Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i love her make her president

I’d rather live in a country based on shared values than one based on shared skin colour, birthplace or religion. I think the vast majority of people agree. I think we all need to start doing more to call out people that disagree and, particularly, try to make that disagreement public policy.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

This is great. I quite like the refrain, "Do you all see it?" This is the key question of the Trump era: do you see what he's doing to our country? Do you see what he wants to do if we don't stop him?

Former president of Russia and current senior advisor to Putin threatens to kill European diplomats in Ukraine.

The UK’s tax code lets the richest pay less than workers. It’s time to close the loophole. Equalising Capital Gains with Income Tax would finally tax wealth like work. Our very own Joe Wright breaks down why right now the maths, and the morals don’t add up, on GB News.

Incredibly unsurprising when you discover that a guy in charge of an evil company is a shitty person. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Why don't people trust politicians," people in politics constantly ask themselves, while knowingly saying things that aren't true, on the record, all the time.

What if taxing the rich works?

This policy is evil. Genuinely evil. Yet it has received no serious media scrutiny.

jaw-dropper of a news story - BP has ousted its chair Albert Manifold following “serious concerns” over governance standards, oversight and conduct. www.ft.com/content/e63d...

Wasn't going to comment on Peter Murrell embezzling £400k from the SNP, but Kwasi Kwarteng just told #GMB this is the sort of thing that makes the public believe all politicians are on the take, & only in it for themselves. Has Kwarteng ever met Boris Johnson & his billionaire 'donors'? #r4today

Always good to have your response to a consultation immediately ready to go. Suggests you've definitely engaged with the results of the consultation and that the entire thing wasn't a waste of time.

Not to defend Peter Murell in any way, shape or form, but speaking of Scottish fraudsters - if he can expect a ‘hefty’ prison term for embezzling £400K from a political party, how much should Michelle Mone be looking at for fraudulently obtaining £148m from the taxpayer during a global pandemic?

👇 My theory on a lot of this stuff is a lot of the political class doesn’t want to present the country with trade-offs in case they go in the direction they don’t want, so instead they just hope that looking pleading will cause the voters to make the right choice for them.

One might say that the whole problem is that we’ve failed to keep money and politics separate.

Clear proof of Israel’s ruthless disregard for the Geneva Convention news.sky.com/video/the-pa...

Do you think people having extreme wealth affects you? We went with @adambrichto.bsky.social to talk to people in a town centre owned by a billionaire to find out. #extremewealth #extremewealthline #wealthinequality #taxthesuperrich

truly impressive that the 'green hoax' brigade are still at it

Ultimately this is the most important story in British politics and much of the world - the Iran war is putting pressure on real wages, which people will blame on the incumbent government.

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We've been saying the UK has a big dirty money problem. Now we know how BIG! New research from our friends @thefinancelab.bsky.social has exposed that around £325 billion from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade & tax dodging flows through the UK every year. 1/x

& if you include the UK's network of Overseas Territories, its more than double: £788 billion. 9 out of 10 people think we should be doing more. So, why aren't we? Instead of stepping up, the govt just delayed a major illicit finance summit from June to December. 2/x

Not a single mention of the climate crisis anywhere. You would think extreme weather conditions would be a good opportunity to educate the public, but clearly not.

Presumably this Russian assault on him will encourage Farage to call for a full inquiry into every aspect of Russian interference in our democracy??

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UK chancellor tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries - shipbuilding, steel-making, energy and AI. All are foreign owned, profits exported. Not self reliant for most things. Manufacturing neglected: was 30% of GDP in 1970, now 9%+. Need a fundamental economic reset.

"Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a climate breakdown on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

Evidence shows writing your notes by hand helps you learn more, and better remember concepts than typing does. www.sciencenorway.no/education-ke...

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Reform has defended Robert Kenyon and his deeply misogynistic comments saying it was just "locker room banter”. That's the "Trump defence." It's the one that says its "ok" to be a truly dreadful sexist wanker if you're with "the lads".

"Brace yourselves,” said Kenyan opposition politician Fred Matiang’i. “The worst is about to come.”

Australians returning home after being kidnapped by Israel in international waters speak about the abuse they suffered - punched, kicked, fractured bones, sexually assaulted, beaten, stamped on.

People lull themselves into thinking that Reform/Brexit Party/ ukip are some smart arse unstoppable political force. We tend to forget how deeply, deeply, deeply odd so many of them - even in the front lines - are.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

That’s Arthur’s Seat ablaze again. 2026 bushfire season starting in May not August.

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

If Andy Burnham has given us nothing else he has created a situation in which Danny Kruger has had to go on TV and defend his candidate claiming he wants to "smell and lick" Carole Vorderman's backside.

Oh and also Ben Habib who run's Tommy Robinson's Advance UK is being sued by Christopher Harborne who gave Farage the £5m bung. And some racists are going nuts because Rupert Lowe's son has married a part Libyan woman. Truly a golden age for British politics.

The Times here describing Restore’s “deport, detain” line on immigration as “robust”. This is how this stuff gets further and further normalised, the ratchet cranking ever rightwards.

Imagine if any other party leader told such a ridiculous lie, especially one leading the polls - Nigel Farage’s Russian hack claim ‘without any merit’, former NCSC chief says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We are in very big trouble in the UK unless govt moves rapidly to help everyone sort out heat adaptation measures. Net zero climate policy isn't enough, we need rapid climate adaptation response now, as this situation is only going to intensify & accelerate.

See also ⬇️ I lived in Bordeaux for over 4 years, +40 happened but rarely and only in July/Aug. This is extremely foreboding for what summers there will become bsky.app/profile/wxnb...

No explanation offered by GB News producers as to why they decided to drop discussion of Farage and his claims of a "Russian hack" on the channel. Fancy that.

A serving Police Scotland officer has been found guilty of 'violent and non-recent sexual offences'

Cannot be overstated that, for the far right, Reform already is and always was the compromise choice, just a foot in the door, it's not what they're after and Lowe delivers for them.

A NATO proposal to require member states to spend 0.25% of GDP on Ukraine military aid collapsed after Britain, France, Spain, Italy, and Canada withheld support. Sec-Gen Rutte had hoped to ratify the plan at the alliance's Ankara summit but now concedes that it lacks enough support.

Corrected version of the net migration projection.