A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.

Total stitch up. Blatant corruption.

"Jury trials to be ditched except for the most serious crimes" Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

This is too important to miss: archive.is/202512011554...

Most benefits go to people IN WORK. Because… THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PROPERLY PAID JOBS, Rather than insisting employers pay decent wages, governments use taxpayers’ money to subsidise employers who don’t. Welfare was not meant to support employers. This is completely wrong.

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them. This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think about this a lot.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

This should be shared!

Since the start of the ceasefire on 10 October 2025, 280 Palestinians have been killed, the Ministry of Health reported, according to @unocha.org on 20 November. Among them, at least 67 were children killed in “conflict-related incidents” according to @unicef.org. Share the facts. This must stop.

GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…” Wanting to address this isn’t radical. NOT wanting to is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We need to understand the 21st century as a window of atrocity. The right vastly expands what is permissible, and the centrists lock it in and legitimise it so that the right can expand the window ever further. I don’t see how any reasonable person can deny this is what has happened.

Striking in this debate hosted by @krishgm.bsky.social how many people in the comments are saying that a wealth tax at this point is so obvious. Is it any surprise that the Labour Governments response is to continually try and take swipes at the Green Party? youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...

Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏

There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, principally via issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would willingly pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes boost the profits of private firms. That I object to

🧵A Threads post in response to a George Will op ed praising Mike DeWine - the post includes a screenshot to a comment on the Will piece which is spot on in labeling DeWine as a radical right winger clothed in temperamental calmness The comment is a luminous piece of prose, suitable for framing.

How on earth was this NOT a penalty???? #CelticFC

This is why they want everyone reliant in AI for everything. They can rewrite history. Truly dystopian. Read actual books.

Manic Kieth Preachers KC Reminder that Johnson couldn’t have done it without the media running propaganda for him.

If people in Scottish constituencies are going to vote in unionist parties they should at least have enough principles to refuse free prescriptions, eye tests, tuition fees, personal care, etc, etc. otherwise that choice seems very hypocritical.

Just a reminder to Antonio Guterres: "Consensus" does not mean "unanimity". A meaningful agreement will not result from #COP30 as long as a handful of bad petrostate actors can blog any real progress. Adopt a reasonable (66% or 75%) standard for reaching "consensus".

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social condemning socialism before condemning fascism.

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out. The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.

This statement from Van Drew, on his ex staffer being indicted, is woefully incomplete. “our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she’s getting he care she needs,” It should continue. “as long as she doesn’t need Medicaid or ACA subsidies. She’s SOL if she does.”

Trump’s so-called “peace” plan for Ukraine? More like appeasement for Putin. Crafted behind closed doors between his envoy Steve ­Witkoff and Putin’s pals, it demands Kyiv surrender chunks of its own territory, gut its military, and forego NATO.

"Israel Defense Forces strikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including a woman and 17 children in the Gaza Strip Wednesday." "[M]ore than 100 people were also wounded." "[O]ver 400 Israeli violations of a tenuous ceasefire." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Lebanon #Genocide #Military

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.

There really isn't a word here that would make you sympathetic to the complainants, and the article is worse. Fair play Coco.

Read this: Scotland produces so much (renewable) electricity that they're saying we need data centres to use the huge excess, so they will get a huge discount on their energy usage. However, Scottish households continue to pay the highest energy costs in the UK (and among the highest in the world).

I suppose it's good that the COVID enquiry is concluding our pandemic response was too little, too late, cost many many thousands of lives, and should have included earlier, stricter isolation, quarantine, social distancing and masking. (1/3)

A key part that made this a national event was, for once, showing our national team playing on free-to-air TV (the BBC this time). A short term arrangement for Scotland matches. But a permanent one for England. And yet BBC Scotland broadcasts mostly... nothing. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"The inquiry report says imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England" "Toxic and chaotic" attitude from the government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Just to be clear, it’s not that *trans* people could be banned, but that anyone who others suspect are trans. Whether they are trans or not is another matter.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Labour plotting to slash electricity costs for AI firms

The full report is here: mediabiasmeter.com/framing-gaza... www.thenational.scot/news/2563541...

Why would any mayor in the United States of America be "serving" Israel?

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

McSweeney was company secretary of Labour Together while he was running Starmer’s Labour leader bid. During this period, Labour Together was breaking the law by failing to report donations; it also secretly backed Starmer. So, do we have an illegally-elected PM? www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

And many of those elite are in the Epstein files wrapped up in transnational organised crime. A complete surveillance state would lock everything down and give them impunity because they of course would be exempt.

Terrific

I'm hearing the reason Trump wants the files released is to distract from Tucker Carlson stating the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa was fake. I do know, none of the crowd ran after hearing shots, even the ones directly behind Trump. But we all know it was fake anyway.

This is a good phrase