If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid. Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.

Happy Solstice, Bluesky lovelies! As the light returns, may people round the world, allow it to enlighten our hearts & minds & actions with kindness & empathy. Each new day,is a new opportunity for each one of us to share light, in our own way. ☀️🕊️♥️

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

No.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

When a public figure responds instead with denial, minimisation and accusations of dishonesty, the missing “sorry” speaks volumes. We should listen to what it tells us. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/02/lack-of-apology-for-schoolboy-banter-speaks-volumes-about-nigel-farage

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Nigel Farage, who has made more than £200,000 from second jobs, thinks we should cut the minimum wage for younger workers? You can't make this up. https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nigel-farage-rakes-in-another-200000-from-second-jobs/

Quick analysis of The Times today: Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform. Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

You can't just impeach Donald Trump You have to remove the whole entire administration. The people still pulling his strings will be in charge once he's removed That's a lot of people who are screaming for impeachment don't seem to understand.

This is exactly what you do With presidents who coup

Bossy headline from The Times letting Farage insist his “Hitler was right” racism was just ‘banter’. If that were true, his politics now would be different and he’d apologise. He’s defensive because this is what he is and always has been and he’s angry with us for knowing that and for minding.

What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage?

We really can’t get enough of these

Or for Brexit? Farage was its biggest British champion. Putin - its Russian one. Yakovenko, (Russian ambassador to the UK) boasted after the Brexit vote: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time" bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

A goof thing for writers to know is that their work is valuable, not just in a financial sense but in a storytelling sense. Imposter syndrome be damned. You are a unique collection of atoms with a brain all of your own.

Richard Burgon, "You can defeat the far right politics of division, not by capitulating to it, and not by copying Reform UK, but by actually having an immigration policy of decency, compassion and fairness"

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Fox Propaganda thinks we are idiots, who have no idea who jacked up tariffs on Brazil that made COFFEE prices go up in the first place. Or who eliminated EV incentives that will cause gasoline demand (and therefore prices) to go up.

I'm old enough to remember when the proponents for TMX being built, saying it would create long term good paying jobs. How is that going? Since May 2024 there have been THOUSANDS of jobs lost in Alberta oil/gas. However, RECORD profits for oil/gas. SO you want another pipeline huh?

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Well done to everyone who remembered to vote. Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off. Let's do it all again next year.

Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses. But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again. What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The media industry keeps talking about linear TV is dead. Well of course it will be if you keep accelerating its decline by pushing people to streaming. It's not completely dead if there are programmes people want to watch.

💸 Farage, who is Britain’s highest-paid MP because of his lucrative media side-hustles, normally charges £3,800 to promote a business on Cameo, the celebrity video message app. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/05/reform-watch-14/

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

What fresh hell is this?

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole. The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Jenrick trying to make political capital out of an austerity crisis created by his own govt. The country doesn’t need your ugly division or your false anger thank you. #r4today www.theguardian.com/society/2025...