The environment should be the No.1 issue for any UK govt and any party attempting to be elected. The catastrophy heading our way will consume us all, no matter your views on immigration.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s something weirdly convenient about discovering that Britain is broken only after you yourself have spent years running the place. A coincidence, I’m certain. (Warning: Swearier than usual).

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

1st World problems, but....Absolute twat of a Christmas. We've all got flu, the dog is in a cone of shame, the boiler has packed in and the dishwasher has just died.

Henry IV being the first native English speaker to wear the crown

It would only be fair if Arsenal give West Ham another £100m for Declan Rice.

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

This Labour govt is a disgace. They have gone after the poor, the disabled, asylum seekers and the trans community. Becauss of where I live I have leant my vote for at pretty much every election. Never again. Greens for me from now on. My consience will rule.

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days 🧵

1. Make a recent convict the star guest of your annual conference, despite her conviction being about calling for a group of people to be murdered. 'Just hurty words/free speech'. 2. Then getting [rightly] very upset when someone wants to murder you. Yes, it's the latest 'Hurty Words Update'.

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

I did English at undergrad, media & politics at PhD. I run a research agency (when I'm not writing), using linguistics & anthropology/ethnography skills I learned at university. Through this, I pay tax & I pay people. In a very literal sense, my degrees make an economic contribution BUT... (1/2)

“Children are paralysed, children with head injuries … hospitals full of mothers and babies… babies who were in ICU now in corridors… mums having miscarriages as they flee south”* The horror of this - these tiny babies… the suffering is unbelievable *described by UNICEF spokesperson

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

This. Mone can get in the fucking bin.

🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts 1/ Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense. Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte: 'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long and, in the leaders' debates that have been taking place in Wales, he's performed very creditably." - Nigel Farage, 2016

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis." Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

Farage shouts “jump”, Labour responds “how high?”

Rapture Review: ★☆☆☆☆ Service was terrible, no one showed up to collect me. Sat outside all morning with sandals on for nothing.

The fundamental problem with Versailles and Louis XVI was not that he was a stupid asshole with a lot of wealth, like Elon Musk. But that he didn’t realise how many people didn’t have food to eat and would gladly build guillotines.

It gets very tedious that any time someone points out the, actually very obvious and evidence based, point that to stop more deaths in the channel you have to provide people with alternative, safer, routes to seek asylum in UK you inevitably get some dickhead saying "oh how many should we take". 1/

We really do need to wake up to this before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it's real support from actual racists

Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. Of perfect, I'll hang the washing out. Promptly shites it down.

Essential reading.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

This is how you do it #Welcome

This is utterly beautiful. As a small, very vocal bunch of far right assholes hog the headlines, eagerly egged on by a complicit media, a reminder of what it really means to be British. Feels a little late for hay-fever season, but my eyes are a little raw for some reason.

Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rolling back the years. Taking the train for the first time in donkeys and it's cancelled. Nothing ever changes.

I was representing my company so could not interject but witnessed today two hateful bigots spend nearly half an hour spouting hateful and false bile about asylum seekers. I later witnessed one of them passing by with a copy of the Daily Mail. Shocked I tell you. This country is tucked.

Every word.

Rylan Clark calls for more stories about transgender people amid ‘wave of hate’… “A lot of people out there think trans people are the enemy, f*** me. “I’d like you to walk a mile in their shoes and see who the real enemy is out there to people”

Good to see Spurs being Spursy.

Love me some Con Air so bad it's good. Nick Cage going Nick Cage I'll probably watch.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Big news. I'm self-publishing my first novel, Baby's Breath. After my last two publishers went bust, I’ve decided to bet on myself (and on you). Read Chapter One now, and apply to become an Advance Reader and get a free copy. Limited to 200 #BabysBreath www.babysbreath.co.uk

Wow. I mean I'm not surprised. But wow.

Reminding voters of how close Farage & Reform are to Trump reduces support for them by 8-10% - and highlighting their corporate donations dents them further New research by @steveakehurst.bsky.social Paging @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/strongme...

Just a reminder that the people who want to stop Net Zero will be the first to blame migrants when none of our infrastructure can cope with runaway climate change. 👍

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage is an economic car-crash waiting to happen