X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

The govt cannot stop bad actors exploiting tragedy for political gain, but perhaps it can stop pretending this is a regretful but ultimately unavoidable part of modern life. Ban X. It has no place in a modern, functioning democracy. @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/belfast-at...

My primary concern is that this is praised as "doing something" meanwhile the radicalisation of middle aged men and the LotO into increasingly abstract far right thought is ignored because something has been done.

An unexpected benefit of parkrun volunteering is that I (a Scottish Green) get to shout "Keep left!" at my MP (Labour) legitimately. And, boy, do I mean it.

My mate Joe has written a nice piece about Peckham Rye parkrun substack.com/@justonemore...

Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates: 1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents 2. End exemption for charity shops. 3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.

This is my Libdem MP. We have exchanged emails re my cancer and the importance of hospices. And here she is … doing what we elect MPs to do rather than inciting riots from some field.

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is just disgusting. @sophyridge.bsky.social @bethrigby.bsky.social Have a word with your colleagues. I expect Farage to be depraved. Hope for better from broadcasters.

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

Hi Nigel Farage, now you’ve decided to do media again, tell us about the £5m.

A brief glimpse of the Lesser-Spotted-Since-The-Stuff-About-The-Cash-Came-Out Farage. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

Listening to Nigel Farage this week keep thinking of Ian Paisley. Farage lacks Paisley’s rhetorical flair but the style, the dog whistles, the plausible deniability is all there Crucially, both men sent others off to do violence with their words

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

More sense from @thedailymash.bsky.social than from quite a few people in parliament this morning. www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/twa...

The UK Government is still legitimising X as a safe, mainstream social media platform by hosting its official accounts on there. The BBC is doing the same.

Shameful from Reform and a good example of why you should never share anything by that godawful aggregator account, which just happens to be run by a Reform councillor. Obviously prostate cancer is a particular problem for black men, who are twice as likely to suffer from it in their lifetimes

Point about Farage’s drift from xenophobia to outright racism is that the Tories wilfully threw open the Overton window - and Labour have refused to redraw the norms clearly. And now every tragedy will be forced into this frame and we have to keep fighting a rearguard action to condemn the rhetoric.

This one's for the Sikhs who have supported Reform: did you think they would not come for you?

We set immigration policy trying to reflect the views of people who understand the least about what's actually going on www.economist.com/britain/2026... It's the opposite of leadership! And not what representative democracy should be about

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

See my investigation from this week www.opendemocracy.net/aabortion-re...

Here's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/

Stunned, appalled, shocked etc to see actual tax reform from a politician. This from Wes Streeting today. A thread on why capital gains tax is broken. It's too low AND too high. & why this is a good proposal.

Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Londoners will always reject those who seek to divide our communities. My statement on today’s events:

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

Don't forget what Reform promised the crypto industry after Farage took the cash: Farage....took an undisclosed £5mn personal gift from a crypto billionaire in 2024, months before pledging to slash tax and regulation on the digital assets industry if he becomes PM www.ft.com/content/6a56...

Perhaps the Labour Party could take 5 minutes out of its busy infighting schedule and let this be news for a bit

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

In today's newsletter: on what I think the big problem with Parliament's stalled assisted dying legislation is, and why that makes it ill-suited to the 'just use the Parliament Act to ram it through' route:

Last Saturday, I had food poisoning. Tomorrow, I run the London Marathon. This is going to be fine.

Does it help your annoyance if I attempt a grand unified theory with the other financial thing annoying you lately bsky.app/profile/cjte...

Some thoughts 1. Populism is not inevitable 2. Neither is liberalism 3. Electorates punish poor performance 4. International circumstances matter 5. Avoid over-determinism

Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!

This result was inevitable once Viktor Orbán went woke, by Matt Goodwin for The Free Press.

This is my assessment of why Trump’s war went so badly wrong. Underestimating an enemy and a belief in a quick victory are familiar sources of failure, compounded in this sense by incredible ultimatums and delusional claims. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.

This is so well done. 👌

The two days that JD Vance spent in Hungary desperately trying to shore up support for Putin’s lapdog Viktor Orbán reminded me of what a pathetic, loathsome, lying, traitorous scumbag he is.

1/ Many scenarios for the end of the Iran war suggest that Tehran will gain permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz. An analysis by JP Morgan suggests that Tehran could raise up to $90 billion a year this way, instantly making Iran one of the wealthiest Gulf economies. ⬇️

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

It's not that Donald sent this as awful as it is; it's that nobody felt they could stop him or, worse, nobody thought they should.

Dear media, when the President of the U.S. uses words like ‘fuck’ and ‘bastards’ it’s your duty to quote them accurately, no matter what your ‘rules’ about using them yourselves are. Stop the euphemisms. Don’t say ‘drop the F bomb’.

Can’t remember who it was who said it, but: if you wanted to devise a programme to see if US armed forces would follow unambiguously criminal orders, you would probably do the Caribbean boat murders as a test a few months before the big event.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.