If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

EAKING: Ukraine just launched another major drone swarm attack against Russia. Drones are striking targets in Moscow, Rostov, Krasnodar and Russian-occupied Crimea. Do you think Russia will exit the war by the end of this year?

On energy, again all he has is words. What does he mean to bring energy under public control? Our existing Labour government are doing that. Changing Sizewell C so that the public have a major 45% stake in it. Fully owning and operating the new Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, like at Wylfa. 4/5

So all the work has been done by the current Labour government. The powers are there. Local leaders are now starting to use them. So just what does Andy Burnham think he can offer? An unfunded and undefined plan for the water industry with no proof he can even make it happen? It stinks! 3/3

...it was just powers over the franchising of services. Our existing Labour government has Already gone much further via the Bus Services Act 2025, lifting the ban on local authorities running their own services, giving local leaders more powers, more day, more control. 2/3

Andy Burnham is already out there misleading people and it stinks! Here is talking about how has brought buses under public control in Manchester. Well that was actually only possible via powers granted by the Tory government via the Bus Services Act 2017. And what is more... 1/3

Reform 2024 voters are 41-27 (+14) but this has narrowed to 36-31 (+5) as growing party support dilutes t Tommy Robinson fans. The post-2024 Reform switchers a bit more critical than supportive, prob only in ballpark of 30-35 against. Future target voters closer towards general public scepticism.

Public First conducted new public attitudes research ahead of yesterdsy's marches. Tommy Robinson had 17% approval and 47% approval. He is barred from the Reform Party, as a former BNP member, but its supporters are split 35% approve & 31% disapprove

Sam himself later downplayed any negativity, noting on social media that it was just for about 20 minutes after the flag parade, that the BBC team was great overall, and that he appreciated Denmark's friendliness Still, what a shameful oversight. Thank you Denmark 🇩🇰

A Danish delegate (from the team supporting Søren Torpegaard Lund and the song Før Vi Går Hjem) noticed, approached him, and asked him to sit with them on their nearby sofa Sam happily joined, squeezing in with the group

Sam Battle (performing as Look Mum No Computer), the UK's 2026 Eurovision entrant Sam was visible sitting by himself at the UK delegation's spot while points were being announced and other acts' delegations socialized together

A suitable metaphor 🥳👏👏

I am genuinely ashamed of myself that I voted for Nandy in 2020. What a gargantuan disappointment she has been. So weak, so scared.

Josh Simons appears a bit radical as a non-MP. Just a bit. #BBCLauraK

Jo Coburn writes as many notes as Kay Burley does, and is occasionally just as incisive. #BBCLauraK

George, who donated significant sums to refugee charities, would have been proud 👏🏿

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Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"How can you trust the Russians if they keep trying to assassinate you?" "I don't have to trust anyone, I have to get results." Budanov is my spirit animal.

I'm sure a few people, including Farage, will have secretly funded today's unite the drooling knuckle-draggers fash bash march.

Farage Riots. Textbook Project 2025. Trump's authoritarian regime is busy gerrymandering - removing hard won voting rights for non white people. Approved in "red", Southern states, banned in "blue" Democratic states. Farage wants inhumane ICE detention centres in UK. Death camps for innocent people

When the real history of the last few years comes to be investigated, I think many will be surprised at how deliberate and strategic those Summer 2024 riots were - and how effective at taking out a very new govt's legs from under it. Planned and simply looking for a trigger event, would be my guess.

That’s it. Help Farage.

Yeah, given how generous and cooperative Labour have been to the Greens, it's not unreasonable to hope the Greens will help Labour out of their predicament. Or maybe it is. Chance for Greens to extract some leverage towards cooperation if played right, but I get why they're not giving out for nowt

Yes, missing the most obvious opportunity to show that they care about beating Reform. So early on for them to go party over country. Disappointing.

Ok.. predictable jibe… but also quite twatty in light of the bigger picture and what could be achieved for the country with some grown-up, responsible cooperation between progressive parties.

Green Party source responds: "The problem is we just don't know which Andy Burnham is going to turn up? The Blairite politician who went along with years of privatisation and welfare cuts, or the one who publicly supported PR and changes to the failed economic model? We just don't know."

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#Redistricting #Gerrymandering @democrats.org You have work to do and we are mostly not seeing it. You knew this was their plan for more than a decade but proactivity doesn’t appear to be your strategy. Why not? Our democratic republic hangs in the balance. stateline.org/2026/05/15/t...

There's nothing sexy about being a founder at this stage. https://bit.ly/4wCCdda

At Kaspiysk naval base in Dagestan, Telegram Z-pages report more than 30 Russians killed, with explosions lasting several hours. Ship or ships from the Caspian Flotilla are reported hit. The attached video appears to confirm at least one strike. 4/6

Additional confirmed strikes in the same operation: a Tor-M2 air defense system in Luhansk region, a Pantsir-S1 in occupied Crimea, and an ammunition-laden dry cargo ship in Berdyansk. 3/6

At Yeysk airfield on the Sea of Azov coast, operators from the 1st Separate Center destroyed a Be-200 Altair amphibious aircraft and struck a Ka-27 helicopter loaded with a torpedo. The Be-200 is a rare jet-powered platform capable of operating from both runways and water. 2/6

🇷🇺💥🔥𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 (День Втрат) | 𝟭𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 BLUF: Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces conducted coordinated deep strikes over the last 24 hours, hitting high-value Russian military assets across multiple theaters simultaneously. 1/6

America's leaders killed the Iranians that have been open to negotiations, empowered Revolutionary Guard hardliners, handed them a big prize with the Strait of Hormuz, and are now confused that they intend to get something for it.

Interestingly that wasn’t so true of him in govt/early Westminster years. I think it’s become more true in Manchester.

He's a bloke who says stuff people like to hear. Remind you of anyone?

This is a good Andy Burnham primer by someone who’s seen more of his Manchester operation than most www.ft.com/content/9dd4...

Go #gunners #Arsenal

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I know people have strong feelings about podcasts, and they can discuss them amongst themselves, but this episode of Origin Story is a very good potted history of the speech. podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/o...

(To reply to the repliers, it’s the so-called Rivers of Blood Speech, widely considered to be the high watermark of racism within mainstream British politics, and basically the end of Powell’s career as a serious politician.)

Just wondering, Simon, is ‘the Birmingham speech’ better known by any other description? I just feel like people may be more familiar if… oh… I’m sure it’s nothing.

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