I’ve just been polling myself and 1/2 of me is never going to vote Labour again because they’ve been so shit over Gaza and the other half might vote for them because they finally just called out Farage for his racism. So I’m not sure the polls are that reliable if I’m an example.

I’m just so bloody relieved that labour has finally decided to put some clear blue water between it and Reform.

Could we have a standing petition that just says: "NO to anything new, despite not having any detail. IT IS WOKE/IT WILL HERALD FASCISM/PALANTIR WILL STEAL MY BRAINWAVES/IT IS MARXISM/IT IS AI-ADJASCENT [delete as appropriate]. But mainly because WE ARE BRITISH and didn't think of it first."

Help! Immigrants have chopped the heads off these swans.

The only way this would be a surprise of any sort, is if he had joined the Tories from Reform.

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The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... Anybody who follows me and doesn’t listen to this podcast might like to give it a try. A great mix of political wisdom and goid humour with hosts who clearly actually enjoy talking to each other.

@quietriotpod.bsky.social As ever, a well-informed joy. Alex takes the ridiculous hype out of ID cards, and Kenny‘s tragic tale of the Eiffel Tower made me laugh out loud plus intelligence conversation about Gaza and Ukraine.

He’s going to blow up the entire country to prevent the release of the Epstein files, isn’t he

This is like something out of an airport bookshop thriller, except that is actually happening. It’s terrifying from here. It must be absolutely appalling to be in Portland.

Farage has gone strangely quiet today. Probably makes sense to keep his head down after Reform’s boss in the last set of Welsh elections admitted taking bribes to peddle Russian propaganda. Especially awkward because Nige once said he admires Putin above all other world leaders.

Facebook memories from 6 years ago. Plus ça change... @sturdyalex.bsky.social

So much for Gill having nothing to do with Farage. The first bribe to which he has admitted was ACTUALLY on the same day he followed Farage out of UKIP... Great 🧵

"Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" Gaza City is being razed to the ground. Images from the @nytimes.com

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A tragic reminder that the migrants crossing to England are families, women, children and elderly, not just “undocumented men of fighting age” as per Reform BS rhetoric Two women die during failed Channel crossing attempt 😢

A friend has a small library of books whose titles may not mean quite what they did when they were originally published - friends and family have been adding to it over the years. Mr Pink Whistle features....

I honestly don’t understand the hysteria about ID cards. The rest of Europe just has them and there’s no fuss. Why is it going to bring about the end of the world in Britain?

A Israeli academic asked his followers on X which sanction would really convince ordinary Israelis that they are isolated internationally. "Expulsion from football tournaments" was the most popular answer, followed by "ending visa-free travel to Europe"

Following Yuval Abraham's reporting, Microsoft cuts its ties with Israeli intelligence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Physicians for Human Rights (Israel): Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is imprisoned by Israel without charges, is in serious medical condition. Since his arrest in Dec 24 he has lost 25 kg. He suffers from scabies and heart problems but is not receiving medical treatment.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... This is no better than Taliban destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas

ITV News leading with “foreign criminals bring deported” and Farage’s views that paracetamol in pregnancy science isn’t settled. The news agenda in this country is an absolute constant trash fire

Farage is rattled, innit.

I’ve written to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla. 52 boats carrying aid and peace activists to Gaza. The UK must act to assure their safety. Israel is committing a genocide. All eyes are on this flotilla.

Bloody Hell I m in agreement with Boris Johnson

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

What an impossibly ungracious man he is, really. It’s not news, of course, but he does somehow have the ability to be so uncouth, so impolite, that it really takes your breath away.

This is actually scandalous. The Telegraph today reports that Ofgen itself attributes next week's price cap rise to wind farms. Only, it's not Ofgen saying that at all, it's a... *checks notes*... renowned "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" crank who says that. I think this is complaint-level stuff...

A British newspaper (The Mirror) reacts to Trump’s speech.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

"What Nigel Farage’s comments do show is his willingness to peddle disinformation from unverified social media, and far-right organisations, to deliberately whip up more hatred against migrants."...in a nutshell

youtu.be/g2L7kqNsfQA?... How long before people realize that statehoodis not something that Palestinian people need to earn it is an inalienable right?

Israel is a Jewish state in a constitutional sense, embodied in a specific and concrete regime. It's not abstract, it's not whatever-you-wish-it-meant. In theory, a state could be Jewish in many ways. In Israel it means a regime of domination, discrimination and violence against non-Jews.

London 💙

The BBC and other public broadcasters owe the Liberal Democrats a legal apology. They must address the fact that the party was denied its equal broadcasting slot for their conference speeches today. That situation cannot be right. given the time they give to Farage

Sir Sadiq Khan the first London mayor to win a historic third term, was included in the 2018 Times 100 list of most influential people in the world and is currently living rent free in the presidents head being number 13 on the presidents ‘list of things I hate’ address at the UN assembly.

All that royal flattery and five days later Trump tells the world that Britain's going to hell and London's governed by sharia law. To repeat: the scorpion always stings.

Kamala Harris on Mamdani: Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the democratic nominee and he should be supported.

Ed Davey, "Tory ministers who cheered Liz Truss's budget now complain about the state of the economy they left" "Tory ministers who stopped processing asylum claims and caused the enormous backlog, now make videos complaining about it, and protest outside the asylum hotels they opened"

Exactly an year ago - 23 september 2024, the day Israel launched it's largest air assault in it's history, 1600 airstrikes in 24 hours, killing 600 Lebanese people and destroying thousands of homes. Never forgive, Never forget

Breaking | Israeli occupation attacks kills Dr. Ihab Al-Halabi, a consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, while he was on his way to the hospital in Gaza.

Local sources confirm that a number of Palestinians were shot and injured in the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah, by Israeli settlers' fire.

Trump's America, like Bibi's Israel and Putin's Russia, are rogue administrations, determined to tear up the rules based international world order that keeps us all safer. We live in terrifying times.