If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Greenland crisis means we're going to be talking a lot more about what a breach with the US would involve in practice & this is worth reading on the granular bits

Access to the custom union and single market would save small businesses across the UK, like Apparel Studio. If we want to undo the damage to our economy, we need to undo the actions that caused them.

Imagine: A driver shot while driving away from a protest, after shooting some liberal protestors. His AR15 on the back seat, out of reach. Imagine the MAGA response. They'd know chapter and verse of how LE is allowed to engage moving vehicles, that's for sure.

Russia is killing Ukrainians every day: burying us under the rubble of our homes, killing us on our streets, burning us alive in our cars. In offices, cafes, churches, kindergartens, and hospitals. Every day. All the time. It happens so often, it doesn’t even make the news anymore.

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:

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2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit! 2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit! This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.

Black Sea blackout: Russia launched one of the largest bombardments of Odesa’s civilian infrastructure of the entire war overnight, plunging the Ukrainian Black Sea port city into darkness

"Again and again, it [the ruling] scorches the Trump administration’s “extraordinary” and “troubling” handling of this whole case, suggesting it’s been utterly lawless and rife with malicious abuses of power."

On the hellsite it's a sight to behold how my "for you" feed is suddenly RAMMED with people I don't follow basically complaining that Mark Rutte is wrong to declare war on Russia and we're all gonna die in a nuclear exchange now. Christ it's never so transparently been a propaganda tool.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Why does it keep getting weird

New analysis shows: That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016. The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

Trump is a threat to Europe.

War crime? There's no war here, so it's just plain "crime". 😒

My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸 (sadly, without credit)

🛍️ Today is #SmallBusinessSaturday. The Green Party backs small business. Local businesses are the lifeblood of our communities. We want to see them thrive. Let’s green business, improve employee welfare and make it easier for people to shop local #ShopLocal

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.

“The state needs to be prepared...this is no longer a cold war - it’s an actual war that is being waged against Europe, against democracy.”

REMINDER from 2020: A forensic pathologist who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein tells 60 Minutes the evidence released so far points more to murder than suicide in his view. Dr. Michael Baden's key reason: the unusual fractures he saw in Epstein's neck. www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jef...

Subpoena Epstein's bank records! Now! Demand it! Follow the damn money!

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Whatever you do, don’t show him this text from Assange to Don Jr in 2016.

In case those in the US are wondering if the UK are taking the Trump legal threat seriously…

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

So much for "boosting growth". All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

That’s nearly *double* the worst pre-Brexit estimates of a ‘no deal’ scenario. No wonder the UK is in such a mess! And who do we have to thank for this? Charlatans like Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. #BrexitReality #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU

Worker ownership is proven to create far more equitable pay ratios. The average for worker-owned cooperatives in the United States is 2-to-1. Unfortunately, it seems like almost no one really brings this up as the alternative. That is why we must continue to talk about it so that awareness expands.

“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’” @axios.com #Panem www.axios.com/local/washin...

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

The BBC news report this morning portrays this as entirely the fault of the current government. The right wing editorial policy is so obvious it's laughable.

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...