“Swiss voters approve plan to introduce digital ID”, reports the BBC. Yes: 50.4% No: 49.6% Less than 1% in it. Not exactly an overwhelming vote of confidence in digital ID. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just wait until you see what Satan has planned for us www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/tony-blair...

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, once Bill and Ted, reunite on Broadway in Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot." They tell Tracy Smith about their enduring friendship, Winter’s break from fame, and the risks Reeves sees in live theater.

For a large proportion of the Northern Irish population being required to have a document which identifies you as a UK citizen is impossible. So you need a compatible Irish ID card system. Which means you need the Irish govt to introduce one. And share the info. And that's not going to happen.

The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff

Would you like to see the wine list, sir? Nah, just bring me a beer. Which one sir? We have several… www.bransgorerotary.com/bransgore-ro...

At last, Starmer has united the country… …against his digital ID. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨 WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including: Thread

Which is it? We need ID cards or we don’t need ID cards. Because Councillor Darren Grimes can’t make up his mind.

“Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme” When Labour is voted out, no subsequent government of any stripe will ever axe digital ID. They’ll all find an excuse as to why it has to stay. If we don’t end this now, it’s a done deal. For ever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m rewatching Life on Mars. Even better than I remember it. “Drop your weapons! You’re surrounded by armed bastards!” m.youtube.com/watch?v=E1l8...

Doctors are patients too! #NHS is for all of us, although if you’re healthy & wealthy you may not need it As a society having access to care, free at the point of need, is worth fighting for Why? Because you never know when YOU might be in need! That’s a functioning society

"He has no values, no principles and he will defend Peter Mandelson up until he thinks he needs to for his own career" 👀

When Trump said he was going to create jobs for Americans, he meant for his corrupt friends. When Trump said he was going to make America rich, he meant his corrupt friends. When Trump said he was going to- you get the picture…

I think all those who oppose unions should be expected to give up all the rights won by those unions over the years. They might change their minds I reckon.

“What does it mean to be Monetarily Sovereign and why does it matter?” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

“Governments don’t borrow in the way households or companies do … when a government with its own central bank spends, it creates money … so-called ‘borrowing’ isn’t a necessity, it’s a policy choice … government never needs to issue bonds to fund spending”. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

“Governments don’t borrow in the way households or companies do … when a government with its own central banks spends, it creates money … so-called ‘borrowing’ isn’t a necessity, it’s a policy choice … government never needs to issue bonds to fund spending”. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

Just when you thought the Daily M**L couldn’t sink any lower…

Does Reform not practice what it preaches over free speech? Imagine that 😏 “Reform media ban is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Nigel Farage in power”, says The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

via Political Nation

Hugh Bonneville, "Before I talk about the fluff and wonderfulness of our lovely film" "What's about to happen in Gaza city is indefensible. The international community must to more to bring it to an end" ITV News presenter, "Of course it's not about the politics, it's all about the film"

Free Speech Loving Nigel Farage

For the love of Bananarama, please just send me the article.

Re-upping an article from last year about the billionaires funding the dark money network that is ravaging US politics, media, and our daily lives.

Truss, Reeves and the Great Free Zone Con. Austerity for people, corporate welfare for the giants, this is the 'zone economy'. My latest article on Substack compares Truss and Reeves' economic policies in relation to the duopoly's deregulated free zones rollout. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Bit of a tip off: RNLI are running a sale on Christmas cards. It’s never too early to get ready to send any Reform UK supporting friends and family a greeting that will really touch them: shop.rnli.org/collections/...

“As AI becomes ever more central to education, the human teacher becomes more important, not less.”

Weasel-word politicians will deny that our NHS has been increasingly privatised. But here is the World Health OrganizAtion definition…

It didn’t take a genius to guess the Plan. Starve our #NHS of money for 14 years until there were SEVEN MILLION people on waiting lists. Then say "Hey, look, the NHS is failing. We need to reform/privatise it." Our NHS is not failing. It is BEING FAILED by politicians.

You can’t beat Reform by copying their rhetoric all you’ll do is validate them. You beat populism by improving public services, driving up incomes and creating better living standards.

The Conservative Party has been in power for 80 of the last 100 years (including 50 of the last 80, ie since WW2). The UK is the way it is because the Conservatives deliberately and wilfully made it so. For them to claim the bad stuff is down to others otherwise is disingenuous.

The less like the USA the UK strives to be, and the more it aspires to become like, say, the Scandinavian countries, the happier I’ll be. Probably literally. data.worldhappiness.report/table?_gl=1*...

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.

“The UK government doesn’t need to ‘borrow’ in any conventional sense. Government spending is an act of money creation … Gilts are not a necessity but a political choice” new-wayland.com/blog/euthani...

Something to cheer us all up 🙂

“Most countries retain public ownership, recognising water as a public good, not a commodity. The idea that better people could fix the system is a fantasy – decades of extraction, debt-loading and dividend grabs show the model itself is broken” 👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular in the UK. ✅ Join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 😀 Sign up to our newsletter. Link in comments 👇

Just got back from the fortnightly Sainsbury’s run. I use the zapper thing and pack as I go: to make the checkout process quicker; and it speeds up packing away at home. But the “random checks” are slowing me down. @sainsburys.bsky.social, why so often?

Despite going to a comp on a council estate, it turns out I’m too posh for the civil service. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thread (1/38) Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal

#Immigration The trajectory has been upwards since Thatcher. Where was Farage's outrage?

One of the big reasons nobody knows what Labour stands for now, beyond Starmer's litany of lies and broken pledges, is that the party name says that they represent the workers, while the right-wing party leadership openly act as butlers for capitalists and the mega-rich.

In the face of Trump’s utter idiocy, especially if he rules the country next door, all you can do is laugh 🤣

Would millionaires leave? taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...

Facebook just reminded me where I was working on this day 10 years ago, aged 50: the beach near where I grew up. The job was a lifeline at a turbulent time. The next month I landed a post that changed my life, but I still left the sands with some regret for my new occupation.