If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

Trump: "I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion. This will allow us to build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been entitled to."

Farage tells @hugorifkind.bsky.social that accusations that he hissed gas sounds at Jewish students at school are a concern of "those that live in London and the upper middle classes".

Farage trying to use class identity to silence criticism of him, but this time it's not like stifling concerns over Brexit for fear of class betrayal. His comments are abhorrent. How dare he implicate whole communities in his disgusting racism. People everywhere, of every class care. #DontVoteReform

Frank Hurley - Endurance 1915

The Venezuela operation "might be the most unpopular military intervention that any US president has attempted since the advent of advanced polling"

The “rules-based international order” Trump is so rapidly dismantling made America both the richest and the indisputably most powerful nation on earth. Usually systems are dismantled by those losing out under them, not by the winners.

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

Yes I thought the same. Like watching the old institution and the new institution sat beside each other. A frightening demonstration of decline.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984 Make no mistake, the heinous gaslighting we’re witnessing following Renee Good’s murder, it’s purposeful. Resistance begins with refusing to deny what you see RIP 🩶

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for #Northampton, anticipating snow & strong winds. Please stay safe & check reports regularly.

If you aren’t following the UK House of Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee on Bluesky yet, you can find it here: bsky.app/profile/comm...

Glad we made this decision today I know colleagues, the government and other organisations think they will be ceding ground and an important public discussion space if they leave X It has been twisted too far into an unsafe, malign and destructive tool to morally use, & thereby endorse, anymore

Four members of the Thrush family in the #weedypond for #ThrushThursday

X really is the everything app! Assuming that all you want to see is AI-generated child abuse images, videos of people being shot and the continued rise of fascism around the world. That's everything, right?

The government continuing to post on X feels a bit like seeing public information adverts on rotten . com

Yesterday a poll suggested @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social are leading among young people. Why are the young abandoning the Labour Party?

The obvious implication is that this justifies killing her. These people are simply evil.

Clear on why the hunger strikers felt they had no other way of protesting against the CPS's own guidelines on how long someone should be held on remand at most: read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our politics is heading in an increasingly dangerous direction. We must, and will, resist.

Trump started it. Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.

Why focus on the “mother of a 6 year old girl” aspect, and not the woman who was killed? She has a name. It was Renee Nicole Good, and she was murdered in cold blood by masked agents of the President. You know, the one Keir Starmer honoured with a state visit. Of course it’s political.

You're like the Republicans who think that highlighting US gun laws after a mass shooting is 'politicising the issue'. That's because you don't want to address the issues at hand. Which is that the UK, under both this Labour administration and the Tories, are also demonising migrants.

I encourage you to research the firm response to fascism of Attlee's Labour party - and emulate it.

I think it's perfectly valid to highlight the very real dangers of policies that major political parties in the UK are hoping to copy. Not only is it valid but it's one of the jobs of political parties to scrutinise each other's policies in a democracy.

Labour’s new Road Safety Strategy will: ✅ Lower drink-drive limits ✅ Mandate advanced safety tech in cars ✅ Invest £24bn in safer roads I am focused on the efforts to make rural roads safer. Rural roads are, sadly, far more dangerous than urban ones, and too many families know this only too well.

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

This is correct. Indeed, Putin's top objective in his manipulation of Trump is to collapse the NATO alliance as quickly as possible. The Greenland maneuver was conceived in the Kremlin as a rapid path to disassembly of NATO, and their plan is now in its final stages of implementation.

"we live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world". (Stephen Miller, White House deputy Chief of Staff). This is what that world looks like. The history of freedom is the struggle to constrain power by law

As Trump reaches the end of the first year of his return to power, he and his lieutenants are demonstrating their willingness to deploy force beyond its legitimate use to achieve their aims. The warning is clear and intentional: We are violent. Beware.

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch wants to create a UK “Removals Force” explicitly modelled on ICE

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by more than 600 percent, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. The $71.5 million spent so far has paid mostly for guns, armor, and chemical munitions.

Trump and his administration claim that ICE officers face tremendous danger while they're on patrol. However, the data tells an entirely different story.

Couldn't agree more! 🎯 We can't rely on Trump's America. "The chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the world makes the case for continental solidarity and explicit repudiation of Brexit divisions." https://bit.ly/4bpSs4R

Nigel Farage, self appointed man of the people, told a press conference on Wednesday that his party would vote against the scrapping of the 2 child limit. He said he was concerned it would “benefit huge numbers of foreign-born people”. His racism is in plain sight for all to see.

I do feel sorry for Count Binface. He has spent years positioning himself as the number one joke candidate for London mayor, and now the Tories are running Susan Hall again.

The UK government, parliament, PM, whoever invited Johnson, has lost their fucking mind.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

There are quite a few British politicians in parliament, not just Tories and Reform, but also in Labour, who want a British ICE. This below is what they really want. They are just too cowardly to say it is about terrorising anyone they don‘t like.

Farage is suddenly a fan of the two-child benefit cap, just after Labour came out against it. Reform policy U-turn would condemn 450,000 children into poverty. In parliament Reform voted against worker rights. Silence on ending corporate welfare or taxing the super rich.

Farage: 'I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations'. If we face another pandemic - or, for that matter, conflict with Russia - would your Reform-leaning relative/ colleague/ neighbour, sitting worrying alone at night, truly trust him with their safety?

@jackabbott.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Who thinks Starmer has any priciples or backbone? Who thinks he's a gutless craven sucking up to the big boys

Amid the gloom and fascist violence done positive news. The Green Party has almost doubled its vote in London and seems to be taking votes from all the far right parties; 4% from Fascist Reform, 3% from the Mindless Tories and 1% from Sell-out Labour. This is Labour’s lowest polling in London.

Farage seeks the same division, horror & tragedy that we are seeing in the US. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These councils should be the challenging content of any interview with Farage and his supporters Times radio giving him unrestricted access when he should be doing the job he’s paid for ( attending parliament) demonstrates the serious lack of integrity in our media

Human Rights Watch and Justice say recent legislative changes have had a chilling effect and should be repealed The right to protest is under attack in England and Wales with laws trampling over human rights protections and more oppressive restrictions in the pipeline, two major reports have warned