No matter what deal they do, the war has effectively given control of the Strait to Iran. What a masterclass in incompetence by Trump and his team.

This is a dumb thing to do. www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/p...

Farage is lying again. The Sunday Express claims he will abolish tax on overtime for this earning less than £75k. Reality: this is utterly unworkable, it’s just another Farage fraud.

For goodness’ sake let’s just undo Brexit and rejoin the EU. All this tinkering will take decades to do half a job. Ridiculous. Brexit has totally failed. The End. UK officials suggested single market for goods with Europe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of course they will blame increased labour costs associated with minimum wages for closing stores they don’t want anyway, only because they can’t blame AI development like Tech firms do. Always it is somebody else’s fault when big companies shed jobs. Never their own. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right, sod it. I’m taking the next three days off work and that’s all there is to it.

If the UK were part of the single market it helped create, and had not left because people temporarily fell for lies told by a bunch of right-wing pricks, none of this would be necessary. Prepare for half term queues at Dover due to EU border process, port says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Russian government’s protests about this admittedly odd decision are laughable; from a regime actively sending 30,000 of its own citizens a month to die attempting to destroy another country. Russia and China condemn US over indictment of former Cuban leader www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time to Scrap the Red Lines on Europe www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/smash-red-...

For context, 320km/h is not “slow”. HS2’s costs are a lot about unnecessary hiding of the railway in cut and cover when cut and leave open would have sufficed, to appease Tory nimbyism. It’s also the core of what should have been, and needs to be a national HS network. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With Reform UK, it's always about 'looking after our own' until it comes to feeding children. Labour is providing over 6,400 children across Kent County Council with free breakfast clubs. Reform UK literally want to take the food from their mouths. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Confused. All the actual raping was done by men, right? So why is it that the only people being prosecuted are the main perpetrator’s… girlfriends?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5 top reasons to Rejoin: 1/ Boost GDP 2/ Remove red tape constraint for business. 3/ Opportunities especially for the young 4/ Better control of immigration through enhanced co-operation and focus on immigration from outside, as internal EU movement was not a problem & self regulating 5/ Trade deals

This is exactly why Starmer has failed. Lack of leadership on how to deal with a would that is still bleeding. How very disappointing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As I have said, what is needed at the top of Labour is the courage to lead even on issues considered “thorny”. Especially when those issues are on “enemy territory”. This… doesn’t inspire confidence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Our Ukrainian friends are still fighting for their right to exist. An heroic struggle against unimaginable odds, and yet, grit, determination and a will to survive keeps them going. As does our support. Putin will fail. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Another week, another market manipulation. Trump warns 'clock is ticking' for Iran as peace progress stalls www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Tories predictably don’t want Brexit on anyone’s agenda. Of course not, who would want their greatest ever failure re-analysed and publicly thrown out! Labour leadership jostling puts Brexit back under political spotlight www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last again. Never mind.

Labour are held to a far higher standard of delivery than the Tories, that’s the reality of politics. The Tories pandered to Farage and it destroyed them; Labour needs to stop falling into the same trap. What is needed is courage, leadership and crucially a willingness to destroy Brexit.

Yup.

It would be hard to imagine a more spineless president. Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's Xi www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK will rejoin Europe. The plans of Putin will thus be thwarted.

Keep digging, you corrupt pond life. Farage says £5m gift a reward for Brexit campaigning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Simply changing the leader of the Labour Party isn’t going to make any difference, especially if it is merely an opportunistic pounce. Labour need to change their timid policies. Nobody - no matter who they are - can fix Britain unless they first end Brexit.

Nigel Farage wants to destroy the NHS. Is that what you want? Surely not!

Wes Streeting has been almost as flaccid as Starmer on Brexit. Whilst an acknowledging it is a disaster he has said undoing it is not an option. Poppycock. Any other policy that failed that badly and cost that much would be reversed. To say Brexit is somehow different is illogical and cowardly.

Starmer is welcome to carry on… If he agrees to undo Brexit.

They might as well keep this headline on speed dial. It’s gonna happen a lot. Elect a bunch of racist clowns, get a racist circus. Reform councillor suspended for anti-Islam posts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The best outweighs the worst. See the difference?

The Labour government is imploding because it has failed to be bold. Be bold, tackle the problem head on, and start with rejoining the European Single Market as soon as possible. Don’t tell me it’s hard, or tricky. Bullshit. Just get on with it.

Jess Phillips hits the nail on the head: “I think you are a good man fundamentally, who cares about the right things however I have seen first-hand how that is not enough. The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument, leaving opportunities for progress stalled and delayed.”

Until 2018 Tories always had 8,000+ councillors. Totally dominant in English local gov't. Reform's POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE act depends on not being seen as a far-right Tory imprint. Because same 8.000 seats just split between Tory and I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Tory is not an earthquake. It's a big fart.

Early footage of Farage. youtube.com/shorts/IG7XT...

Unless it’s undoing Brexit, fuck off. Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer has ONE chance left to lead Labour out of its self imposed mess. He needs to take the fight to Reform on their weakest front; the total, abject failure of Brexit. On a positive can-do platform to undo it and return Britain to its rightful place among European nations. Last chance, Sir Keir.

Tories are still biggest party on the right, claims Cleverly www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I agree with Ed about Reform, but he might need to, and even want to work with the Greens in many places. Labelling them extreme in the same breath as Reform is not the right thing to do. Lib Dems offer alternative to extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

modern, comfortable & reliable - you forgot the most important thing: AFFORDABLE

Reform U.K. should be careful what they wish for. Scrutiny will show exactly how incompetent and distasteful they are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the context of British railway history, this is a significant development. This GWR isn’t the original by any means but it has improved on FGW. It’ll be a measure of GBR whether it can be further improved into a modern, comfortable & reliable long distance operator. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All I wanted was a technically competent vaguely left-leaning government who would undo the worst of what the Tories did, and change us back to a welcoming, no longer hate-ridden society.

Labour is hardly wiped out, and certainly not by Farage who is benefitting from disillusionment among Tories and probably not particularly high turnout, meaning a lot of non racists didn’t bother voting. Now Reform will have to actually run councils. Prepare for the usual performance on that front.

Maybe…just maybe…hear me out…these Reform wins will be a good thing. Their candidates are unserious people, elected for their prejudice, not their competence. When services are slashed, taxes rise & corruption scandals break, maybe then people will see them for what they are and turn away. Hope so.

‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’

The winner of the local elections is the case for proportional representation. We no longer have a binary politics of two parties, so a binary voting system is useless.

Putin is fucked.

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.