Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.

"I believe in restoring the dignity to the quiet, often invisible work of caring, of loving well, as we look to build a happier, healthier society.” I couldn’t agree more.

I’m shaking with rage over the Trump “Quiet, Piggy” story. America, how much more are we going to take?

🎻⁻⁴ When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall - The Guardian

Insightful re. how Refuk HQ seem to have no idea how local councils operate. Obviously causing massive tension at a local level.

“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.” Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

I don't understand why they're doing this. If you vote Labour, you don't want Reform or Tory Lite. When will No.10 realise that Reform voters will not be voting Labour and that the defection of core supporters to Lib Dems or Greens will far outweigh any votes picked up from Reform. SMH.

Why are we not seeing the Government setting out a clear strategy for economic renewal along these sorts of lines instead of obsessing over small boats? Get a grip Labour, before we pass power to someone who can use it more effectively!

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

The only choice is to complete the shift to renewables, with some baseload nuclear power, and the electrification of transport and heating as quickly and efficiently as possible.

That will take time. In the interim, net migration is falling rapidly. Action is required to ensure Britain gets the skilled workers it needs, because its economic model is so founded on human capital.

Illegal immigration isn’t tearing the UK apart. The far right is tearing the country apart, using immigration as a pretext.

Sadly, it’s FO time.

And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3

Oh look! 👀Surprise, surprise! 🫢 BBC Question Time are once again platforming Reform U.K. , who have just 5 MPs, but couldn’t find room for the Lib Dems with 72 MPs 😳 #LibDems Yes there is a bias on some BBC political programmes and it’s quite clearly a Reform / right wing bias! #BBCQT

I friggin dare you to watch this to the end. Watch & tell me it doesn't move you. This is a 16 year old American boy explaining how Trump's reign of terror & #ICELawlessness has impacted him & his family. If it affects you, please share it. I beg you to hit the link in the next post & save it.

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is why @ed-miliband.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social are absolutely right to be relentless in their pursuit against climate breakdown. We must return to 1.5C climate target. Climate breakdown affects us all across the world - and it kills.

MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board

Our happiness in the next four years is gonna be intact. This is how we roll on blue skies 💪💪

Just had a fun idea to draft the letter that the BBC should send back to Trump's lawyer. Let me see if I can make this work as a blogpost.

OK this is amazing. Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government. Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc: www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...

Truth Social AI telling actual truth? someone is going to stroke out when they hear about this

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Any politician that sides with Trump in his demented attempt to bully the BBC, and by extension the British public, is pond scum - and that is an insult to pond scum - I live in hope that Fartage, and his fellow quislings, face a backlash that will sink their collective political ship 😤

For Trump to succeed in securing compensation in any court case, it would have to be shown that the BBC’s edit led people to believe something about Trump that was untrue. But what the edit led people to believe (that Trump incited the Jan 6th insurrection) *was* true. No compensation is due.

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

We're 16 months into Labour's 5-year term and they haven't materially improved our relationship with the EU yet. They agreed a few minor things but almost none of those have come to pass yet, and they're still haggling over process and details. Plus none of it moves the needle on Brexit's damage.

BBC should issue a straightforward apology to Trump for the edit, but also state it will vigorously defend any claim for compensation. Nandy should endorse that position. Gibb has to go. No-one neutral will want the DG’s job whilst he is still censoring any coverage adverse to the right wing.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Absolutely this.

What a time to be alive. The US President is openly extorting the British national broadcaster for a year old documentary which used his own words but in editing missed a time lapse dash. An ex-PM is leading the pack with 🐸 Farage working as the attack dog. While the UK govt cowers in a corner.🤦

Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”

This is the most deranged situation. We are literally being kicked about by fake-newsers threatening to bankrupt our own public service broadcaster, to shield an insurrectionist from a reality that he can’t accept.

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

Far from being a patriot, Farage is a traitor projecting Putin and Trump's influence into this country. It is time, this traitor, this worm, this creeping servant of foreign leaders was thrown out of the UK and never allowed to return.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

Brexit is dead, but the body is still in our living room. Let's bury this rotting corpse so that we can #RebootBritain to fix the fundamentals. This new book explores the opportunities to be seized and threats to be avoided by applying to #RejoinEU. www.linkedin.com/pulse/brexit... #Brexit

Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias. These are accusations made by the right-wing elite. The real bias is the BBC's promotion and protection of Farage and its obsessive coverage of his anti-migrant agenda. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

If you have to accept that greed is human nature and we should organise around it, you also have to accept that people begging for food wanting to set fire to trillionaires is also human nature.

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Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

Anthony Hook,’ Lib Dem leader of the opposition said: “Reform have no idea what they are doing. They have already descended into factions and infighting. Instead of running a council in desperate need of leadership, they are busy recreating Monty Python’s back catalogue.” inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If it wasn't for #farage

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

Ukraine has received 21 Patria 6x6 APCs from Latvia, officially handed over today at the Ādaži military base near Riga. These vehicles will be deployed to the Special Operations Forces. Latvia also delivered 12 CVR(T) recon vehicles. In total, all 42 promised armored vehicles were received in 2025.

A brilliant cartoon on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Art: @ellabaron.bsky.social (UK) #NewYork

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.