If Reform do as well as expected, I'll be reposting this on the hour all day tomorrow.

There is little doubt that Zack Polanski is a charlatan. But we live in an age of charlatans. Voters have demonstrated, from Trump to Johnson (to Platner in Maine’s Dem primary), that they don’t care about that as long as they’re told what they want to hear. www.jewishnews.co.uk/zack-polansk...

Right wing views: "I don't like forriners or paying taxes." Left wing views: "I think the government should pay all my health/care costs and my pension, collect my rubbish and repair the roads." All for me and nowt for thee, in other words.

Green Party: We need radical transformative change to save the planet that doesn't spoil anyone's view or require they give up flying off on a summer holiday.

One of the reasons I remain angry about Brexit is nothing to do with economics, freedom of movement or shared cultural values and destinies - although all of those are vitally important But because Brexit indulges and underscores this infantile boaty mcboatface attitude from telegraph and others

there's a credible argument that Jeremy Corbyn's single greatest impact on British politics has been mainstreaming open antisemitism on the British left, and he is determined to continue his hard work even post-leadership

Well, that's certainly one way for the Green Party in one of the UK's largest cities to respond to a series of attacks against the Jewish community, of which Wednesday's stabbing attack was just the latest. Not even pretending it's about Israel now, are they?

I worry that the lesson some people on the left learned from Labour's antisemitism problem was not "Let's never do that again" but "It was all a lie, don't worry about it"

The only thing I would add is that Ion joined the party in February, and was a candidate by April. The Green party appears to think that 'vetting' is when you take your hamster for a check-up.

At least 9,800 m3 of contaminated soil and water-oil mixture has been removed from Tuapse so far. More than 300 workers are involved in the clean-up process. The environment would be in a much better state if the Russians had just chosen to mind their own business in 2022 (and in 2014).

Anything, anything at all: xyz Zack: wealth tax. It's pitiful.

It's a silly bit of policy that won't particularly help (you're just bolstering demand in a supply crisis!), is hugely costly and hurts the poorest globally while removing incentives to transition. How many times has that wealth tax been spent now?

'this is not a serious attempt to unite the left - accordingly, we are starting a new party' approaches the Platonic ideal of far left resignation statements

Remember the days when Corbyn only failed because of those evil right-wing factionalists?

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority. Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.

i wonder if JD Vance would be surprised to know many husbands don't have to make their wives promise not to jump out of airplanes

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

I dislike this man more every day.

Perhaps the reason things have "vaguely felt bad" for the last 5 years is because you are literally holding a bad vibes generator in your hand all day, and it contains a million people all telling you that if you don't admit things are bad, you're a bad person who will be perceived as out-of-touch

Anyway it's a massive fucking tell that Polanski isn't using this to argue for moving faster on decarbonisation. He's not a Green in the slightest, he's a cuckoo.

In case you need it, the UK allowing the US to use UK bases to target Iranian missile sites targeting international commercial shipping is based on a joint statement by the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia...

Only if everyone agrees about what is fair and morally right. But everyone thinks it is fair and morally right for others to sacrifice more, and for themselves and those they care about to sacrifice less.

Of course - but people may disagree om the morality and they may still not work. Like, I think the only decent arguement for a pure wealth tax is morality/solidarity... but doesnt help if you say you'll pay for the NHS from the proceeds

UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km into Russian held territory on the

We are watching in realtime the end result of the abolishment of social norms, civil obligation & a sense of shame in favor of anarchic self indulgence & "nobody tells me what to do" BS and they'll still prefer thumbing their nose at "the Man".

What part of Starmer’s ‘do one, Trump’ did Jones miss?

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

Man sitting on TV sofa tells other people to get themselves killed.

Farage's latest policy gets framed as "grammar schools back" rather than the return of two tier state education. Nigel Farage wants kids' futures determined on a test taken at 11. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Excellent thread.

Looking at the instantaneous reactions on here based on assumptions that may or may not be correct coupled with an unwillingness to find out what the facts might be in time especially if it challenges preconceptions I'm fully convinced we deserve the governments we get in this country.

'We've all decided Starmer has made a catastrophic error of judgement on a highly volatile, complex and fast moving national security matter in the space of 2 hours and he *must* resign'. Go to bed Bluesky, you're drunk.

🤡🤡🤡 As somebody whom readily criticises the current Labour government, this is a new low in disinformation from The Guardian.

It's not important what Starmer achieves on Net Zero, what's important is that he didn't promote it in the approved way. Politics 2026.

This is total nonsense and has no regard for any actual policy content it’s just a vibe. Meanwhile I’m yet to see a single decarbonisation policy from Polanski that isn’t wealth taxes but apparently that’s acceptable?

It was interesting to hear the (centrist) Heidi Alexander strike a defter tone Rather than accuse the Greens of wishing to tear our country apart, like the PM, she says she agreed with the diagnosis of Hannah Spencer’s acceptance speech but feared some of her solutions were “fairytales”

We need a fundamental rebalancing of tax from employment earnings to income from all sources. And as a retired person I am very much in the latter category. I’ve had a bloody good deal from this country free education and grant. Time to put a bit back

Reform don't want to regulate your landlord. They don't want to regulate your employer. But they do want to regulate your sex life.

So this painless Wealth Tax is going to pay for renationalisation of water, the NHS and restore local government finance?

Farage has announced his Shadow Cabinet, with no Health Secretary. Presumably because if he becomes Prime Minister, there’ll be no NHS.

On the good side being associated with MAGA probably isn't an advantage any more.

LOL. GB News folk can't believe their own poll.

The swiftness with which the cis white community just fully went belly up the moment they got the smallest taste of oppression is honestly fucking embarrassing. I had to worry about getting assaulted in the streets long before all this. Get your shit together and nut up.

This is pretty rich. The list of people who have a reasonable argument to get in the government’s face on this is long but surely does not include “the guy who brought him back after his last two scandals”.

Minnesotans are trying to protect their neighbors and city, and are choosing their tactics in order to do so. We aren’t all troops in some larger war. We’re not the left’s reinforcements. We’re defending our own people.

i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.