NEW STATEMENT | A Hormuz Initiative to Protect Global Food Security The Middle East conflict threatens global food security. @crisisgroup.org and prominent individuals call for an initiative to ease the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. www.crisisgroup.org/stm/global/i...

the left is so factional that even Jeremy Corbyn has split into two Jeremy Corbyns

this explains everything

"Olmert called for international prosecutions of violent settlers who are “assisted, supported and inspired by government circles”... as they wage a campaign of ethnic pogroms in Palestinian villages are reminiscent of those “once directed against Jews in Europe." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This a a great move, politics shouldn't be beholden to people who don't contribute to the UK. Now stop donations from companies and cap individual donations, politics shouldn't be a paid service for the rich.

Star Formation xkcd.com/3222/

The antisemitism in the replies to this are so saddening

🚨 The most effective way to protect your family from measles is to make sure you’re all up to date with your MMRV vaccinations. Measles is a highly contagious illness that can make children seriously unwell. I urge all Londoners to check whether you or your children need to be vaccinated.

Giving replies to some comments, Bluesky should expose the country that users are posting from.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Measles is a highly infectious disease. It can make children seriously unwell, especially young infants and those with weakened immune systems. The best way to protect your family is by ensuring you and your children are up to date with your MMRV jabs.

We always knew that "it's about immigration" was just a racist dog whistle, but it's nice to have it confirmed

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

I fear the by-election may have drawn attention anyway from the rescheduled local elections. The elected councillors will be in control as local council are amalgamated as part of Local Government Reorganisation. The decisions they make will have lasting consequences for local government.

The collapse in the vote for the main two parties is mainly due to the Tory's getting just 2% of the vote. Also the insurgent parties getting so much of the vote is mostly done to the Greens getting 41% of the vote. (Green 41%, Reform 29%, Labour 26%, Tory 2%, LibDem 2%)

The Tory's didn't just come forth in the Gorton and Denton by-election, they only managed 706 votes. They needed ~1,800 to retain their deposit. The party that was in power for 14yrs and is currently the official opposition has become politically irrelevant.

A state so small, that it will fit neatly in your bedroom closet, from where Danny Kruger will be counting your sexual partners, and Matt Goodwin will check you are using each ovulation wisely and sending you a tax surcharge if not.

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

Here we go - now confirmed. Trump knows that he can always count on the plastic patriots of the British right to put their partisan agenda ahead of the national interest. For the second time this year, they work with Trump to undermine a British PM in the midst of an international crisis

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

The more I see of modern glass boxes, or modern glass boxes that are not quite a box, the more I come to appreciate brutalism

Donations should only be allowed from people who pay, or would pay, UK tax. This should also be the basis for sufferage.

The UK will cap ground rents paid to freeholders on existing properties in a victory for leaseholders that Sir Keir Starmer hopes will increase affordability in the housing market www.ft.com/content/81e9...

Russian "anti-imperialism" and "Global South solidarity" in action.

We have been using a platform that is banned in Russia to say that free speech is banned in the EU on the platform we banned.

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The UK has roughly 20% the population of the US, the UK has roughly 0.0027% of the police killings of the US (based on 2020-present). The US is not a normal country.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

The US Congress coming out in force to protect the mass creation of child porn. I guess it's not that surprising given who's in the Whitehouse.

This is a timely reminder that the fascists will murder you. Anything less than absolute and enthusiast agreement is a death sentence.

The US is turning away from liberal democracy and more closely aligning themselves with Russia's klepto-imperialism and resource colonialism. I guess it's one way to keep busy while climate change destroys everything.

"AI offers a new way of surrendering that burden of having to think and decide for yourself." - I guess religion doesn't control the masses in the way it once did. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh

European countries need to put in place vaccination requirements for travellers from the US

Another group funded by American rightwing billionaires. It's far past the point that foreign interference in UK politics was investigated and curtailed.

I'm sure Vladimir can't wait

The most corrupt organisation in the world gives Trump a peace prize, birds of a feather I guess.

Brexit incarnate. It was never just about leaving the EU.

Boris Johnson described HMT's “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” and “just not credible”. Farage attacked Cameron and Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies". In fact, it transpires, HMT's Brexit forecasts weren't nearly negative enough. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy Nearly at 70k, sign and share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

OTD in 2003 CIA & Soros staged Rose Revolution in Georgia. A gay, fascist, russophobic pogrom which eventually caused Georgia to invade itself with Russian soldiers cos Russia is peaceful country surrounded by ceasefires.

The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

If only overrated genocide denier Noam Chomsky had stuck to his decades long practice of regularly and repeatedly denying genocides as they happened purely on the basis of a Campist mentality, and not wasted time hanging around with rich nonces, his reputation wouldn’t be suffering as much now.

Craftwank being a lying wanker

Maybe closing down before Cheltenham, as was incredibly obvious. 14 years of Tory governments that ignored expert advice, and instead went on their own feelings. 14 years of failure, decline, and ultimately death.

Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/