“The far-right opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin.”

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Labour lost in Gorton & Denton so "Starmer is on the way out" says Nigel 'Hitler was right' Farage Reform UK lost in Gorton & Denton but Farage is not 'on the way out', because Reform LTD is a limited company owned by Farage, effectively its dictator

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon UK boss to lead competition watchdog

Imagine your party has won a historic byelection. You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members. Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg! #isitok

The most hilarious thing about today is Reform blaming their loss on Islamists… …who famously always vote in their masses for women and gay Jewish men.

Reform, which spent its by-election campaign warning about the UK's "Christian heritage" being under threat, while proposing a ban on visas from predominantly Muslim countries, now accuses their opponents of engaging in "sectarian politics"

Lmao

Possibly the most weird statement from a political leaders whose party just got 2% of the vote I've ever seen. And, when people are fed up with the cost of living and billionaire leeches, focusing on "single sex spaces" is just bizarre. She really does get her ideas of life off Twitter, doesn't she?

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people! Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS! Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life. Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

So Starmer thinks a properly funded NHS, lower rent, a focus on cost of living, taxing wealth and an evidenced based way to tackle drug abuse are “extremes of the left”? FFS. It just shows how far Labour have tracked to the right, and they wonder why they were 3rd…

The Gorton and Denton by-election must be a wake-up call for the party – or it is doomed inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

"Labour comprehensively failed to rally the “stop Reform” vote here. That means it cannot rely on doing so anywhere else, and its MPs will know that. Even worse for McSweeney’s theory of the case, the party didn’t see it coming – its voter tracking systems did not work as they should."

Just watched that extremely combative Sky interview with Zack Polanski and, my word, the billionaires are not happy.

I wonder what their Plan B is if 'worst ghoul we can find to spread racist rhetoric' didn't work this time.

I wonder why the rest of the Epstein files haven’t been released…?

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet.... and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues.... this is the pivot that scares Labour the most

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

Potentially underplayed: Positive politics Everyone I spoke to who was voting Reform gave reasons as concerns and fears of various kinds, mainly over immigration and general state of the country The Green voters generally said they were inspired by what the party was standing for and its vision

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931. It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

3) Don't play dirty. The bizarre claims about the Greens in relation to drugs and sex workers were desperate, embarrassing, and harmful. It is no wonder they did not work and instead reflected badly on our party.

Well done to the Green Party!

24k for progressive parties Less than 10k for hate. Overwhelmingly voters chose hope over fear & hate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yes. And, for love of god, let’s understand that result properly. Not through a frothing rightwing media take. Not from a sulky, blamey Farage or Goodwin. But through more rational analysis: the majority of British voters are progressive. We have been ignored since 2016. We’re sick of it.

Matt Badlose

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

British intelligence services had come across Andrew and Fergie, not because they were looking out for them, but because they were associating with people who were of interest to them. And this would have been reported back to the head of MI6 andrewlownie.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Fancy that, eh.

📌 ICYMI — Rupert Lowe Posed With Neo-Nazi Who Recruits White Supremacists Into Restore Britain Chris Mitchell, who has claimed that “Jewish control over our people WILL be coming to an end" and described himself as a "Nazi-Buddhist", was welcomed into the party by Lowe

ADF International is backing Elon Musk in X’s fight against the EU’s Digital Services Act fine, even as Grok faces international investigations for generating sexualized deepfakes, including of minors. A group that claims to defend children is siding with a platform under scrutiny for exploitation.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence is now looking into whether Epstein used RAF bases.

The first consumer devices approved for use on NATO’s classified networks. Apple’s focus on privacy has paid off. Germany’s BSI led the certification.

A REMINDER: NO ONE VOTED FOR ZIA FUCKING YUSUF

#LameAndrea is starting to morph into #LettuceLiz

Oh! It does exist! 😱 Tactical-choice.uk

Simon Goldberg denied to me he’s running a huge tax fraud. He says he's an expert. Says he “studied under Winston Shrout” Shrout was convicted of tax fraud, got 10 years, fled, & was captured by US marshals

Not even hiding it now are they, Epstein aligned scum.

Well, that was fun… • Reform’s “new” cabinet… which is just the old Tory one (cue Benny Hill music) • Farage makes a tit of himself. Again. • Who needs the Equality Act? • And the battle for Gorton & Denton is on! Come join the chaos - new Trawl ep out today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula. 55 years ago I saw an image of the Horsehead in a book on Astronomy, that image sparked a lifetime love of the subject. This is 1 hour of data from last night in SHO. #astronomy #astrophotography

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

Truly shocking, if not entirely surprising. This isn't flirting with the extreme right, it's legitimizing and normalizing it.

If you’re still on X you need to get off it asap.

Labour MP Richard Burgon, "As a society its time for a serious discussion about cancelling student debt" "Instead we should fund higher education through progressive taxation"

A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.

When "I didn't do it" becomes "I did it a little, but not in the bad way," it means he did it in the bad way. Fucker's been lying for years but *now* he's washed in the blood of the lamb and shit? Fuck off.