I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).

Campaign to curb billionaire influence over UK media reaches key milestone https://www.europesays.com/britain/39875/ Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference to give an update on the latest situation…

What has Starmer done wrong exactly? Could it be that £5m pounds of social media campaigning has brainwashed thousands to hate a decent and competent man? Not enough discussion about this in political circles. @restispolitics.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Meta paid an effective fed tax rate of 3.5% on its latest tax bill — its lowest on record. Mark Zuckerberg's net worth just hit $222 billion. And Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Now it's reportedly planning to lay off 15,000 workers. Hello?

This should be a bright, blinking light catching everyone’s attention.

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”. Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

You know who does believe in Rules of Engagement? Ukraine Does. You know who does not? Putin's Russia. Guess who the USA is now modelling itself on?

Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East ft.trib.al/gAtT8mJ

"The shocking fall of three years for women and two years for men, in just three years, reveals the cumulative impact of the Tory/Liberal Democrat austerity programme and the gross mismanagement of the pandemic." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This seems very misleading by the Home Sec - poor form and doesn't help with the whole "rebuilding trust in politics" that this government purports to care about

Are we going to be subjected to endless stories about people escaping the Gulf States complaining about the government as airport lounges were below par? Or catering in the flight was meagre? I mean this government is just an embarrassment 🙈 news.sky.com/story/iran-l...

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Israel shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque and bans Ramadan prayer for third consecutive day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/strikes-pummel-iran-israel-shuts-al-aqsa-mosque-during-ramadan

The gap between how cool he thinks he sounds and how he actually sounds would take light eight centuries to traverse.

fwiw there is never going to be a good answer to the question "what should a UK government do faced with a mad US President given frightening levels of powers by his own party?"

The way I see it is that tonight Starmer had no other serious option but to do what he has. However, he must have known as soon as the attacks happened that an indiscriminate Iranian response was likely and failed to do anything to prepare the public for the consequences. That's what's screwed him.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Gideon Rachman, the FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator, argues that Trump has no credible endgame in Iran and “has not understood the lessons of past wars for regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan.” While the public may have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump has not.

"Who should decide the future of the leadership of Iran?" Iranians: 70% US Government: 8% YouGov / March 1, 2026

Christ I'm starting to wonder what I have to do to get into this. I really saved up this year.

Narrator: "I've been waiting FORTY YEARS for a POTUS to be dumb enough to give me the USA military as mercenaries"

Net migration in 2025 was about 160,000. That headline 2025 net migration figure will come out in May: it will clearly be significantly below the 205k for the year to June 2025 (est range: 130-180k) as 2025 visa data is now published. But the 2026 figure is likely to show negative net migration.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Reform Party taking a well earned break from protecting our women and girls 👇🏻

Fibbymcfibface is in Clacton-on-Sea. The #Farage plot in one image

absolute chef's kiss from C-SPAN producers who pull up a graphic showing the Dow below 50,000 seconds after Trump brags about the Dow hitting 50,000

Every British voter should know who James Orr is and what he stands for.... His ideologies are what a Reform UK government would actually deliver if they ever gained power #ShowOrrTheDoor

This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.

At the Munich Security Conference, Lindsey Graham tossed f-bombs at Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen, referring to her as "little lady," implying she could not stand against Trump’s Greenland lust. "Frederiksen simply responded: 'When you’re done with that, the meeting can continue.'"

NEW PAPER from @labourtogether.bsky.social argues we should allow Thames Water to go down the drain. The alternative is a fudged deal that softens pollution targets and sees large returns for hedge funds. This will fuel calls for nationalising the industry, and the uncertainty could push up bills.

"Recent statistics highlighting the depressing truth of 55 ambulance workers being attacked or abused every day within our 14 NHS UK ambulance services. Reading this data prompted me to revisit this all too familiar, depressing and unacceptable subject." #NHS

Journalists have to stop being complicit in their own radicalisation

The pro-EU Greens and LibDems are now at a combined 31% vs Farage's 26%, but even combined, do they get anything remotely near the TV coverage given to Farage and his party? British TV promotes and protects Farage. Has it even mentioned the deeply troubling Epstein, Bannon, Farage link?

I prefer it when ‘Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.

Come on everyone! It's stories like this which we need to share far and wide if we want to tackle the media attacks and defeat Reform. If you like and share the original post and also comment in support of it here, more people will see it. Please also share the press release on other sites.

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from Epstein files release. DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine.

I'm proud that an amendment I introduced to make hate crime an aggravated offence for LGBT+ and disabled people has been accepted by the government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All those people telling me Labour were doing nothing to support Port Talbot through the steel works rebuilding are all very quiet now. Here we have ANOTHER announcement, this time of a £11m Economic Growth and Investment Fund to support companies who offer skilled, well-paid jobs & help them grow.

For once, just once would do, I'd like to hear about a large, international, conspiratorial web of privileged people trying to make everyone else's life BETTER.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Measles outbreak in North London which is one of the worst areas for take-up of the vaccine.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."