"If the Chancellor is serious about plugging the gap in our finances, she must start by tackling our growing inequality, not deepening it." Read my full op-ed for LBC here: www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...

So sad to hear of the passing of the magnificent actress Pauline Collins... fantastic as Shirley Valentine. Here she is advertising Maxwell House here in 1983 with husband John Alderton... RIP Pauline

BBC News - Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders www.bbc.com/news/article... He's also called for the overthrow of the UK government, stoked hate campaigns, encouraged far right thuggery and casually throws nazi salutes. But let's all worship his wealth anyway.

BBC News - Democrats in US congress ask Andrew to appear for questioning over Epstein links www.bbc.com/news/article... What decent person wouldn't want to help to bring justice for victims of appalling crimes? Looking forward his enthusiastic participation.

"A pair of balls for Mr. Kennedy, please?"

It'd be interesting to know what percentage of BBC News across all platforms is given to promoting their own TV shows under the guise of 'news' stories. It's regular on the website. BBC News - Celebrity Traitors final briefly uploaded 24 hours early outside UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

COP is a PR stunt.

"The image, created using AI and shared by Reform UK’s Brighton and Hove branch last Friday for Halloween, distorted Polanski’s features using the same antisemitic stereotypes once pushed by Nazi propaganda." Be in no doubt as to the dark reality behind the Farage personality cult.

And which the UK government is still more than happy to use.

Rupert Lowe, taking time away from patrolling the East Anglian coast on the lookout for marauding forrins, also used the debate on the incident in Hutingdon to call for an ethnic breakdown of crime figures. No mention of the horror or victims or those that put their lives on the line for strangers.

Say's it all that when the House convened to discuss the appalling incident at Huntingdon, not a single Reform MP attended. If an event can't be grubbily exploited to feed their racist, hate-mongering narrative, they simply couldn't care less.

🎶 "Clowns to the left me. Jokers to the right" 🎶 The new NATO anthem.

@lindsayea.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foot...

You know those fiction novels that imagine a past where Nazi Germany won the war and Britain is under Nazi rule? This is the version where the National Front became the UK government in the late 70s. Except it's not. It's the Tories... today. Now. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/c...

Imagine a day in the future when you might yearn for the good old days of Trump and MagaMiller and all that? www.notus.org/2028-electio...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Asset strippers and speculators aren't entrepreneurs. They don't create anything. They're ruthless vultures for whom Thatcherite deregulation presents innumerable carcasses they can pick to the bone. Patriots don't offer their countries up to be carcasses.

Cigarette filters were never a health measure — they were invented as a PR tool to calm fears about lung cancer. They mislead people into thinking smoking is safer than it is. #HealthWashing #TobaccoTruth Full spoken contribution 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...

The 59 Js, Ks, and Ls were already leaving Puget Sound on the morning of 11/3, but we and @whaleresearch.bsky.social were able to catch up with them in Admiralty Inlet. Best of all, they were social and vocalizing! We hope they come back south soon. 🤞 #whalesky #orcas #killerwhales

www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige... This doesn't go far enough. In what other job would you face zero sanction for being paid £90k plus and never doing any work? And this is the guy who moans that civil servants cost the public too much money? The Parliamentary rule book needs an urgent re-write.

BBC News - Telford Labour peer Lord Sahota to raise Sikh hate crimes in Lords - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We stand with our Sikh friends and neighbours in our local community in calling for action against those generating hate and toxicity. The government should urgently do the same.

BBC News - Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Coming over here, saving lives and soundin' forrin! "There are people who are alive today who wouldn't be… were it not for his actions."

riveractionuk.com/news/river-a... #WeOwnIt

Student, "How would you, if in power, create closer relationships with Europe?" Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union" "So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"

We all knew Robert was a good fella, didn't we?

Frank Sinatra in “The House I Live In,” 1945.

Daniel Hannan, Britain's wrongest man, who said Council Tax rates would drop by 60% when we left the EU and rewarded by Johnson with a seat in The Lords for his lies. Now descending into out and out racist depravity by suggesting non-white immigrants are predisposed to criminality.

@dean5150.bsky.social 17 years ago!

Something to bear in mind the next time the media allies of the right lazily bad-mouth train drivers as greed-driven, overpaid and undeserving.

Good to see unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf on the Laura Kuenssberg show. For a moment there I thought they might go for a week without representing a party with ONLY FIVE MPs!

Recognition of the people who provide our public services and who have to deal on the spot with horrific situations such as the incident in Huntingdon should be rightly highlighted.

The UK Defence Secretary denied to @lewisgoodall.com @lbc.co.uk that he's aware of Musk's threats via X to our national security. Civil war, right wing thuggery, overthrowing the government, etc Could someone show him how to use the internet so that he can keep up with defence matters generally? 👍

It's not about flags or boats or hotels and it never has been.

Insightful. BBC News - Andrew saga: Has politicians’ ‘no-comment’ approach to the royals had its day? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keeps the TV show in the headlines, I guess? Fake? Oh yeah... 100% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The orange skinned emperor wants Venezuela's resources and does not care about international law. Remember if you live in the UK our government calls Trump an ally. He's not my fucking ally. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Absolutely 100% correct imho. And Massa should stop making a collosal tit of himself. I bet his lawyers are rubbing their hands at the fees they'll be extorting from him. @dean5150.bsky.social #F1 #Crashgate Mistakes not 'Crashgate' cost Massa title, court hears - www.bbc.com/sport/formul...

Good news at a time when rational thought seems in short supply! We really could benefit from getting over the idea that we are the supreme product of nature rather than just one part of its unending evolution.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Who wants to live forever? “The very first conclusion we can make is there is room for improvement in humans,” Gorbunova said. “People used to think we can’t improve DNA repair, that it’s already optimal, but the whale does it better than we do.”

More extremist, racist incitements from the owner of the platform the UK government is still perfectly happy to use. Support Tommy Robinson or be killed by 'illegal' brown people. That's the choice we face. Apparently.

Pleased to join Transport and Environment in highlighting nonsensical escalation of the size & weight of vehicles on our roads. They are calling for tax; I'd say we should ensure these vehicles are not standard on urban roads #RoadSafety #ClimateEmergency

Halle - f**k8n' - lujah! Thanks to @josiah.writes.news for posting the actual Green policy on NATO rather than the lazily repeated fiction I see daily on here. Also, the Greens are hardly alone in considering a Euro-centric alliance that depends less on an isolationist, pro-Putin US.

Interview with Sarah Pochin in todays Torygraph...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... "The site [was] restored by the National Trust with the Hebridean sheep, which chew through vegetation to maintain short, open turf, creating exactly the kind of patchy, sunlit ground the spider favours."

youtu.be/X7BKrYdXyro?... www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Reminders of how trashed our media is in terms of journalistic standards come on a daily basis. The Independent was once synonymous with truly great names like Robert Fisk.

I didn't know he was Rindt's manager. Every day's a school day, eh? @dean5150.bsky.social

"It’s an issue most politicians in Westminster won’t go anywhere near for fear of landing on the wrong side of voters annoyed about immigration." *Replace the word 'voters' in the above paragraph with 'foreign wealth-owned, Farage supporting press' www.politico.eu/article/end-...

Not that he's referencing a specific period in mid-20th Century European history or anything... @pritzkerposting.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social