Also NHS staff, carers vets, lorry drivers farm workers, the lists endless & not just "They gave us bar staff and builders", & not just pensioners moved over to EU many workers did plus the entertainment industry could travel all summer www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

Kelly: "You gotta remember in Trump's big legislation they added $4t to the debt to give a big tax cut for wealthy people on the backs of the American people & what their healthcare costs. That's why these [subsidies] have gone away. They didn't want it to be $6t. They wanted it to just be $4t."

It’s 156 days since we found out something dodgy took place on Farage’s house purchase. In 156 days we still don’t know who paid for this house. He’s a public servant getting public money. We deserve to know. Looks like he’s a crook to me. You?

If Reform UK are happy to have an overt racist on their benches then what does that tell you about the party? Pochin should have had the whip removed 24 hours ago. Or are Reform condoning it by their silence? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yes, typically asbestos filled structures are demolished in a few days with no mitigation measures and dumped by a golf course under a mesothelioma cloud.

After working on his ballroom all week and destroying the East Wing of the WH, Trump is now flying around the world to make deals with autocrats while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to reopen the US government.

Sean Duffy: "I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses."

Finally the truth that we remainers were told were lies is being admittedby non English press as usual "11 years as rising costs and protracted political uncertainty since Brexit discouraged developers from putting their shovels on the ground" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#DefendDemocracy. #HopeNotHate

I look forward to joining this campaign this evening and working with our friends across the world for such an important issue to fight against fascism and defend democracy. Will you join us? ❤️🇪🇺 #DefendDemocracy #HopeNotHate

NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.

Chicago City Council member searching for agents on bike during school pick-up: "We are gonna have to be as relentless as ICE"

They want you outraged, distracted, and exhausted. Here’s how to starve the chaos and reclaim control of your own nervous system.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The UK now spends more per week on extra ("red tape") import/export customs declarations, alone, from leaving the customs union, alone, than it did on its weekly EU contribution... although that is falling as UK export trade into the EU continues to fall away.

Is the government ever likely to reopen? Maybe this is the end.

Does anyone have a clue WTF Rupert Lowe-Life MP is on about with his claims of “anti white racism”❓ I’m in my 60’s, white last time I checked.. and have never experienced racism towards me or witnessed it towards other whites.. It’s a figment of his unhinged imagination 🙄🤷🏼‍♂️

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020. This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers. The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.

I also think he is full of shit.. 💩 #shitfacejohnston

It's not called The Eptstein Ballroom! Stop calling it that!

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon on Chicago: "[Greg Bovino] was filmed lobbing a tear gas canister into a crowd...deliberately trying to provoke a confrontation."

After abolishing the Electoral College & ending Citizen's United, nothing would be better for this country than public testimony about January 6th from Jack Smith. A guy can dream, can't he? shorturl.at/o0qwt

Never mind white or black, Philp's face is an absolute picture. He looks like a sports reporter realising he's been caught describing a game he didn't actually watch.

Party that cut 20,000 police officers between 2010 and 2017 promises to recruit 10,000 when they never win power again.

NEW: The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print. If you want to understand how truly ignorant and absent the British media is on Russian interference, read on. A Kremlin spy scandal, a trove of bikini shots....and still nothing but tumbleweed. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

This is 100% pure racism, inexcusably so, and no amount of “my phrasing was poor” can ever excuse this bile. It also caps what was a very bad week for Reform UK - the mask is well and thoroughly slipping.

My apologies to Katie Lam, who should be front & centre here…

Thames Water paid £20m to cover the due diligence costs of KKR for abortive attempt to buy TW. Rich pickings for advisers. Customers pick up the tab for management follies. Details never provided. TW has £20bn debt, survives by dumping sewage in rivers, fleecing captive customers. archive.ph/Ovj5V

Reform's voters are highly motivated, and for the most part strongly dislike Labour. You win at constituency level by bringing together the 'activated liberals' who dislike the idea of a Reform MP/government more than anything. You don't do that by moving closer to Reform.

Building social housing must be a priority for this government, rather than expensive luxury housing for the rental market.

If Reform do get into government, the media organisation whose response will most closely resemble the cravenness seen in the US will be the BBC - probably even more than the right wing press

An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.

Local government isn’t “boring bureaucracy.” It’s social care, housing, libraries, leisure centres, youth clubs. When these vanish, communities fracture – and people notice. When local government breaks, so does trust in politics itself.

Sarah Pochin is a racist. Reform is a racist party. Her ‘apology’ makes no difference to that. Trying to claim your words really meant something else is not an apology. It’s a lie about who you are and what you think. So, she’s a racist. And, for all our sakes, that MUST be a shameful thing to be.

At last the Impact of Brexit is being called out “When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore” Wes Streeting

I wonder if Sarah Pochin ever gets as worked up about the overrepresentation of multimillionaire, privately educated elites in her own party…

Well said Wes!

I used to defend the BBC’s coverage until fairly recently. Election night 2024 was probably the point at which I snapped and could no longer avoid facing what it had become.

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

Reform MP Sarah Pochin: “It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people who are anything other than white.” Today on the BBC, Tory spokesperson Chris Philp: “I’m not going to call her that word. I'm not calling her racist.” The real Uni-Party.

Do populists always crash the economy? “On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A week of racism scandals, phantom audits, public meltdowns in Kent, and a Russia problem that just won’t die - it’s been a hell of a time for Reform UK. Meanwhile, the government quietly admits Brexit’s to blame for the mess. Nigel’s very bad week indeed.

bulldozed by trump now. designed by trump megadonor timothy mellon's stepmother. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_... www.nps.gov/whho/learn/h...

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

Seems like an important detail