Is there an election in your neck of the woods today? If so, have you voted yet? If not, please make a plan for when you're going to do it and how you're going to get to the polling place. Reform UK supporters are voting right now. Your vote is needed to outweigh theirs. Please vote.

"For two full years, my children were deprived of education... During that time, I found myself transforming from a mother trying with everything she had to keep her five children alive into an emergency teacher. I try to rebuild what the war has destroyed in their young minds."

I just voted for three fantastic independent candidates in Finsbury Park who oppose austerity, stand up to racism and support the people of Palestine. Today, a new kind of politics is on the ballot — and community power will win!

before anyone says anything: yes, we do need to hear about Green candidates who are antisemites, because everyone on the left needs to cut that shit out right away. (would say 'everyone everywhere' but you know the right are never going to stop being antisemites, because they like racism.)

Russian money, and the fact that Nathan Gill is spending 10 years in prison for taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. they hear about Green members who are antisemitic but they don't hear about this shit ⬇️ because the media don't like the Greens, but do like Reform. bsky.app/profile/josi...

Attack ads alienate voters, so why do they do them? To derail discussion about wealth inequality.

A reminder for the in-person voters. IGV are on every regional ballot today. They exist solely to try to confuse people who want to vote Scottish Green. They succeeded in preventing at least two Scottish Green candidates from being elected in 2021. If you're a Green voter please don't be fooled.

Chris Nineham is spot on when he tells @owenjones.bsky.social: the head of the Met police is lying about the pro Palestine marches, he knows he's lying, and he's dong it as part of a wider campaign.

Horrifying. 😥 "War has always been deadly to children, but now a new concern has arisen in Gaza, where they seem to be vanishing without explanation. Parents believe that they are being abducted, but no-one knows what becomes of them."

Chris Nineham: "We have, multiple times, asked the Met for corroborated examples of anyone from our demonstrations threatening or in any way causing intimidation to a Jewish person going to a synagogue or otherwise, they haven't been able to provide us with one instance.."

A Palestinian woman & her 78yr old mum vanished in Gaza & no-one knows what happened to them Months later their family discovered a photograph posted by an IDF soldier on social media showing the two women blindfolded in an IDF vehicle Sky News has identified the Israeli soldiers in the photo

"Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could." If Wes Streeting and Louis Appleby had a conscience they would apologize and withdraw from public life. But, of course, they don't.

'Insider trading': Oil and stocks jolt on news of US-Iran deal as some cry 'manipulation' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/insider-trading-oil-and-stocks-jolt-news-us-iran-deal-some-note-manipulation

This weekend you’ve seen the full force of the British media attack (in an antisemitic way) the leader of the Green Party for trifles, while ignoring the whole litany of corruption and far right Neo Nazi dealings of the leader of Reform UK They are culpable for what happens next

Yet again, this will get bugger-all attention from most of the media. It’s a shameful, deliberate dereliction of duty and the most arrant example of double standards.

Jeremy ‘Jez’ Stocking, who was also present at the church attack but was neither charged nor convicted, was also pictured with Farage in the photograph. He is an election agent for Reform in this week’s local elections in Rushmoor, Hampshire. He's tall, at very back bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

I'm now aware of at least ten complaints to the Electoral Commission over this - though they've been told to report concerns to the police

Reform UK are refusing to explain why Nigel Farage posed for a "Christmas drink" with far-right activists, some of whom took part in a violent attack at a church. One of the men pictured with Farage was convicted of assault by beating last month, after storming an anti-racism meeting at the church

The Muslim victim who wasn't there: Golders Green and the 'ghost logic' of Islamophobia - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/muslim-victim-who-wasnt-there-golders-green-and-ghost-logic-islamophobia

We obtained the diary of Tzipi Hotovely, the former Israeli ambassador in London. It reveals how she held private meetings with Met police commissioner Mark Rowley in November 2023 and assistant commissioner Matt Jukes in August 2024👇 www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the...

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

It’s difficult to imagine, in our age of labor quiescence, the impact of the great British general strike, which began 100 years ago today and reached every city and town in Britain.

Reminder that the Trump regime is still blowing up suspected “drug boats” — killing 185 people since September. But no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them. Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear. These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed.

🧵 It may seem nuts to believe it, but there are groups who work out ways to dehumanise LGBTQ ppl. They used to be called ‘hate groups’. They were often self-described ‘Christians’ or far right. They’ve existed for over 100y. It makes me really angry when I see LGBTQ ppl falling for their lies. [1]

The government knows our marches for Palestine are made up of all faiths and none. The are suppressing our hard-fought right to protest for one reason: to hide their complicity in genocide. Israel’s occupation must end. Until then, our movement for peace isn’t going anywhere.

An obvious antisemitic caricature of Zack Polanski in The Times. But there will be no media or political outrage, which tells you all you need to know.

Months into the US-Israel 'ceasefire', Gaza remains a scene of chaos and terror - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/months-us-israel-ceasefire-gaza-remains-scene-chaos-and-terror

UK Muslim groups slam government for ‘scapegoating’ Gaza anti-genocide protests as antisemitism - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-muslim-groups-slam-government-scapegoating-gaza-anti-genocide-protests-antisemitism

After the endless journey in airless heat you emerge at last from the underground and here at the newsagent’s next to the station are bunches of sweet peas, wrapped in pink tissue… —Elizabeth Burns, “This Life” published in HELD (Polygon, 2010) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry

Part of a discussion with @igmansfield.bsky.social on why history teaching should *not* aim to inculcate "pride" (or, indeed, "shame"). And why citizenship is better served by recognising complexity and moral ambivalence, even in people and societies we might admire. bsky.app/profile/robe...

If we really are to root out the evil of anti-semitism in British politics then one of our first steps must be to condemn the systematic use of anti-semitic tropes by Nigel Farage and his fellow travellers on the right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Help me, Americans! How do you proclaim a war is over when you are blockading your enemy?

The media is still parroting the horrific attack on two Jewish men without mentioning the third victim.

France passed a law in 2022 requiring car parks to install #solar. * Applies if ≥80 spaces * Must cover at least 50% of area * Exemptions (grid constraints, heritage sites) We did it with disabled spaces why not solar? There are obstacles but none are strong enough to justify not doing it at all!

It’s also critical that ppl are aware who is carrying out hate crimes. If you look at referrals of extremists to Prevent, the biggest group at 21% are Far Right; Islamist extremists were 10%. It is a fact that the biggest threat to the UK is far right; given the far right rhetoric of politicians &

The UK is so 'appalled' at events in the West Bank that it: ❌ refuses to ban trade with illegal settlements ❌ keeps military accord with Israel ❌ keeps 'trade & partnership' accord ❌ continues arms exports ❌ refuses to mention Israeli nuclear arms ❌ refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs

The Gender Critical activists have really shown their hand with this one. They are being backed by the ADF – an anti-women's rights group – to go after a fun run. Make sure your MP knows what's going on 👇

It always amuses me to see Americans on here muttering about how bad British TERFery is (and it *is* ghastly!) as if it’s some sort of naturally occurring poison sprung from British soil, without acknowledging that it is mostly bankrolled by US Christofascists.

Push the boat out, compañeros, push the boat out, whatever the sea… —Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”: a poem written for his own 80th birthday Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵 #poem #poetry 1/14 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

And as far as the "poorly paid people who have to work til 11pm should be allowed to have a tipple in the workplace" argument goes... well my mum was a nurse. So no. Don't say things like that, it makes you sound out of touch with reality.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "The so called war on drugs has failed over & over again.. we have the highest drug deaths in Europe.. the Q has to be, what do you do about it" Except not only are many of our politicians & media unwilling to ask that Q, they hysterically attack anyone who does

For example the University of Edinburgh (2023) estimated it contributed over £7bn to the UK economy. That's one of four universities in Edinburgh alone. We're an easy target for the culture wars and a sector which is terrible at standing up for itself.

Thank you to Cultured Magazine for featuring me in this year’s Cult 100 List. It’s an honor to be recognized among those shaping today’s cultural conversation. Q: What are you looking forward to this year? A: Justice for the people of Palestine.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

the chief executive of Cancer Research UK is neither a cancer patient nor a cancer researcher, and yet everyone seems to understand that that’s fine, because neither of those would be the correct experience for the job??