Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes. Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise. Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations? Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

evidence is mounting linking viral infection to many conditions that develop long after any acute signs - even years. This is why vaccination must be a pillar of public health, and research into new and better vaccines must be a priority #vaccination #vaccines #publichealth #alzheimers #virology

Just downloaded my copy of the book of the decade!

It’s important to remember what was happening at this time. It was the best & worst. Vaccines had arrived. They weren’t as great as hoped, but they saved a lot of lives. And 3,000 people were dying daily. Yet, he wanted more infections in unvaccinated youth. He didn’t work in a hospital.

Labour have decided there's still a teeny tiny risk of getting too many votes. To be absolutely safe, they're setting fire to another big batch. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Awkward, but surely nothing that can't be fixed with the gift of luxurious airliner or a sweet real estate deal? archive.ph/2025.10.04-1...

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

BlackRock's own former ESG chief called it a "dangerous placebo that harms the public interest". Blackrock is embarking on what it calls its Infrastructure Imperative. This represents a serious incursion into the public sector, it is wholly dependent on UK public services collapse

But then again, as they said in the Fens 50 years ago, (prefiguring contemporary gender woo) "If my aunty had bollocks, she'd be my uncle. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is no amount of charisma that can hide the fact that Monetarism - deregulated capitalism on steroids - is broken and people are not falling for austerity - sacrifice your self so the billionaires can get even richer. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

"An Independence strategy braver than the SNP's" Can the Scottish Greens limbo dance under a bar set that high? Or will they trip on their lack of interest in process and their shaky grip on biological reality? archive.ph/2025.10.03-2...

We on the Left must condemn the attack, without reservation. We should also welcome any effective, proportionate moves to counter anti Semitism. Unlike those on the far right, we are clear about the difference between criticism of the Israeli and anti-Semitism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“The Green Women’s Declaration (GWD), a group advocating for sex-based rights for women, were told two days before the party’s conference that their stall booking was cancelled and they would not be allowed to recruit members.” 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/771e...

Deeply concerned about the safety of those on the flotilla. We know the government will try ignore it - it's really important we all speak up and raise our voices. This is a group of people delivering baby food to Gaza and the Government must intervene to ensure their safety.

Please watch Elie Mystal vaporise all ten pins and take out the back wall of the bowling alley.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

And the people then in government who designed and authorised this scam? Will they perhaps be liable for the shortfall between the cash recovered and the money wasted? And all the legal costs? archive.ph/2025.10.01-1...

Britons ripped off by the energy industry. No govt curbs profiteering. Nationalise energy, reduce inflation, poverty, business costs, rebuild economy.

Is this Reform now bragging about how they captured the BBC? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

Since privatization, shareholders of water, rail, bus, energy and mail have received £200bn in dividends. Plus £bns more through intrgragroup transactions. In public ownership this would have gone into infrastructure and lower bills, alleviated poverty. Govts still don't curb profiteering.

As first responders pull bodies from the rubble of a Redmond office block, an IDF spokesperson insisted on Israel's right to defend itself from terrorists hiding in IT company HQs and hospitals. www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...

Tough being modern Left: if like me you love Reichsmarshall Robinson's favourite song, you have to * Cancel yourself * Boycott any venue that Labi Siffre ever played. Makes me glad to be of the old, sort-of-Marxist, anti real actual fascist, Left! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you're wasting your energy arguing about migrants or trans folk instead of paying attention to this, you've been duped by the fossil fuel polluters and their stooges. World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another woman's achievements unrecognised because she doesn't recognise men as women. It's absurd. Using threats and intimidation to impose a false belief is very masculine behaviour. Men who do this give their game away. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Please read. Pretty please? pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

I stand with @DeclassifiedUK.org - I've just signed my name. Join me in telling Westminster that you care about freedom of the press. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...

They don’t understand because they don’t have to struggle just to live. Any who once did have long since forgotten how difficult it is just to pay the bills in a country plagued by corporate thieves and greedy landlords.

The battle that Labour could and should win is not for the 'soul' of the 'nation' but for the actual lives of the people who live here. People who need Secure, warm, affordable houses Food, air and water that doesn't poison them Health and education services www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What if Hegseth got wasted enough to believe it was a good idea to Prigozhin the boss, called the generals, sobered up and now has to think of some plausibly momentous announcement

To unite and energise the majority in the UK who oppose Reform's policies, Starmer declares war on our Civil Liberties! Alienating more than half that potential coalition! The Greens must think Christmas has come early! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Reform UK are not in power, Keir Starmer's changed Labour Party is. Can people stop being distracted by Farage, and expose what Labour are actually doing to the country? A stealth takeover of the UK by carving it up into deregulated free zones, tax havens for corporation with 25 year licenses. 1/2

EXPOSED: The Scandal That Could Bring Down Keir Starmer's Government

What "possibility of peace" is this? I saw film of Israeli bulldozers filling the mass grave of the possibility of peace. Does he mean "piece" perhaps? Piece of the Trump Netanyahu action? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Welfare reform 'must happen', UK minister says. Silence on corporate welfare. For example, Drax makes profits but gets subsidies. Silence on tax perks of the rich. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Welfare reform is a code for squeezing the poor, old, sick, disabled.

20 hours of heavy rain and 40 years of the theft of the resources needed to maintain our infrastructure. Thank you Monetarism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If Peter Half-Baked is in fact a human being, it looks as if he was hired (or coerced) by a consortium of Large Language Models to make their tendacious garbage appear more coherent in comparison.

It's not clear to me that hiding the SNP name in small print on the bottom of attachment is the best way to detoxify the brand. mailchi.mp/38c8b4b087af...

This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable

Just signed. Still open!

Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from firm that faced winding-up petition; cost borne by workers/creditors. Party funded by the super rich, tax exiles, offshore entities, hedge funds, foxhunting enthusiasts. Reward: policies that will enrich a few

If you don't want - people getting sick from water pollution - pensioners dying from cold not able to afford bills - children dying from mould in slum housing while water & energy company bosses & landlords revel in tax avoiding wealth you are now "Hard Left" #SocialistSunday