Disappointed that no-one went with I'M MANDY, TRY ME

Thanks to everyone who's started following me on here. While I've got your attention, can I recommend the podcast that I do with Mark Steel? It's called What The F*** Is Going On? We've had great guests like Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Dawn Butler, Alexei Sayle, Caitlin Moran. pod.link/1573424189

Reform: "Stop the Nanny State telling us what to do!" Also Reform: "How dare the Green Party suggest that drugs should be treated as a health issue not a criminal one!" #VoteGreen

Thanks for all your messages about my decision to join the Green Party (including those disagreeing with it!) You won't be surprised to learn that the replies on X/Twitter have been somewhat different. Childish, predictable, tedious right-wing name-calling and bile. Reminds me why I moved over here.

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together. That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.

I've joined the Green Party. I'm sick of Labour betraying everything they're meant to stand for. The Green Party is now a serious political force, and is the best chance of defeating Reform by offering a genuine alternative to the rotten politics of the mainstream parties. join.greenparty.org.uk

New polling shows something is in the air. It's hope and a plan. Join.greenparty.org.uk

If you denounce the Iranian massacre of protesters, but not the Gaza genocide, you're wrong If you denounce the Gaza genocide, but not the Iranian massacre of protesters, you're wrong The very same applies to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine It's called *consistency*.

On Thursday only Greens can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. And we will beat their hate with a message of hope. On Thursday help us make hope normal again.

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Finished watching Small Prophets. Loved it. Congratulations to Mackenzie Crook, the wonderful cast and everyone else involved.

Dear Lucy Powell, A response to your letter:

You can smell the Labour Governments panic. They're trying their hardest to discredit the new poll because it tells everyone that the alternative has well and truly arrived. Gorton & Denton is the Green Party Vs Reform.

Discredited Tories re-form as Reform. How could anyone vote for the Reformed Tory Party?

They've voted Labour all their lives. Now they'll never vote Labour again.

"Appearing in the Epstein files is not an indication of wrongdoing. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing." ... I'm sure these disclaimers are for legal reasons, but do they apply to everything? "Appearing in Mein Kampf is not an indication of wrongdoing. Adolf has always denied any wrongdoing."

I am pleased the Government has done another u turn. Attempting to cancel elections, on top of scrapping jury trials, mandatory ID cards, criminalising peaceful protest and harassment of journalists is part of a disturbing authoritarian trend of this caretaker Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme" Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

It is getting very boring being told that "the youth love reform on tiktok" with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

This Alexei Sayle quote gets to the heart of the Mandelson scandal. The people who worked so hard to destroy Corbyn are close allies of Mandelson. They had no qualms at all about him having stayed at the house of a convicted paedophile. Mandelson stood for their values. They are truly vile people...

It’s just so strange to live in times where there are so many platformed defenders of sexual abuse and rape just being a perk of the job, much as genocide is too

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

"Look. I asked Mandelson outright if he had done anything that should stop me giving him a nice cushy job with a big fat salary, and he said he hadn't. How was I supposed to know that a notoriously corrupt liar was lying to me...?"

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The people in the Labour Party who worked so hard to destroy Corbyn are the same people who turned a blind eye to everything that was so obviously rotten and corrupt about Mandelson. It tells you everything about their values. They are a disgrace to politics.

“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “ I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This bastion of moral virtue has opinions about the Green Party. Just remember that as they continue to attack us. This is who they are. Mask is off.

The Green Party, the Party of the Working Class.

Surely there will be a Parliamentary / criminal investigation into the allegations that Lord Mandelson, while in Government, lobbied for changes in policy at the behest of a convicted sex offender who had donated money to him? www.ft.com/content/91e8...

Any party with an ounce of integrity would have expelled Mandelson years ago. A loathsome individual who represents everything that is rotten about mainstream politics…

You need to be pretty repellent to push both Green AND Reform votes up when your baseline is Keir Starmer - but Wes Streeting manages it.

If you're angry because Springsteen used to be really good, and the music was great, but his new song about Minneapolis is crude virtue signalling, and you wonder why he's changed, the answer is he hasn't. You have. Springsteen still has fire in his belly; you’re an ageing reactionary.

My article in the Metro. Why the Green Party must beat the Reform extremists in Gorton & Denton. metro.co.uk/2026/01/28/z...

Labour made the same claim in Caerphilly. "Only Labour can beat Reform". The actual result? Plaid got 47% (beating Reform!); Labour got 11%. Don't get fooled again. Vote Green in Gorton and Denton...

The betting markets are usually a pretty good indicator when it comes to politics. It’s a straight fight between Green and Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for Labour is a wasted vote. Vote Green to beat Reform (and you’ll finish Starmer off as a bonus!)

Liked a stopped clock, this is a headline in the Spectator I agree with ... but probably not for the reasons they think.

Labour launch attack on Greens as pollster tips Polanski’s party to win crucial Gorton and Denton by-election Exclusive: Green Party leader Zack Polanski tells The Independent the Gorton and Denton by-election is ‘Greens vs Reform’ © PA Wire

Holocaust Memorial Day A video telling the true story of what happened to my family, with photos, maps, documents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iR_...

What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election? Reform winning? Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about. They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.

For how long do the world’s leaders appease Trump. Ask yourself. Who is the bigger threat? Trump? Or a refugee on a boat. When we abandon our moral duty and our principles, the world dies, regardless of who wins the gunfight.

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1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

School Sports Day latest: Little Donny didn't win the egg and spoon race, but Maria let him have her prize. Little Donny stopped crying and was very happy...

This is beyond shocking - how can this be allowed to happen? Why on earth can’t they be released on bail? They have a right to a fair trial, appropriate medical treatment, & the removal of punitive Prison Service conditions. Govt’s ban on Palestine Action is simply intolerable

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Nadhim Zahawi leaving the Tory Party now is like shutting the taxpayer-heated stable door after the horse has bolted...

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Happy New Year from a pub in Edinburgh x

From Nigel Farage to this caricature, it's been striking to see how little of a shit the right now gives about antisemitism. After all, when a Labour leader was accused of it, they were deeply, gravely concerned.