I love John Crace. Liz Truss really does need protecting from herself, doesn't she? Who do we talk to about getting her certified? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I definitely need to buy more popcorn. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I need to buy some more popcorn... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There you have it: vote Reform, get Tories. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I sometimes think Femi goes a little over the top but I think he's spot on here. Corbyn has always thought HIS ideas of what the country needs are the correct ones. There's no room for discussion or listening to other points of view. I can't see YP lasting but I can see it splitting the vote.

And this, from @chrisgrey.bsky.social just today, highlights one of the real problems in SM/ a CU/ Art49. https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brexit-reminders.html

For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...

Kemi Badenoch; "she started it!" For goodness sake, are there no grown ups at all in the Tory Party?

I really don't get Yusuf. How can a member of an ethnic minority support racists and traitors?

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

£26 billion tax rise announced today in Labour's budget £90 billon, how much tax revenue is lost because of Brexit EVERY Year The reason taxes are going up and spending is being cut is because we can't afford stuff because of Brexit!

PFI is just borrowing by another name, but with key differences in structure, cost, and accounting treatment that make it more expensive. Starmer’s Labour…. repeating the mistakes of the past is NOT ‘change’.

Nothing that we didn't already know or suspect but I'm glad this story isn't going away. Farage is a nasty piece of work; a bully of the first order. It would be karma if his inability to be honest about his past was the thing which finally brought him down. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The National Bureau of Economic Research published research this month showing that Brexit has reduced the UK economy by 6-8% far worse than originally thought. Investment has reduced by 12-18% and employment by 3-4%. Useful info to throw at cloth eared Brexiters.

So when will Johnson be prosecuted? I won't hold my breath... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Another racist Reform suspension. What with this, Laura Jones being suspended from the Senedd and questions about Farage's past, I really hope the message about just how vile and racist this party is finally starts cutting through. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good morning BlueSky. On the bus to go and collect my car. Every time I take the bus here in Italy I'm struck by the fact that they're all part of BusItalia; part of Trenitalia, the national railways. How sensible is that? So different from broken Britain (thanks Thatcher).

I'm managing to get out on my bike, exercising my new knees these days. Lovely to enjoy these vistas which one doesn't notice when the trees are in leaf. I'm so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.

I'm not a fan of Owen Jones but it's hard not to agree with him here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just let it close down. The world would be a better place with one fewer right wing hate rags. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Finally. Something good may come out of this shit show. Of course political appointments to the BBC should be banned. After this, the newsroom needs a clear out of Tories. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I always thought PCCs were a ridiculous idea. Rather like parliamentary petitions, they seemed a way for Cameron to give the impression that he was on the side of democracy whereas, in reality, he just wanted to continue the patrician upper class's control of everything. He was a disastrous PM.

The Guardian says this should be the BBC's response to Trump. I tend to agree! proftomcrick.com/2014/04/29/a...

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Remembering the sacrifice made by South Asians in WW2 seems particularly important in these times of division and hatred. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This was one of the effigies blown up at the Lewes bonfire celebrations this week. If they're already making effigies of Starmer just one year into his government it gives you a pretty good indication of just how unpopular he and his government are.

What a ridiculous system. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Which one is more English?

What a fabulous "up yours" to Trump! The world feels a little better today.

Yep

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

How inconvenient for the fascists and Reform politicians, who were quick to portray Saturday's appalling knife attack as Islamist extremism. 1st the perpetrator turns out to be a black Briton and then we discover the heroic LNER worker is of arab extraction, and very likely Muslim. Well done Samir!

Some useful information with which to bash those knuckle draggers who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still seem to think that Brexit and Farage was/is the answer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So much for Trump's "peace." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is fun. We can vote Farage down in popularity. He's currently on 74% popular, as opposed to 24% unpopular. I'm sure we can turn that around!

I get annoyed if I drop something on my toe or lose my keys.. But Sarah gets annoyed by Black or Asian people which is racism summed up 🤷🏼‍♂️

I agree with most of this apart from the sentence "In order to successfully mobilise anti-Farage votes, Keir Starmer needs to start actually offering centre left voters something beyond just keeping out Reform." Caerphilly has shown that we can vote both to remove 1/2 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...

Plaid winning in Caerphilly is proof that progressive voters do have alternatives to this right wing Labour government. It's also proof that Progressives can defeat Reform. Labour is spinning it as not being an anti Starmer vote but they need to wake up or they'll follow the Tories into oblivion.

Ed Davey asks the PM to negotiate a customs union with the EU, since Labour is now admitting that Brexit is a disaster. Starmer rejects that idea. I wonder what's happened to Starmer's brain?

Isn't there some sort of listing system for historic buildings in the US? Surely Trump can't just demolish part of an important building with no consequences? Ah, sorry: I forgot that laws don't apply to him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hahaha. Are we surprised??? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's many years since I was last in Zurich, so a trip to admire the Chagall glass in the Frauenmünster was a must!

Farage and all the other fascists should be forced to listen to this brilliant poem daily. Well done Elander Moore and the British Museum. www.instagram.com/reel/DPUBC3l...

If this is what conduct at sporting events in the US has descended to, who will want to attend either the World Cup or the Olympics? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Whilst I sympathise with Clive Lewis, I fear it's already too late to save Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What an appalling example of a human being Trump is. As for J D Vance: he clearly has no understanding of what being a Christian means. Maybe the Pope can school him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King. So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO Location: Windsor High Street, UK #trump #epstein

Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surely no-one can seriously still think that that old witch Thatcher was actually a good PM? Failing public services are her legacy and, by default, so is the rise of the extreme right. At least she's being kept busy stoking the furnaces nowadays. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...