Just to be clear... "Let's be culturally sensitive and avoid idioms that other people may not understand" Does not mean the idiom itself is culturally insensitive. No one thinks the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs" is "culturally insensitive" 7/

Neither Farage or Badenoch have any evidence that they can successfully lead an organisation. Farage has a history of leading groups of grievance driven malcontents until he gets bored and Badenoch is an angry, short tempered gobshite.

Your regular reminder that Uniserve Ltd got over £1.4 billion in VIP lane COVID contracts without tender. Their profits increased 500% overnight, and they didn't deliver almost £180m of contracted goods. They just happened to share an address with Julia Lopez.

Not much political judgement going on here if Isabel Oakeshott does not realise that Farage & Tice are senior members of the British establishment. Relevant here is that Oakeshott is the partner of Richard Tice jumping to the defence of Tice & his tax evasion.

To quote Ray Davies "It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world" when some of those calling for the resignation of the UK PM are huge fan boys and girls of a US President who cannot tell the truth, even if he tries.

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote. Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits. Post Trump world will be more polarized. Nobody under the age of 28 had a say on Brexit. Need another referendum.

This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.

In a nutshell. 😊

Looney Tory MPs tell Mail that "British children as young as four will be 'brainwashed by Brussels' because of Labour's decision to rejoin" Erasmus.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democracy.

I have just been listening to @peterjukes.bsky.social brilliant podcast Untold, about the murder of Daniel Morgan and corruption in the Met. In one of the later episodes, this is discussed briefly. I hold no hope for this to ever happen.

This is such an insightful, wide ranging and ultimately hopeful interview with @quinnslobodian.com How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds With Matt Gallagher on @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

‘We will not be blackmailed’ says the man who who said that a civilisation will die (along with bridges and power plants) if Iran doesn’t make deal with him.

Doesn't this just tell you everything you need to know about the state of the British Right? People who are not outright supporting or flirting with Trump are keeping their heads down. bsky.app/profile/rola...

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...

📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025... the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies www.trumpactiontracker.info

A top quality @quietriotpod.bsky.social Sunday school today with a maximalist coming out party/pivot for @bestforbritain.org some utterly maddening BBC news out Daily Mailing the Mail and some top horror film recommendations to boot. @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social are in the chair

this is super interesting and also encouraging - Ukraine has become the world's leading drone superpower

Whether or not trans and non-binary individuals exist is not the same as debating which way of cooking eggs is the best. Life is full of grey areas and compromise. When one side is saying "we want to exist" and the other one saying "you don't". You don't argue for a middle ground. 10/

Most people on any issue fall into the don't know category. Educate and inform people. Explain why trans and non-binary individuals are being threatened, why we live in fear. You don't have to both sides this, just set out the actual evidence and combat misinformation. 7/

Been thinking about this, a lot, from a professional standpoint as well as a personal one. Some thoughts as to what Dugdale has said here, and why it is harmful to not only trans and non-binary rights, but rights in general. 1/

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

"If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake + for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!"

Reform pledges to review the previous 5 years of asylum grants if got into power - deporting those granted refugee status if came without permission. Reform claim 400,000 people granted asylum would be "in scope" - and they would deport most of them www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sky & BBC News are weaponising Epstein's victims: How? They (rightfully) condemn Starmer for hiring Mandelson, KNOWING he was friends with a convicted abuser. But never mention Farage backing a convicted abuser as an MP and befriending MANY others.

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

The Conservative councillor who ordered the chopping down of the trees in the middle of the night on Armada Way in Plymouth is now standing for Reform UK. Not surprising considering Reform is a retirement home for failed Tories.  www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Boris Johnson failed vetting, yet Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. Dominic Cummings was never vetted, yet had free access to Government and Number 10. The vetting process is self evidently farcical.

Richard tax-cheat Tice. And remember when Farage’s partner bought his Clacton house somehow, so he could avoid paying taxes on it? That is all Reform UK Party Ltd exists for: money.

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

A bombshell new report reveals that top military officials have kept Trump out of the room during Iran war operations because they fear his erratic behavior will put troops in harm’s way. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

while @jamellebouie.net isn’t wrong to note that this sounds like warmed over David Duke ca 1990, it is also very much vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. these arguments were circulating in the debate over Stanford’s western culture program, a debate Thiel lost. he’s been bent on vengeance ever since.

Honestly just ban social media until the companies can show they’ve got a grip on this. I’m increasingly not sure democracy can survive the deepfake era.

Similarly, historians will retch at Zelensky’s treatment in the Oval Office & beyond. We all moved on to the next abomination without even stopping for sandwiches…

Good move!

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

And can I just add… No one at Palantir seems to be able to read or write. “We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism” Take out the vapid tautologies and you get: “We must resist pluralism” Great tell.

So pleased Laura Kuenssberg is back this week. That means there is no chance Robert Jenrick will be asked about his promise to cut flight tax after a £40k donation from an airline owner.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.