One of the Southampton rioters had 51 previous convictions for 96 offences! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The civil society Farage, Lowe and Goodwin want

After a week of high tension across the UK, Bylines Network talks to prominent Sikh MP Tan Dhesi. In a revealing and powerful interview, Dhesi discusses faith, justice and why one bad actor must not be exploited by extreme right-wing forces seeking to divide communities. shorturl.at/0cZ10

100% agree. X has become a toxic platform, run by a racist agitator who urges violence. New situations require new laws. Divisive social media platforms like X need to be regulated; and people using it to incite riots should be held criminally liable. Why are our politicians unable to act?

Labour has a HUGE parliamentary majority. Use it. DO SOMETHING!!!!

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Never, ever mistake these racist thugs for ‘concerned’. They’re taking the grief of the victims’ families and consciously, determinedly adding to it.

Since taking office last year, the Trump family has amassed a staggering $2.3 billion fortune from crypto deals alone. Any crypto legislation needs to stop the massive conflict of interests posed by Donald Trump and his family’s crypto ventures.

Hearing that Lesley Groff today tried to distance herself as much as possible from Jeffrey Epstein…claiming that she had no idea what he was doing. Watch this episode to see and hear how deep Groff was in Epstein’s world:

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.

Musk continues to stoke race wars in the U.K. using his platform to do so. It’s feeble how little power we are exercising against X.

Keir Starmer is planning to tell ministers to quit if they back Andy Burnham or any other rival in a Labour leadership contest – FT www.ft.com/content/56ba...

There’s a lot of news about this administration buying stuff high and selling it low. DHS warehouses, luxury jets. I can’t help but wonder whether Trump is using the treasury to launder money or skim off the top.

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely” said just one of the far right lunatics due to speak at the event, alongside Farage, Truss and other conspiracy nutjobs, fascists, racists and no-marks with criminal records for incitement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just watched it (admittedly on 2x speed so as to avoid a blood pressure spike). Verdict: a total nothingburger. Basically, a bunch of old reheated anecdotes from Bourbons (and the odd self-regarding Jacobin) who've learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

If only all humans could live and interact with both one another and every other species with such symbiotic mutualism.

MP Ruth Jones ruins hunting lobby claim!

Ever since the lead up to referendum in 2016 we’ve been plagued by a breed of idiot who won’t accept facts or evidence but are motivated by hearsay and fake soundbites and it’s got worse. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/nige...

Trump wants his personal attorney and the guy covering up the Epstein Files to be America's top cop. The corruption and self-dealing are off the charts.

This is what was left behind of a fox that was torn apart by West Norfolk Foxhounds in a private garden. The cowards responsible were recently found guilty of illegal fox hunting and their punishment was a pathetic £1700 fine.

If you're mystified by this, you're not an expert.

Climate change, pollution and overfishing pose a "grave risk" to the health of oceans and global food security, a UN report says.

The EU, despite its flaws, gave Europe the longest period of peace and stability in history. That’s why its enemies - Russia and Trumpistan - try everything to destroy it.

I’m with the Pope!

Another strong message from Pope Leo. The peacemaker this world so desperately needs.

Speaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity."

There is a terrible unseriousness to this policy, which feels like a desperate effort to avoid regulating the actually bad-for-everyone parts of social media - algorithms designed to prompt addiction, no attempt to gatekeep false statements, and of course the actual horrendous content out there.

One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms). But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Gabriel Zucman explains to Zack Polanski that a 2% wealth tax on about 1,000 super rich families who avoid tax would raise £15 billion a year

Our youngest contributor has something to say about ducklings. In this short piece, an 11-year-old environmentalist from West Norfolk explains why she thinks more should be done to protect them from drains, traffic and predators. Her name is Amaya Edwards.

I first encountered Mogg when he was about 23 at a weird lunch in Notting Hill. He was so strange and his opinions so out of kilter and his confidence level so high that when he became an MP some years later I genuinely feared for my country. And frankly I was right.

Musk uses X to amplify and create opposition to our elected Govt, he uses it to spread fake stuff, Vance and Hegseth use it to push lies. If Brazil could ban it, why can’t we ? rsf.org/en/x-blocked...

This piece of shit is no longer a sitting MP, why the fuck are you putting him on telly?

This is actually ridiculously cute

This is such a 'no brainer'. Why doesn't the UK do it?

Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.

If a tank from an invading army rolls down my street and I throw an egg at it I am not "half of these confrontations."

There's quite a bit of good economics commentary around, but @nixonsimon.bsky.social is one of the few, and in my view the best, of those putting it within a broader political & political economy framework, as here:

Of course Obama wasn’t perfect. But every time I see him I’m reminded that he is 1000 times the man that Trump will ever be in his wildest dreams, and probably more than that.

Trump has a long record of treating science as a political inconvenience. The problem is that scientific data doesn’t belong to one administration. Destroying decades of ocean monitoring for short-term politics is the kind of decision future generations end up paying for.

"The Trump Administration will begin sending ships to begin pulling up the instruments later this month... The ocean observation system was designed to operate for at least 25 years, meaning the decision would result in the loss of more than a decade of data..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/c...

ZELENSKY: I sent Putin a letter — an open letter — because I don’t know whether he will read it or not. An open letter means he has to answer to us, and — more importantly — to his own society. Russian society lives in a fantasy world where they believe they didn’t attack anyone,

Thoughts on the AI stock market stampede and Pope Leo's warning, why Jersey is fighting for its financial future, is Europe prepared for peace in Ukraine, and why El Niño could deliver the next economic shock. My latest

This re-up from @mattcarr.substack.com is very timely, not least for the reminder that for years now Farage has been trading on "warning" of violence on the streets, whilst shrugging off any responsibility for it: mattcarr.substack.com/p/old-post-m...

Armed clashes have erupted in northern Albania following days of public outrage about the transfer of the wildlife-rich Sazan Island, the country's only island and a strategic asset, to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner for a luxury resort. Chaos follows the Trump name everywhere.

Trump called Kristen Welker "crooked and stupid," ripped off his mic, and ran off the set of Meet the Press. Meanwhile Israel just struck Beirut and Iran is threatening full-scale war. It's Sunday. Here's your midday update.

Albanians showing the kind of spirit and mettle that is sorely lacking in the US.

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