This is so good. Well played to this MP!

A corrupt sports organisation running a tournament in a corrupt nation.

The story about Five Home Farage and being funded by a criminal, and of course the £5billion for nothing donation. It makes you go back and think of all the coverage he got a fews years ago about his rich person bank account and why it was closed by the bank... Hmmm 🤔

On the third game of the day and it is a cracker! Still the big game is at the end 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

new metaphor just dropped

Oh FFS. Is the home secretary about to cross the aisle to the Tories or Reform? This should never come from a Labour Minister. Ever.

Watching Sky News covering Andy Burnham speech, there was no political package where you get small snippets and Beth's question and her piece to camera. We did get 3 sections of the speech. We did get "Beth's take" of course, which was waffle. The no press questions was genius. Fair play to him.

First time leaving this house this week since Monday (work allowed us to work from home due to the amount of windows, that get the sun) and not only did I leave the house, I have walked about 4 miles, including round a local lake. Some photos of the walk...

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Well the Scottish dream has ended. After the first game we were top of the table. After our first World Cup in 28 years and our first win in 36 years. They cannot take that away from us. The fans have brilliant and certainly brought the party!

Listen, the positive is we only lost 3-0 to Brazil. It could have been worse. It looks like Scotlands World Cup is over, unless other results go our way we won't get out the group stage However, we wait and hope.

The Scotland v Brazil Game about to kick off. Scotland, I hope you do well tonight. We can dream. Flashbacks to 1998 are haunting me.

Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too. It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer. I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.

We cannot have a coronation for Burnham, members need to have a choice. I am literally only staying a member of the Labour Party right now in the hope someone who got elected in 2024 puts their name forward to face Andy Burnham. If we get a coronation, I am leaving the party.

It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years. European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.

I have no words. What have we done? Reform have won the long game. Anyone remember this?

True but it’s also a country where Jeremy Clarkson gets paid a fortune to describe Gordon Brown as a ‘one-eyed Scottish idiot’ or fantasise about a crowd of thugs hurling excrement at a naked Duchess of Sussex. And where Dick Littlejohn gets called out for cruelty by a coroner at a suicide inquest.

So we are all ok then with a white man stabbing 5 people, some of whom were people of colour in Edinburgh then and shouting about Islam and Muslims. No outcry by the usual politicians. No outcry in the usual media. Two tier journalism on show. Cool.

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Congratulations to Northampton Saints for winning the Gallagher Premiership. Not calling it Prem. Here is to Bath doing well next year.

Well losing 1-0 to one of the better teams in the tournament is not to be scoffed at. Listen we didn't give up hope, we pressed ahead attempting something and played well defensively. We should have had a penalty too. Plus a couple of free kicks too. But I am not bitter, onto Brazil next week.

Less than an hour to go to kick off. Getting the fear, here is hoping Scotland beat Morocco. Just once to get out the group at a international tournament would be bloody brilliant. C'mon Scotland!

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

MELONI: “.. Trump’s statements are completely fabricated. I’m frankly shocked. I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way towards his own allies, and it’s not the first time it’s happened.” @cnn.com 🇮🇹 www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

That’s now THREE (count em’) by elections where the public have decisively rejected Reform’s divisive politics and racist/sexist rhetoric. Makes me more proud to be British than their faux-patriotism and pathetic flag worshipping ever will.

'If you have any information about the whereabouts of Nigel, whose mummy is very worried about him, the number is 0345 6060 973.' After Andy Burnham's Makerfield win, James O'Brien wonders why the Reform UK leader is not doing any live interviews.

When Farage can’t lie about people of colour or ‘anti-white racism’ (😂), he has literally nothing.

Look, it is great Burnham won, as a member of the Labour Party, as a woke lefty and someone with sanity it is really good he beat Reform UK. However, as a member I hope Starmer stands if Burnham does call a leadership contest. I will vote for Starmer. Which may be the last thing I do as a member.

If he doesn’t win something soon, I wonder whether Nigel Farage will retire to spend more time with other people’s money.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Reform won their sixth highest share of the vote in Makerfield in the 2024 general election. If Nigel Farage really were heading for Downing Street then his party would be winning a seat like this with ease. Instead he loses his third winnable by-election in a row

Awful night for Reform. Smashed in Makerfield and Tories took Aberdeen South. Two party politics reasserting itself and they might not even be one of them. Time for the press to stop accepting inevitability of PM Farage. After Makerfield that will be tough.

Reliably great analysis from Adam

The lesson also is that people who hate Reform really hate Reform and that's the majority of people in this country. I've never believed the "Nigel Farage will be our next PM" thing but now I don't believe it even more than ever.

Surely it’s time for Honest Bob to launch a leadership challenge…

What the f---

Zelenskyy: “If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too”

Just finished Tip Toe. We watched one episode every couple of days. We didn't want to binge it. What a horrowing show. Such a dark show. This isn't a show that is a dystopia either, this is contemporary horror. This show is up there with Adolescence and yet not a peep. Love to all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Another one of those photos of the year.

Brutal, brilliant watching. Perfectly timed to the way things are heading if people across the bulk of society, me and other MPs included, don’t step up our fight further the corrosive headwinds battering our communities I enjoyed it, even if it was another uncomfortable look at us all from RTD+co

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

Strong statement from my good friend & neighbour @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social She’s bang on The Commons settled our view after an extraordinarily high level of scrutiny & debate compared to most Bills The Lords talked it out without a single substantive vote This is now a constitutional issue

I cannot be more proud of my Labour MP. Hopefully this time it will get over the line.

First World Cup in 28 years. First win at a World Cup in 36 years. Top of the table after the first game. Bring on Morocco!

Brazil v Morocco ends uo a draw. Scotland game up next, could we end up top of the table after the first round? I am not sure how I feel about Scotland playing either Morocco or Brazil, who are 6th and 7th in the world. Let's see how Scotland v Haiti game goes first.

Seeing the scenes out of Boston the last couple of days has made me feel more patriotic as a Scot. And as they say "No Scotland, No Party". I hate the World Cup is partly in the US, just like Qatar and Russia beforehand. FIFA is corrupt. But Scotland, 28 years man. I Shall be watching tonight.

We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist