Think of steel as flour for the manufacturing economy. A tariff is like a flour tax: the mill might add 1,000 jobs, but factories using flour cut around 75,000. That’s what happens when you tax an input instead of solving the real problem.

I urge anyone who cares about this country to read these testimonies. Farage is a poisonous racist and 20 people don’t lie, they witnessed his vile racist bullying at first hand and it’s vital that he gets nowhere near government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/dairy-w... I guess Canada 🇨🇦 does hold cards on trade with the US. Many US businesses and industry groups want to rescind the tariffs and double down on CUSMA. The Canadian hand just gets better.

Do not whitewash Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Judge cites ‘profound investigative missteps’ in court case against James Comey @ashleymurray.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/17/r...

“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.” Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.

Our privatised water system is broken, and the next Water Bill could lock in more of the same. If MPs don’t hear from us, water companies get their way again. I’ve written to my MP. You can do the same in 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

The plan to take jewellery from refugees is a new low for the Labour government. Reverse this inhumane policy. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/refugees-jew...

Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country: 1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech. 2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The book cited here is well worth a read. It’s called ‘How They Broke Britain’. Extraordinary to think that any new epilogue would now have to include Jeffrey Epstein.

For the @equatormag.bsky.social newsletter, I talked about how I reported my piece on the BBC and Gaza, and what's at stake in the current crisis. You can read/sign up below - Equator is a brilliant and necessary new magazine, so give it your support! www.equator.org/articles/ins...

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to ‪@electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Did you spot it? This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan *Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals* Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Why is #DictatorChic ALWAYS so effing tacky?????

DO NOT BE DISTRACTED!!! TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

We can't stop deforestation without the experts: Indigenous people. 💚 At #COP30, the UK govt has a chance to champion their rights, funding and legal protection. Tell the UK climate minister: back the forest defenders. Sign our open letter. action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/def...

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040. 🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage. ✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

Teen Hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘Protégé’ Ignites MAGA Fury With Private Jet Clip

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

Yeah this sounds safe

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

The government wants to bring back private finance in our NHS. 🤬 This would harm patients by siphoning off hundreds of millions of pounds in profits from our NHS. 🤑 Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting, you can still drop these disastrous and unpopular plans. Share if you agree.

In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war. Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

So sad to see John Stapleton has passed away. He was extremely kind to Lucy & me as we found our feet in broadcasting after moving from print, as he had done years before. Such fond memories of dinners with him & his late wife Lynn, including one quite surreal evening I might talk about tomorrow…

‘Law & order’ latest.

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

😡This must be stopped! Labour's 2024 manifesto promised our NHS would always be "publicly owned and publicly funded". Now they are talking about reintroducing PFI into our NHS. PFI would set a ticking time bomb under our NHS that will blow up in patients' faces - ACT NOW.

Comedians from Joe Rogan down who helped Trump win all bear responsibility for Trump's war on free speech that has led to firing Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and others. Without them, Trump loses. It's time for those comedians led by Rogan to loudly denounce Trump. If not we know they support this!

'That's not the point!' Ex-Trump official hammered for saying Kimmel can just do a podcast

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019, documents reveal. Would have been nice if he had only breached the US with his shite only 14 times.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

TRUMP IS A MAJOR CHUMP, a moron, a fool, ignoramus; an insecure adolescent, malignant, narcissistic, criminally insane, irrational, illogical, emotionally/mentally devolved radical extremist! As Putin/KGB knew about corrupt child-rapist Trump when they first began grooming him back in the 1970s/80s.

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Current state of UK political discourse.

Wait, what? You mean there isn't a simple explanation and it isn't all the government's fault? Surely not? @chrisgiles.ft.com on the UK's public finances www.ft.com/content/bd3d...