If it’s true Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick told a business audience last night that renewable companies are "screwed" if Reform get in, it tells you everything about their readiness to inflict national self-harm in pursuit of ideological war on climate action.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

The problem is - & the lesson we should take from Epstein - is that that behaviour is on the spectrum of "normal, for powerful human men." This seems to become more true the more powerful he is. Enabling & excusing it seems to become normal for both women & men in the blast radius of powerful men.

What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.

Looking at #epstein reports , thinking of the deference to power that allows all this and the people who have fought so hard for justice - here is a not nice #poem that erupted today

Liam is in ICE custody and his health is deteriorating. Joaquin Castro says Liam is depressed, lethargic, sleeping excessively and barely eating, repeatedly asking about his mom, and when he can go home. He’s withdrawn and not the bright preschooler he was just days ago. LIAM NEEDS A DOCTOR 1/2

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Reform UK Councillor Mick Cockerham of Newton Abbot South is showing, through this sick statement, what British values mean to Reform politicians. #UKPolitics

Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/28/d...

University Student loans do not go to Universities, they do not go to the Government. They have been sold to billionaire bankers who do not pay ANY tax in the UK on the money. As well as leaving 4m people in crippling debt they are destroying the economy.

Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667

The USA now ranks in the top 10 countries in the world for State Violence which is the State using violent/fatal force against people who oppose it. It isn't a safe place, don't visit, certainly not to watch a ball being kicked around or a person sprinting 100m.

Massive anti-impunity protests broke out in more than 70 cities across the US over the weekend; hundreds of thousands of people are calling for the fall of the Trump regime, the arrest of regime officials, and the abolition of ICE. Chicago, protesting in under -20°. #3E #GoodvsEvil

Palantir is working with ICE. Why the hell are we giving Palantir our NHS information. Palantir need to be banned from UK Goverment, just like the Swiss banned them from theirs.

And Keir #Starmer thinks this an appropriate site for our government to be using. And he thinks it's an appropriate site for this country to be using.

For a government that is led by a former human rights lawyer, the treatment of these hunger strikers is truly debased

Well the UK IS an unwelcoming, racist country.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve. Tonight, I'll be wrapping presents while watching Going Postal (both parts). It is a tradition stemming from the fact I have a large family and one film was never long enough. Do you have any "not technically Christmassy" Christmas viewing rituals?

Shock collars. Puppy farms. Caged hens. Farrowing crates. Years of Tory rule and they did f*ck all. Now there’s a bill to stop animal cruelty and the Tories are screeching again. Cruel, rotten, amoral b**tards. Same f**th, different day. #ukpolitics

I'm meeting up with my writing group to celebrate solstice this evening. There is a thinning line betwixt writer and witch.

The Yanks' Christian Taliban scam has crossed the pond. Slashing the minimum wage, free healthcare and disability benefits isn’t very Christian. But since when has Farage ever given a toss about the poor, innit.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords. Like if she needs to go. RT if she has to go.

Saw my oncologist today to get my latest CT scan results. No cancer detectable. 3 years since I finished active treatment, I remain in remission. Not bad for an incurable

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"70% of people in poverty are in work. We can't afford our energy bills, to heat our homes, or food." YES! And these middle class comfortables sit on #bbcqt pontificating about how reasonable it is to pile more pressure on people & what a MYSTERY it is that folk are mentally ill & physically sick.

DAMN

Went back to Prunella Scales's contribution to Barkworth's "About Acting" today. Not just because it is immensely funny and charming, but for the most unfussy, practical, and profound description of a proper acting process ever captured in print. Huge condolences to Sam and her family and friends.

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

An old director I worked with used to say: "You can write, block, time, direct, and perfect every aspect of comedy. But some people just have a comedy multiplier." Keaton just had whetever that is; that unteachable, undirectable multiplier. She made the mediocre, good, and the good, side-splitting.

I’ve just been sent this and it’s genuinely made my jaw drop Massive kudos to the journalist for maintaining his cool I really hope editors are there for him right now This sort of stuff would have my Windrush generation anti-racism campaigning grandad turn in his grave

They have control of almost everything. Almost all your money goes to them, nearly 70% of people are employed by them. They don't pay tax, they don't maintain the essential industries that they control, they get 12% richer every year. You cannot just ignore them.

It's not immigration, it's billionaires. Until the problem is tackled the UK CANNOT improve. That is a fact and it is not going to change.

If you'd like to see the Test and Trace looters, the Grenfell murderers and the Thames Water polluters in jail, give this a RT. It is time we went after the real criminals.

Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

I'm going to add one more question to this thread. This scandal is now well-known enough that many, many big name authors - and other publishing industry bigwigs - most certainly know about it. Why do you all continue to stay quiet? Why have none of you even expressed an opinion about it?

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

Saw the ever brilliant Barney Norris's Wiltshire set modern adaptation of Lorca's #BloodWedding at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham last night. A tragedy that sparkles with comedy. Runs until 24th May. Highly recommend. Photos are from a fab Terri Paddock Q&A after with cast, playwright & director

Truth

Sending love to my trans sisters and brothers in the UK. I see you. No cruel and cowardly law changes will change that. I'm so sorry this is happening

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.” - Terry Pratchett, Jingo (and these are not good men)

USA is now a fascist country led by predators , meanwhile, in the UK , we reckon it is fine to send Afghanistani women who have been fighting for equal rights back to Afghanistan

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...