I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

So to recap: 🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader 🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY 💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period 💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader 11/14

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app. It’s hidden under Welsh news. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times. Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/14

The Bear has spoken and drawn his line, and those wise words are worth paying heed to. Thanks @bearlypolitics.co.uk

I defended Labour for 15 months. Workers’ rights and renters’ protections? Yes. But cutting benefits, parroting Reform, and calling your own side “the Left” as though you’re not? No. Which is why Ed Davey and Zack Polanski have an opening Starmer is handing to them.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"The flags are about unity and pride in our country" The flags: www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

More and more such incidents happening daily www.bbc.com/news/article...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“Young people signed off work for life”. Yeah, and? We have chronic conditions that are not going to get better. Age is irrelevant. Also, we’re not “signed off for life”. If by some miracle things improved, we could go and get a new fit note and go back to work.

Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism “I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”

Another party struck off my voting choices 🫤. Does any party want to stand up for disabled people?

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Imagine spending years proving you belong here, paying thousands, following every rule - only for Nigel Farage to threaten to tear up your status. This is not policy - it’s cruelty, it’s showmanship, and I for one, am sick to the damned back teeth of it.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

New MPs must fear being tarnished by the prospect of long years of becoming lobby fodder.... ... and wonder whether at the next election they face martyrdom in the name of Morgan McSweeney. Once again, I & fellow friends at the Muckraker's arms bring you our various musings on political life

smoking is bad for MS, if you are taking a highly effective medication, are you in the clear? NO! This study on people taking ocrevus found smokers had more weakness, hospitalizations, and overall mortality. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40967151/

It’s been an ugly week to be away: America’s drift into authoritarianism is speeding up, Trump’s on his second state visit and funding for dissenting voices is still paper-thin. Time to talk free speech, fascism and imbalance.

The Bear is back. The ground feels a bit more steady. This voice helps put things into perspective and context, cut through the cr*p, explain difficult bits and in general keep us sane. But the highlight this time? "Mango Mussolini" 🤣🫡

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’ My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

Beyond belief. Downing Street pandering to Trump by literally shutting down UK free speech. Shame on the government for its spinelessness. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Specialists have a new phrase for autistic children too exhausted to attempt school. "Emotionally based school avoidance". Well, no. Forcing exhausted children to endure yet more pain, overwhelm, bullying and bewilderment, in a system 100% not designed for them, isn't an 'emotional' failure, is it.

Right wing activist is shot - who’s to blame?

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

If you haven't discovered @monkemma.bsky.social yet, they provide unparalleled scrutiny of wild headlines and their accompanying unscrupulous, unreliable and generally inaccurate articles...

Last week the Express ran with the following front page. So obviously I had to take a look! Is it true? How does it compare to other professions? Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/25 (1/1)

Spotted on a bridge in Pontllanfraith in South Wales: 'Flags is it?'

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament” And the government just…continues to use X.

One in four people is a prick. That’s the ratio. The pricks are very loud . 3 in 4 people are horrified by the pricks. The 3 in 4 are not united, and are not being represented by media. That’s it.

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

you probably should mention it’s a far-right rally in the headline

Proposal: Stand up to Racism should organise a protest called 'Unite the Kingdom', inviting everyone to join in with any flag they like - St George, Palestine, Pride etc. All can be represented & united. Flags need to be reclaimed as symbols of acceptance not division www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Knowledge by itself can become a source of arrogance and exclusion, but when rooted in love, it becomes a powerful gift meant to serve others." So much wisdom here in this newsletter, I struggled with which quote to use. Every point is singing to me.

My newsletter this Sunday is called, “Anti-intellectualism isn’t a fruit of the Spirit.” In it, I invite us to explore some of the history that led us to this moment in American life and why reason shouldn’t be seen as a threat to our faith. Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile

Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am The restrictions still mean that disabled people can’t get a bus for free after 11 pm, because obviously we don’t have social lives or jobs after dark, writes @rachelcdailey.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Wait till the end…

We need to talk about the threat X poses to our shared values as a country. This is bigger than just one platform: it’s about the way our democracy is being reshaped by an engagement model that rewards outrage above all else. 1/7 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

1/26 Whose voices are heard in the UK? A thread regarding the duplicity of British transphobia #UK #Transphobia #GrahamLinehan #SarahJaneBaker #SophiaBrooks #TERFisland #TransGenocide #TransRights

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

With all the challenges facing the UK, I genuinely don't understand how "stop the boats" could be the most important political issue. It doesn't even crack my top 10. Maybe that's a me problem, but the discourse makes me feel like I'm living in a parallel universe

So there you go. In 2023, around half of British households received more in benefits AND services such as healthcare and education, than they paid out in taxes. The cost of NHS, education and the state pension are 6x, 5x and 2.5x the cost of universal credit respectively. 18/21

Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.