At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

A win! Florida will shutter “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

Somebodye stoppe Simon Armitage bifor he doth translate everyethinge written bifor the yeare 1900

You'll be shocked to learn the reporter Trump called a "dumb person" is a black woman (Akayla Gardner of MSNOW) thegrio.com/2026/05/12/t...

Maurice Glasman, Gillian Keegan, Mick Lynch occupying the sofa, & the airwaves, on @cathynewman.bsky.social’s show. Brexit & Brexitism central. Reality free. Fantasising this way ain’t how the UK will recover. Or even hold together. You can do better @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Do you want to?

Yep. If it isn't this, it'll be some other probably minimal thing in a few weeks, or months. You're can't survive with this degree of political damage.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

This is incredibly sexy. The woman is pretty hot too.

Yet more Farage hasn't declared

After the comments by Ben Habib about Farage and Johnson taking money from Harborne, the BBC top 6 stories are about when and how the PM could lose his job. Either the Habib thing is a prank or our BBC is a propaganda machine.

Excellent. What a wonderful company for our government to be embedding in the NHS and the UK’s armed forces. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

Holocaust denial, but the newspapers pretending to give a damn about antisemitism, The Times, Telegraph and Mail, haven't covered it because it's not about the Greens.

Let me clarify today's events for the hard of thinking and the BBC Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. Nigel Farage is still a bought and paid for shill for dodgy foreign powers who do not have your best interests at heart. LEARN. THE. FUCKING. DIFFERENCE. YOU. GULLIBLE. CUNTS!

There are some very undesirable dark forces at work here and they absolutely DO NOT have the interests of the of the British people at heart......🖤😒

Health minister Zubir Ahmed is latest Streeting ally to resign, saying Starmer's position is 'wholly untenable'. Part of the right-wing coup to ensure that Mandelson protege becomes PM without proper contest. Streeting is tainted, will push labour even more to the right. Must change policies.

Turns out that Hungary’s new Health Minister who celebrated the election win dancing on the podium - Dr Hegedűs -worked in the NHS, serving as a clinical lead & head of orthopaedics at N Manchester General Hospital, then was the lead surgeon for day surgery at the Cirencester Treatment Centre.

And with the Epstein files, Blanche is still keeping him out of jail…

He admitted that they were AP photos minutes later, but the damage was already done. On what basis did you decide to refer to them as “govt propaganda” and “fake news” while ardently urging the public not to trust them, Sam? None? Oh that’s fine then. Just broadcasting to MILLIONS of people.

What the FUCK? Sam Coates at Sky News warning the public that photos released by No 10, of Starmer, are “government propaganda” and “fake news” without ANY discernible evidence. He repeatedly tells people to NOT trust the photos. No broadcaster should show this level of bias. BEYOND fucked up.

Great Yarmouth First only contested one part of Norfolk. It won every single county division there – and may now have more influence than anyone expected. Ben Robinson reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...

Serious allegations made by Ben Habib. Farage and Johnson allegedly paid £1m to rig 2019 election together. £5m bung to Farage in 2024 was allegedly payment to win Clacton and lead Reform. Murky Brexit deals that helped sell the lies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The King will read out the government’s legislative agenda for the year at the State Opening of Parliament tomorrow. But a senior civil service source admitted that the crisis around the PM has plunged the monarch’s role into “unchartered territory”: trib.al/wH2xCV2

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

My pitch for Al Carns Who? 1. He's unknown. Should be a negative. It isn't. His backstory is astonishing. Council house kid from the NE, ended up a full colonel in the special forces, broke a record for claiming Everest, speaks fluent "normal," blunt, practical, earnest. And clean.

Negatives 1. Not much experience in politics. Is that a negative? He led brigades of troops in Afghanistan, won a ludicrous number of bravery medals, and handled things at a "National Security Council" level. I'm sure he can handle a cabinet meeting, or being shouted at by Piers Morgan.

We do need those who have ambitions to come forward and make their pitch; policies not personalities are what matter most.

Buckingham Palace asking this too, according to Politico.

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

Ironic perhaps that developers of AI data centres didn’t use AI to calculate their carbon footprint - and so underestimated it by a factor of five (recent application for Google). www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

On a procedural point- the debate on King’s Speech will start later on tomorrow, with PM and LOTO speaking. Then there will be several days of debate in the Commons with each day taking a different theme- usually chosen by the LOTO.

ACT NOW for wildlife and Woodcock! Deadline: 17 May. Wild Justice has been lobbying for a reduction in the shooting season of Woodcock. The government have now opened a consultation. Follow the link for more info about how you can make a difference for Woodcock and other species. buff.ly/1FQThDt

This is very serious. There needs to be an enquiry into this and political funding in general. Evidence of Russian collusion was wiped from the UK record and I believe this is one of the many reasons voters are so disenchanted with UK politics.

Water, energy, buses, trains, NHS, care, Royal Mail All pass the new "public interest test" 👇 All of these are *critical national infrastructure* All of these *support the economy* All should be taken into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP Why stop at British Steel? www.gov.uk/government/n...

The Scottish parliament is without a single MSP fluent in the language, despite £5.7m funding to promote Gaelic and Scots

More Than 100 Labour MPs Sign A Letter Of Support For Starmer The pro-prime minister camp now outnumbers the rebels who have urged him to go. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

I'm very much in agreement with this. 400 years ago there wasnt much of a high street, and fixed shops tended to be for the wealthy. Markets were where most of us shopped until well into the C20th. Where they still exist, they are still big draws, as well as incubator spaces for retailers.

Privatisation of the public services we rely on to live has been the worst political decision of the last 50 years. A Labour government should be destroying this Thatcherite legacy.

Like Johnson, ironically; eager to *become* PM, not very interested in *being* PM...

This letter is really something, my god.

If this turns out to be true (I can’t, for now, find it being reported by a major news outlet) then it’s surely electoral fraud and an incredibly serious matter?

Exclusive: Labour mayor Helen Godwin on leadership race + Manchester mayor Andy Burnham "should not be blocked" from returning to Westminster + She "wouldn't dislike the idea" of Burnham being Prime Minister if Starmer steps down

Dear Cabinet, Try Cabinet Government. And doing it properly. As though there’s a war on. (Oh). If you had an outstanding candidate, there might be a point to changing leader. But you don’t. You’re just going to have to do policy, politics and government like your lives depend on it. Ours do.

Ed Milliband is brilliant. He's funny, normal and most important of all has managed to stick to his principles of a green economy etc in a gov that has tacked to the right. He's not very left wing but he's more left wing the SKS and friends so he could unite both sides perhaps.

I really do wonder if these MPs have actually spoken to any real Labour members, ever? Ed Miliband is widely liked and he is doing an incredible job. He's also brilliant at the dispatch box and in the media. He is widely hated by the right because he's doing a good job and they need him gone.

Counter: none of them are useless and Miliband in particular has run one of the most successful departmental operations we've seen since in years, with profound consequences for the planet itself.

This letter is devastating. Surgical.