Given what certain leaders are trying to do, just to say...

Funny how all these Brexit types have changed their tunes when faced with the reality of being a non-EU country, and having to go through all the passport checks that non-EU countries do...

🎥 "One man, one vote is an established principle. It must not be supplanted by one man and his money." Sir John Major speaking at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk earlier today, making the case for reducing the influence of big money in our politics.

I hear Reform UK are campaigning in Scotland today. It would be tragic if this went viral again... ~AA

That came very close to having to boycott #Eurovision entirely next year. However, one point - if Russia is (quite rightly) excluded for a war in which they commit war crimes, all countries doing the same should be.

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

36 yeas since 17 people were shot in 20 minutes in the quiet Tyneside village where I went to school and guides. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

In Manchester, where buses have been in public control since January, average fares have reduced by 15%, usage is up 4% on the year, punctuality is up on major routes by ~80%, and revenue is 4% over target. Public control is good start - next stop public ownership!

‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’ ~ Pedro Pascal

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

Possibly the best use of social media I've ever seen.

The foundation outline of a C7th church on the Heugh at Lindisfarne. Discovered as part of a community archaeology project, the remains may be associated with the first monastery founded by St Aidan and King Oswald in AD 635. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Archaeology #Lindisfarne

BREAKING: The government is hugely concerned that if the nationalisation of British Steel is a success, they won't have any excuse not to nationalise water, energy and rail x

What Mr Moore said.

Retweet if you think Michael Gove should be handed a sentence rather than a peerage.

Let’s break this down: in summary- he’s shat his pants because US treasury bonds were being sold off like lemonade in a desert. He’s fucked up big time. And any other spin is bullshit.

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Boris Johnson... Ostrich.... 😆😆😆

Horrible.

@amnesty calls for an independent investigation into the deaths of 15 medical and rescue workers in Gaza. Israel maintains that six of the 15 were Hamas members, but that wouldn’t be an acceptable defence in court. The deliberate killing of medics and paramedics is a war crime.

I called out Nigel Farage in Parliament yesterday during a debate on the threat digital platforms pose to democracy. He's declared earnings of more than £100k from X, Google, Meta, and Cameo combined since the election. Social media barons won't be called to account if politicians are on the make.

Bloody hell. What a point.

News flash

Things have changed A LOT since Labour published it's manifesto. America is no longer a trusted ally. It's clearly in our best interests to #RejoinEU If they don't change tac then we'll vote tactically to get them OUT and @libdems.org.uk and TheGreenParty IN! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

"We're told that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace But battalions of fascists still dream of a master race The history books they tell of their defeat in '45 But they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYG7...

It is a beautiful situational irony that it is Booker who has taken Thurmond's record for the longest speech in Senate history.

He's a hero. This is history right here. I wish that one day, Trump and his minions would be forgotten, and people like Cory Booker would be the ones to be remembered.

The case against Marine Le Pen getting prosecuted can be succinctly summed up as: "If they hold one lot of populist, law breaking grifters to account - then what's to stop them going after the rest of us?"

This keeps getting worse and worse.

When the far right get arsey about Le Pen (and a couple of dozen others) facing the consequences for their corruption, (and they are getting arsey), remember one thing. It's because they know they're vulnerable to the same consequences, because they are just as corrupt.

Proof the US is no longer a democracy.

Funny to hear JD Vance critique Denmark—a country with universal healthcare, free university, paid parental leave, and low inequality—from the vantage point of a nation that can’t guarantee insulin or maternity leave. Denmark supports Greenland and still outclasses the U.S. socially.

Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement. This is huge. And a reminder that the far right are universally corrupt as fuck. (Remember that time Farage got done for misusing EU funds...) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Sky News let the Reform Party kill a story about how they've been assaulting journalists. This is how client media works.

Normally when you go to our local Morrisons later on a weekend, Coke and Pepsi are pretty much sold out (or close), especially if there's an offer on. Not this weekend. Irn Bru, however, gone.

Germany has seized the Russian-linked oil tanker Eventin, which was part of Moscow’s so-called Shadow Fleet, replacing its entire crew and taking ownership of the 100K tons of sanctioned oil aboard.

Gary Stevenson, "I would advise people to look at what happens to American living standards over the next few years, because that could happen here if we vote the wrong way in the next general election" #BBCQT

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets have arrived at Malbork Air Base in Poland to begin 'Operation Chessman', part of NATO’s Enhanced Air Policing mission. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-figh...

Excellent work by Everyone Hates Elon 👏🏻

Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like

Shit, if they've lost the Telegraph, they've lost the British right...

I don't know if anybody from there follows me, but if they do (or from the US as a whole), get the word out that the election is being actively interfered with

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Ed Davey, "Yes Rachel reeves inherited a dreadful economic situation from the Conservatives but she's made mistakes as well" "Labour have also been non existent in opening negotiations with our European friends to tear down the trade barriers the Conservatives put up that are stifling growth"

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

Trump’s actions ripple beyond the United States border. We need to draw a line in the sand and say loud and clear: Not here, President Trump, not in our country 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Brejoin

Homeboy Industries, founded by a Jesuit priest in Los Angeles, transformed a church bakery into a space where former gang members learn to bake and rebuild. It’s not charity—it’s justice through opportunity, where hands once armed now create.

Ukrainian art for your Saturday. Mykhailo Brianskyi (1830-1908) A portrait of a girl in an embroidered dress. russians stole the painting from the Kherson Art Museum during the city occupation in 2022.