"Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists" Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, reports Paul Holden for Zeteo UK. Read/share/subscribe:

As studies on the US-UK drug deal are published, the public becomes more aware of the tradeoff at issue here: more money on drugs, NICE subjected to political commands, less money for services or higher costs BUT avoid tariffs on UK->US pharma exports /1 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Is everyone following this? UK gov is going to subsidise energy for Data Centres at times of peak usage, meanwhile the rest of us get a 13% price cap hike. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Andy Burnham's incoming chief of staff, James Purnell, ran a lobbying firm that organised a meeting between a Labour minister and its own corporate clients – without declaring any lobbying. Yet another story about Labour and the lobbying industry... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...

Did you know it's highly likely you and your family live in a deregulated Free Zone? There are 91 of these zones, and counting, in the UK. Please read my Substack for in-depth analysis on the duopolys' rollout of free zones. substack.com/@europeanpow...

What is the future of summers in England? Our choices matter. A high-emissions future will commit our children and grandchildren to live in a world where the summers of 1976 & 2025 are cold. A global net-zero emissions future means that we can stabilise the climate & those summers will be normal.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

Starmer resigning will probably mean there will be a smooth coronation for Burnham with likely little change in direction in policy

As I’ve said for a while now, the destruction of the UK’s higher education system is a genuine all-party affair: the Tories, the Liberals, Labour and the Scots Nats have all chipped in, on the same side.

the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

Tom Leonard was worth a hundred of these elitist bores.

Here's our crowdfunder. Please do chip in if you can. We need to counter the deeply pernicious industrial lobbying that has far too much influence in this country, and uses Brexit as a golden opportunity to rip down public protections. Thanks. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...

This is exactly what it is. A lot of important people want something, and this is how they go about demanding it. The thing to notice is that none of it comes from the public and it has nothing to do with the people of Britain. It’s all top-down, imposed by an elite class of crooked swine.

Please Use AI

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The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

Apart from anything else, the contemporary equivalents of all these guests bar Churchill would be viewed by the BBC as pariahs and never allowed on

🚨NEW | Green Party of England Wales are 6 points away from overtaking Reform. In this @findoutnow.bsky.social poll released today - 1 in 5 people support the Greens, compared to 1 in 4 for Reform and 1 in 6 for Labour. #ukpol

This is the Guardian's current top headline. They don't have to amplify whatever bile this war criminal, assistant to genocide and friend of tyrants decides to spew. No, they actively choose to boost this monster's words as much as possible.

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.

If you want to stop Reform at the next GE, there really is now only one option #VoteGreen 💚

perhaps the most curious fact from our long read today on the Mandelson scandal www.ft.com/content/a829...

Just voted Green — hoping they win big and that some other left independents get in too

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Keir Starmer’s niece was made a candidate in a safe Labour council ward over two sitting black female councillors, it has been reported

This petition is nearly at 50,000 signatures! 💪Can you sign and share so we can reach 50k TODAY?

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Let's highlight a CRAL project! @lucyjones.bsky.social carried out a project focused on language and LGBTQIA+ youth, analysing marginalised identities through an intersectional lens. From this came the LGBTQIA+ Youth Manifesto and the language guide. 🏳️‍🌈 #uoncral #language #lgbtq #researchproject

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

The BBC will be appalled to learn that the BBC also put content warnings on Wuthering Heights

Here is the letter where govt say they must pay Mandelson £75k in case of an "Employment Tribunal " - which is nonsense because he had no Employment Tribunal claim (needing 2yrs service) . Last line is real reason, to stop "Peter goes public on some of his claims"

90 labour mps abstained on whether or not to strip british citizens of trial by jury. they abstained. only 10 opposed.

Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage. If you agree sign our petition: vist.ly/4txpt

Everyone should watch Dirty Business. Apart from being excellent drama, it shows how elites are devastating our environment. We need to do something about it, now. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Currently British Media willful blindness is failing to see any sort of connection between these two events

Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice Spot the pattern?

The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought. No time to waste. Stopfossifuels. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

Epstein is the sub- plot... My post. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

For those that can’t remember tiny bits of news from September 2025: Lord Mandelson failed security services vetting & agency officials went on the record saying Mandelson was a bad idea. This was ignored by UK Gov/PM.