So Starmer is going and Burnham is (probably) coming. But the cycle of failed PMs will just continue unless he has the courage to bin Brexit. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

I see people are writing Burnham's political obituary already. It's almost as if they want this cycle of chaos. Personally I want progress and a functioning country and really have had my fill of shitweaselery

This is fascinating. The BBC’s own scrutiny of its flagship TV News discusses its clear bias towards selective reporting of crimes committed by immigrants & asylum seekers and no one from the News team will defend it. What is going on behind the scenes? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.

Now we're calling on the government to launch a full public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics. Read our open letter and add your name: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/193695/...

Britain's next Prime Minister.

So Elon Musk, Rupert Lowe’s party didn’t go anywhere in Makerfield. You might be able to buy Donald Trump, but you can’t buy British voters

When the final analysis of the Government is written, doing things two years late and then only half heartedly will be a core theme. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Our fictional new councillor, Mike, is beginning to suspect that running a council isn't quite the same as complaining about one on Facebook. #satire

“So, I told him, why not just sign your treaty here, at Versailles? “It’ll be unprecedented….”😂😂😂😂

Thread full of vile racism that Musk's outfit will not remove - and which the UK govt is passive about, even facilitating in effect via its presence on X

Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Australian fans at the World Cup singing: “Aussie boys are on a bender; Donald Trump is a sex offender.”

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Perfect photo, no notes.

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

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Banning children from social media?

Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...

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A trillion dollars hasn’t bought Musk a modicum of respect - except from our fawning, tech-bro-dazzled politicians.

One of the secrets about the FT is that if you buy the paper they sometimes tell you what they really really think before some subeditor spots it. Compare the print and digital copy about SpaceX www.ft.com/content/1638...

My first in a series of World Cup collages for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company? Just complete self-interested deception

Starmer won't prevent far-right riots because he will not take on X. He won't ramp up defence in the face of Trump and Putin because he refuses to take hard financial decisions. He has failed to protect Britain against its enemies - foreign and domestic iandunt.substack.com/p/swirling-i...

Err… 🤔

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

After the events in Belfast over the last two nights, the BBC’s recent behaviour looks even more reckless www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-t...

Should X be banned? Yes. And it should have happened in January when non-consensual sexual imagery proliferated on the site. The government’s inaction on what is becoming increasingly a vehicle for violence and hate is appalling. Much more needs to be done. And quickly.

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

Please sign & share.

If Labour ditched X and used bsky it would force the media to follow suit, that alone would shift the narrative as hate is easily removed here.

That’s called a bribe.

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

This was not a protest, it's attempted murder, burning people out of their homes. The government needs to do something now about far right rhetoric, refugee and immigrant bashing, Mahmood's cruelty, Tommy Robinson's unchecked riots, Farage's extreme Nazi rhetoric.

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

It’s actually really disappointed by the number of people who still use Twitter and maintain an account there. Not interested in anyone’s excuses. Same with people who drive Teslas.

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

Two years. For *two years* the online incitement of disorder has been a major problem that the government has sat on its hands over.

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

I dunno but maybe the U.K. government shouldn’t be posting all their comms on a platform owned by a person doing this

This Government's gravest sin is that it supported the institutional machinery that shifts our Overton window ever further rightwards.

What we seeing in the UK today is an attempt by foreign-backed far-right extremists to destabilise our country by stoking rage and division. This anti-immigrant violence must be stopped, and the thugs who encourage it prosecuted. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... (1/2)

"The world of football is paying for its cowardice": when a Somali referee is turned away from the United States to participate in the World Cup. #BBCPM

Legend 😂👏

The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.

Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He's just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations, special interests, and billionaires to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us.