Athens researchers followed 137 children for up to a year after COVID-19 and found at least 1 in 5 had long COVID symptoms. Even without heart disease, many showed signs of subtle but lasting heart dysfunction. www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...

This little squit is pretending to be Shadow Home Secretary. He isn’t.

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...

The idea that working class white boys only suffer because of equality legislation is a classic way of avoiding (a) the complexity and (b) the structural causes of both poverty and disadvantage. Of course they want to avoid it.

"I the past three years, a group of Nigerian families has moved into the area. Most are employed as engineers or health and social care workers." So Govt's main policy offer to this area is to try to kick these people out. Both futile and wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The same James Orr that’s heading up the “Centre for a Better Britain”, previously known as “Resolute 1850”, a think tank that has some seriously dodgy plans? Now working as the senior policy advisor to Farage? Yeah, that’s exceptionally dodgy.

It’s almost a year since we learned that Farage’s girlfriend had nearly a mill Swilling around in cash to buy a house in Frinton. In all that time not one super sleuth has found out how she had all that money. I find that suspicious. Still.

To appease bosses UK govt plan to increase youth minimum wage may be delayed. Young workers pay full cost of essentials. Their output is not sold at a discount but are denied full minimum wage. Govt can help. Adopt Scottish policies. Abolish uni fees, provide free bus travel for young people.

Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council. “Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza. “Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”

Hani Mahmoud reports that since agreeing to the so called ceasefire Israel has killed over 600 people in Gaza, continues to bomb neighbourhoods & demolish houses, and is still limiting the amount of humanitarian aid that enters Gaza (including food, medical supplies and fuel)

not especially old, but the cost of being in power for so long in such complex self inflicted times wears even the strongest people down. I wonder if those who inflict such horrors on others eventually are consumed by their subconscious guilt eating them up? I hope he dies. In agony.

PUTIN HEALTH RUMOURS SWIRL He hasn’t been seen for ten days. What video has been seen is old recordings edited together. The puffy faced table grabber has clearly been ill in the past and frequently appears for short periods. The days when he made four hour appearances are long gone. At 73 he’s

& much like Farage, he's heavily pro-Russian, Orr just gets to say it out loud. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/13/n...

Useful to know about the Reform Party's new head of policy thetab.com/2026/02/11/c...

As all the ex, EX Tories attempt to out rat each other this evening, here’s some excellent news from our serious PM 👏 #LetThemEatBoats #FarFromTheFascistCrowd

At today’s high school writing club, the kids did one of my favorite writing exercises, in which they start a story, then pass it to another student to continue from there. I enjoy it not only for the unhinged narratives, but because it reflects so much of life. (1/3)

Experts say newly released documents show the need for an independent investigation into Epstein's sex-trafficking ring.

A tribute from President @barackobama.bsky.social to Reverend Jackson. Simply beautiful! ♥️♥️ #SheShed #Pinks

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

if gaslighting were an olympic sport this would take gold

There is no disputing what unscrupulously depraved people Epstein & Maxwell were… Which is quite telling that Epstein, who was best of friends with Donald Trump, revealed this about his pal.

It’s plainly obvious that the Brits have the whole file set wrt Andrew. The bravest thing that they can do is u just release it all.

Yup! www.reuters.com/world/allega...

Every day reveals a new travesty caused by DHS “ICE has blamed Castañeda Mondragón for his own injuries, saying..[he] ’fell and hit his head against a concrete wall’” “A CT scan showed fractures to the front, back and both sides of his skull-injuries a doctor [said] were inconsistent with a fall”

DO NOT LOOK AWAY. Two-month old babies, choking on their own vomit while detained by ICE? I can't even believe I typed that sentence. MAGA, you can't keep clinging to your "oh, they need to come here legally" bullshit. These are BABIES. Where is the humanity? Shut these concentration camps DOWN.

A new poll found that a plurality of U.S. voters see President Donald Trump as "corrupt," "racist," and "cruel.

👉 Palantir CEO Alex Karp “You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose" “What’s your lower purpose?” Karp: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

A self made millionaire whose parents had nearly nothing, but could afford the £25k fees for Hampton School??? It’s just farcical for a bunch of upper class millionaires to pretend they want to do away with legislation that protects us all, in an attempt to promote white working class boys 🤷‍♂️

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

I shouldn't be amazed any more, because it happens so much, but I still feel some shock at the 'normalisation' of unhinged RW bullshit in UK media. Brexit? Leave the ECHR? Scrap the Equality act? All reported as if it is standard political discourse. None of this is 'normal'. Time for #MediaReform

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.

Zia Yusuf murdered on live TV. Wondrous

"Jo Maugham KC, executive director of the Good Law Project, accused her of 'pitching for the votes of misogynists, homophobes, racists and antisemites, who are the only people who benefit from removing discrimination protections'."

The Epstein Cover-up: The FBI Interviewed a Credible Trump Accuser In what should be headline news, investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger uncovers an FBI slideshow & internal emails that reveal they know women who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Trump officials have blocked Minnesota law enforcement from accessing materials to investigate the death of Alex Pretti. They also refused to cooperate with Minnesota officials to investigate Renee Good’s death. What don’t they want the public to know?

Exactly!!

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

“The cavalry is coming.”

My latest: In Donald Trump’s politics, there is no quiet part. Everything is intended to be said aloud for everyone to hear. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-t...

What a bunch of clowns, I wouldn't have them running the circus.

“Women are smart enough to get the paperwork they need for a voter ID.” Yeah, we’re also smart enough to have read Project 2025 and know this is not about voter identification. It’s about voter intimidation.

Something I wrote about him a couple of months ago 👇🏻

Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”. He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”

Brilliant idiots podcast: "Trump went platinum in the Epstein files. He's mentioned a million times!" #sheshed

Reform pledge to scrap the Equality act. If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public. For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation. Doesn't sound good to me.

Donald...NO. You. Have. NOT. Been. "Totally." "Exonerated." That's a lot of sh*t.

Great work, Donald Trump! Our longtime allies are trading the U.S. for China because Trump is an unstable lunatic. TOTAL DISASTER!