CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Now more than ever, I urge Londoners to stand united in our rejection of hatred.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

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.

'If you want to live here, you need to be able to speak the language'

Thousands came together to show the City’s true character: united, diverse, welcoming of refugees, rejecting hate | Ben Dickenson

Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government. Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums. https://bit.ly/46RjgY4

Let's hope the Government now finds the courage to go against the proper VIP Tory Royalty who also made tens of millions at a time of crisis supplying PPE which was not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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BBC News - Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have uncovered incontrovertable proof of immigrants repeatedly eating spit roasted swans: The offenders are called Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, son of a German immigrant and his Danish wife Alexandra. More on this breaking news story as I get it www.royal-menus.com/kings-britai...

They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.

The Sultana Doctrine: recipe for an ultra-left fiasco open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/t... Sometimes they just can't help themselves.

That noise you can hear is Labour running to shove cotton wool in its ears. @labourlewis.bsky.social @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social @tandhesi.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

That's a lot of solar panels for a Reform activist... Spotted in Doncaster by a reader:

It's about time pro EU Labour MPs found their balls. labourlist.org/2025/07/uk-r...

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

. Well, I'm with Bruce Springsteen ! 💠 👊 💠

inventing a robot that suffers from ennui call that a sighborg

Sharing my favorite hate mail as it comes in: "When I google you the only thing that comes up is articles you've written attacking Ocean Ramsey." I've written over 300 popular press articles and hundreds of blog posts. Two of them are about her. Google harder.

“Stop defending #Brexit fantasy & start telling the truth…many who led the charge for Brexit have pivoted without pause. Some now appear on GB News decrying the unfairness of being undercut — ignoring their role in creating the very conditions they now condemn.” www.fwi.co.uk/news/opinion...

Whether Pakistani or White, the problem is MEN!! - Baroness Louise Casey Race wars don't protect girls from grooming gangs! #GroomingGangInquiry

secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/173187/... Live in Lincolnshire and hate the idea of Reform running things? Worrying isn't it. Find out how you can be part of the fight back. Sign up here. You are not alone.

➡️ @unitetheunion.bsky.social stands with these Alpla workers 100% as they fight against these attacks. #FireAndRehire is the worst kind of worker exploitation and should be made illegal in all circumstances. NO WAY!

No-one takes the decision to flee their home from persecution, with little more than the clothes on their back, unless their life depends on it. That’s why our approach to refugees must be rooted in compassion, empathy and humanity. Not division, prejudice or scaremongering.

📢 Fair funding now for local #government! Local councils are being run into the ground and workers and communities keep being asked to pay the price. Local services keep getting worse while council workers keep being hit with real terms pay cuts. 1️⃣/2️⃣

I think we need some humor today!

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social .. instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness." Hannah Arendt 1951

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This is whatyou were looking for. 'Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.......

As Housing Minister, he pushed through paperwork to help Tory Donor, Richard Desmond, avoid millions in tax.

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

CEO of Homecare Association responding to Labour cutting visas for care workers, "If we have shortages it will mean that more people end up in hospital unnecessarily" "This ends up increasing NHS waiting lists"

Fixed the chart on Laura Kuenssberg Added Brexit Pointing out that with Freedom of Movement we have lower net migation

This.

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

CULT!!!

After the election of our lifetime, it is now time to share some lighthearted humour with our southern neighbours 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸

Watching Dr Strangelove again. Had forgotten that the cigar chomping, square jawed crazy all American general who starts WW3 had a head full of John Birch society ideas and thought that flouride in water was a commie plot... Now where have I heard that recently?

All Donald Trump's doing! The tide is already turning against him on multiple fronts (including declarations taking shape between London and Brussels). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

As Trump tries to give away chunks Ukraine to Russia, rewarding Putin for his war crimes, it is worth remembering that this war started in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea…which Putin then used as a staging ground for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/not-just-a-b...

The pro life party is summarily sentencing toddlers to exile