The greatest crime of this Labour government (and you can say the same of most of European social democracy) is that it removes any rational hope of achieving a just society by democratic means. That conclusion leads either to cynicism and apathy or to ultimately self-defeating violence.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

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.

Ellison’s son has been on huge US media buying spree but the really big deal is the TikTok. Trump signed exec order last week which will allow Ellison - with new business partner...drum roll...Rupert Murdoch, another staunch supporter of Israel - to buy TikTok 7/

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young. Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

And because I feel small. Powerless. And I honestly don’t know what else to do. This is just one day in Ukraine under attack. Out of so many days. 5/5

And this is a threat to absolutely everyone. No other terrorist in the world has ever dared to do to a nuclear plant what Russia is doing now. And it is right that the world should not remain silent.

This is a very moving opening of Starmer's conference speech - he is angry on behalf of working class people and injustice committed against working class people by the state. A demand that we oppose racism and reject division.

You know when Savile did that now infamous documentary with Louis Theroux and he was basically admitting in broad daylight that he was a pedophile? Well this is what Farage is doing when he tells Matt Frei that the Russians are bankrolling him. He’s telling the truth for once.

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

Nigel Farage’s close associate Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to 8 charges relating to bribery in 2018/19 He was paid by a pro Putin Ukrainian politician (now lives in Russia) to make Pro Russian speeches, organise meetings and appearing on a now banned pro Russian tv show in Ukraine.

Andrew Chakhoyan: "Moscow’s goal isn’t to fight but to have us wake up one day to find NATO’s guarantees void, European Union institutions ruined and transatlantic solidarity gone. No need for Russia to fire a shot if it can convince Europeans that defending themselves isn’t worth the effort."

Important reporting that makes difficult reading about the men who committed war crimes in Bucha Unmasked: 13 Russian officers who led ‘war crime’ troops in Bucha www.thetimes.com/article/a7d3...

Zelenskyy is right: russian drones and jets over many countries aren’t random, they’re propaganda raised to the next level. Aimed at pacifists in the West: “forget Ukraine, think of yourselves, all ends with Ukraine’s surrender”. The answer is clear: stronger aid to Ukraine.

Russia is secretly preparing sabotage operations around the British Isles, studying underwater communications- FT This threatens Europe’s internet,energy supply,military communications The Russian intelligence vessel Yantar operated in European waters for three months⤵️

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sunflowers bloom still Where shiny chestnuts abound In the old church-yard. #DailyHaiku

Nathan Gill, then a Brexit Party MEP, was paid to make pro-Russian media appearances and statements in the European Parliament He organised a presentation on a Ukraine "peace plan" written by a politician who met Vladimir Putin and praised the event the very next day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Are your sure? I’ve heard this dreadful story about immigrants being eaten by swans. I was chased by a swan not long ago and I’m certain it wanted to eat me. British swans are hostile and out of control and something needs to be done about it!

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Long after he stepped down as leader, he would often holiday here in the Lakes and would take a day out to lend a hand with our campaigns alongside his beloved wife Elspeth. I will miss him terribly and I'm praying for his family.

Bobbing for Apples Alvin Richard 2021

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

and they have been told by the Russians that 'your parents don't love you, Ukrainians hate you, and you're a failure,' the mental stress that you get as a child, no matter what age, is simply beyond anything that we can imagine." 📹: Voices of Children Foundation

"After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him."

Russia marking target coordinates for whatever location system is not GPS which they are actively disrupting

It's really important for the media and public to understand what's happening here as it's the same playbook as the MAGA coalition. Find all the fringe groups who don't trust institutions for whatever reason and promise them to deliver what they want so they build enough of a coalition to gain power

“Putin has stolen Ukrainian children. Thousands of children have been abducted by Russia. ” Today at the UN General Assembly, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney emphasized the issue of Ukrainian children being abducted by russia, calling it a most horrific crime.

His speech was strategically smart. He’s shown most evidence of understanding the direction in which politics is heading.

It is with profound sadness that The Yorkshire County Cricket Club announces the passing of Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird MBE OBE, one of cricket’s most beloved figures, who died peacefully at home at the age of 92. Read more: yorkshireccc.com/news/harold-...

For the UK to then use that as a study guide... well, that is a whole new sub-basement of idiocy.

The recent three weeks have been pure madness. Drones across Europe, jets, "occupation of Moldova?!". And some still think putin will stop in Ukraine. That’s beyond naïve.

Fall Florals Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2022

And half the country won’t understand a thing Hedges said.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

It's a straight-up intimidation technique to prevent anybody from pushing back. Absolutely shameless.

Last night, Ukraine was under a massive combined drone and missile attack again. What has changed since the last big combined attack? russia sent 20 drones to attack Poland last week and three jets violated Estonia's airspace yesterday. Unpunished evil always grows. Always!

[email protected] has been a carer for his mum, his nanna & now his son. As he says, most care isn’t in care homes but in our homes, given by families. We’re a nation of carers — but govt rarely sees it that way. Read his foreword to our new report: www.ippr.org/articles/who...

⚡️A Ukrainian soldier filmed poison gas filling a trench—used by Russian forces, a clear violation of the rules of war.

Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

America is not a free and democratic society anylonger and this is not an attack on free speech. You lost free speech already. This is simply the Trump regime and their henchmen acting on that. This is not an attack on free speech. This is punishment for speaking. Stop pretending otherwise.