So many responses come to mind - most of them expletives. So I’m going to start with Reform’s own argument: I thought Britain was full?

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

In an increasingly mad world, a boom in radioactive hybrid terror pigs seems entirely normal.

Good. We absolutely not should be giving Palantir access to our data.

The stark contrast is set to raise a simple but incendiary question: who is truly paying for Britain? Racist POS Ratcliffe, or people coming here from all over the world helping to build Britain? #UKNews

RIP James Van Der Beek, who seems undecided about whether to take his whippet for a walk or relax in the hotel spa.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

LAST CHANCE to support safe protected cycle tracks on Bayswater Road! ⏰️ Consultation closes Wed 4 February - have your say now 👇️

are those freedoms in room with us right now

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We don’t want Trump’s dangerous policies here. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-plans-for-a-british-ice/

There is virtually no gun violence in the UK. In 23/24 there were 692 offences and 24 fatalities. I presume one of Farage’s funders want this policy.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Michael Jackson tribute?

Person who campaigned for the leopards eating faces president fears leopards will eat her son’s face.

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...

Board of Peace

Good.

Think I’ll give her a miss, thanks.

Hey #BBC let's look over at Le Monde: The Trump administration is trying to introduce Mr. Pretti as an armed, violent and threatening attacker, but videos widely released by the American media contradict this version. “The odious lies uttered by the administration about our son 1/

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Good to see Metro giving the tangerine narcissist the respect he deserves.

h/i David Grinspoon

OMG I love this bloke. Wait to the end, he just says it perfectly.

The service the BBC provides to its global audience of 414m people across 43 languages including 64m people every week in the 20 most fragile states, must always be valued and defended. 7/7

The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year. We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.

Yesterday I saw this mural is near Waterloo Station. I love the message. Never change, London.

Probably one of the best road safety adverts from TfL. If you've never seen it before - I can guarantee you will watch it twice.

There’s a poll here on ‘would you like to see the UK rejoin the EU?’ - vote and share It’s currently at 57%

What just happened ... Comedy: Jamie Kaler

🛍️ Taken our Oxford Street action yet? 👨‍💻 Spare a minute to help strengthen the calls for safe alternative routes for cycling in the area - find out more: bit.ly/4oCbPdZ

This is the plan Number 10 is surprised isn’t working: “Instead of delivering on the priorities of the people who actually voted for us, we’re going to loudly pledge to deliver for the people we feel *should’ve* voted for us, even when they’re fully offensive to our actual voting coalition”

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

So ‘the most wealthy’ read the book and thought Sauron was the good guy? Figures.

I’m the head of ASO, which owns and runs the Tour de France. This is awesome! 🚴‍♂️ 🚴 🚴‍♀️

On this day 29th December 1975 “Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK (Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)

We’re watching fascism evolve in real time. It’s terrifying how quickly rights and protections can be dismantled.

EcoCounts in North / Central London is recruiting two trustees - one in governance mainly and one fundraising lead. reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/trustee-...

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Telling the public that people fleeing torture and war are not the enemy is how we fight the far right. But here’s Starmer saying the far right is right and reducing human rights is the answer. 😞

I have questions

It’s almost like The Torygraph don’t care about facts, they just want to push an agenda 🤷‍♀️

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

I’m sure these donors believe Reform is best for our country, and not at all that it’s the party that will allow them to amass the most personal wealth by whatever dubious means and to hell with everyone else.

These are not smart people. 😞

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Trump says Putin wants to end war, but also wants to keep the bit of Ukraine he’s invaded. Since he’s not winning any time soon, it’s unclear how he can force Ukraine to let him have it.

I’ve never prayed so hard for a poll to be true.

Copying Denmark’s hardline asylum policy a ‘terrible idea’, Danes say Helene Brydensholt of the The Alternative party has urged the UK Government to think again, explaining it’s been a disaster for integration and led to more racism www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...