🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

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“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way” Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social

@womenslibrary.bsky.social A #Stolperstein 'stone' an inset Brass Ground Plaque has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in #Stockbridge, where a service was held for Jane Haining in June 1932. She was later murdered by the #Nazis in #Auschwitz on 17 July 1944 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.

"Immigrants need to integrate" "Not like that" It's never been about integration with these people, it's just old fashioned racism.

I spent hours yesterday at the tent encampment behind the Adelphi in London and as a result have sent this open letter with a plea for a meaningful intervention to Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman

🗞️ New from Byline Times 👉 "Farage’s benefactor is a pro-Trump political lobbyist embedded in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 ecosystem – the US conservative plan to dismantle climate policy, rights for women and ethnic minorities, and democratic safeguards." bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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🎶 “Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty You're listening to the boy from the big bad city This is jam hot This is jam hot” 🎶

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "When are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires? It's time to tax the rich" #bbclaurak

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't raise energy bills. Migrants didn't close community centres. Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

Labour under Keir Starmer is now so far from its roots that it is no longer Labour; it has journeyed so far from the shore upon which it began its journey that the point of departure is no longer visible. The price it will pay for abandoning its beliefs is destruction In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

The first snow on the hills (that I have seen this year). Ben Lomond from Cruach Tairbeirt.

Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."

Fifteen years of allowing people to get away with claiming that being called a racist was in fact worse than saying and doing racist things, and here we are...

Anyone want a serviceable bike, or know of a charity in the Leics/Northants/Rutland area who take them?

“We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now” My take on Trump and Epstein, and the pretty stunning email from Epstein suggesting he could bring down Trump. From this morning’s Zeteo ‘First Draft’ morning newsletter. Read/share/subscribe:

The problem with having no politics is that you sooner or later lead your party into a moral void.

This is a weird poll but I do love that a party which doesn't exist yet, has no policies but massive infighting, has nothing to do with Scotland, and probably won't even stand candidates for Holyrood, is still polling twice as well as Alba

@mrjamesob.bsky.social, the British have always been Stealing Jewels from ‘forriners’. What’s on King Charles’ Crown??

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

When your hair salon is closed…😂

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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die

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Please help to send a message to the BBC that their misguide proposal to cut the Iain Anderson show is a major misstep. A stalwart of broadcasting who introduces new, exciting and emerging artists to new audiences. We can’t lose this. Sign here ➡️ www.change.org/Savetheiaina...

Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-and-re... TDoR event in Aberdeen, please share widely.

Ken Clarke humiliates Danny Kruger's new party, Reform UK on #BBCQT "I live in a county with a Reform UK council" "Most of them had no idea what the country council did" "They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax" "And they just put up the council tax by the max"

KSMU's They Might Be Giants annual music marathon has begun! Streaming at KMSU.org. Rarities, requests, interviews and a live performance probably around 5:20 central. Tune in now!

"I'm a nazi guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."