Artificial-intelligence chatbots can influence voters in major elections — and have a bigger effect on people’s political views than conventional campaigning and advertising go.nature.com/3XCIsgD

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

Turns out zillionaire Reform UK lives in Thailand where he runs a woke wellness retreat. Is there a pattern here? Richard Tice in United Arab Emirates, This geezer in Thailand (his crypto outfit based El Salvador) Nathan Gill's Russian cash .. all love our country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zack Polanski, "Look how rattled they are about The Green Party because what I'm talking about is something very pragmatic" *interruption* "Am I going to be allowed to talk?" "We have an aging population, a declining birth rate, and we have pensions to pay"

Today in 'Maths Is Fun ... Honest!' we look at the Venn diagram of people who say Farage was only 18 at the time and didn’t mean what he said, against the set of people who were certain Shamima Begum knew what she was doing at 15. Initial calculations show the figure to be a circle.

Reform said they were ready to lead. Then their own flagship council collapsed under them. The story only gets worse… ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Human cost of the Post Office scandal. Sub-postmaster passed away from a heart attack at the age of 58 without receiving full compensation. A "constant cycle of stress" created by false prosecutions of many. Lives destroyed. No one charged.

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

164 Union Jack flags in 82 areas at a cost of £75,000 - this is ridiculous! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance. First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

Just what exactly does he expect to get for his investment? It would seem that our democracy, or what is left of it, is for sale. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"I should just point out that this will be the 4th appearance since September for unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf"

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights #Wrldpoli🌐 www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

The number of former Dulwich College pupils accusing Nigel Farage of outrageous racist behaviour rises to TWENTY-EIGHT forcing the Reform leader to adopt increasingly desperate tactics to deflect attempts to get him to apologise to his victims. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Clean power additions in 2025 alone will generate more electricity than Germany consumes in a year. For the first time, the growth in clean electricity supply exceeds total demand growth." ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Eurovision turning into a litmus test of what countries are OK with genocide.

Breaking News: Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia said that they were boycotting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation. Eurovision fans who support Palestinian rights have for years expressed concern at Israel’s involvement in the contest.

Everyone should boycott Eurovision. Make it a one-person show. Israel in an empty room

Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel. After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.

Absolutely insane to me that GB News retains its broadcasting license. It's BNP TV.

PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', are among the most widely used pesticide active substances in UK 27 known PFAS active ingredients are used in UK, 6 of which are highly hazardous "Our findings underscore the urgent need for an immediate ban" say PAN-Europe www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames Water half-year profits leap to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third. Leaks and sewage dumping will continue for years. £20bn+debt. A third of the bill covers interest payments. Captive customers have no choice. End the scam. Nationalise water.

Part of a grim 🧵and a Politico article on the US-UK "deal". Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration. That's just for starters

🆘 🧵 SUMMARY OF USA 🇺🇸 Deal 1️⃣ The pharma deal is beginning of a much larger U.S. takeover of UK standards. Trump officials explicitly say pharma is: “the first domino”, “proof UK will move quickly to align with U.S. regulatory norms” That alone is devastating. www.politico.eu/article/uk-u...

A Crime In Plain Sight: State Capture of Ukraine by Trump and Putin How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors thechrissampson.substack.com/p/a-crime-in...

🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Reform should rapidly suspend Staffordshire Council leader Ian Coopet for this overt racism hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...

Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page

False use of photo about Muslim family celebrating end of two child benefit cap, via @fullfact.org fullfact.org/politics/old...

"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."

The overt misogyny being shown by the RW press against the Chancellor is chilling. They just hate women and are happy to let everyone know it.

Britain: where overstating your junior chess playing skills is worse than being accused of tormenting Jewish kids with songs about the gas chambers

Could somebody, one day, as these nuclear promoters how well we're doing on nuclear waste? #PolticsLive

4 winters of Putin’s war. Daily attacks, destruction, war crimes. Ukraine needs more help. The €210 bn in frozen Russian assets must finally be released. Putin must pay the costs of his destruction, not European taxpayers. It’s time for all European governments to act. Now.

The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype BP has confirmed that it is calling it quits on both of its Teesside hydrogen projects northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

BBC. Radio 4 World at One Currently discussing Labour's stance over Europe with three Brexit supporters Graham Stringer (Lab) Lisa Nandy (we have our red lines) Andrew John Griffith (Con) Nobody from Labour who wants the customs union and single market

Today's BBC #Carspreading article takes a good look at the issue of the rise of the SUV, with reasons and solutions, but doesn't mention #RoadDanger at all. Children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries in an SUV collision than one involving a car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🇪🇺❗️The EU is adding Russia to its blacklist of countries at high risk of money laundering and financing terrorism, - POLITICO.

Hundreds of lives lost & millions devastated. Crops under water means more hunger & struggle to come, when many in already suffered food insecurity. Sri Lanka is facing a “humanitarian crisis of historic proportions,” Disaster Management Centre. This is what climate change & deforestation means.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

There was an interesting commentary from Daniel Hoffman (ex-CIA station chief) on the World Service earlier. He dismissed Putin's playing along with peace talks. I'm sure the clip would be available if #WATO asked. And I'm sure BBC News knows all this.

New swimming pools for those shareholder villas in the Seychelles... #ThamesWater

It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.