Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Reform: an undeniably racist, misogynistic, transphobic, disability-sceptic party with disturbing links to christofascist MAGA… wants to leave the ECHR and scrap the Equality Act, removing our rights and protections. As red flags go, this is the reddest it gets www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

He has no idea who she is and she probably paid him for the photo opportunity. It’s a moment that’s devoid of any dignity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wow.

We all know why Farage is making these wildly misleading and completely inaccurate claims - I know it and in your hearts you know it too - so however you decide to vote in this by- election please don't be taken in by the politics of division offered by Reform

This article out today goes into more detail re post ☝️

Not been aware of this “uproar” anywhere but here. Either on the news or in broadsheet media. And there should be uproar. Because, in a nutshell, it tells you why Reform - in their infantile, idiotic, vengeful inadequacy - are so ragingly unfit for office. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

The Mandelson–Epstein row asks a brutal question of Keir Starmer: when judgment fails at the top, what accountability is owed? | Jack Meredith

Sign this please. It’s a start to the pushback we need. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Pecksniff’s Diary : * No.10 briefed the media that the NEC would block Andy Burnham before telling him. Catastrophic handling * Reform UK boasted of canvassing Gorton and Denton, using a photo from the wrong seat * Even now, it’s unclear whether Reform has a Clacton office at all.

Your reminder: £20 billion is the cost of cancelling all student loans £10 billion is the annual cost of abolishing tuition fees £90 billion is the lost tax revenue because of Brexit

Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to uni are having to bear all the costs for others to do so" Oli Dugmore, "If Reeves wants to make the argument that you shouldn't be paying for things that you don't use, there will be a lot of pensioners who don't get a pension"

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Excellent on the howling unsuitability of Matt Goodwin to be a Manchester MP… or indeed an MP anywhere at all. But that’s Reform for you. Frothing racists and needy inadequates demanding support from a voting public that doesn’t deserve any of their shit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW Another death in Minnesota The significance of the killing of Alex Pretti By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Reform Party UK sharing Pro-ICE posts on social media. They support seizing 5 year olds as bait, and the extra judicial murder of civilians.

Coming to a money making opportunity near you, The Board of Peace™️

I spent six months with Nato troops in Afghanistan – Trump’s wrong

Armed forces minister Al Carns says comments about NATO troops not serving in Afghanistan are ‘utterly ridiculous’ ‘I served tours... many alongside my American colleagues, we shed blood sweat and tears together’

Trump “NATO has treated the US very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." 850 soldiers from 19 non US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the US in Afghanistan. You fucking orange ignoramus. #dementedtrump

Just imagine being the parent of a soldier from Canada or Denmark or Great Britain or France who was killed in Afghanistan in the one and only time Article 5 was invoked and the entire alliance came to America's aid, and hearing President Bone Spurs say this.

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines." Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces. Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.

Britain’s calm response to Trump’s Greenland pressure may avoid escalation, but it leaves a dangerous imbalance untouched. Liz Crosbie examines the risks ⤵️

We threw away such a lot for that not-so “special relationship”. A more confident nation, with more honest politicians, would admit it and make amends with Europe. This is all such bullshit.

‘An open letter to my fellow Labour MPs: if not the full Hillsborough Law, what is this government for?’ Ian Byrne labourlist.org/2026/01/open...

Excellent article and realistically bleak 🙈

Labour looks set to deplatform the voices of young people by introducing a social media ban for under 16s. Here are four reasons why they shouldn't.

I didn’t really want to write about child sexual abuse images and Grok, but some of the unbelievable statements by politicians yesterday in the UK made me feel I should, if I could. Here are the reasons ‘AI child abuse images’ are not like ‘going to a nightclub’. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

Fighting the Brexit reset means scrapping Erasmus again and telling businesses that red tape, queues and cost are the price they should all pay for Farage’s petulant prejudice. What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants. www.ft.com/content/3f97...

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Hi, Many on this platform, are disturbed that to see any official gov communications, they have to go back onto the #CessPit of X. Could you please ask the media department to include @bsky.app and the growing Labour presence on here to give us representation and a voice.

Please repost. This is so important.

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

Absolutely fantastic video, with a bit of a festive theme. It actively demonstrates how our Labour government are implementing policies that link together to build up to something bigger and better that really helps people! Great work @rosiewrightingmp.bsky.social thank you to you & all of Labour!

It's hard to find the words for how disgusting this is. It completely silences girls' experiences of male violence. It fails to recognise the importance of education for prevention. It ignores the drivers of men's violence. And it's racist. Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

"What is emerging about Nigel Farage is not a single stupid comment or heated moment. Former classmates are describing a pattern of behaviour. Not just a bully, but a racist bully of the ugliest kind, directing hatred at black and Jewish pupils as a kind of sport." bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Just brilliant

Just for some context - the house mentioned in my post below cost £4,000 to purchase in 1970. If it had changed in value by inflation, its price now would be £55,000. Just saying.

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.

Oh dear Chris. And BBC. Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense. Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...