Please vote some younger, tougher leftists into Congress. These long term corporate dems ain't cutting it.

The HuffPost UK weekend read on whether Nigel Farage really is "dead in the water". As questions about his personal finances grow and even close allies admit he’s “tired and stressed”, is time running out for the Reform UK boss? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

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As if a country that walked out of the EU, hoping that Brexit would lead to a collapse of the EU as other countries followed it out, which, of course, did not happen, is going to be given a decision-making role in the EU. The UK needs to get real. www.ft.com/content/c5b0...

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness A decade after the EU Referendum, British politics remains fundamentally poisoned by a project that produced no benefits, writes Chris Grey Read the full story below.

Silent majority update: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This kind of whining - from France - is so very Brexit. Until we take responsibility for the inevitable consequences of our own stupid choices, we will stay stuck in a sulky dead-end calling other people names. Boris Johnson rejected these data sharing arrangements. You get what you pay for. (Times)

In that scenario, he said, Wales might find the “United Kingdom has changed so radically that its component parts” may find “they will be better off elsewhere”. Will UK break up if Farage gets to No 10 political leaders outside England ask www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lee Anderson in Dec last year promising that the flags put up by Reform run Nottinghamshire Council wouldn't cost a penny because they would be sponsored. Seven months and £75,000 of taxpayers' money later, there are still zero sponsors. Vote Reform, waste money.

I believe that aliens exist. I also believe they're nowhere near here. (Far enough away to be effectively irrelevant to human history.) The staggering number of star systems within our incomprehensibly vast Universe suggests that both these theories are by far the most likely.

Actually the result of an appalling piece of EU policy making, removing de minimis exemptions even for magazines, designed to protect against three large Chinese companies who will just work around the new law.

Goes wider than tech policy, and moving on from Number 10 announcement-itis would be the single best thing a new PM could do.

Easier to question the individuals than the 24/7 media storm around them, easier to make this a national phenomenon than looking internationally and seeing exactly the same thing, an absurdly insular UK debate.

Brilliant. How real trolling is done.

We ALL do….🥺

A pleasure to follow in @chrisgrey.bsky.social footsteps &be a guest in @rolandmcs.bsky.social Soft Landing podcast. We spoke about the past and present of the U.K., my new book, and dedicated a little extra attention to one particular chapter, featuring Britain‘s most famous& global institution.

"Brexit has reinforced identity-based divisions in Northern Ireland..." ✍️ @dphinnemore.bsky.social & @katyhayward.bsky.social consider why voters in Northern Ireland have stronger convictions and opinions on Brexit – in both directions 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/dangerously-...

Farage/ Reform's cryptocurrency connections - obligations? - deepen. A scandal unfolding in plain view, but also likely to add to the suspicions of 'anti-globalist' & 'nativist' voters. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I'm old enough to remember when Brexiters claimed that leaving the EU was necessary to stop this happening under the (then under negotation, later abandoned) TTIP. news.sky.com/story/uk-us-...

This is like the head of Ofwat declaring that they're not going to drink water any more because it's too polluted by sewage. We get to quit Twitter if we like. But Lisa Nandy was in the perfect position to regulate the platform into behaving better. Instead, she's running away.

What do you wish someone had told you when you were younger? For me, it's the below...

If you still have even the slightest doubt about why Starmer had to go, make time to read this critique from Ian Dunt. (There's zero guarantee that Burnham will be better. But a reset was very desperately needed, and Labour are now getting one. It's up to him and them to exploit it, or mess it up.)

The overt racism phase of the USA's world cup hosting stint has arrived.

🚨🚨Great news: Culture Secretary Lisa #Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon #Musk's #X platform explaining that " the platform "isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don't want to support it". 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really pleased that Morgan McSweeney has finally discovered that it's better to prepare for government. Thanks for that mate, nice one. Lucky there wasn't a lot riding on it, or you'd really have fucked up inews.co.uk/opinion/hard...

I was relatively kind to acupuncture in the recent episode of Origin Story so this is a useful corrective. "The majority of studies using such devices fails to show effects beyond a placebo response." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

Brilliant. And I really want to sing these at Trump. Especially the English one. 😂😂😂

Right so you weren’t slam dunk were you

"Long live the new King of the North! May God preserve him and keep him from ever having to define what the title actually means." @alanbeattie.bsky.social and I have been disagreeing over what is the north for over 30 years. He's obviously nailed this one brilliantly. www.ft.com/content/0da0...

Checked this some time ago, and it is Gloucester in my case, though there are some places I haven't been too for many years.

No running commentary on UK-EU talks latest... but what I hear from Brussels has not filled me with confidence about the way the UK side has approached these negotiations. As I keep saying, the reluctance to learn lessons is not a good sign.

Interesting piece. Looks like David Henig is fully converted 🤔 www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...

This makes me quite sad to read. There is a good reason why we small countries band together when dealing with the US, China and so forth. Brexit was a very bad idea. Just give it up. We'll work something out.

It's so depressing, but also so revealing. If Goodwin et al had even a shred of lgic, let alone integrity, they would be lauding this as an example of the integration which, rather than race, is what they pretend to be concerned about.

The lesson for the UK, re Farage, really should be obvious.

I for one am proud that @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social's student body reflects the diversity of our city - something that was not remotely the case when I was an undergraduate.

“Immigration officers have told the BBC that since the UK left the European Union, it has become more difficult to check criminal records from some other countries.” Brexit made it much harder to control our borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK's EU Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds travelled to Brussels Weds Among items Brussels intends to sign off is an agreement on phytosanitary rules governing import & export of food products; alignment on emissions trading systems to avoid businesses paying hefty carbon taxes; reciprocal youth mobility

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

In the long run, Starmer's surrender deal to the USA may end up as his worst ever mistake. For the sake of being to boast that he got a trade deal, he has potentially condemned hundreds of thousands of people to an earlier death at an aggregate cost of tens of billions of pounds.

So, presumably the free speech absolutists of Silicon Valley will be queuing up to pay her costs... bsky.app/profile/ianf...

China is obviously cheating because it doesn't have a Common Agricultural Policy. Can't think why much of the world thinks of Europe as privileged and isn't too upset that it seems to now be struggling.

Only 250 years of the US arguing about trade? The UK in various formations has been arguing about ties with the European mainland for much longer...

This story of the UK-US trade / pharmaceutical deal is not going away -as a classic example of why secrecy over such things is never ultimately a good idea, as well as being about the crucial new negotiation that is governments against companies. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Related to the UK-US pharma deal because once again a key consideration for the UK government has to be inward investment versus what works for the public. That's a horribly difficult balancing act.

Scoop: Northern Ireland caught in “messy middle” of U.K. and EU steel tariffs www.politico.eu/article/nort...