Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170M building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.

As long as the cost of subsidising a social tariff does not fall on the squeezed middle. 🤔

Of course REFUK don’t want kids to grow up bilingual. It has distinct cognitive benefits: more able to concentrate, more working memory, multi-tasking, more creative, better problem solving skills. REFUK can’t afford voters to be critical, independent thinkers.

What future for children? 4.5m UK children live in poverty. 5 year olds are 7cm shorter than their European peers. Rickets/Scurvy have returned. Tories want to reimpose the two-child benefit cap, condemn 450,000 children to poverty. Reform wants to do the same to cut price of a pint of beer.

Food banks - specifically the 1,600 run by Trussel...just how busy are they? Here is the annual data for 2015 to 2025. Other than a blip due to the 1st year of COVID, usage went up in each full year under a Tory government. 2024 was half-Tory, half-Labour - and usage fell. 2025 fell even more.

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in 5 years. Handful of billionaires, often resident abroad, funding the push to the right. Organisations such as GB News used to push billionaire interests through right-wing ideologues. All part of the billionaire takeover.

Surreal arrogance. Conservative MP Bernard Jenkins is complaining about our armed forces being under resourced when it was his Conservative government that cut defence spending by 25% in real terms over 14 years!

That could be said about most of his decisions.

Correct. Cut out the false prophet middlemen and converse directly. The Bibles, Quaran, Torah etc. are like a Rorschach test. If you have hate in your heart you will use the texts to justify the harm you cause others.

In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.

via Vanessa Grist

For Iran: Blocking the strait is described as "terrorism" or a "threat to global stability." For Cuba: Blocking their oil is framed as "pressure power politics" or "maximum pressure" to promote democracy. It’s a textbook example of 1984 double speak combined with a double standard.

American tech oligarchs spend billions fighting socialism, yet their unhinged greed is the single best advertisement for it. By hoarding wealth and breaking society to enrich themselves, they actively fuel the very ideology they claim to despise

393..."We know too well - apart from the those who should know better - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997.

There's really no excuse for not checking whether pics of his posts are genuine but you can understand how people make mistakes when the real ones, like this, are at least as batshit as the fakes...

The media has convinced you that Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister in history. They're lying to you.

These RW numpties believe the answer is fossil fuels, think the colour of your skin matters, and think women are inferior to men. You have to be some kind of stupid to go along with those views.

Another great clarification of the situation. Why don’t we get this level of clarity from the BBC and other MSM…🤔

Widen your gaze and look upon Lebanon. Nearly a million people have been displaced by Israel in the past 3 weeks. They've been told not to return. That's ethnic cleansing. The last time Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was born. What horrors will be unleashed now?

A great example of Trump using others as pawns in his game. Also a very positive end point about modern SA.

#Krasnov doing Putin’s bidding again?

This is something that needs to be addressed on a national level. Trading Standards need more powers to ensure compliance, close businesses down, initiate prosecutions plus the confiscation of proceeds of crime.

Patients harmed as Covid pandemic brought NHS close to collapse, inquiry finds. In 2016 Exercise Cygnus concluded that the NHS cannot cope with a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic. Tory govt did nothing. 232,000 died from Covid. NHS yet to recover. 7.29m unfilled hospital appointments.

As shouted from the rooftops for a very long time!

Or just basics: overall, plant foods are healtier and more environmentally friendly than animal foods - the latter having much to do with the fact they require far more land, but big land owners tend to have big political power. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Within just 48 hours of the Tories refusing to sack Nick Timothy for his Islamophobic comments, the far-right is circulating a list of MPs “of foreign descent” trying to “silence” him. [1/2]

Just remember- before you use that Deform letter as bog roll - you can cost them £2.50 by posting it back to them

👏 Caroline Lucas: "Let's be in no doubt that Trump is a bully and a blackmailer." "This is a president who has said he's going to bomb Kharg island just for fun. The kind of language that he and Hegseth are using is so disgusting" "This is not Grand Theft Auto. This is real people's real lives."

Many studies have shown that when it comes to climate & environmental impacts, people are particularly misinformed about the impacts of their food choices. One recent example: "People underestimate the most impactful climate actions, such as eating less red meat..." Similarly with nutrition!

"GB News has become a home for the 'white genocide' conspiracy theory – a narrative that has inspired real-world violence. Ofcom's repeated failure to act over this channel's toxic output is more than just a regulatory failure – it's a policy choice"

Time for the UK to do the same. OFFEM needs to adjust the calculation of the price cap to reflect the current energy resources used to generate our electricity.

Now, let’s do the same in Westminster. And let’s get rid of that archaic rule that you can’t call someone a liar.

Trump has spent $11.3bn on Iran war, wants another $200bn to kill millions. How many billions on war in Venezuela, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon? He wants to takeover Canada, Cuba, Gaza, Greenland, Panama. Oil, gas, arms companies profiteer. People lose - energy prices, poverty, lives.

I'm very uneasy about this 'schoolification' of the EYFS which is a non statutory phase in which play not phonics should be prioritised. Plus sorry but it really grinds my gears that publications repeatedly ask men to write about a phase in which 98% of the workforce are women.

Jimmy Kimmel: “The only war Trump had an exit plan for was Vietnam.”

Truly one of the all time great takes

Religious selfservatives are the absolute pits.

I’ve been saying this for a few years, Prem. Time to make it a priority.

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I wonder why ofcom might be seen as ineffectual? Dame Melanie Dawes is CEO of ofcom - her husband is Benedict Brogan a former deputy editor and chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph Chairman of the board of directors is Michael Grade, tory life peer (though now non-affiliated)

A good day to post this again!

Labour delivering on their promise to protect and restore nature! The iconic Seven Sisters formally declared England's new National Nature Reserve, meaning this area of chalk grasslands, heath and floodplain meadows be better protected and restored for nature and people. 1/2

I have said that I think Labour will campaign on a manifesto pledge to rejoin the SM and CU? Today Sadiq Khan has, for the first time, said that Labour need to do just that at the next GE. Ball rolling. 👍

The offshore bonanza fuelling Reform UK continues, according to Electoral Commission data for the last quarter of 2025. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.