Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Times says Reform policy to make all of those with settled status apply instead for a new temporary status In case of EU settled status, that is a massive breach of the spirit and letter of Farage's past pledges pre & after 2016. A rapid u-turn is necessary www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

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

Maria Ressa, "By design, social media platforms spread lies six times faster. If laced with fear, anger, hate, it goes viral. They change the way we vote" This is how they got Brexit over the line in 2016

Lot of people dunking on this, but it's good to see Mark Zuckerberg getting back to the thing that first made him passionate about coding: rating girls online.

On most issues, most of us disagree with Farage: Brexit, leaving ECHR, paying Taliban for refugees, Trussonomics, tax breaks for the wealthy, huge welfare cuts, binning NetZero, scrapping workers’ rights, arselicking Trump… Our politics should reflect us, not him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform UK suspends councillor linked to account calling for Starmer’s death www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So fascists/racists, no more complaints about potholes, unless you intend to pay to have them repaired yourselves.

Children lost in the system, should come before profit.

Taxpayers lose £400m as result of investment fund set up by Rishi Sunak Report shows 334 companies backed by Future Fund, set up in May 2020 by then chancellor, have since gone under www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

Great protest song from Sasha Allen, more of this please.

Farage has resorted to threatening to sue people who talk about his Stamp Duty avoidance via his girlfriend suddenly finding £885,000 out of thin air to buy a house. Let’s keep talking about it, he can’t get away with his corruption & threats will not work! #NigelFarage

Nigel Farage is now threatening to sue people who talk about his Stamp Duty avoidance via his girlfriend suddenly finding £885,000 down the sofa to buy a house that definately isn't for him. So don't talk about it, you wouldn't want to make Nigel Farage mad, would you?

NBC: Do you think it's appropriate for Brendan Carr to threaten companies if they didn't take action? JOHN THUNE: *walks away*

Research from @amnesty.org has found that "X acted like petrol on the fire of racist violence in the aftermath of the Southport tragedy" www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Judge blocks Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children apnews.com/article/trum...

The National's front page today asks a big question: Is it a crime to share a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? 👇

Release the Epstein Files

This is the 2024 research that the White House just scrubbed from the web, showing that far right attacks in the USA far outweigh far-left attacks. archive.ph/2025.09.11-0...

Nine years old. Nine. I have a sister this age. And this comes after a Sikh woman was allegedly raped in an allegedly racist attack in Oldbury www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump's mere existence causes collosal environmental damage.

Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Annie Mac, Peter Gabriel, and more come together for Palestine in new video. It precedes the Together For Palestine benefit concert taking place today. @popcrave.com x.com/PopCrave/sta...

D.C. crime is at a 30-year low. Yet the second Trump administration declared “emergency.” What is really going on?

The government should condemn this in the strongest terms and pull whatever strings it needs to to sack the headteacher responsible. Fundamentally un-British.

Farage football shirt offered as essay prize in Medway school Well this is grotesque Linden Kemkaran @LeaderofKCC. Reform UK indoctrination in schools. That’s a glimpse of a Reform UK school system… www.localauthority.news/p/farage-foo...

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

No words required.

Elon Musk: Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die." The Leader of the Opposition says: "It is very easy to read it in multiple contexts" "What I don't want to be doing is condemning this person and condemning that person"

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Here is Danny Kruger MP in Parliament, as a Tory MP before defecting today, berating Reform UK for "simply replacing the words Conservative Party with the words Reform Party... in a desperate search for relevance", then warning they would "spend money like drunken sailors". ~AA

I only wish I had a Time Machine to send those people who ‘want their country back’ to Britain 50 years. Or during the Anglo Saxon invasions. Or even better, 6,000 years ago www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

"Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages" "Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits" On the plus side - the PM's political strategy needs something of revamp. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

2022 Nigel Farage would be FURIOUS with 2025 Nigel Farage. ~AA

"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us." What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that. What contempt for voters. ~AA

Poland is now closing all railway crossings to Belarus in advance of joint Russia-Belarus military manoeuvres.

A reminder that Elon Musk's platform is still directly paying UK politicians, including Rupert Lowe, Richard Tice, and Lee Anderson

New polling in the Telegraph. Despite all the talk from Musk and Robinson about young people turning to Reform, it’s just the usual pack of lies. Read on for the Telegraph’s headline accompanying the piece.

If you're appalled by the PM's failure to stand up to what happened in London yesterday, write to your MP and tell them. MPs don't like angry letters from constituents and big mailbags get their attention. Here's how to contact yours. members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

Revolving doors. Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser. The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private. TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers. Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.

All those corporate companies still on X should be ashamed of themselves. They are endorsing the politics of hate by maintaining a presence on that site. Perhaps @bestforbritain.org can organise a petition to get companies of X? And the UK government should immediately close its X account.

Paid a visit to the London arms fair today... Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display. Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains? These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

Just a reminder that 24 years ago after 2 jet planes had just brought down the Twin Towers that the first thing Donald Trump did was not to offer sympathy or support to the families of the victims but to boast that he now had the tallest building in New York.