listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

London is the only region not to have rising numbers of people who are economically inactive because of sickness: that’s not because Londoners are physically superior, it’s because we have a stronger, more dynamic and more varied economy:

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Betrayal?? Brexit was the greatest betrayal of this country ever, bar none.

“These will include speeding up the warm homes plan to encourage the rapid take-up of solar panels and electric vehicles; expanding the use of solar on public land; and delinking gas and electricity prices, to cut consumers’ bills.”

Its weird how some people are clutching their pearls over this aspect of the matter. Trump is not a usual president, you can't appoint the usual type of ambassador. Desperate times, etc. And if you look at who Trump has appointed as ambassadors...wow. Hardly the great and the good. I don't think

Boris Johnson was made Foreign Secretary in 2016, after failing a security vetting and being denied sensitive Government information during his time as a Minister. The media didn't care then, they don't care now, and it wasn't the reason why Theresa May resigned. The media are hypocrites.

The Green Party (and other NIMBYs) talk a lot about how things have to benefit ‘local communities’. What about the national interest? Why is it okay to oppose something that costs you a little but massively benefits the whole country. We don’t take this approach (rightly) to taxes.

Surprise!

I've asked the BBC to correct this news report's mistake in claiming 100,000 small boat arrivals last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Could use BBC Verify data to get numbers right + more accurately report the context:eg, that small boat numbers are falling in 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We stand united with over 100 organisations: Instead of investigations that contribute to division, we call for responsible reporting that sheds a light on systemic injustices and highlights the voices of those most affected by them. Read our joint statement buff.ly/OBWMGpq

Who could possibly have imagined the broadcast and print media which so breathlessly reported rises in small boat arrivals last year would fail to report the much lower number this year? I have to admit I’m shocked. 😇

I’ve been down under asking Aussies what they think about their digital ID.

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

The triumph of democracy is not that you can elect an angel, it is that you can kick out an SOB. Because, if you can kick out an SOB, the next one knows you can kick him out too.

We're almost 2k euros behind target, I have a car with a cracked head gasket back in Poland, and that's all before the house situation! If you're wealthy, you may now experience a smidgen of pressure!

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

No incoming Conservative Govt. since 1952, ever left office with defence spending at a higher level from when they came in. The Conservatives are not the party/Govt. of the armed services.

A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.

There are lots of really encouraging things here - some really major, such as help with cost of living and employment rights - but also minor things like no 13 on the list, a massive fine for a landowner who illegally felled trees.

PM Keir Starmer : I am fed up of Trump , Because of people like him, people are suffering, businesses are suffering , the world is suffering.

🚨🚨In the massive geopolitical chaos caused by the #Trump presidency's war-mongering and #Russian invasion of #Ukraine more and more countries flock to the EU as the last bastion of peace, security and econonomic prosperity. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/mont...

Ten announcements and achievements by our Labour Government pretty much ignored by UK media who find it impossible to tell us all the good news. Share far and wide. #DoingTheMediasJob #LaboursAvhievements #FixingBritain

Yes.

Football fan? Listen up. ⚽️

“I have made it very clear that the Conservative party stands behind America taking this necessary action”. Kemi Badenoch, House of Commons, 2nd March 2026. Never, ever let her forget she spoke those words while attacking the UK government for not getting involved in Trump's war against Iran.

"I don't want to do this, but you made me." - every abuser, ever. We fucking told you so.

🇷🇺🇭🇺 An answer which might as well have been written by Putin himself. Shameful from JD Vance.

UK signals it will not let US use British bases to attack Iranian infrastructure ft.trib.al/8UhS78z

Labour are on the side of ordinary people. Major changes today benefit: 1. Children (2 child cap) 2. Young people (Youth Hubs) 3. Low paid workers (Min Wage/sick pay) 4. Those on welfare (help to work) 5. Workers (security/paternity) 6. Pensioners (uplift) #LabourSuccess

Wow 84% energy by Solar and wind, 16% by nuclear 101% Zero carbon 3% Gas just to tick over UK smashing it today

Dear Director General, Who Wants Today's Papers? open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

One of the key revelations of the Epstein documents from the UK perspective is the strange plot to topple (and that's the word they use) the Tory government of Theresa May. Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson were at the core of it. Here's an excellent recap of the whole sordid scheme.

Big, Big day for ordinary people. Fairness and safety for workers, uplift in pensions, two child cap lifted, working women protected, Youth Hubs for our young people. Today even the media can’t ignore these Labour Successes. Share far and wide.

You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.

It's a ubiquitous, often overlooked, and deeply horrific feature of ethnic cleansing campaigns: violence and murder towards those members of "protected" communities who try to protect or help their friends and neighbours of targeted communities. (a couple of examples from Bosnia)

Remember, this is just two specific funding streams, out of many, which go towards protecting nature, animals and landscapes. While this announcement is about these two, the work & funding cannot be looked at only in isolation, as if it were the only work being done in these areas.

The things people will do to get our attention. #WorldBollardAssociation

DISGUSTING! "The richest 0.1% of people on Earth are hiding more than $2.8 trillion in offshore accounts to avoid taxes. That money alone is more wealth than is owned by the entire bottom half of humanity, more than 4.1 billion people." #Pinks #ProudBlue www.commondreams.org/news/global-...

What a shocker

Hilarious. And true.

I have been utterly depressed by many of the comments made by people I thought political allies around this incident - endless references to Israel bombing ambulances etc (as if this made it OK for someone to burn these "Jewish" ambulances). Sam's post encapsulates virtually everything I have been

It's official, Finland had just its warmest March on record. www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/tiedote/2huP... The new record was set with 1.2 °C margin (compared to 2007), which is the largest margin in any of the 21st-century monthly records. March 2026 is the first March with mean temperature > 0.0 °C.

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Ambulance attacks in Golders Green a horrendous antisemitic action. Its dangerous+wrong to seek to mitigate attacks on Jews by reference to anger over conflict in Gaza or Israel's war in Iran. Its obvs not necessary to support Israeli gvt policy to sincerely condemn it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

If Rowling is really bothered by men punching women, maybe she could use her vast fortune to support the victims and prevention of domestic and sexual assault. Instead of policing exceptionally rare outliers in the entirely voluntary and consensual participation in recreational activities.

I think I've said this before but I think the next step for Alan Partridge should be to accidentally find himself leading a Farage-ish movement after going viral ranting about something trivial, like the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre.