How did the 'Wright reforms' come about, and what can this teach MPs seeking House of Commons reform today? Our new guide, Reforming the Commons: The backbench MP's guide to achieving procedural change, discusses just this. Read it 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

I am so fucking sick of Trump. Two and a half more fucking years if we are lucky to overcome all the crazy and illegal - or at least immoral - shit that they are doing to take and keep power . Keep your head up . Speak up and vote . Giving in isn’t an option .

#Gaza The headlines about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may have faded, but for many survivors, the consequences of lasting injuries remain:

'We all have a role to play': Major new study claims an equitable net zero transition is 'materially possible' www.businessgreen.com/news/453063...

In the AI Shift newsletter @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really dig into how AI is affecting different jobs. This is on the difference for coding (overall making the job more interesting) v translation (making the job very shite) www.ft.com/content/75bc...

🚨FURY as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees 🚨 Apparently...🤔 Who are all these furious people, making this newsworthy across several newspapers, TV channels, radio shows and countless YouTube videos? 🧵 1/23

If you’ve not had your identity regularly questioned (the classic ‘but where are you really from?’ question) or be told on every equalities monitoring form that English is for whites, you too may find it contentious.

LIVE: ISS astronauts shelter in spacecraft for possible evacuation following leak reports www.youtube.com/live/ImnPJlc...

AI may be making our brains lazy. When we outsource writing, summarizing, and evaluating to tools like ChatGPT, we skip the "depth of processing" that helps us actually learn and think critically—and those cognitive muscles can atrophy from disuse.

@lopatto.bsky.social writes: "I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder." buff.ly/kLPpxLV

UK regulator confirms $60 million enforcement package for Welsh Water reut.rs/4uTTXzt

China bets on AI to promote President Xi Jinping's thinking reut.rs/4fsRoPY

JP Morgan upgrades Tesla to 'neutral', sees robotics driving long-term growth reut.rs/3Q5tobg

UK running out of time to boost defence as investment plan stalls, military chief warns reut.rs/3Q8YChw

European shares muted as Mideast risks linger; tech rally stalls reut.rs/4fnmkB3

Wind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discovered reut.rs/4xc1JpO

Thailand to join UN maritime arbitration with Cambodia, halts other two-way talks reut.rs/4dSVqQk

US Supreme Court backs federal regulators in wins for FCC and SEC reut.rs/3QlBqNi

US questions its Bosnia involvement as peace envoy selection stalls reut.rs/49GZH75

Blacklisted AI company Anthropic, White House ease tensions ahead of IPO, sources say reut.rs/4avNeTT

Two men recruited by Iran found guilty of stabbing TV presenter on London street

As a young USN wife & mother who used WIC & know that low ranking military families rely on programs like SNAP & WIC this really pisses me off! 👇👇👇👇

EU: In a joint letter, Estonia, Czechia, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands have proposed new measures to limit the issuance of EU tourist visas to Russian citizens.

Nothing says excellent judgment like pardoning 1,600 people and then watching about 1 in 16 promptly get arrested again for everything from DUIs to homicide. But sure, these are “great people," just with a habit of committing crimes once the consequences are removed. newrepublic.com/post/211391/...

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Gov. Mikie Sherrill filed suit against the GEO Group Inc., (a private company) which operates Delaney Hall, demanding it provide full access to health inspectors or face closure.

Acting AG Todd Blanche says he's working to install "roadblocks" to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump and his associates in the future

Short haul #poetry challenge - between Birmingham Snow Hill and Worcester Foregate Street - what would you like me to write about ?

MMA fighter Sean Strickland posted a video to Instagram of him beating up Dylan Mulvaney. Once again, transphobia is just a socially acceptable way to engage in open misogyny and violence.

Anyone who has spent anytime following UK politics knows that mo' money 🤑 = mo' problems 😖 Cash buys access, influence and membership of the Lords (despite that being illegal since 1925). Unsurprisingly, the public think this stinks & should stop. Frustratingly, some parties favour the status quo.

This is continuing a trend we've seen over the past decade, where a larger and larger proportion of reported donations is coming from a v.v.v.small group of people. See graphic below from our recent paper comparing 2015 v 2024 www.transparency.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Compared to previous Q1s, which tend to have elections shortly after in May, this is a bumper year. Looks more like a UKPGE yr than a local/devolved one. Also biggest donors more like build-up to UKPGE year - Delo's £4m is only surpassed by Mansour's £5m (2023) + Phoenix Partnership's £5.2m (2024).

Some quick thoughts on Q1 2026 donations data from @electoralcommission.org.uk 🧵 HEADLINE STATS Total: £20.7m (excl. public funds) Biggest recipient: Reform £9.3m Biggest donor: Ben Delo £4m to Reform Donors giving £1m+: £9.2m (44%) from 3 donors Donors giving £250k+: £12.7m (61%) from 14 donors

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

Starmer has suffered a tsunami of smears from the media even before he was PM. Despite that and international events, he has still managed to steady UK and improve economy NHS and energy sector. Burnham as PM will buckle against the onslaught, w/o support of many Labour MPs who will feel betrayed.

Man in his 50s dies after fight at holiday park in Cornwall

“Council calls off climate emergency” is a remarkable headline. A bit like voting to declare the Earth flat. Whether politicians acknowledge a problem and whether that problem continues to exist are, unfortunately, two entirely different things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you are in or near Cheltenham tomorrow @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is speaking about her book, Domination. It's ok, nothing to do with S&M. At least I believe so! I can't make it but you can book through the link below. www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/alice...

🆕 The Rage in Farage @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social, & guest @christabelcoops.bsky.social discuss the exploitation of Henry Nowak’s murder, as Farage invites disorder for the third summer in a row. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4elm... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

An actual unhysterical conversation, based on the facts of what happened as we know them from primary sources? Scandalous. You will want to listen to the VERY end for some incredible Farage receipts I have been holding on to. PLUS new regular feature: God! Less America!

Reform UK’s Candidate in #Makerfield Rob Kenyon misses his first full council. He’s not signed his paperwork to be a councillor and he’s missed every meeting so far.

This should be the other way around, surely? Hollowed out institutions can't regulate what they're simultaneously being asked to run, esp. with increasingly less human resources. Deploying AI w/out accountability a recipe for disaster. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/a... @legallyfeminist.bsky.social

Worth reading, considering it's Microsoft the NZ govt is in bed with. | In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI futurism.com/artificial-i... #nzpol @openpolicy.bsky.social

Nigel_Farage you asked for "pure cold rage." Here you go. Henry's father begged for unity. You demanded division. That's not leadership. That's incitement. And history won't be kind to those who lit the match and called it passion. 🔥

This, just down the road from me, is some of the worst I've seen. Portrayed as a community movement, it is in fact a national push, with Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, and Nick Tenconi here. The Nazi White Vanguard and other far right groups have also travelled.

The total line up is at least Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Nick Tenconi, Paul Golding, and Luke Jahn. This was not community anger at policing. It was an organized, national far-right riot.

The far right has been circling the case of a brown man killing a white man for a while now, especially since the trial disclosed phone footage 19 May. Elon Musk obsessing over it fed by Tommy Robinson. Also Zia Yusuf & Reform UK. Been brewing in the far right for a fortnight, fanned up by Musk

🟨 Print Edition — Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church For 18 months, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right…

Crucially, this incident cannot be separated from the systemically 'antiracist' system. Police guidelines explicitly say the police should treat people of different ethnicities differently. This two-tier system of racial preference is reinforced by 'colour conscious' HR policies and training.

Instead of a special slush fund, they're going to pay all these guys by getting each of them to file lawsuits and then 'settling' them one by one.

Bloody robots.