Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Blyth*... "A town once powered by coal is now powered by wind. And all this is creating hundreds of jobs. Blyth illustrates the promise of the clean energy revolution." "We know that growing our green industries is crucial to reaching net zero"

(1) The prime minister should call out racism whether or not it’s politically convenient to do so. (2) I absolutely do not believe this is a vote loser for Labour, especially if done right and with conviction

Thanks for letting us know, Kemz.

'Concerning': Pope Leo XIV dishes rare criticism of Trump admin www.rawstory.com/pope-trump-2...

Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk to 'get the hell out of our politics and country' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ed-...

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

So apparently Fartage is now worried for his safety? Tell that to those asylum seekers who had the hotels they were staying in set alight because of his divisive racist crap

The scenes from Gaza City are terrifying and desperate on Channel 4 News right now. This horrifying war - so much death and suffering and cruelty.

It’s pretty simple really, vote Reform, get Putin. Personally I prefer Governments that aren’t lapdogs of warmongering dictators. Sick to death of Putin’s influence over British politics, and of people oblivious to the fact that they’re doing his bidding to disrupt the west.

God it’s a relief to have the Brexit shitshow flagged up by the PM. The denial, the silence, the dishonesty of it all, in the face of such relentlessly obvious failure is so oppressive. Just like we should call racists racist, we should call Brexit crap. Only then can we deal with the consequences.

So are you saying we shouldn’t call out racism?

1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025 In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest. What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world. She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

I think this is probably true. Yes I still don’t thing there’s much appetite to revisit the arguments.

Ed Miliband has vowed to "ban fracking" for good, as he drew yet another dividing line with Reform during his speech at the Labour Party conference news.sky.com/story/labour...

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91. Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Reform UK: “Keir Starmer is a literal demon made out of dishwasher parts.” Chris Mason: “Prime Minister, is there any truth in the claim that you’re a literal demon made out of dishwasher parts?”

😢 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Dr. Jane Goodall, the legendary animal rights advocate, has died at 91.

Q: "Pope Leo said 'Someone who says [they're] against abortion but in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the U.S., I don't know if that's pro-life.' How do you respond?" Leavitt: "I would reject there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the U.S."

Oh yeah! Labour conference today was just as good! Listen to nice, calm Ed here...and wait for the end. Wish bestforbritain kept more applause at the end of the clip!

Andy Burnham! 😂

They know perfectly well that they are racists. Their faux anger over being called out is laughable.

Michael Gove and Michelle Mone shouldn't be in the Lords BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy... Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules - BBC News

Reform losing their shit over being told their policies are racist, so maybe they are too. What are you then? Cos ‘legitimate concerns’ don’t stretch to violent threats against immigrants, mass deportations or demanding British people be white. You’re whiny racists. Don’t blame us for your shame.

Brexit was a disaster - now Starmer dares to admit it inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

She highlighted how vulgar, selfish and greedy many of the Tory Party were during the last government. Many of them, Mone most visibly, saw Covid as an opportunity to get rich off the state, rather than act in the best interests of others. Utterly ghastly and shameless.

Michelle Mone is the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life. She should repay what she owes immediately & get her sorry, dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible. She, & all those other govt grifters who tried to monetise a pandemic, sicken me. Ends/

Good.

Venue for next Reform South Devon area meeting?

Oh, would also like to point out that the lawful pro-Palestinian protestors outside the entrance to Labour Conference, calling us “monsters” and “Zionist cowards” over the past few days weren’t arrested, because they weren’t supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Before the election last year, the Chancellor said that we would go after the dodgy COVID contracts to get the British public its money back. Great to see this happening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - Was Starmer right to link Brexit to a rise in small boat crossings - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... YES!

Okay, so the first item on the six o'clock news is a plug for Panorama. Perfectly normal behaviour for a corrupt national broadcaster with poor leadership. @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

We need investigators with the zeal of DWP assessors to track down that laundered money. Then prosecute for fraud. She is a test case so go in hard & let the other fraudsters know what’s coming.

So Baroness Mone didn’t just connect PPE Medpro to the government’s VIP lane. She took an active role lobbying for the company:

Just got an angry spam text telling me off for not responding. They’re shameless. Deleted and reported as usual.

The Chancellor has gone even further! She has called for Michelle Mone to be kicked out of the House of Lords! Nice one Rachel! I think we can all agree with that. How do we make it happen?

Good turnout for the Labour Deputy Leader hustings at #Lab25 showing the importance members place in this election. It’s so important we support the elections in May with full time campaigner leading the charge for the movement.

This is one of the saddest photos I have because of the writing on the back, “Bob due to leave for Army, watching TV”. 1967. No further info.

BBC Press: BBC announces Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes as leads in Prisoner 951, a powerful new drama that follows the story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe, alongside first-look images

coming over here and not even doing crimes like proper English people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We're tracking the locations the government has shortlisted for new towns. www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk/new-towns-pr...

It’s just possible that the Labour voices who urged Khan to ditch Ulez expansion after the Uxbridge by-election were not, after all, strategic geniuses.

A big 'fuck you' to all anti-ULEZ wankers. Saving untold deaths from air pollution? Terrible, eh?

Which is connected to the fact that Miliband is one of the few amongst the Labour leadership who is willing and able to articulate his policies from first principles. Not to say that I agree with all of what he does but you can at least see that he has some idea of why he is doing it.