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/

Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Have Been Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library

I feel this could be used for a lot of popsci reporting.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

If companies won't sell a drug in the UK then local companies should be given licence to produce the that drug for the NHS.

How many Your Party founders can you fit in a clown car? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And the stupidity begins www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fuck this was prophetic youtu.be/vbLGG5UGEKw?...

"I like a lot of the Green party policies, but I don't agree with it's stance on nuclear energy. So I'll be letting the fascists win next election". Whichever way you put this, it sounds dumb.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Reform UK in the dock ⚖ 9th October Andy Osborn. 14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan. 15th October Sarah White. 21st November Nathan Gill. 16th December Mandy Clare. 22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor. Under investigation: Joseph Boam. Lee Duffy. George Cottrell. #ReformInTheDock

Another totally normal day in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Turns out there were so few people at the Tory party confrenece that no one was available to do spell checking.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

The money won't be paid back, she will keep her title, there won't be any real consequences. It's time such crimes came with prison sentences unless the money is returned, I'm sure it would magically become available if that happened.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

Terrible news

RJK Jr. is the new Wakefield.

I'm guessing he means a Reform/LibDem coalition, like the last time they fucked us over.

Goebbels Ends the Careers of Five Comedians Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime. NYTimes article. February 4 1939. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Reform UK are Tories 2.0 Former Tory MPs that are now members of Reform UK: Maria Caulfield Danny Kruger Andrea Jenkyns Aidan Burley Alan Amos Nadine Dorries David Jones Sir Jake Berry Graham Simpson Adam Holloway Anne Marie Morris Marco Longhi Ross Thomson Lee Anderson