Today’s newsletter: on the Gorton by-election, obviously.

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

Greens now have 5 MPs. Reform has 8 - but four of those are Tory defections who were not elected on a REF ticket.. Bet Jenrick and Braverman are feeling a little sick this morning.

@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"👏👏👏

It has long been alleged that Trump's complicity with Russia is because he is being blackmailed. Add that to his reported claim that releasing the Epstein files would hurt his friends and you have a new and intriguing theory that he is being blackmailed into protecting other Epstein culprits.

#Polycrisis: when life hands you a tightrope instead of a map, and expects you to juggle everything while keeping all your plates spinning.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Matt Goodwin works for a (loss making) political propaganda platform masquerading as a media outlet. He has zero room to talk about indoctrination

you would never guess from this that Labour got 15 times as many votes as the Tories in this (otherwise disastrous) election

Sky News don't seem as excited as the rest of us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvw...

‘I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein’ Ex-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters after finishing her testimony about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Matt Badloss is continuing to take his defeat by the Greens incredibly badly

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

The thing is, Kemi has a very clear idea of herself as a thoughtful, intellectual person who engages at a deep level on policy questions and despite being notably bad at that the real challenge to that self conception is her utterly gutter politics approach to the Left.

He, Jenrick, Braverman and Rosindell should be called Tory MPs until they resign and hold a by-election. It’s how they were voted in as MPs.

Let’s make Elephant & Castle station step-free and accessible for all! 🚉 No one should be left behind because of a flight of stairs - whether you’re pushing a pram, carrying heavy luggage, or using a wheelchair. Sign the petition here: survey.labour.org.uk/zzmmjdkjsrbr...

🚨Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage’s Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/e...

I wonder which country he was planning to flee for.

Live footage of Lindsay Hoyle:

THERE’S POWER IN BOYCOTTING!

The sad truth is ….. we can only depend on Europe. Republicans are arrogant and Democrats subservient to MAGA via silent complicity…. media bought and paid for and academia being effectively censored. More Europeans have been censured one way or another…. While AmeriKKKan pedos purchase freedom

So sad to hear of the attack at a mosque in Manchester during the holy month of Ramadan. There is no place for hatred & division in our society. Thanks to the emergency services who acted quickly. I hope the Muslim community in Manchester & beyond can find strength & guidance despite this attack

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

🔴Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

BREAKING: The Met police has apologised to the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle for sharing with Peter Mandelson’s lawyers that he had passed on information that the former UK ambassador planned to flee the country. The Met are treating it internally "as a serious protocol breach"

Todays Daily Mirror front page WHY WE MUST STOP REFORM Gordon Brown

Cost of living hasn't stopped been top issue since pandemic, comes up without fail across focus groups with energy and food prices biggest drivers. If Govt can own this fall in prices it will be an opportunity to do claim a tangible 'we've made your life better' win.

🔴Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage’s Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/e...

Outrageous temperatures this afternoon, during what is still winter in parts of north coast of Spain and SW France. Downslope warming from Pyrenees ect spurred by near record breaking warm air mass. Locally close to 30C this is 16C above average. Records for highest February temperature broken.

How did you like Putin’s “spew”last night?

🚨Gorton and Denton by-election Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support. However you decide to vote please don’t fall for the politics of division offered by Reform youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...

📌 ICYMI — Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage’s Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/exclusive-poll-anti-reform-tactical-voters-poised-to-defeat-nigel-farages-party…

Bizarre interview with Danny Kruger - head of Reform policy unit - which includes this gem about promoting: "people with actual domain expertise” over “these posh generalists who float about from department to department making policy.” Kruger went to Eton www.politicshome.com/news/article...

. 12 ways to reduce emissions that more people could talk about 3 tax aviation fuel 6 make solar mandatory on new buildings 🔆 9 eat for planetary health 🥗 more: www.positive.news/environme... #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏

“This is good news for people” says Energy Secretary Ed Miliband as Ofgem reduces energy price cap by £117 to £1,641

"For the first 36 months of the century it was just 0.34W/m2, so it has increased by over four times in just 25 years! Since EEI is effectively the rate of energy accumulation, this results in a clear acceleration of the energy being absorbed by the climate systems" !!!

Chalk streams are the jewels in our national heritage. Today I'm presenting a bill to require the Government to nominate chalk streams for UNESCO's Natural World Heritage Status @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social #ClimateAndNature #naturerecovery #chalkstream