After a long campaign including a citizens' initiative with 600,000+ signatures, Spain has regularised half a million undocumented people. That's what's possible with a strong pro-migrant movement and a government that's not disgusted at the thought of basic progressive values.

I still remember Law and Justice saying that young Polish women are not having kids because they prefer to drink pints instead... Now their British friends are making that a policy.

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

Pogrund himself speaking, here: Nobody wanted unsparing scrutiny, as you’ll remember well. That’s how it was, and what everyone thought.

Racism in football, it’s time to kick Jim Ratcliffe out A Manchester United fan's perspective on the abhorrent comments by Jim Ratcliffe that the UK has been 'colonised by immigrants' | Mark Cunliffe @coldwarsteve.bsky.social @markcunliffe.bsky.social

🧵What is going on with Measles in England? UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases). But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8

And when it comes down to it, 96 cases in just a few weeks is *huge* when we know it can be zero or close to zero. There mustn’t be any shrugging of shoulders, or acceptance of these outbreaks. We know that outbreaks are avoidable because we did avoid them – for years, and not long ago. 7/8

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though | Nazish Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Montreal this morning to unveil Canada's new defence industrial strategy. The plan is nothing short of standing up a massive new dual use industrial base, independent of the U.S. File this under: America's allies are unplugging from the US with gusto.

Reform’s Matt Goodwin, candidate in the Gorton & Denton by-election, received a salary from a Far Right propaganda group linked to Hungary’s Orban. Details below.

The party with eight MPs chooses its Cabinet. Think Reform are getting a bit too big for their jack boots.

Even the prospect of a result like this ought to discredit our electoral system permanently

BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.

In recent weeks I’ve written 3 times to the General Secretary of the Labour Party to call for an independent inquiry into this. I copied Keir Starmer into each request. Clear to me as Secretary of the NUJ’s Parliamentary Group if true this is unacceptable. archive.is/2026.02.14-2...

This is why I disagree with left’s “welfare not warfare” mantra. Need to be serious about rearmament to *prevent* warfare. Listen to Mary Kaldor on strategic defence review - MOD bureaucrats still believe in ‘special relationship’ with US. Progressives shd push for debate abt security in a new age.

British and German chiefs of defence publish a joint oped warning their populations of Russia and arguing for a “whole-of-society approach and an honest, continent-wide conversation with the public that defence cannot be the preserve of uniformed personnel alone.“

Every so often you hear calls for ministers to be more robust (or something) in the face of legal advice. But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections. And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Happy Precedents Day to all fans of the Common Law.

Great news! 🎉

Matthew Goodwin's thing on giving women incentives to have more children - does it apply to migrant women/women of colour or just white british women? Pls can a journo ask him.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

The right & far-right can only succeed by saying that Britain is broken. The inference is the fault of “migrants!”. They don’t want us to ask about Austerity, Brexit or neoliberalism as that will impact on their narrative & their continued wealth extraction.

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Bloody-handed dictator Putin murdered again. 😔

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Disabled man forced to travel 100 miles to court case for offence under law ruled unlawful by High Court Mick Hardy, a disabled pensioner from Norwich is being forced to travel to Westminster Magistrates Court in London, this coming Tuesday 17th February, for protesting against the genocide in…

This and Reform's NHS position. Always. Relentlessly. Make them the party of Russian appeasement, reheated Trumpism and NHS abolition.

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

A look back at the cinematic power of Mike Leigh’s film Vera Drake, from 2004. The narrative is grounded in the mundane details of 1950s working-class London, showing the disjunction between abortion law and the lived experiences of women subject to it.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

#Pesticides are far from romantic - yes, a risk to the recipient, but even more to the workers growing them and their communities www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

I think the Americans have been admirably blunt in saying they want us to give them lots of money and go fascist, like they are, or else. I don’t think they left much room for misinterpretation.

All Londoners should be able to swim safely in the capital’s waterways. A proposed bathing water site on the Thames is a big step forward and could help make that possible if approved. My upcoming Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will take this further.

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Neither Israel nor the United States can be trusted in regards to Gaza, the West Bank, or Palestine and Palestinians. This is not a cease-fire but the same death by a thousand cuts that is occupation, apartheid, and slow ethnic cleansing.

I love Arundhati Roy's courage, integrity, intelligence, and her artistry as a writer of fiction & nonfiction. Wim Wenders, the jury chair, on being questioned about Gaza, said filmmakers have to stay out of politics. Roy said a genocide demands a response from everyone, artists included. I agree.

Council Tax has become increasingly regressive. It now takes nearly 5% of income from the poorest families but barely 1% from the richest. For many, it's become a grinding monthly obligation to rival the Poll Tax.

If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.

Palantir is suing the Swiss magazine Republik who pointed out Palantir's links to ICE and the Genocide in Gaza, which caused the Swiss Government to call them a catastrophic threat and ban Palantir from Swiss Government.

This disqualifies Farage from any office in the UK whatsoever on national security grounds alone. Tankie nonsense.

Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"