Am I the only person who thinks Streeting, as a successor to Starmer will ensure that Labour suffers a catastrophic lose at the next GE?

"Trump loses his trade superpower" by @aimewilliams.bsky.social Her deep dive into the data, with many many charts 🤓 👉 www.ft.com/content/66a5...

Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, is boycotting Eurovision in protest against Israel’s inclusion - and will instead broadcast the Father Ted episode A Song for Europe. 👏 👏 👏 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

If Farage et al are allowed to get away with this now, just imagine what they would do if they ever got into office ....

CNN: A NATO member state may have sunk the Russian cargo ship Ursa Major to stop the transfer of nuclear technology to North Korea.

British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to "see" the 3D structures of complex molecules. After 35 years of work, she solved the incredibly complex structure of insulin, 1969. She was born #OTD in 1910. #WomenInSTEM

One of the things Starmer's defenders on here get so wrong is to insist it's all about media froth. In fact, as that Jess Philips letter demonstrates, the most damning criticism of Starmer comes from those concerned about the policy and delivery process.

Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides have reportedly killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...

Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter

BREAKING: New Bootle councillor apologises for Holocaust comments and resigns from Reform

California mayor quits after admitting she was Chinese spy

So much for the competition argument in the energy market ... Energy giant E.On to take on four million customers as it agrees to buy rival firm news.sky.com/story/money-...

Finally something I agree with Starmer about.

You can’t be at the heart of Europe with those red lines. You can’t be at the heart of Europe without freedom of movement. Starmer is simply lying about this.

"The Prime Minister has had two years – he's had a chance to set out a new direction and he hasn't taken that." Byline Times' @adambienkov.bsky.social on LBC

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Keir Starmer does not intend to change any part of Labour's anti-immigration approach. No lessons learned at all from this week's local elections.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on Farage, Rerform and JCB 🚜🚁

Regrettably, neither I nor many other British Jews can associate ourselves with this. Just nakedly partisan and absolutely inimical to any serious attempt to counter antisemitism and racism.

My statement on the 2026 local elections. Thank you.

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

Thought this, by @iandunt.bsky.social, made a good point, although I most definitely do not agree with the subheading ("I would be much more concerned if I was Conservative than if I was Labour").

DWP up to its old tricks to obfuscate RFIs. No doubt in 20 days it will delay its decision for another 20 days, it will then repeat .... Serious Case Panel - a paper detailing the impact of errors on vulnerable customers www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/seri...

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🇺🇦❗️Ukraine officially allows Russia to hold a parade on May 9, - Zelenskyy's decree

Gas set Spain's electricity price 55% of the time in 2022. In Jan–Apr 2026: just 9%. Rapid renewable buildout means renewables increasingly set the marginal price instead - delivering structurally lower, more stable wholesale prices. Sign up to my new newsletter for more: janrosenow.substack.com

A drone strike at the Chernobyl exclusion zone has caused a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry weather, strong winds and the presence of land mines are complicating efforts to bring the blaze under control.

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

Fujitsu pays UK staff bonuses again, but no sign of company's contribution to #PostOfficeScandal costs www.computerweekly.com/news/3666428...

Nigel Farage had one big mission in his political career: to drag the UK out of the EU. 10 years on since the referendum, why doesn't he celebrate all the amazing Brexit achievements and opportunities? Why does nobody ever ask him how exactly Brexit improved the daily life of people across the UK?

“UKIP's here.” New Reform councillor has to be corrected on which party he now represents

I’m not sure there is a bleaker - or older - phenomenon in politics than desperate voters turning to charlatans and bigots for change. Reform councillors will do nothing to help someone’s elderly Mum get social care or keep the local library open for kids. And Farage is laughing his arse off.

Government research highlights how DSA support can help disabled students ‘achieve their goals’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r...

Badenoch’s latest attack on disabled people’s support ‘is nonsense’ and ‘a recipe for hardship’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/badenochs-la...

DWP refuses to release secret report into under-fire Access to Work www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-refuses-...

Labour ministers secretly imposed Access to Work cut last year, DWP update quietly reveals www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-minis...

New DWP overpayments concerns ‘show something with universal credit has gone catastrophically wrong’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-dwp-over...

Secret DWP report reveals how multiple errors led to claims ‘spiralling out of control’… and claimant deaths www.disabilitynewsservice.com/secret-dwp-r...

For a year-and-a-half, I've been attempting to get to the bottom of a photograph showing Nigel Farage posing with far-right activists. Our new investigation casts fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

DWP collaboration committee con bodes ill for Timms review www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-col...

So, really expensive outsourced contracts don't seem to work after all .... DWP to meet PIP targets by making them easier www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-to-...

Shock-Horror - The DWP can't be trusted. Why would anyone risk putting themselves through this? DWP confirms starting work can trigger WCA and PIP review www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-con...

The variability in the quality of FTT panels needs addressing. Tribunal’s Google Maps cheat overturned www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/tribuna...

PIP award increases plummet threefold www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/pip-awa...

Have you helped your child move from DLA to PIP? www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/have-you-helped-your-child-move-from-dla-to-pip

Brexit costs the UK between £180 billion and £240 billion per year, according to a huge study from Stamford / Kings. This is a bargain.

As I said last week, I'm starting a substack focused on social affairs, public services, policymaking etc - and I'll be launching it soon I've given it the unglamorous but self-explanatory name Policy Matters. Free for now, and for a while yet I imagine Sign up here! chamindajayanetti.substack.com

France serves up €1 meals to all university students in bid to cut hardship

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