Look at this. Bloody cheek telling us to get vaccinated when they have massively restricted who can get the COVID vaccine. I'd like to see the data saying why over 65s are vulnerable to flu but not COVID and why they could get both last year but not this when COVID hasn't become less virulent.

What does Labour's fall in popularity mean for campaigners? -Members in Wales "more or less begging for people to get out on doors" recently -Widening chasm between govt policies & swathes of membership -Future brain drain fears as youngsters fall away www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Was told yesterday it isn’t available in our small local Boots. Where(ever) it is available, it costs £98.95. I wonder who is profiting this time.

Food is wrecking the planet. And Europe has lost its appetite for change.

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air. stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths | Julia Mazza

Kemi Badenoch and family spent the February half-term as guests of noted climate sceptic/denier Neil Record in Terbury, Gloucestershire, enjoying hospitality valued at £14,000. A month later, Badenoch U-turned on the Conservatives’ commitment to achieving net zero by 2050.

🔴Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report? bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

There’s something I’d like to write if I can find time. It has been prompted by a thought: our culture is being consciously steered towards intolerance. Our great-grandchildren will look back on what’s being done now and say that we lived in different times and didn’t know better. But we do. We do.

this is excellent by @peteroborne : government should not be run by political advisors, who know and care nothing about good policy, principles , integrity, just “winning” open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

When will the government start listening to the quieter majority of the public, instead of the loudest, nastiest voices? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

He’s a traitor to the UK, I hope that the NCA are keeping tabs on him.

Figures suggest Angela Rayner’s mortgage got 8 times more coverage than the bribery corruption conviction of Reform’s Nathan Gill . Now, why would that be ?

Labi Siffre has issued Tommy Ten Names with a cease and desist order against the use of his song 'Something inside so strong'. Good man! I hope he sues him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

Fiery interview with Ed Miliband at Labour conference @lcefuk.bsky.social Says “the stakes couldn’t be higher” in the fight with Reform Says Musk is dangerous Says Labour has to fight the battle of ideas and hasn’t done a good enough job on that so far

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

“Nothing to Do With Reform?” The Myth of Nathan Gill’s Bribery open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu...

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

We’ve trashed the place over immigration. Brexit turned it into an ugly obsession that made us mad. Scrapping freedom of movement didn’t work. Losing our own rights just trapped us and our politicians and media won’t admit it. So, on we go, playing the same hateful record… and failing.

Today is the European Day of Languages. And this year, we mark 25 years of celebrating multilingualism in our Union. 🥳 Languages open doors. They help us connect, explore cultures, make lifelong friends, and journey further. We remain stronger, united in our diversity. europa.eu/!6FkntW

The failure of any global leader to attend COP30 would be an abdication of responsibility. The PM must not be intimidated by far-right climate deniers in Reform. Building international consensus for stronger action on climate change is urgent and popular #COP30

Or at least I think that's what it says. Obviously I can't read it. If you are going to announce something like ID cards, perhaps you could at least do it somewhere people can read it?

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Farage in full fascist mode. He is labelling all foreign nationals as benefit scroungers, even though most pay UK tax and NICs, criminals or Islamist terrorists. He is threatening to remove ILR from millions and deport them all if they don't meet his new visa requirements. We need to fight back now.

The truth is Farage has 'hacked' the political-media system so is able to fill large chunks of it unchallenged. He has twigged its need for gossip, clicks and 'column inches', and so exploits this. The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.

Very few people still alive have faced this real and present a threat of fascism, this multi-faceted a set of impossible global challenges. We have to build alliances with people with whom we disagree on almost everything - except saving democracy. We must internalise this before we lose all. 10/10

Yes, it’s cold enough for a hot water bottle but no, I don’t like its politics 🤨

Predictable spin on today’s ugly announcement from our fash-hungry media.

Labour walk past an open undefended goal again. Instead of attacking Farage's Trumpian craziness on the grounds of morality and sanity, all they can think of doing is claim he's got his sums wrong and can't make something work that should NEVER even have been considered in the first place.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

Why Keir Starmer's refusal to explicitly condemn Nigel Farage's immoral plan to tear thousands of families and communities apart will only help clear the Reform leader's path to Downing Street bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

Also 'potentially illegal' risks creating the impression that they won't really do it. They can and they will. And the dire consequences will be wished away by the same media that wants you to forget who championed Brexit. It's always someone else's fault.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

This feels so much like pre referendum times. Opposition proposes crazy, damaging policy [then, Brexit, now, withdrawal of indefinite leave to remain retrospectively...]. Economic arguments made on both sides. Voters can't see the damage of the hypothetical because it hasn't happened...

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

It would signal the the de facto end of nearly all immigration to this country, from those coming to work to those who come for love. It would crater our economy, tear up relationships, remove status from millions of European, result in endless legal battles and leave us as an international pariah.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Trump's America has nothing whatsoever to teach Britain about free speech. The mere suggestion is both laughable and insulting.

But if you dare to criticise me I'll ban you from my party conference bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...