Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.

Simply can't say how much I'm enjoying this #BobDylan

Right. Making deliberate attempt to shift the algorithms for me here from the political dystopia we live in to healing music...

Nice early review of new album .. thank you!

My what a wonderful surprise!!

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide. Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.

#RedRoses. What a team!

Whenever Christianity is co-opted to support violence, misogyny or racism it loses its very soul. Here’s the letter I and a group of friends wrote over the last few days, was then signed by senior church leaders across denominations and published by The Sunday Times & Sunday Mirror today.

Yes. #Starmers Comms are clueless and he's lost every shred of integrity anyway

One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group

Not quite sure Donald Trump understands how you get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...

It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.

We still over-think his motivation/game plan. He’s filling his boots, even if it impoverishes his own base. That’s all there is. That’s all there ever was. (Great piece.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper." @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

You can only presume that Trump & his cronies make an absolute killing every time the markets balk at his latest tariff tantrum. And another one when he inevitably backs down. Jimmy Carter putting the family peanut farm in a blind trust for the duration of his Presidency feels very, very far away.

A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.

There are no depths to which he can not sink - none.

The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

How Keir Starmer has made foreign-born people in the UK feel… Brave, brilliant callers. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Stand up. Speak up. Netanyahu and his monstrous government must be held to account for their genocidal crimes against the children of Gaza. We will never condone the murderous brutality of Hamas but the ongoing slaughter of countless innocents is equally beyond any and all words.

Huge thanks to the advisor who suggested I put “island of strangers” in my speech. Now Reform voters still hate me and Labour voters hate me even more.

The government’s abject surrender in the immigration conversation will not necessarily lose them votes. But it won’t win any either because a) for good or for ill, the small boats are the really emotive issue & b) people who simply resent immigrants will always favour Farage. He’s one of their own.

Just the official account for the US government portraying a convicted fraudster, rapist and sex predator as God's representative on Earth. Americans must be so proud.

Local elections lesson for @Labour and #KierStarmer are so painfully simples. Grow a pair, find some integrity, form the centre left govt that people voted for.

BREAKING: Communicating facts now officially deemed a "hostile and political act" by the White House

'Pull your socks up Prime Minister! Abandon the timidity - it's time to soften Brexit.' It's time someone told those who were 'completely wrong' about leaving the EU to 'shut up and sit down', says @mrjamesob.bsky.social with urgency, in light of Trump's tariffs and market instability.

In plain sight....

So now that the EU is on the same 10% tariff as the UK, could we please hear from all those who tried to portray the previous scenario as a 'Brexit benefit'...

The "sin of empathy" ..how convenient for the right .... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Wow. There is no end to her awfulness, no beginning to her talents.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

My word a superlative gig from David Gray last night. Pin drop moments, whole audience community singalongs, a cover of Who knows where the time goes, ace sound and sophisticated songwriting. Younger me took him too much for granted!

Has there been a coup? Pretty sure I voted for and was supposed to have got a Labour govt?

These are political choices. #allthesame www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If the US intends to bomb us, at least we'll get a text warning.

I SUPPOSE I’D BETTER CARRY ON AS I STARTED Dear Mister Starmer, I expected more Not just more of the same If you attack the poor and old Then you deserve every blame Vocal on selective wars You play the same old game Yes, I expected much, much more Not more of the same old same

On the day that UK tumbles below other countries in the happiness index because of poor public services. Did anyone who voted labour vote for Tory austerity?? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

Still a bit of integrity left then www.bbc.com/news/article...

Patrick Watt, Chief Executive for Christian Aid response to the proposed cuts to the UK Aid budget. Read full article here: independent.co.uk/voices/inter... #Aid #KeirStarmer #Trump

Our response to the PM’s announcement on cutting INT'L aid: 'Marginalised communities are facing a dramatic poverty crisis. These cuts—a political decision echoing Trump’s race to the bottom on aid—are a betrayal that will erode trust & fan the flames of global insecurity.'

Utterly disgusted by this cowardly excuse of a so called @teamlabouruk.bsky.social govt. This on top of attitude to migrants means they have lost my vote and many more www.theguardian.com/global-devel...