I want every Londoner to know that from April 2026, your rights at work are changing with improvements to sick pay, parental leave and strengthened worker protections. Stay informed with my online Employment Rights Hub. www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

"the truth is that the real TDS was – and remains – Trump Denial Syndrome: the refusal to take a proudly illiberal, openly vindictive, brazenly corrupt politician at his word" Me for the First Draft newsletter on the anniversary of Trump's inauguration:

His name is Jonathan Ross. His name must be known. And all U.S. law officers who use lethal force against fellow citizens -- whether seemingly justified or unjustified i early analysis -- must have their names immediately known. How else for us to know whether they've killed one person or ten?

We freely hear Islamist referenced, but when bible following Trump with support of Christian Nationalist groups and the likes of the Proud Boys strikes Venezuela, hires a “gestapo”, threatens Greenland, Iran, Cuba and Mexico, and funds an alleged genocide we don’t hear about his religion?

Some analogies are so stark it would be remiss to not see them When was the last time you can remember when insurrectionists like the Proud Boys were rewarded with roles in a new government paramilitary force like ICE? To help your quest for historical echoes maybe start with the Munich Putsch

“Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? Where’s your papers?” - Joe Rogan one of MAGA’s heroes. When I call these far right actions one certain news outlet makes headlines from me. Will we now take the threat seriously?

Worth remembering. Yes mistakes made by WMP, but after their report Maccabi were given a one match ban by UEFA for Nazi salutes, chanting Death To Arabs, and singing their “Rape Song” in Stuttgart. “You are Arab-wh*res We will f*ck you and drink your blood..We will r*pe your girls." Video in here:

** A majority (52%) of voters, including a majority (58%) of independents, do NOT believe ICE was justified in shooting Rene Good. ** A majority of voters (51%) BACK charges against the ICE agent who shot her. Exclusive Zeteo/Data for Progress poll: zeteo.com/p/ice-renee-...

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

X Users Ask Grok To Put More Clothes On Elon Musk Pictures https://theonion.com/x-users-ask-grok-to-put-more-clothes-on-elon-musk-pictures/

It isn’t difficult to hold 2 thoughts, side by side, at the same time: The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence. The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??

By what right does the United States assert control over Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Oh right, the Louisiana Purchase from the French in 1803 -- 11 eleven years before the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, when Norway ceded Greenland to make peace in the Napoleanic Wars. History for me and not for thee.

The previous modern standard for murdering people en masse while effecting an arrest warrant involved members of a Waco religious cult (76), or group home occupants (11) in West Philadelphia or the Chicago abode of some Blank Panthers (2 dead, more wounded). Trump now holds the record.

A national disgrace.

FACT OF THE DAY. 1 January 1973. UK officially became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC). The Daily Mail was very enthusiastic about Britain’s entry at the time.

McCarthyism is back in Trump's USA. Laughable how Britain's self-styled free speech champions are silent. In reality they defend and promote only their own hate speech. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned. Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

“Ever try eatin’ corn on the cob with no fuckin’ teeth?”

“You can't make this shit up.” “They snipped out 10 seconds of what he was going to say, and left him absolutely seething.” Why did the BBC make the “chilling” decision to edit out Rutger Bregman’s criticism of Donald Trump when it went to broadcast? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/you-...

And most Britons wrongly believe it's going up. We live in an age of ignorant rage. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch

Rachel Reeves transformed herself from Scrooge to Mother Christmas in lifting 550,000 working class kids out of poverty. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Trump Says Epstein Emails Only Prove He One Of The Most Emailed-About Men In History https://theonion.com/trump-says-epstein-emails-only-prove-he-one-of-the-most-emailed-about-men-in-history/

With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside? Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

We’ve been calling for better price control on the Network Operators - for years now. Their public accounts show vast levels of profit, at 40% it’s the highest in our entire economy, higher than banks and venture capitalists…... publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

Had a great gig as TV reviewer for The Lady Magazine earlier this year which I enjoyed immensely. However, this institution first published in 1885 folded suddenly back in the spring just when I was getting into my stride. Never even got paid! Still, if anyone needs a TV reviewer - I’m available!

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down. He’s struggling to find any work at the moment. He’s a brilliant writer and has written for Dangermouse, Private Eye and many more… If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost. www.mathew-owen.co.uk Thank you

Absolute perfection. #Reform

All of this is true enough as far as it goes. But even more problematic is the fact that when the U.S. Coast Guard interdicts suspect vessels, boarding and searching for drugs, a quarter of the time they find no contraband. We're not just murdering drug smugglers. We are murdering innocent people.

He's not an academic. He holds no current academic position. He is, however, an anti-migrant, pro-Reform activist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQx8...

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

Well that looks like an excellent reason to turn my television off

Exclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How short our memories are. Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse. To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.

Come on UK. Ban amalgam fillings. Mercury, a neurotoxin that harms the nervous, digestive, immune systems, lungs, kidneys, skin & eyes, even at low lexposure. Mercury from dental fillings enters the environment thro crematorium emissions. The mercury settles on land and washes into rivers and seas

What the British Right hate most is the Bell Hotel convicted sex offender was deported to Ethiopia when they regularly and falsely claim the ECHR prevents that. It’s why they’re distracting over £500 to go cheaply and quickly. linktr.ee/piercevsmagu...

It's bad. They really took a hit. And folks are now on the ground in Jamaica moving to help. They need our support: www.today.com/news/how-to-...

"The sand in and around the city of approximately 400,000 is so caked with blood that you can see evidence of the RSF’s war crimes via satellite imagery, according to Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL)." Zeteo's Peter Rothpletz in today's First Draft morning newsletter, on Sudan: