serious allegations are now emerging that sensitive, state information that may have been passing between Mandelson and Epstein

For those that can’t remember tiny bits of news from September 2025: Lord Mandelson failed security services vetting & agency officials went on the record saying Mandelson was a bad idea. This was ignored by UK Gov/PM.

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer. That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks? Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

WHY is this government content to leave private renters stuck in homes not fit for habitation for another DECADE? The state of private rented homes is appalling. Renters deserve better than this disappointment from Labour. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed. The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media. Beware.

The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

Renee Nicole Good. Alex Pretti. We saw videos of them being murdered with our own eyes, yet the Trump administration would have us believe they were ‘domestic terrorists’. Nothing they say can be believed.