Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

useful reminder from Private Eye

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027 It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏

It’s not just selfish -it’s a complete breach of the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 when the US and others encouraged Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for these countries guaranteeing Ukraine’s borders. The US is duty-bound to assist in Ukraine’s defence or its promises mean nothing.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

This is exactly the level of stupidity we need to get Reform into power.

Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid. As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

Bad night for Nige

Reform donor Ben Delo, who has given £4 million to the party, is making legal threats to those who reference his 2022 US conviction for failing to implement anti-money laundering laws, prior to a pardon by President Trump. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We already knew Richard Tice aggressively avoided tax. Now we’re told his company just plain failed to pay tax that was legally due. For someone supposedly in public service he goes to extreme lengths to avoid paying his fair share towards public services www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starbucks UK sales and number of shops increase but appears to pay no corporation tax. The trick is profit shifting through intragroup transactions to low/no tax jurisdictions - royalty payments, management fees, interest on intragroup loans. Company accounts comply with UK law but are opaque.

HELLO YES THIS. This is a good idea.

Crispin Odey has dropped his £79mn libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct allegations against him, acknowledging that the FT would win in its defence.  www.ft.com/content/6966...

Definitely nothing to see here.

We've reached the point that they're using the Epstein files to cover up Iran

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Call me Nostradamus.

I'm such an excellent judge of character.

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

In a stunning example of Reform efficiency, Nottinghamshire council spent £75,000 putting flags on streets because fiscal genius Lee Anderson said the cost would be covered by sponsorship. Except nobody has agreed to sponsor any.

20% of British electricity coming from solar power at six in the evening in early April is absolutely remarkable. And we’re just getting started…🇬🇧♻️⚡️💡🔋😎

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Richard Gere, "The entire planet has fallen off a cliff into the stupid zone" "Do you really believe these clowns like Trump, Orban, Netanyahu, Putin?" "You really believe what these guys say?"

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Mark Pack - “Finally, a bright spot among all the polling gloom for Labour and Starmer has been that, when forced to choose, people prefer a government led by him to one led by Farage” theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/the-trends...

Five-homes Farage. A politician for the rich. Anarchist communist sticker spotted in Croydon, UK. www.instagram.com/p/DV8AgGsAv04/

It's our patriotic duty to write articles in the Daily Mail in return for the £2.3million we have taken from peoole with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. What's not to like?

Lord O'Neill, Economist and former Conservative government minister, has called Brexit a “colossal economic shock” that is causing "more permanent damage” to the British economy than the current energy crisis is likely to. Isolating ourselves from the largest free market was a mistake.

A senior Tory MP has been accused of a shameless cash grab after flogging tickets to constituents who want to air their concerns.

I will never not enjoy this! Chag Sameach and Happy Easter.

Reform UK is running a 'horror show' at Kent County Council, with an aggressive atmosphere, political point-scoring and no improvements for residents

A sure sign of a genuinely good-hearted person is that whenever they do something positive, they brag about it on social media while slagging off immigrants.

Welcome to new Reform candidate, Derek Bullock. The Tories kicked him out twice for being racist, including a post saying "Shoot the P***s on the spot". But in Reform we view that less as a problem and more as a basic qualification. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/03/30/s...

It's a day of the week with a "y" in it so of course Reform are lying to you. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Idea: we should treat this place and each other with respect and care

Is everything better in Europe or in the United States?

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

Honestly I've let dozens of these go but this endless stream of antisemitism just proves everything I was saying in the post. (For the hard of thinking the ambulances were used for the whole community regardless of religion, and even if they weren't racist arson would still be unacceptable.)

Senedd Reform candidate blamed NATO for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

If I ever do want lessons on what the public interest looks like I'm pretty sure I won't take them from a thin skinned, self interested, tax avoiding, Brexit supporting, billionaire.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company.” Good for them 👏👏👏 #NoToPalantir www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

“People are saying, ‘I refuse to work on this software. You have to find something else for me to do’,” said one senior NHS official who manages data analysts. “They’re calling it a workplace adjustment. “

You don't want to hope too much but they are falling apart. Too many unvetted people who don't understand politics.

Did any Tories condemn Simon Dudley’s disgusting comments about Grenfell?