🎯 In the context of plummeting public trust in politics, of concerns of foreign interference, and of the system being awash with undue influence, the government needs to seize this once-in-a-Parliament opportunity to embrace root-and-branch reform.

⚠️ The government’s #ElectionsBill announced last week needs major work if it is to achieve its goal of ending foreign and undue interference in our democracy. Here are 7️⃣ essential measures that Parliamentarians need to take forward before the Bill becomes law. 🧵

Immigration and the limits of "control": me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why, and how, Labour has got both the economics *and* politics of migration so wrong. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724...

New petition: "Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy" Deadline 28 July 2026, created by Andy Kalil #NewPetition

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Time to focus on the adviser Lord Walney?

Palantir: too bad to be untrue. bsky.app/profile/samf...

EA on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story: #Trump Quest to Break Up #Europe (Scott Lucas/Einar Tangen/Chet Love) #EU #NATO #WhiteNationalism eaworldview.com/2026/02/trum...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Classic case of FAFO

I wrote for the Guardian about why Jim Ratcliffe's talk of Britain being "colonised" by immigrants crosses the line between legitimate debate and inflammatory rhetoric. It fuses echoes of Powellism with great replacement conspiracies of "civilisational erasure" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax. In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax. That says it all.

Shows how much Matthew Goodwin radicalised: much later than Brexit/Trump 2016 As late as 2021, Goodwin declares Jan 6th showed Trump was more of a "fascist" than a populist: (tries to overturn election) In 2026, extols Trump second term. (Only those who believe 2020 election was stolen can serve)

The Palestine Action proscription always looked like a stupid thing to do and politically it has been an absolute disaster.

Remembrance is not a violation #RemembranceIsNotAViolation

Ratcliffe colonisation comments 'correct', says Farage | News UK Video News | Sky News share.google/UUy29RtejbfJ... Barbet schools Farage on the many ways he's NOT correct!

Barbet shows Farage NOT correct! NOT correct on population "fact" NOT correct on benefits-most are 'in-work' benefits NOT correct on language skills & asks if Ratcliffe an economic migrant in Monaco to avoid tax should speak French/Monégasque? +Reform's (crypto) mega-donor Harborne lives in Thailand

Tonight, Rod Liddle's on @news.sky.com! Rod writes repulsive stuff like this in the Spectator yet they invite him to discuss a pedo in a nursery & school conviction case? And ask Rod about Ratcliffe & racism! Then trans kids! Then both panelists praise Shabana & Blue Labour! Turned off- so repulsed.

New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7

Farage on @news.sky.com is disgusting and offensive defending disgusting and offensive Ratcliffe. Never knew Matt Barbet could be so impressive! Finessing both Farage & Montie, exposing racism & correcting their false facts "the rhetoric overshadows the truth of it" which has dangerous consequences.

Notable how little UK Govt, and specifically the health secretary, have to say about this. No sense that they can shape public behaviour. Very passive.

People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences

It’s not your language that offends. It’s your racism.

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

@news.sky.com BREAKING reporting Ratcliffe apologises for "choice of language"!

Ratcliffe promoted Brexit! 'Brexit has cost the UK chemicals sector at least £2bn (US$2.5bn), according to a Defra impact assessment. This cost was mostly incurred in the establishment of new regulatory frameworks resulting from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU’s REACH scheme.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social

1/ Ratcliffe’s the problem - not the solution. He embodies the inequality that leeches on society. In the Sunday Times rich list, Ratcliffe’s net worth is ~ £17 billion, making him one of Britain’s richest people. Meanwhile, average wages have barely budged in real terms over the last decade. 🧵

Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Racism in Britain isn’t just confined to the bloke in the pub or the distant uncle. In just the past months we have seen racism in politics, in media and now at the highest level of ‘the beautiful game’. Not the terraces. We can take the P word on the street, but racism in corridors is systemic.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG: “I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.” The ad aged. The internet remembers.

Footage from ‘spycam’ in Epstein’s Palm Beach home verified by Channel 4 News – exclusive www.channel4.com/news/footage...

Has anyone tried turning The United States off and on again after a few minutes?

Oswald Mosley’s grandson is UK CEO of Peter Theil’s Palantir. He sees AI as political weapon to get rid of the ‘laynard class’ ‘& the need for ‘unskilled’ immigrants. Published in Paul Marshall’s magazine, edited by Michael Gove.All belong to the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship: archive.ph/9cftI

Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth. Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more? Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

No, I can't stomach anything to do with her. The victims are right behind her, and she is supposed to be protecting them, yet she continues to protect the pedophiles!

I cannot watch her - she's so combative - the perfect propagandist - i watched for one minute and she's already screaming back at the committee members and not at all answering their direct questions. I don't have the stomach for this shit.

This is pathetic. Using her time to campaign for Trump propaganda. I really feel so heartbroken for the survivors sitting right behind her 💔

"Who cares about sex trafficked and raped children? Look at the stock market!" -This absolute fucking bitch, basically.

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32 www.wired.com/story/palant...

Raskin to Bondi: "You're running a massive Epstein coverup right out of the Department of Justice... You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference and jaded cruelty to more than 1000 victims".

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."