“We’re already experiencing changes in UK winter rainfall that global #climate models predict for the 2040s – we’re 20yrs ahead. @metoffice.gov.uk data show that since the 1980s the UK... has been warming at a rate of ~0.25°C per dec –so we’re seeing almost 9% more rainfall that we did in the ’80s"

This is Ollie. He found a perfectly placed carrot snack on his walk. Simply can't believe his luck. 13/10 best day ever (TT: maxime_aries)

There's a fascinating and unremarked employment and pay story emerging in Northern Ireland and I wonder if it shows the stark difference between an area of the UK that remained closed to the EU single market etc and other areas of the UK that remain locked out. >>>>

Lower-income UK families face 137-year wait for living standards to double. No govt curbs on profiteering. No plan for redistribution. The poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20% Poor must unite, vote en block for change, challenge power of corporations/rich.

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Might be an algorithm thing but Instagram is properly going off about the US and the Epstein files. I seriously wonder where it might end.

Last week - the PM scolded the opposition at PMQs for daring to question the Cabinet Secretary. This week - the PM sacked the Cabinet Secretary.

Kalecki said that capitalists are more comfortable with fascist governments because together they can squash organized labour, while getting a bigger share of the pie.

The data's all here, go knock yourself out. www.gov.uk/government/p...

People used to be getting healthier year on year. Now we're getting sicker year on year. The difference is Covid.

🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.

AI is going to be a complete boon for the right, boosting their ability and capacity to push rightwing ideas and values on the rest of us, and a purity test for the left and liberals who will continue to scorn and moral panic about it rather than bend it towards our ends.

"Paul... I think I told you...I'm a loner not a fighter." In an adenoidal Michael Jackson voice

Amazed at how much time some people have to follow Westminster politics on here.

Just find this sort of thing really stupid. You’re an aide to minister. Don’t you have better things to do with your time than workshop anonymous quotes to get yourself in an email? Pathetic.

In my adult lifetime the right has gone from asserting "management's right to manage" to telling them how best to run their companies. The consistent theme is wanting to oppress workers.

wtf, Ghislaine Maxwell exonerating the only man who has the power to grant her clemency. Insane stuff.

The best defence would be for the UK government to fund HE properly. They'd do anything to stop "Chinese intimidation", but they wouldn't do that.

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma #climatecrisis Story by Bethan McKernan www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Shitshow latest www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

He's a broken record, but this by John Harris gets closer than anything I've seen to diagnosing the UK's malaise and the chronic insecurities at the root of the public's anger. It's impressive that the Westminster ecosystem so effectively blocks it out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have more power than they want us to believe. Be careful around anyone who wants you to give up hope.

I don’t have a super coherent place to end those observations. Aside from that in a society that increasingly runs more on vibes than facts, the way we react matters. They need propaganda because they don’t have the power to do all the things they want to convince us are inevitable.

I want to say this as gently as possible, but living in Minnesota through all of this has been extremely eye-opening about how much *everyone* is impacted by propaganda. My mentions each day just match the flavor of the coverage of what’s going on here.

All of which is just a long winded way of saying that the asteroid that will eventually obliterate what we call ‘conventional politics’ and which lots of us kept pointing to is no longer on its way. It’s already hit. (6/6)

It’ll take more than a leadership change for Lab to begin rectifying this. They’d need to remove most of a generation, abandon a whole concept of politics they signed up to 30 years ago & open up an inclusive & pluralist politics that goes beyond parties. Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)

And so much ‘right-thinking’ regards acceptance of all that as a ‘grown up’ & ‘sensible’ ‘politics of hard choices’ which only loony lefties question. Again, the complicity of Mandelson stands for a general complicity of the state in privileging politicking over the rest of democratic politics (4/)

Epstein/mandelson encapsulates how UK politicians have abandoned individuals, towns, cities & industries to predatory wolves they invited in to asset strip our economy & to turn our culture into endless online degradation of women which many politicians won’t regulate fully because in hock to (3/)

The loathing is deeper & more visceral than Westminster-ites can grasp. It’s not party-political or procedural. They worry about the effects of leadership change on bond markets. That’s nothing. But our political class is able to grasp let alone address the scale of the political climate change (2/)

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

Nick Robinson giving hell to [checks notes] Jacqui Smith about Epstein for 15 minutes is a good reminder that none of the guilty is having to pay for anything

Do you know what I think the left can learn from McSweeney? How to build. The left has stopped doing it. Morgan didn't, and he built something irresistible, unavoidable and powerful. Not to my taste, but his instinct and aptitude to do the boring but inevitable stuff is the lesson here.

Let's be honest, nothing is going to change because the PM appoints a new spad. And the country is not going to turnaround if Angela or Andy or Wes get hold of the wheel. This isn't fatalism, it's an acknowledgement of the facts. Politics has failed and looks beyond legitimacy.

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.

Binge watching Dubai Bling, a proper psychodrama, not more Westminster crap.

This is not a comment on what labour party members should do or not do - but a question. If you believe this, do you believe we live in a democracy? If you believe that the gods of the market mean we can't do democratic processes, don't you think something should be done about that?

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

A joke newspaper

Cue: more pages and pages "skeets" on here of drivel about Westminster bollocks that never gets to the root of what the Epstein saga is truly all about.

Epstein takes another non US political scalp. It really is quite something how impervious the American wealthy elites are. How authoritarian their grip on power is.

Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.

Your Sunday morning long read ⬇️ If you’re not trans and you think trans people protest too much… I’m the mother of Alice a trans woman who died by suicide… this stuff matters…mainstream media isn’t reporting it because they’re complicit in it… Here’s why trans people and allies alike protest…

British values

Even the bond vigilantes don’t like the fiscal rules.

At 7 @lbc.co.uk : councils in crisis: starved of cash by Westminster, ripped off by private sector. What’s the answer? Plus how should Britain respond to Trump’s overt racism - by sitting on our hands? And why more men in their 60s marrying than chaps in their 20s? 0345 6060973 🧐

Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.

Searches if your local NHS Trust is using Palantir and emails them on your behalf, please take a minute to do this because we must fight this evil company getting a hold >> notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Wtf were Man Utd doing persevering with Amorin?