It's an excellent piece. The answer to how the likes of Ridley thrive is very simple. He's an Eton educated Oxford graduate who is also a hereditary peer. He may be exceptionally stupid, but that is enough in this country to cover you in armour plating and propel you onwards in your career.

Parents of children with special needs 'forced' to give up work due to 'broken' SEND system www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

This should keep F*rage off the front pages, at least for today 🤷‍♂️

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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🔥 Caroline Lucas: "Your position is utterly incoherent." 🔵 "We've got a party that pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment, anti-elite party, and yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads." 🤔 "I mean, it just doesn't add up."

BBC News Politics web page 12 articles - Reform mentioned 3 times, Government once, other parties 0. Sky News Politics page 10 articles Reform 4 mentions, Government (all critical) other parties = 0 Bias? @ofcom.bsky.social

Who chose this firm? uk.trustpilot.com/review/crawc...

More waste of tax-payers money. Can we have some public accountability please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What do/did UK journalists say about F*rages appalling treatment of the FT journalist at yesterday’s laughable ‘shadow cabinet’ launch by Reform? @owenjones.bsky.social

Reform is definitely not a 'party for the people', well unless you can afford to send your kids to private school. bsky.app/profile/caro...

Cryptographer Juanita Moody helped avert a nuclear war. She played a pivotal role during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where her leadership in signals intelligence (SIGINT) helped provide critical, real-time information to US decision-makers. Moody died #OTD in 2015. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

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Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm. They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination. A smile and a shrug on BBC News. What the hell? FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

All of us who are in the centre, or left of centre (politically) need to get our collective act together to bury our differences, to unify, to collectively fight the existential threat to everything the Trades Union movement and the labour movement have worked towards for the past 100 years or so.

Braverman reckons Reform will repeal the 2010 Equality Act. 🤬 These vile b’stards are planning to tear up society in front of our very eyes. There can be no complacency in dealing with these people, they have to be beaten back, with the full force of unity at every opportunity.

Tice is a moral black hole, nothing says compassion like stealing money from the young starting out. It is all about filling his and his chums bank accounts, cutting their taxes and raiding our pockets. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Internet is working fine today......👍

This may have been missed today. More than 150,000 adults with disabilities should have at least £400 a year extra to help with living costs under changes announced by the government

At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?

In a series of things you like to see, Australia eliminated at the group stage of the T20 World Cup, sorry...

🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya. Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...

Labour is giving a £400 cash boost to adults with disabilities to tackle the cost of living. This support will help more than 150,000 working-age adults who receive social care to keep at least £400 more each year. #Labour

This is awful to read. Unemployment up (particularly for young people). Wages falling back. Graduates struggling to find work. Imagine how bad it well get of reform get their hands on the economy - austerity on steroids. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RIP Jessie Jackson 😔 How the USA could do with characters / leaders like him right now.

‘Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers’ reminds us that spikes in childhood leukaemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer and all cancers around nuclear facilities have been confirmed by German and other independent researchers talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/m...

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Nigel Farage's Reform are not the workers' champions - look at their policies' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

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From Durham to Leicestershire, more local triumphs for Reform Nigel Farage's local councillors continue to embarrass themselves and their party www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Sandsend, NR Whitby. January 2026.

Trump is of course doing a fantastic job, of ensuring a Democrat landslide. Assuming he doesn’t rig the vote, which is all too predictable.

For idiots still believing climate change is a lie, for the first time in many years of visiting France I saw several wildfires during the summer as they experienced significant heatwaves, and now France is drowning under winter storms. Climate change is here. bsky.app/profile/en.f...

Unions & Labour MPs call on Starmer to end 'narrow factional agenda'. Authoritarian Starmer can't change. Left purged, local parties weakened, conference resolutions ignored. Starmer withdrew whip from 7 MPs for opposing the two child benefit cap, now govt policy. Need new leader, policy changes.

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Does it ever occur to government / neo-liberal capitalists that wage restraint, that fails to keep up with inflation, has a long-term negative effect on smaller businesses? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

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Whilst doomed to failure, hopefully this will split the right-wing vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear UK media, If you’re going to fall for Farage’s every cry for attention, FFS, be ready with the facts that show that, not only is he peddling anti-immigrant sentiment/racism for votes, but he’s lying about the stats too. It’s dangerous and dishonest. Please say so. Thanks A v tired-of-this, UK

Good! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scroll down to 11:07 in this, and you'll find that - quelle surprise - #Farage is lying. Still, what's the odd million when you've got as many millions as our good old Man of the People? PS Nigel... Just check whether your mate Ratcliffe speaks Monégasque, will you? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Reform UK are coming for your womb.

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed. Govt officials warned that the contract would not offer value for money, but Starmer and Streeting still went ahead. Mandelson took Starmer to meet Palantir’s chief executive.

Farage frothing about WFH again… Funny how the loudest critics are the ones who’ve probably never done a school run or a Zoom call with a sick kid in the background. WFH isn’t hurting Britain - but Reform’s backers would hate you to realise who really is. open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

So the Home Sec is going to use my tax to appeal against a ruling favouring UK citizens lawfully, (if not quietly) protesting. I'd rather it be used to pursue PPE fraudsters. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...