“This is the worst microplastic spill we’ve seen this year,” says environmentalist Joshua Beech. Worse even than the spill of nurdles (pre-production plastic pellets) in March, when two ships collided in the North Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

MPs urge Reeves to raise gambling taxes despite ‘scaremongering’ from firms. Quite right. Bet365 CEO collected £323m in pay and dividends last year. Company paid 12.7% corporation tax on £1.4bn profit. Almost all betting companies have offshore tax haven operations, solely to dodge UK taxes.

If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.

This is true. The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio. He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself. Have a look at my website and please repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

It actually feels like spring today. To be precise, one of those lovely mid-March days when you feel the warmth of the sun on your back for the first time in months. Only it's mid-November and we haven't had winter yet.

NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room. Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.” But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide. defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body. So yes- dangerous." - Jeffrey Epstein

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. - Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974 US aviator (1902 - 1974)

We've been involved in so many evacuated block cases, I think this is our 8th, that we've a standard advice & case plan for assisting tenants. Now Sapphire Court. An Olympic Park block owned by NHG apparently with structural safety issues (and other problems). anthonygold.co.uk/insight/resi...

In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄

More on Reform-led Lancashire Council's plans to sell-off council council care homes and move everyone into the private sector, here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Asset strippers and speculators aren't entrepreneurs. They don't create anything. They're ruthless vultures for whom Thatcherite deregulation presents innumerable carcasses they can pick to the bone. Patriots don't offer their countries up to be carcasses.

Finland knows that Socialism works. They house all the homeless people, and have the least in the world. They closed all paid Education in 1976 and now have the best education system in the world. They are the happiest country in the world. Be like Finland.

One potential factor in X radicalisation/racism which shouldn’t be ignored is the financial incentive to be outrageous/widely-shared. Rupert Lowe - whose payments we know as he has to declare them - can clear £5,000 a month in X payments.

Is this Kemi “lawmakers can’t be law breakers” Badenoch calling for Reeves’ head over this the same Kemi Bedenoch who has openly admitted hacking Harriet Harman which, last time I looked, was a criminal act? Asking for a friend.

Here you go. "It's will encourage unity" says Leader Mick Barton,who knows exactly what he's doing when he wastes this £75K. Divisive. Unnecessary. Well done for voting them in 👍 BBC News - Criticism as Reform-led council set to spend £75,000 on new flags - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Steve Bannon says Trump will be President in 2028, dismisses the 22nd amendment and says, "We need to finish what we started" Good luck USA 👍 And I guess his 2028 inauguration will be in the ballroom he's building 🤷‍♂️

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

These 3 pro-Nazi men had never met up in person until they were in court, but forged an alliance online to socialise violence, collect 200 weapon + plan which mosques, Islamic education centres and synagogues they should target for murder to get a race war going www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How Malta’s Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia Connects to an Organisation Close to Nigel Farage. Turlough Conway shows that two men associated with the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist were also key donors to Nigel Farage’s pan-European political project bylinetimes.com/2019/12/03/h...

The government's message to Michelle Mone today, after the failure for Medpro failed to pay back £122m by yesterday's deadline: "Our lawyers have been instructed and we are coming after her with everything that we have got." "And we will get the British taxpayers money back."

Finally. Let’s start holding Farage to account for the relentless shitshow that is Brexit. Because.. “What could be more elementary than asking voters to judge a candidate on their previous assurances? What more basic function of democracy could we ask for?” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

That’s about $300 from every single US household, fwiw.

I notice all those brave journalists, Guido alumni, and Tory hacks, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security, at that - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone ALL QUIET now the witness statements have been released and are exactly as the PM detailed at PMQs.

From today's @financialtimes.com #climatecrisis #tippingpoint

I'm assuming Nigel Farage will get very exercised by this kind of de-banking www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Store electricity produced by solar during the day, and release it at night. That is happening all over the world. It is still far cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient than using fossil fuels. Battery costs have plummeted in the past decade, and battery capacity is growing exponentially.

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm. DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas. Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

And another one gone! Reform suspends a council in Kent following unofficial complaints from several female members of staff. How many more of the May intake of Reform councillors will be gone by the end of the year?

I can't help but wonder if trump's fluffers are showing him pictures of the Gaza genocide and telling him its Portland, Chicago etc....

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050 In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes' www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

I ❤️ Viz

Congratulations to the 53,000 runners who braved war-ravaged Chicago to run all the way through it in this weekend's marathon. 👏 SO BRAVE! 😁

A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished

This is Portland. ✊🐸🦒🐘🦄🦊🐼

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested. Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

'It is inconceivable the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro-Russian statements.'

Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016? Why, it's Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill, who then did the important news briefing on his behalf to Russia Today. Why was Putin's mouthpiece so interested? youtu.be/j1wv-iu84nk

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.