Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

This is obscene. That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face. We are the 99.999%. Tax the super rich. Join.greenparty.org.uk

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

Hate speech is not free speech. We think X (Twitter) is breaking the law for failing to remove 92% of the racist and religious hatred we reported, so we’ve filed a complaint to Ofcom. Support our action https://goodlaw.social/6pw6

Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok

Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third

Ofcom has launched a new investigation into whether social media platforms are doing enough to identify and remove illegal terror and hate content It comes after a cross-party group of MPs wrote to the regulator demanding action against antisemitism on X, reports @zoecrowther.bsky.social

UK mulls ban on crypto cash in politics — putting Farage in firing line

UK net migration predicted to drop to pre-Brexit levels, figures show

When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Reform claim to have saved £331M across the 10 councils they control, however when these savings are totted up, there is an unexplained shortfall of £260m Reform’s press team said a full list detailing the savings would be shared, but despite numerous requests it has not been provided #NeverReform

Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the Caribbean

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon

Farage's Reform appoints director of 'anti-Muslim' think tank as senior advisor

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers

Nathan Gill due to be sentenced after bleeding guilty to bribery charges. youtu.be/kDUmlc8Ksrg?...

🚨 Labour MPs are calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X, warning it poses growing risks to democracy and public safety @politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight

Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks

Under its current chair, Ofcom has repeatedly refused to apply its rules to GB News, enabling the channel to pump out increasingly toxic & dangerous messages. Ofcom is accountable to Parliament. It's time for MPs to investigate what’s gone wrong, and how things have been allowed to get this bad.

Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest

London is a place that truly values diversity, inclusion, equality and opportunity – and is a shining success because of it. I can only imagine that some political commentators don’t like our city because it’s an engine of social progress.

“My sister is not a political tool for you to use. These survivors are not political tools for you to use. These are real stories, real trauma. And it's time for you to stop just talking about it and act. Vote yes.”

Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

‘We’re sick of being the story’: what next for the Telegraph after takeover collapses?

AfD hails US ban on European leftwing groups as historians fear anti-fascist crackdown

This man has access to your NHS data.

There is ZERO reason for this aside from cruelty. Shame on the Illinois State Police. You should be protecting the people. @govpritzker.illinois.gov WTF IS THIS. #Broadview #Chicago #Protest #FuckICE

Labour is delivering real results, 50,000 people deported, a 23% increase compared to the 16 months before Labour won the GE. Since then: • 24% rise in enforced removals • 12% rise in the number of foreign criminals removed • 27% rise in asylum-related deportations #Labour (1/2)

The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right. Hold the BBC to account 👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials

A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.

Sounds like a great turnout motivator.

“Working right”, “hardline conservatives”, “squeezed stewards”, “contrarian youth” and “reluctant reformers”. This is the analysis from Hope Not Hate on who supports Reform 👀 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/13/who-votes-for-reform-and-why-charts-that-show-who-supports-farage-party

'The BBC’s error was editorial, not substantive: an over-zealous cut that removed his fleeting (and cursory) call for calm (he used the term “peacefully” once and “fight” twenty times) while leaving the established facts intact.' Nafeez Ahmed, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Another financial failure left from the Tories... Would be nice to see those savings directed towards better police reform 👀 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/13/police-and-commissioners-to-be-abolished-government-to-announce

I've consistently called for Labour to put up taxes ON THE WEALTHY. Labour's SOLEMN PLEDGE not to increase income tax was insanely stupid. But they made the pledge. It was their signature promise in the election. Ripping it up now will destroy Labour - and further wreck faith in democracy.

New emails suggest Trump knew about conduct of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another?

A message for Sir Keir Starmer: You brought this all on yourself. And you have no one else to blame.

Presssure grows on Starmer to sack chief of staff over briefing row

While Gaza is starved and punished, international attention is on the Israeli hostages. But where is the outrage over the Palestinian hostages who were tortured to death in Israeli custody? Read @dianabuttu.bsky.social’s latest article: zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...

A decade ago, the Telegraph was a respectable paper. Now it’s a low-quality treasonous tabloid.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.

Another feast being prepared at Mar-a-Lago as Trump demands states cut food stamps

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed