Want to know who Reform really stand for? Look at who's funding them.

“It’s like Google Drive but for soup!” “It’s like “It’s like MS paint but for gyroscopes!” “It’s like Ceefax but for knees!” “It’s like Netflix but for plankton!” “It’s like Tiktok but for Joseph of Arimathea!” Fuck are you talking about

Bolton imam Hassan Patel, 42, lives at the property with his wife, four young children and his nephew

The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

The tanks supplied water to around 20,000 residents in the city of Kuhestak + 10 surrounding villages in the Bemani district of Iran. Temperatures in the region are currently between 45 and 50°C. The situation for people there is unthinkable. www.ft.com/content/155d...

To my media industry. Last night we saw a pogrom. A racist violent attack against people of colour aiming to expel innocent human beings from our streets. This was not chaos, unrest, a riot, a scary incident but a pogrom. Let’s be accurate if nothing else.

The misogynistic bigoted racists have now turned up outside a Greenock refugee centre. Police Scotland are on scene and have advised every right thinking person to avoid the area. Not in Oor name. #HopeNotHate #FarageRiots #MuskRiots @mrjamesob.bsky.social

An important intervention, and a coordinated call to action from the Green Parties across the nations. Mobs torching homes of people who aren't white is a major escalation, fuelled by the far right and amplified by fascist social media platforms and their owners. Solidarity with all those afraid.

Is anyone naming this as what it is - male violence. Out of control men, from the home to the streets and into global powerful leadership positions and war. It's a gendered issue, and feminists have been commenting on it for decades.

When the media describes racist pogroms on our streets as "protests" they do the bidding of those who use weasel words to incite more hate & harm The question all journalists, editors and reporters should ask themselves is: inadvertently or willingly? And regardless of the answer, it's time to stop

Torching the homes of innocent people because they’re not white is a truly chilling display of racist violence by organised fascists who have been legitimised and encouraged by mainstream political figures. Call it what it is. [2/2]

Look at that face! 🤣

Today, Green Party NI and the Green Party of England & Wales stand together. Zack Polanski and Mal O’Hara are united: what is happening in Belfast is not isolated. It is a coordinated far-right pattern - the same faces, the same tactics, the same hatred. 1/2

It's patently clear that PMQ is high farce. However, shame on the leaders of the opposition and the Lib Dems for not pressing him on the race riots, holding his rhetoric to account and demanding action to protect all. *For context, Cons, Lab, Lib Dems don't seriously contest constituencies in NI.

Ross Greer is absolutely right! “Those were racist rioters. If you're burning the houses down of people who are not white, you are a racist rioter, you're a criminal, you are a scumbag.” Greer added: “The BBC should not be legitimizing these people by calling them anti-immigration campaigners.”

Families burned out of their homes. Again. Last night’s violence in Belfast was a racist pogrom, the third summer in a row. Green Party NI stands with every family targeted last night. Our full statement 👇

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

Seems like Belfast is in a very very bad way just now, and I fear for its residents. This is another pogrom stoked by the UK media and largely instigated by the man running the main platform the UK government (and governing party) STILL use to to communicate with the public at large.

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

@ theMedia People who wear paramilitary clothing, set up roadblocks and are whipped up and fuelled by rage to attack groups of people are not "protesters". They are a rioting far right mob. Why are you unable or unwilling to call things what they are?

Tipping points are social, ideological, rhetorical and political too. It feels as though many of them are close to have been reached, or already breached. We can and must do all we can to resist those steering towards racism and fascism, call out their bile and lies, before it's too late.

What we do have is two-tier media. Acts of violence (all of them awful) generally reported, if at all, in local news. But when those involved can be characterised in ways that might help bait far right rage, and fuel the relentless march to elected fascism, they instantly become headline news.

and, in a way, we *are* all bound for mu mu land

Honestly, if you could sum liberal politics up in one sentence it’d be - I’m voting for Andy Burnham because ‘he does his big shop at Asda’

Why Labour flagism fuels the hate: "This is why appeasement fails. Every concession simply legitimises the framework further. Every attempt to outbid the far right on immigration drags the political centre closer to ethnonationalism, while the far right simply moves on to a more extreme position."

I mean, if only they had an ambassador or something like that we could summon and rebuke for fomenting civil unrest.

Cue chortling

I'm 58 & have been voting for the Green Party since I got the right to vote. For 40+ years I have seen neoliberal capitalists do their damnedest to quash all hope for a just & sustainable world, whilst disingenuously virtue signalling & greenwashing. Screw these guys & all their moneygrubbing ilk.

Thank you very much to the Independent for including me in this year's Pride List. Great to be at the event hosted by the wonderful @queerbritain.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

From the UK to New York, the real fightback is against the multi-millionaires and billionaires who have stolen our wealth and power - and the media that protect them. Zohran gets that. And we do too: join.greenparty.org.uk

Damn right. Time to fight back against: Untaxed billionaires Billioncorps trashing the planet Inequality and poor housing Slop and apologists for slop Genocide Exploitation of work and workers The myths of profit and growth Did I miss anything? Oh, clientele journalism spouting pro-fash tripe.

A) Mexico B) Switzerland C) Scotland D) Australia E) Curacao F) Tunisia G) Iran H) Cabo Verde I) Senegal J) Algeria K) Colombia L) ABE

CFP: NTS at 20 – Culture, Democracy, & the Stateless Nation: an Unconference 23 October 2026, Edinburgh This one-day Unconference will explore the role of theatre, literature, & cultural institutions in shaping democratic life in Scotland as a stateless nation www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...

"Pure" is actually worse. Way worse.

I saw him referred to as Wigan Keir the other day and I can't unsee it

Sounds like more of the same. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Excellent proposal, well argued. Seconded

Major new study concludes that @greenparty.org.uk policies are not just best for tackling wealth and social inequality and climate chaos in England and Wales... ... but are what is needed for planetary survival. Please think on those words: "planetary survival." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh, bloody hell. Far too young. And it was such a intelligent, influential, and painfully honest book.

“Those who seek to use this tragedy to incite violence, create division in our communities and further their own political ambitions, are deeply irresponsible and deserve no place in our public life.” - Siân Berry MP for Brighton Pavilion

Just wrote this for the @theguardian.com about the ongoing war between Reform and Restore and the increasing racialisation of our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thread 👇 (warning that some of the details discussed might be a bit distressing)

🎯Bang on, and Labour is paving the way. Its toolkit for tyrants includes: mass live facial recognition, digital ID, restriction of jury trials, crackdown on peaceful protests, taking away trans people’s rights.

Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's like referring to Powell's infamous "Rivers Speech", or saying that SirKS thought we were "becoming an island".

"Pure" Every media commentator seems to have somehow agreed to mysteriously redact 1 word from the Far Right call to Riot yesterday. What he said was "We should respond to this wtih PURE cold rage". (HP) Not only is the incitement clear, it's also linked to purity (with Britain in next sentence).

@s-cBBC They're not "protests" or "demonstrations". They're far right, racist riots, incited by those calling for rage.

“I said it’s good of Nigel Farage to speak out about the murder of Henry Nowak. What did I say Roy?” “You said he’s a cynical piece of shit who’s exploiting a tragedy to spread hatred and division”

Henry Nowak's father: told the nation that "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.” BBC Politics Live: Invites Reform’s Matt Goodwin on to do a racist rant. A choice was made.