In Wigan, Reform won 96% of seats on 46% of the votes. In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @greenparty.org.uk won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat. We can’t let this happen in 2029 The time to change the voting system is *now* @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

I'll admit to being slightly disappointed that His Majesty didn't begin by doing You'll Be Back from Hamilton but it's probably for the best

substack.com/@emptycity/n... The clever and the wise - @davidallengreen.bsky.social as usual hits the nail on the head

Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...

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Maybe not in the mainstream media, but a lot of women have been saying this for a very long time

I tried so hard And got so far But in the end No one fucking likes me I joined Reform To deport you all But in the end No one fucking likes me

A MILLION times, this👇

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Mandelson? Now do Palantir. And Brexit.

Pretty understandable as to why people would say "they're all the same" at this point, and be right. No wonder Labour MPs are so angry. Number 10 has failed.

Thinking of those relatively junior civil servants who were jailed for substantial periods for leaking information in return for relatively small amounts of reward during the hacking scandal.

Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes Litel surpryse that you are singing

In the space of a few hours, Mandelson’s future has now shifted from the certainty of ignominy to the possibility of prison.

Lol

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Aw, don’t be mean. Just let him have it.

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

In a world where AI reshapes jobs and markets overnight, the real edge won’t be about hard skills; it will be emotional intelligence, empathy, and human connection. A strategy isn’t just a plan on paper; it’s a commitment to people.

Talked to a pollster yesterday about why a party led by a spectacularly unpopular man who helped bring about the spectacularly unpopular Brexit is polling so well. His view: Reform is essentially a “**** it” button. He thinks the Green’s policy of being “**** it but without racism” might do well.

The stupidity is just breathtaking. So where are trans people, and anyone who doesn't look 'conforming' supposed to use the loo? They really, really haven't thought this one through

Dystopian

This looks rather meaningful.

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

Private Eye nailing it.

Absolute bonkers... This govt trapped itself into a spiral of complete idiocy Also, solidarity with this woman for having to face arrest for simply disagreeing with govt policy

Her card was very specifically dissenting against the government's actions. It's a very very dark place that this road takes us to if dissenting government decisions is enough to get you arrested.

Never trust someone that went to college telling you, you don't need to go to college.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

There is no such thing as neutrality when it comes to documentary photography –it’s a myth. You always take sides, either consciously or subconsciously, and acknowledging that is essential if your work is to maintain any element of authenticity. There’s nothing worse than fake neutrality.

Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.

Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.

Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne. I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

1984 as policy, not fiction. And this under a Labour government? Unforgivable.