I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

Meanwhile, Britain finds itself lost between two worlds. We were told we didn’t need Europe, we could rely on the transatlantic relationship. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

❓"Do you think that Brexit has actually delivered what people were promised?" ⬇️ "An economy that look's like it's 8% smaller. Trade down 18% on 5 years ago. Food and drink down 24%." ❌ "16,500 firms have stopped trading with Europe." 📝 "Paperwork costs appear to be about £8.5 billion/year."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

This article highlights the problem: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

£100 billion of trade a year and over a million jobs since Brexit have been lost. We agree with Sir John Major, Brexit is a flop, but now, we must fix it.

Authoritarian echoes: how America is mirroring Egypt and Russia open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Can the public really tell this? Or are they simply force-fed it 24 hours a day?

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Fantastic evening here in Colchester with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social She really is such a talented story-teller, keeping a packed audience totally captivated for over two hours. If you have a chance to see her on this tour don’t let it pass you by

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.” From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

Ballad of Wallis Island best film I’ve seen for about ten years.

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE 🚨 ⏫ SIXTEEN THOUSAND (!!!) LETTERS SENT ⏫ 📈16,000 letters have now been sent to Ofgem in less than a week - will you join us and help stop Musk? ✍️It only takes two minutes to send Ofgem our letter... https://www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elon-musk-uk-energy-power-grab

My novel Baby's Breath is available to pre-order now. www.amazon.co.uk/Babys-Breath... £2.57 pre-order price on Kindle. Published 1 Sept on Kindle, paperback and hardback. Here's what advance readers thought of it. Read the first chapter babysbreath.co.uk/chapterone.h... #BabysBreath

Just finished my advance copy of #BabysBreath by ‪@russincheshire.bsky.social.‬ I've certainly raced through this one - which is always a good sign. A fast-paced psychological thriller, set in a very topical landscape - Russ creates a vivid backdrop with complex characters and plot-twists aplenty.

Come on @ipswichtown.bsky.social please start posting updates on Blue Sky - it’s a much friendlier place than that other cesspit !! 💙 #itfc #coyb

Someone is disputing their paid membership of my newsletter with their bank because the product was "defective, damaged or not as described". This is how the product is described iandunt.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

As always, a thoughtful and interesting post from @rolandmcs.bsky.social, but I'm sure he'd accept there is more to say. It wasn't just that Vote Leave included different views, or that it radicalised during the referendum campaign and afterwards. 🧵 1/8

TWTD Questionnaire 2024/25 #itfc #premierleague

Having abortion in the criminal code means vulnerable women are treated as criminals when they ought to be treated with compassion. Help protect abortion rights in the UK. Sign our petition for decriminalisation. humanists.uk/action/prote...

No, they are not "exceptionally high call volumes" if you already have a prerecorded message to say that. Thank you.

“Hard Brexit was xenophobic, economically illiterate and narrow-minded. An apology from the Brexit lobby is too much to hope for. Silence might be a relief. An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction.” Yes. Such damage and waste. For nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

Staggering statistics from USAID that the cessation of their malaria programme will lead to 2-3 MILLION more deaths. This is genocide approaching Holocaust levels, just on this one programme. Why is the world so quiet on the extraordinary loss of life Trump/Musk have wrought?!

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation. 🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised full post: christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si... 1/15

This has been one of the most helpful podcasts and the stupid things are 1) heat pump explanations as political impartiality?? 2) why bbc wouldn’t do it in house (see above) 3) half the BBC’s talent is earning millions doing 3rd party revenue share podcasts and Evan was hit for a show on… heat pumps

This is profoundly irresponsible by the BBC. Truly shocking. It should actually be a BBC podcast. @evanhd.bsky.social

Brexit is bad for our health (as predicted). There’s an urgent need now to repair the damage done and get health research and provision back on its feet. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Column, on the spectacularly bad-faith/ideologically contorted White House demands the "free speech protection" be a factor in UK-US trade talks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Logic of Destruction open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

Will Keir Starmer the last person on earth to still trust Donald Trump? Piece from me on our government’s absurd servility before Trump and its equally absurd suspicion of our natural allies and fellow liberal democracies in Europe nickcohen.substack.com/p/will-keir-...

Jack on top form in the last chance saloon