If you like trains, don't vote Reform. They've already told contractors not to tender on Northern Powerhouse Rail because they will cancel all the contracts... www.itv.com/news/granada...

"Investing in Gatwick expansion is a choice. It is a choice to prioritise frequent flyers over repairing the UK’s broken transport system, strengthening the NHS, or investing in climate resilience. More flights mean more emissions, worsening climate change for everyone."

Absolutely hilarious! Recommended 😆

Rowley needs to look up the definition of "systemic", because that's what this toxic culture is. Robust responses to individual transgressions are all well and good, but these only scratch the surface of the problem.

Living. Working. Paying taxes. Contributing. This is a desperately poor editorial.

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused” Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough. But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both. app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

"the Northumberland Line, which... reopened last year, reconnecting Ashington, Bedlington and Blyth to Newcastle's job market and city centre... was anticipated to carry around 200,000 passengers a year, but... saw over 250,000 journeys in just three months" bettertransport.org.uk/research/mak...

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country” Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Ugh This man This paper. Using the same rhetoric as Trump’s lot, jumping on the Kirk bandwagon to claim victimhood and cancel free speech if it criticises him. Farage incites riots on our streets, then acts all ‘poor me’ when his ugly racist ideas are called out. No one should pander to this shit.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

LED BY DONKEYS. Tory Cronies…

This is what NextDoor is crying about

What's the point of a coast path that doesn't follow the coast? Complain now to English Heritage! Help England's Coast Path follow the Isle of Wight's coast - Ramblers www.ramblers.org.uk/news/help-en...

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Remind me again which party has councillors advocating Starmer's assassination. That would be - Reform. Which party incited the Farage riots - that would be Reform. Every accusation these people make is a confession.

In other 'hurty words' news... (6 weeks apart.)

👀 In the aftermath of tube strike chaos, 28% of Londoners say they are now more likely to cycle in future | road.cc road.cc/content/news...

More evidence that biking is really good for you: After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

This is so cringe. So "The Office". So Accidental Partridge. Hard to watch!

Tl;dr: Putin puppet spouts Russian talking points about Ukraine

This is factually true. But so are the Conservatives. And increasingly, Labour.

Absolutely absurd nonsense on immigration from Labour. With our current birthrate and without migrants Britain's population will halve by 2100. Migrants are typically younger, more healthy, more productive, than Brits. And they WANT to come here to help us FFS

You can't lose your job. You can't get sick. You can't be disabled. You can't retire. You can't even get a traffic ticket. You have to be more perfect than any UK citizen ever has to be. It's WILD. Performative nonsense that no one can possibly achieve.

Labour voters overwhelmingly cite Brexit as the number one cause of our current difficulties, with 69% naming the decision to leave the EU as the main reason behind the country’s problems. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Doing Putin’s bidding? That is Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain. We need a new inquiry by the Intelligence and Security Committee into Reform and Farage's links to Russia.

My Labour conference takeaways: Labour feels scared of its own shadow despite its huge majority Labour is slowly realising they can’t sit fighting far-right populism out SW1 needs to stop using Twitter because it’s riddled with far-right accounts giving an inaccurate view of UK public sentiment

Migrants also already "earn the right to settlement" by being generally younger, healthier and more productive than the UK average FFS. If you're against immigration to Britain, you are saying you want a poorer, sicker, older, less skilled Britain.

"China is the world’s number two economy, but it’s a leader in virtually every aspect of the low-carbon transition, including investment, installation and manufacturing. It’s the top producer and deployer of batteries. Ditto for electric vehicles.

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge. Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Save Whitewebbs Park from a massive new football training centre - Fund Our Judicial Review! www.crowdjustice.com/case/savewhi...

Looks like plucky little Moldova stood up against Putin while Brexiters in Britain willingly did Putin's bidding

Moldova’s vote is a clear yes to a European future. Despite Russia’s massive efforts to spread disinformation and buy votes, no force can stop a people committed to freedom. We stand with Moldova on their path to the EU.

Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from Russia to make pro Russian statements. Richard Tice - Deputy Leader of Reform: I have never met Nathan Gill and he has nothing to do with Reform. Well ok then…

I think Farage has questions to answer about his professed admiration of Putin www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK Chief Left Squirming Over Former Party Leader Who Made Pro-Russia Statements For Cash www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

YESSSSS about bloody time someone said this! Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary | Shabana Mahmood | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another nation fighting Russian tyranny, and winning. As Arthur says in that piece, the fight against Reform is also a fight against Russian tyranny. We should be a single-minded as Moldova is.

Prof Rob Ford explains that Farage’s proposal of permanent exclusion of immigrants from access to welfare benefits is not at all popular with the public, including among voters who are sceptical of migration, and argues that this strategy could backfire. ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

Coming to Britain soon if Reform gets in.

Some good news. Has Russia lost Moldova? - by Arthur Snell - Not all doom arthursnell.substack.com/p/has-russia...

Reform has questions to answer abour their ties to Russia. Lots of questions. Right to the top. "Reform UK's former leader in Wales has admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while being a Member of the European Parliament" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...