The emergence of the Greens as a potentially national force is fascinating because... well, they're really not like the other parties. The phrase "herding cats" is over-used, especially by Greens, but it's not wrong. They are *so* much more loosely-organised and democratised than anyone else.

You can stop talking about Matt Goodwin now! Perhaps instead talk about Hannah Spencer, the person who actually won.

Imagine being Starmer. Now you have to find a way to ramp up against both Reform and the Greens. Imagine being Badenoch. The governing party cares so little about you being in Opposition that you come third on the list of attack targets. Imagine being Farage. Then wash your brain out with soap.

What a surprise this comes out right after the story breaks about her secret bag on the flight with Lewandowski.

the worst people around have long figured out that you just say whatever you want with no pushback and it becomes fact. no pushback, just say it. say whatever you want, nobody cares. the interviewers nodding at you don't understand and don't care and won't challenge a single thing ever

Mandelson faces EU inquiry into Brussels trade role over Epstein links

“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love!” Literally.

Yes I wanted to say "puckers"... I'm 6 years old ok

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Zero hour: Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana duke it out in battle for the soul of Your Party - v interesting piece by @lexytopping.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andrea Jenkyns who asked for an extra £147k to help answer emails has been posing with a fake "budget box" because yes that's a totally normal thing that regional mayors do.

This reminds me of when that girl yeeted a milkshake on Nigel Farage and all the hardest most tough least offended big boys in Britain were going "WHAT IF IT HAD BEEN ACID!? AND NEXT TIME IT MIGHT BE!" like when people say weed is a gateway drug to heroin.

This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.

Canada is the first non-European country to be granted membership in SAFE. This is unlocking new export markets abroad for producers across Canada’s defence industry and better equipping our military with the resources they need.

The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.

NEW: Several FBI special agents tied to the 2022 search of Trump's Mar A Lago estate have been fired, three sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The firings days after FBI Director Kash Patel took heat over his locker room celebration at the Olympics.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

A child just told me something was AI that wasn’t AI and I asked “does AI just mean bad?” and he went “yeahhhhhhh” so there you have it.

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

This is both an act of war *and* a war crime, as it is similar to cutting off water or destroying power plants. It's designed to kill civilians.

If Donald's SOTU was the rhetorical representation of his fascism, this banner is the visual representation of it. Straight-up Nazi:

Here’s my takeaway from the State of the Union: NPR reports that the DOJ has “withheld” documents that include allegations that Donald “sexually abused a minor.”

The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share with lawmakers the classified intelligence that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing presidential claims of executive privilege. 🔗 on.wsj.com/40tVP49

Powerful moment in the Commons as Starmer calls on Farage to apologise for the Reform councillor who shared a post calling for Labour MP Natalie Fleet to be shot, pointing out that when Farage faced death threats Starmer condemned them. Farage totally ignores that & asks about the Chago Islands.

OK JD but how do we get them off you exactly?

NEW - Matt Pound, Rachel Reeves’ political secretary, is leaving government. This is the very last of the team loyal to McSweeney. That influence is now gone from government - remains unclear what will emerge next with big roles still unfilled.

Alsobrooks backs Casey Means into a corner about her failure to disclose her conflicts of interest to such an extent where Means has no response and just grants the point

BREAKING via the LA Times The FBI is currently raiding the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and LAUSD headquarters.

NEW: CNN also confirms my reporting — and furthers the story — that the DOJ withheld at least 3 FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...

Breaking News: The Justice Department did not release key records in the Epstein files about a woman who made an unverified accusation against Donald Trump. In 2019, the woman said she had been sexually assaulted by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein decades earlier, when she was a minor.

I beg you, Gorton and Denton.. Do not let that ghastly idiot into parliament. He's already got enough planet shaped chips on his shoulders, and one more won't hurt.

Trump: "When you watch Low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as they screamed uncontrollably last night, they had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized...we should send them back from where they came"

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

Here's the full story on our website: www.bas.ac.uk/news/acciden... And here's the paper in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Last year, in 2025, the conditions were much better. But BAS emperor penguin expert Dr Peter Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social has only spotted a small proportion of the penguins we'd normally see. These penguins haven't yet been spotted elsewhere, suggesting that thousands of penguins died.

The coastline is Marie Byrd Land, a remote area of West Antarctica which historically has retained its sea ice through the summer. It's where 40% of emperor penguins migrate to safely shed their feathers. But 2022-24, sea ice in the region shrank from an area the size of Spain to almost nothing.

Emperor penguins replace their feathers all in one go. It takes up to 40 days, burns half their body weight in energy, and leaves them completely unable to enter the water until new feathers come through. If the ice breaks up before they're done, they will likely freeze and die. 🧵 2/5

This satellite footage shows the days in early 2023 when the ice literally disappeared from beneath the feet of thousands of emperor penguins. And here's the issue: they were likely moulting at the time. Welcome to Marie Bryd Land, Antarctica... 🧵 1/5

A sensitive request: I'm looking to speak *anonymously* to parents or trusted adults who have supported teenage children/relatives through early relationships that showed signs of coercive control or other forms of abuse. [Please do share this post] DM me or email [email protected]

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

If we wake up on Friday to a by-election result like this, and particularly if a Labour-Green split means Reform win, then you'd wonder if the PR supporters within Labour might start wondering very hard about pushing for electoral reform in this parliament.

Following the vote ‘in favour’ of assisted dying in Wales yesterday, Jersey also has its final vote on assisted dying today. While Jersey is small, the vote is of course important to its own citizens, but also to the sense of momentum for assisted dying. Expect supporters to big it up if passes.

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle passed info to Met that Peter Mandelson planned to flee country. “To prevent any inaccurate speculation, I’d like to confirm that upon receipt of information, that I felt it was relevant I pass this on to the police in good faith, as is my duty & responsibility.”

BREAKING: ‘I felt it was relevant. I passed it onto the Metropolitan police' Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle tells Parliament he told the police that Mandelson was planning to leave the country Mandelson claims this information is the reason he was arrested

Slightly surreal moment in the Commons as Speaker Lindsay Hoyle confirms he was the person who passed the Met a tip that Peter Mandelson was a flight risk, prompting his arrest this week.

Bizarre interview with Danny Kruger - head of Reform policy unit - which includes this gem about promoting: "people with actual domain expertise” over “these posh generalists who float about from department to department making policy.” Kruger went to Eton www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

There's a point in this where he is clearly trying to argue that married women should not have finances independent of their husbands and also that they shouldn't be allowed to get divorced and you do basically realise this is a war against all of modernity, but particularly women.