🇬🇧 UK Poll of Polls: 22 February 2026 ➡️ Reform: 28% (24-33%) 🌹 Labour: 21% (17-24%) 🌳 Conservative: 19% (15-22%) 🍃 Green: 14% (9-20%) 🐥 Lib Dem: 12% (9-15%) 👽 Other: 4% (3-5%) ✖️ SNP: 3% (2-4%)

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"#AbolishTheMonarchy" "But what about the House of Lords, Lords, Peerages, Knights of the Realm and 40% of the UK owned by the same people for the last 500 years!" "Abolish all that too!"

✅ Tactical voting organisations ✅ Doorstep data ✅ Constituency polling It's clearer than ever that it's Green vs Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for Hannah Spencer is the only way to stop Reform's hate and make hope normal again.

Something the Government want you to forget...

The photographer’s finger hovers over the red-eye reduction button in the editing software. Just this once, maybe not, he thinks.

Countries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne says OpenAI's The Guardian

Abolish the monarchy

FPTP can't handle this many parties, and thats how the constituency seats are awarded. I believe Eastwood is out lowest winning vote share but a good 20+ are being won with under 35% of the vote. A selection of the most egregious:

Why I’m Using XigXag For Audiobooks **NOT SPONSORED** 1 No subscription - buy your audiobooks as & when. 2 SO easy to gift audiobooks. 3 The more you buy, the cheaper they get. 4 They don’t store your credit card details. 5 They’re an independent UK-based firm. xigxag.co.uk/audiobook/gi...

New Scottish Parliament poll, Norstat 10-13 Feb (vs 13-16 Jan): List: SNP ~ 30% (+1) RUK ~ 19% (+3) Lab ~ 17% (nc) Grn ~ 11% (nc) Con ~ 11% (-1) LD ~ 7% (-2) Alba ~ 3% (-1) Constituency: SNP ~ 35% (nc) RUK ~ 19% (+2) Lab ~ 17% (-2) Con ~ 10% (-1) LD ~ 8% (-1) Grn ~ 8% (+1) Third post lucky...

🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

An outdated and undemocratic institution, built on nepotism and privilege, that dodges the transparency that should be required of all those in power. Abolish the monarchy. 👉 www.greens.scot/abolishthemonarchy

🔴 Investigation opened into PR firm's work investigating journalists and sources for Labour Together PRCA has launched a probe into APCO Worldwide following Democracy for Sale's reporting Now will Cabinet minister Josh Simons explain himself? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/pr-firm-pr...

Absolute fucking clown car of a country.

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir. Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender. No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

"so exceptional at the bigger picture strategic thinking, relentlessly focussed on the moving pieces" Tbf, as our trackers do show, he was very good at moving things. Almost got to the stage of needing a macro to write "the lowest figure recorded by YouGov to date".

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

Divest of Politics...

Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden has claimed there would be “no point” in removing Morgan McSweeney “if the Prime Minister stays”. “In fact, I think if the Prime Minister stays there, I don’t think that would make any difference at all,” he said.

BBC News presenter asking Chris Mason whether McSweeney going means the heat is off Keir Starmer and Mason gave a waffling answer which ended with ‘I think the key question now is whether or not McSweeney’s departure means the heat is now off Starmer’

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

My top tips for not using Amazon if you’re a book lover in the UK: borrow books from library and get the Libby app for ebooks/audiobooks. Use XigXag to buy audiobooks. And just pay a few more quid to buy new books from a local indie or somewhere with decent moral values like bookshop.org

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

Mandelson’s association with Epstein was known when the Prime Minister personally appointed him as the UK’s ambassador to the USA. How can we trust Starmer’s judgement? How can we trust him to remain as Prime Minister? #PMQs

The UK government should scrap Palantir's involvement with the NHS. bsky.app/profile/good...

The UK government should scrap Palantir's involvement with the NHS. bsky.app/profile/good...

Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads. £25,000: 37% £50,270: 51% £100,000: 71%

**original Grange Hill theme plays**

Wrote something, just to get it out of my head, about how fundamentally weird it is watching the panicked flailing and pathetic self-soothing defences of the UK Government from a Scottish perspective medium.com/@allanfaulds...

A Reform-led council has spent £600,000 on an eight-space car park, of which six spaces are reserved for senior Reform councillors, who get to park there at no charge. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Our latest new walk visits a series of sites and memorials dedicated to the Arctic Convoys which ferried vital supplies to Russia during World War 2, as well as one of the finest wild beaches in all Scotland. Added by request from locals. Route description: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/cam...

Bearsden South (East Dunbartonshire) by-election first preferences: Lib Dem: 1744 (38.1%, +14.9) SNP: 789 (17.2%, -6.2) Reform UK: 709 (15.5%, new) Labour: 650 (14.2%, -1.9) Green: 371 (8.1%, +0.9) Conservative: 283 (6.2%, -17) Family: 35 (0.8%, new) Lib Dem elected stage 5.

Bearsden South (East Dunbartonshire) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: 🔶 LDM: 38.1% (+14.9) 🎗️ SNP: 17.2% (-6.2) ➡️ RFM: 15.5% (New) 🌹 LAB: 14.2% (-1.9) 🌍 GRN: 8.1% (+0.9) 🌳 CON: 6.2% (-17.0) 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 SFP: 0.8% (New) No Inds (-4.7, -2.3) as prev. Lib Dem 'Gain' from Con - Stage 5. Changes w/ 2022.

New Scottish Parliament poll, YouGov 8-14 Jan (vs 20-25 Jun 24!; SCOOPs excluded): List: SNP ~ 29% (nc) RUK ~ 20% (+13) Lab ~ 15% (-16) Grn ~ 12% (+3) Con ~ 11% (-2) LD ~ 9% (nc) Alba ~ 1% (nc) Constituency: SNP ~ 34% (+1) RUK ~ 20% (+20) Lab ~ 15% (-22) Con ~ 10% (-3) LD ~ 10% (+1) Grn ~ 9% (+5)

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

The tree that eats signs!

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

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