This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.

Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action? My latest for @zeteo.uk. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.uk/p/people-are...

From the paper which backed all 6 previous prime ministers, publishes negative articles about immigrants, spreads anti-Islam and backed Brexit to the hilt.

Climate change is not a problem for the distant future. The consequences are already here. We need to act now. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/arctic-sea-ice-decline-2025-b3018642.html

🔴 Reform UK’s £30,000 Donation in Private Flights was Secretly Funded by Owner’s ‘Credit’ Exclusive: A @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation raises questions about whether the true source of the money went undeclared by Nigel Farage’s party bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/r...

I am an eternal optimist...

A mess that could have been totally avoided, by the way. And EU membership would put an end to the chaos.

FT: Donald Trump plans to unleash fresh tariffs on dozens of countries. EU membership could shield the UK from new tariffs that would hurt our economy.

Fingers crossed! liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/464...

Of course we want a fiscally responsible government but oh my God, the handwringing about “where will this £850mn come from?” from the same country that spaffed £40bn on a Brexit divorce bill plus a further £100bn a year yet no one seemed to give a shit where that would all come from!

Boris Johnson fury over Andy Burnham plot to reverse Brexit - 'It will become unstoppable' - Let’s hope!

There's already a party offering policies to the right of Nigel Farage. It's called Restore and it's currently polling at an average of 3%

Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party

I'm impressed how none of the commentators make Mahmood staying a big deal. They just forget about her, as though the anti-immigrant line is just a permanent fixture now, unworthy even of comment.

Enjoyed Sam Coates' long monologue on how the VAT discount in energy bills is BOTH an insignificant drop in the ocean AND impossibly difficult to fund. Enjoyed Chris Mason's monologue about how yesterday was BOTH a total purge of all senior Starmer people AND not really real change. As you were.

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tories, Farage and the tantruming tabloids whining about Burnham needing a mandate and the country needing an election… just get in the bin. Your histrionics over the last decade have caused this instability and perma-outrage. A bunch of entitled inadequates unable to accept Labour being in power.

I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role

Not Quite the reputation to make any character assessment “The Lord Chancellor and Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb considered that Ms Pochin’s behaviour fell below the standards expected of a magistrate and have issued her with formal advice.” 🤣🤣 northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/sar...

Because appointing someone who was fined £100 for not reporting that she found the phone she thought was stolen is so much more serious than choosing as your right hand man someone who was imprisoned after being charged with money laundering, blackmail and extortion.

Classic OFCOM.

Well done The Daily Mail! 👏 Burnham must be held to account for the failures of his regime so far. His removal of VAT from electricity bills has already come far too late & could’ve been done yesterday. If he hasn’t solved the cost of living crisis by Friday then he must go! 😡

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The UK & the EU are stronger together". www.northweststar.com.au/story/931434...

"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski

Andy Burnham opts to keep Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary. A big mistake

oh yeah, go out clubbing in any northern town & all anyone is talking about is matt goodwin

This is great

I bet that by 6pm a slightly bigger majority of people will know that Kevin Keegan has died, than that Andy Burnham is PM.

Reform’s Robert Jenrick tells LBC he “hopes that Andy Burnham delivers the change the country needs. But I worry he doesn’t have a plan”. Jenrick works for Farage who delivered Brexit with no plan whatsoever and continues to cost us £100m a year. Left completely unchallenged.

Kevin Keegan's seasons playing and managing Newcastle Unite made us Sunderland fans really suffer. What a huge character as well as a wonderful footballer. RIP a football icon gone far too soon at only 75. Eff cancer. www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Five PM’s in four years. The anatomy of an unprecedented mess. And the Burnham bounce. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Andy Burnham is the new Prime Minister. We're in Makerfield to speak with constituents about his plans for the future - and whether they think he should pursue closer relations with the EU. What else should we ask them? Comment below. ⬇️

His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect

We're less than a decade away from turning into a third world country. The sort of country where corrupt politicians are bought for £5 million and have all their expenses paid by convicted criminals.

Onions are off the menu, crops decimated. Water shortages mentioned also. 700,000 chickens died. But the Telegraph can't bring itself to mention "Climate Change" anywhere in the article. It's all just happening in a vacuum. A random heat-wave.

Didn’t Trump halt trade to Spain and then gave $20 billion to Javier Milei as a financial lifeline for Argentina? Trump supported Argentina, so the look of disappointment on his face, is gratifying. Every single thing he touches, turns to shit….

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

Actually, it's like living in an episode of Line of Duty - an authority figure you expect will behave reasonably suddenly does something totally perverse and you realise THEY'VE GOT TO HIM TOO

Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil, and the BBC apparatus which gave Cambridge Analytica a chance to undermine @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s investigation before it was published, called law breaking ‘rule breaking’, demeaned her as a mad cat lady, and fluffed Farage, deserve all the ignominy of history

Those who vilified @carolecadwalla.bsky.social over her revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Vote Leave overspending, and Leave EU’s Russian gold and diamond discussions, at least declared their joint project a few years later - the Brexit Battalion Media Corps bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

Is it at the counter where I have to prove I'm hung?

Left: Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises Andy Burnham, "The hope he changes stuff is not enough, you need substance, you need to explain explain what you're going to do" Right: Boris Johnson, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next, because we didn't think it was our job to have a plan"

Read the article AND read this thread Phil Brickell is the Parliamentary APPG Chair for anti corruption and fair taxation. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Finally, it is not for any one MP to determine whether the Member’s Code of Conduct has been breached. That is for the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to independently determine. Suffice to say, this pattern of behaviour is unprecedented in British politics. I am gravely concerned. END

Yo @labouruk.bsky.social are Muslim lives not as equal as Jewish lives? If this was a threat to the Jewish community, there would’ve been a government response. Why the silence?

The charges they are facing are extremely serious. This filth being locked up for a long time and away from the means of contaminating young minds can only be a social good.

The Left are trying to KILL ME! - Nigel Farage Farage is blaming the murder of Ann Widdecombe on the left being too mean about Reform UK. He claims he has no way to respond. (Narrator: He has his own news channel)

Hard Brexit has led to misery and missed flights for thousands of British travellers this summer. And it's about to get a lot worse with the rush. Don't get caught out, and don't forget who to blame... spoiler, it's not the EU that is just "protecting its borders" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?