Our information environment is in such a mess. WHY is this a news alert? No wonder everyone's morale is low. The nonsense opinion, of a deliberately-inflammatory man, being pushed to thousands of people. For what purpose?

The incoming Home Secretary must end the dangerous misuse of terrorism legislation, but it may already be too late, writes Cal Roscow, Director of Campaigns at Best for Britain. 🗞 Read on Substack with a 7 day free trial. (It's free for existing Best for Britain supporters) https://bit.ly/4np01Mc

If you don't like noise, don't live in a huge city... inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

“Yet when it is one of their own in the dock, the language changes. Suddenly trauma matters. Suddenly ADHD is real and relevant”, writes @pimlicat.bsky.social of @bestforbritain.bsky.social 🗣️ Selective empathy: why compassion can’t be reserved for the politically convenient

Gosh who could have predicted this. Quite galling for IDS to comment seeing as when he was in govt control of our nuclear power stations was being sold to 🇨🇳 companies. Some things just need to be under national control. (Not confident seeing as we are still not ending 💧privatisation)

Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

When Project 2025 The Musical opens on Broadway in 2053, Newsmax ringing the opening bell at the exchange on 4/3/25 will be the song and dance number just before curtains for intermission.

Four years ago I took these photos of deserted Soho. Which also serve as an artist's impression of what the new residents trying to close all the decades-old nightlife venues down would like it to be like permanently.

Ridiculous

When exactly was this mythical time when you couldn't? He never seemed to hold back and has been on TV constantly?

Fr3eDoM oF sPeEcH

Do you have any idea how difficult it has just been to explain, to my colleagues who didn't grow up in the UK, why Penelope Keith is trending with JFK?!

Obviously I am glad that she is home. But if you think it was unacceptable for a white woman from Wales to be chained up and treated like this, why is it acceptable for anyone to be treated like this? Seriously lacking aspect of the conversation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵 Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump-putin peace talks update

If he believes this then he should be arguing against cutting benefits and spending on services. Fairly obviously.

The way Thames Water has been run should be a criminal offence.

While I am pleased to see the minimum wage (I am not calling it the "National Living Wage" when it is clearly not) has increased... ...this means that everyone working full time will start repaying student loans from Plan 5 immediately. Something needs to be adjusted...!

You boy, which far-right splinter group is it?

Everything is going wrong much faster than I expected.

Honestly I don't know why anyone goes to Tesco any more. This feels so over-the-top. Weighing your trolley to check for shoplifting? Just f*ck off - scan them at the checkout for me like before if you're so worried? All of this instead of just employing more people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Some will argue that issues around moving fruit and veg through ports now seems trivial. But I would argue that their triviality is exactly why we must get them out of the way as quickly as possible" bravo @calroscow.bsky.social www.bestforbritain.org/statement-b4...

this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen

Admit that I didn't like the series three White Lotus music, but I think because we all expected it to be like the first two. But actually on reflection it's actually a very very cool score.

There is something completely sensible - but also very funny - about the BBC putting Dr Who teasers right after Only Connect.

The Paypal 'interest-free payments' message on the Avanti website fills me with so much despair actually

Give how many people I know who have had their phone snatched, I fully understand the problem and the need for drastic action. But allowing police into homes *without a warrant* feels like a pretty huge change to the contract between citizen and state...! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not content with trying to trick you into opening a Threads post from Instagram, they are now EMAILING me about posts that appear on there.

Not sure the London Avios Gay community will survive this.

We cannot have anything nice in this country because too many in the media wilfully distort everything into an awful taxpayer cost-benefit analysis. Even when there isn't any taxpayer money involved!

GMail, you do not know what I'm about to type, you cannot help me write it, please get your unhelpful AI out of my ****ing face.

Beyond the fact that they're too big, use too much fuel, not as well-made, etc. I think there is a fundamental difference between US and European designs for almost all transport....

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

Trying to work out if I'm being targeted by Leger Holidays because I've got older or because I've watched that video where the lady says "the 'otel is fabuloushh' too many times.

The Irony Curtain

If someone told you the plot of Cassandra on Netflix you might not watch it. And that would be a mistake. Because it's excellent!

Business and unions alike are really clear that faster growth for Britain demands closer ties with Europe. It's reassuring that ministers have declared they'll be ruthlessly pragmatic. And this report is a game plan for turning that instinct into action. www.thetimes.com/article/8423...

💥 @matthew-wright.bsky.social lays out our growth report @lbc.co.uk 👇 - Up to 2.2% GDP growth from UK-EU goods & services alignment - Growth focused in manufacturing-intensive regions: West & East Mids, N. East, Yorks - Worth 10X projected growth from Aus & NZ deals youtube.com/shorts/vX-Re...

This is indeed a really intersting piece of work by @bestforbritain.bsky.social We all know that closer links would help the economy. What is really interesting here for me is the idea that they could help sielf both sides from the impacts of US tarrifs. www.thetimes.com/article/8423...

This article reports on calls to restrict sale and marketing of alcohol. No mention of why people might be drinking more. No mention of what we should do to make people feel less like they want to drink themselves to death. No mention of how to make the country collectively happier/less depressed.

I thought I might have grown as a person. But no, here I am hate-watching The Apprentice.

Might be about to embarrass myself professionally, but did the Mail always reply to nasty comments to egg people on? I feel like this is a new development.

At last, the latest Politics for Drummies podcast is out. Funnily enough it’s all about Brexit and political campaigning to make a difference. With the lovely @calroscow.bsky.social of @bestforbritain.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6bLp...

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Early in my tech career, I attended a talk about geopolitical risk for software products. It’s wild how much trouble a company can get into for not appeasing the trivial political whims of powerful dictators and autocracies around the world. Apparently the US is one such country now.

The poll of almost 15,000 people shows that across England, Scotland & Wales, almost half (46%) would say the EU should be the Government’s top priority when it comes to trade. Check out the full poll on our website - plus results in your constituency. www.bestforbritain.org/january_2025...