The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

This is how I discovered Polanski’s position on ‘natural birth’ and god, fuck this so so much

NEWS: The gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team has declined an invitation to attend Trump’s State of the Union. This comes after Trump was heard telling the men’s team he’d begrudgingly invite the women’s champions or risk impeachment.

Good. Now can we investigate Johnson over his drunken weekend with the Lebedevs, especially the former KGB agent father. Why did he dismiss his security and entourage? Did he pass any secrets from the NATO summit he'd just been to or any other state sensitive information?

Days after Andrew Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Are the authorities looking into that time Boris Johnson ditched his security to party in Italy?

The Gorton and Denton by-election is this Thursday 🗳️ We’ve got a @thefabians.bsky.social phonebank in central London this eve with @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social from 17:00-19:30 to help get the vote out for the fantastic Angeliki Stogia. Do join if you can. DM me for the address.

Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Syed was shortlisted to be Labour PPC for Middlesbrough S and East Cleveland in 2010. He told the selection meeting a story about the evils of Thatcher and lied that he wouldn't seek selection elsewhere. Thankfully, members saw through him. Dishonest, arrogant and high on his own fumes.

Important point in a great thread on Reform’s press conference today. Seems particularly strange to announce this contentious/polarising policy days before a by-election in a seat where 30% of residents are Muslim and/or born abroad

This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here

We've had questions from three broadcasters so far, and they have all been about the practicalities and costs. None has asked about the legal/moral issue of retrospectively changing laws so huge numbers of people who have made their lives in the UK will be expelled.

Zia Yusuf used the tragic death of Amy Houston in his speech today. Her dad explicitly asked politicians not to do this in 2013. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed." That's David Davis core Brexiter. Who caused this catastrophe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Quite the scenes on Good Morning Britain as Ed Balls tells Kemi Badenoch her student loan interest plan will only help the richest ex-students. After she insists he's wrong, GMB bring on Martin Lewis to back up Balls' argument and tell her the plan makes no sense.

Paging @gsoh31.bsky.social after his work pointing this out over the weekend. Validation!

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Laura Trott cannot be allowed to wreck the student loans system by pulling planks out like Jenga. These plans wouldn't save any money to help grads! Because you'd be cutting numbers on Plan 5, not Plan 2, and Plan 5 doesn't 'lose money' like she thinks. Tories have complely + utterly lost it. (1/2)

Johnson is disgraced for good reason. He has no place in politics or decent society. Kuenssberg and the #BBC should be ashamed of themselves, constantly pushing liars, charlatans, nutters and corrupt people in our faces (& trying to undermine a legitimately elected government).

#BBCLauraK Boris Johnson, the man who partied at an Italian villa with a former Russian KGB agent without any officials present, at a time when Italy’s secret intelligence service was monitoring the luxury Umbrian villa. No questions about that, of course. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory policy on student loans DOA and gone already in my mind. Yet the coverage still talking like it's a goer. What on earth is going on in this country?

Good to see that my father’s protests at Andrew’s disgraceful behaviour have surfaced. I remember how outraged he was at the time and he has frequently mentioned it since. Extraordinary that this oaf was allowed to remain in a high profile government post for so long mol.im/a/15580939

🇬🇧 UK Poll of Polls: 22 February 2026 ➡️ Reform: 28% (24-33%) 🌹 Labour: 21% (17-24%) 🌳 Conservative: 19% (15-22%) 🍃 Green: 14% (9-20%) 🐥 Lib Dem: 12% (9-15%) 👽 Other: 4% (3-5%) ✖️ SNP: 3% (2-4%)

The Guardian’s crime reporter Duncan Campbell was the first national newspaper journalist to cover the story in depth, in 1998, under the headline “Murder appeal: despair drove woman to kill”.

What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social

We’ve had 3 PMs since Johnson. He has absolutely no relevance to this country. The only time he should be on TV is when he’s arrested for Misconduct in Public Office.

Student numbers hit an all-time peak in 2022/23. If this was a ‘con’, it was one that survived, and expanded, through fourteen years of Tory government.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

I personally hold Keir Starmer responsible for this outrage which occured when he wasn't Prime Minister.

I haven't heard anything. I've just read 'thought to have destroyed' (who thought? No evidence then) 'ally' (are they at war?), 2022 (and yet it only comes out now?) and it looks pretty odd to me.

Ahem… 👀

There seems a bit of an orchestrated campaign against Antonia Romeo, she's served under various prime ministers without any apparent issues so I'm quite sceptical about a lot of this.

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Closer examination of the Epstein files provokes fresh questions about Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and his brother Christian’s development of the One Hyde Park super-prime apartment block: messages within the latest release appear to contradict their tax-avoiding account of the project.

An important reminder

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.

Really pleased with this judicious and balanced review of my new book on the Blair years in The Irish Times... 'Compelling... motivated by reason rather than emotion... fair-minded'. Buy your copy today! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

@gsoh31.bsky.social ‘s new book on Blair reviewed today in the Irish Times by Robert McNamara

1. It was commissioned by a Green Party donor 2. Only a small sample was polled, about 350 people 3. There was an overrepresentation of wards that typically vote Green. It's clearly a poll to rally support, rather than give a snapshot of how people intend to vote across the constituency

There is nothing “false” about linking Andrew Murray to the Kremlin. He actively promoted a fringe Ukrainian party subsequently exposed as a front for Russian intelligence. He shared a platform with two of its members. His proximity to this story make investigation of a Russian angle entirely valid.

Gorton & Denton is a constituency of two halves. After thousands and thousands of conversations, the story is clear: only Labour has the breadth & depth to beat Reform. Voters are increasingly recognising that. See the whole picture 👇

It’s a pity that in government 2010-2015 the Lib Dems initiated and endorsed the austerity and zombie “new public management” (NPM) that destroyed UK public services and lead to the current appalling mess they now criticise

Correct. Rep. Jody Barrett (Left) Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

Here’s my reply to your letter yesterday Zack Polanski - a reply that took you three weeks to draft

Erm, this tactical voting site that you linked to Zack, it *doesn't* recommend a vote for Greens. You know we can all click the links in your dishonest posts, right?

On Wednesday, Ofgem is expected to announce that the energy price cap for Q2 2026 will be nearly £120 lower than current levels. This policy will deliver a clear boost to living standards from April, and should help to keep bills below current levels until at least 2029.

Charlie is right - people should act more like immigrants from northern Europe who came here in small boats.

Really good answer from Kompany on Mourinho, Vinicius Jr and all that: