History will show that Starmer's Labour party foundered on Northern Powerhouse Rail.

There is a power vacuum in the world, and America is at its centre. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Chris Mason’s defence of the BBC over Farage coverage goes badly wrong Soon after its political editor denied giving Reform an easy ride, the Beeb broadcast 56 minutes of the populist’s press conference, live www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Democrats need to stop treating Kimmel's return as a victory and start realising that it's a temporary respite.

How far does Trump have to go to make Democrats wake up to how serious a threat he poses to democracy in the USA?

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

🚨 BREAKING: Man found guilty of failing to assassinate Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's worth remembering that the Nazis' first experiments with mass killing were carried out on people with disabilities.

Whoop! I have 1000 followers! Thank you, all! 😃

Like Brexit, Farage's ludicrous and repugnant plan to scrap Leave to Remain, would bring disaster to Britain. But that's the point. Farage has always been backed by disaster capitalists who want to profit from chaos at your expense. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Like Johnson, Trump is a psychopathic narcissist who simply wants power and money. Neither think beyond the achievement of those goals. Neither cares what they do when they achieve power, it's just having it that's the end point.

I continue to feel that our national experiment of making the dumbest MF in the country president was ill advised.

A lot of Democrats seem more interested in seeing the Epstein files than defeating fascism.

I hope those voting Reform realise that it will mean shit, low paid jobs for them and no carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you're an adult who's obsessed with Disney, grow the fuck up.

Just to be clear: Charlie Kirk was the antithesis of everything that Christians are supposed to stand for.

Can we stop pretending that the right, and 'free speech absolutists', were ever interested in freedom of speech?

If I was Corbyn, I'd drop @zarahsultana.bsky.social like a hot potato - which shouldn't be hard, as she has the brains of one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's when ICE feel confident enough not to wear masks that you'll know the fascist state has truly arrived.

Is there a more depressing phrase than 'Disney adult'?

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.

You may as well not give them protest. Being quietly subjugated is precisely what Trump wants you to be.

If anything good came out of WW2, surely I was the defeat of fascism and a warning about not to go down that route again.

BBC headline signed Chris Mason at Farage conference: “Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before.” Laura Kuenssberg, BBC headline for LibDem conference: “Ed Davey loves clowning around, but is it time the Lib Dems got serious?” Fuck you, BBC.

I can't possibly boycott Disney more than I have been for my entire life.

The left needs @zarahsultana.bsky.social like a hole in the head.

I love how the American left still thinks that pointing out Trump's weakness will stop him.

"We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war."

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Trump nearly has everything in place for a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship: - state agents to arrest people without due process - troops on the streets - concentration camps - extra-judicial killings - censorship of free speech - lawd to ban all protest and opposition

Let's face it, America, this cosplay Mussolini is the last democratic president you'll ever have. At least he will be if you don't do something drastic right now. You're being rapidly pushed out of the swing doors of the Last Chance saloon.

🧵I think a lot of the chat on Bluesky misses just how existential this is. It's not about banning Antifa, it's about prohibiting any opposition to Trump, his administration and ideology - because they'll just call any opposition 'Antifa'. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm not sure Seth quite gets how serious this is. It's not 'standing against fascism', it's protesting or objecting or opposing anything Trump, his government or his followers do or say. This is a framework for full-on totalitarianism repression. Looks like the memes and witty placards didn't work.

This. . . www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'Supporters of Donald Trump have praised the decision, with the White House deputy chief of staff calling it an example of “consequence culture.”' Strange that the January 6th insurrectionists were absolved of any 'consequences'. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is it only me who thinks that the Tyler Robinson texts seem too good to be true? www.ndtv.com/world-news/c...

Satire doesn't stop the rise of fascists, its existence simply demonstrates that they haven't taken over yet.

Peter Cook talked "those wonderful Berlin cabarets ... which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Satire may not prevent fascism from triumphing, but it sure as heck shows you when it is.

I was watching the coverage of the Trump visit today, and. . . HE'S SO FUCKING ORANGE!!!

Au contraire, Charlie Kirk did go to college, he just didn't come back.

When is @eurovision.tv going to ban Israel from the contest?

I'm having an interesting experience today: feeling sorry for the King and Queen.

I think this is Streeting positioning himself for a leadership bid. My impression is that there's an acceptance in the PLP that Starmer's days are numbered. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another Tory has joined Reform you say? Why it would almost appear as of Reform were not an insurgent force of outsiders but … dare I say… the same old shit in a different package… by which I mean unutterable Tory wankers.

Loved to hear Alan Moore slagging off superhero movies the other day. Childish trash.

Excellent idea, which means that Starmer won't do it. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...