Sources saying Josh Simons is going to be referred to the PM's ethics adviser Laurie Magnus for an investigation No 10 not responding to queries but am told the UQ will confirm details

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Britain's annual net migration. The Home Sec who introduced and oversaw the new immigration laws in 2021/2022 was Priti Patel. I once did a lengthy thread on her own background & just dived into 🐦 to unearth it. I'll append it below.

Reform UK have just shared their Trumpian vision for this country. Let’s be clear, the language used is dangerous and extreme. Nigel Farage's plans would tank our economy, damage our democracy and make the UK a less safe place for all of us. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Meanwhile the “psychologically flawed” Gordon Brown, having enacted the most redistributive economic policies in the UK for the past 50 years, and saving the UK from full impact of 2008 - is still engaged in acts of public service….9/

Alistair Campbell - podcaster, whose handwringing isn’t enough to erase his role in the WMD narrative. Nick Clegg - enabled the morally repugnant ‘austerity’ initiatives of the Cameron coalition, then covered for the anti-democratic ethical sinkhole Meta, as head of PR, …8/

Where are the psychologically perfect individuals who variously passed judgement on Brown? Peter Mandelson - disgraced ( not the first time) revealed as dishonest, greedy, treacherous to his post and country.Tony Blair - war crimes aside, Board of Peace candidate, undermining UN for 💰7/

This leads me to reflect on how the press (my own paper at the time, The Observer, where I was business editor ) splashed on the ‘psychologically flawed’ briefing, given by a deeply morally dubious Blairite team. The story in some ways holed Brown’s leadership below the waterline 5/

This is entirely correct. It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people Not too late for government to change course www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When you see a short clip, it’s always worth asking what was the wider context? What are you being asked to think and feel in that clip? Could there be more to it? The woman in the clip was brilliant Calm, reasoned and no escalation But the men were also pretty calm and no one escalated either!👍🏼 END

The short clip has gone viral with people making out it shows something very different For 3 days a group of Americans came and stood near a Mosque and called Muslims sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred And the worst that happened was some Muslims asked the police why that was allowed🤷🏼‍♀️

“America paused all immigration for 40 years” says Goodwin Except they didn’t. The 1924 US Act limited immigration with quotas for some countries and selective bans for others. Goodwin is often sloppy with facts, but this just straight up lying. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

🔴 NEW - Farage is losing steam and the data proves it 👇

"We don’t exactly know why Reform’s ratings have dropped – but I’d like to think it’s something to do with excellent investigative exposés showing Farage for who he truly is, not least the revelations about his schoolboy racism."

Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." — Anat Shenker-Osorio

One volunteer talked about rapid responders who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.” organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to...

Would pay good money for a Portuguese novel setting out a nightmare future where agreeable bits of that country have been completely over-run by Anglo-American writers suffering repeated cheese dreams.

I've signed my name to a motion calling for the introduction of an Essentials Guarantee to ensure support always covers the cost of necessities and that no one is left living in destitution

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Tourism is down in the U.S. under Trump, while globally it is up. Kristi Noem turned DHS into something that is FUBAR and tourists are scared to come. A British woman was shackled and slept on floor of cell for six weeks even though she had a valid visa. Noem must resign.

Insightful reporting by David Allen Green at the Financial Times on why Palantir data-analytics defence contracts with UK government should raise concern.

You need a mooring permit which needs to be issued six weeks prior to arrival. Plus

Farage is in the Maldives. 200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a tourist destination. Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands. How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

John McDonnell MP speaking in London today on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Railways Bill leaves a huge backdoor for privatisation. 📢The government promised public ownership. 🚆They must deliver real public ownership. Time for MPs to join Richard Quigley in demanding a railway that delivers for us, not private shareholders: weownit.org.uk/act-now/pass...

This looks increasingly desperate from Labour. Just embarrassing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We’re awash with headline-grabbing scandals these days, but this is the one that seems to have been quietly advancing on a Watergate-style trajectory.

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

I wrote about Karen Newton, a retired grandmother from Hertfordshire. who was locked up for six weeks in an ICE detention facility - even though she had a valid US visa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@nionwomen.bsky.social are an amazing group, their petition in support of trans people’s human rights is now close to 85,000 signatures, so please add your name and share widely. This gives lie to the transphobes’ claim that they represent “women”.

My goodness, I missed this by @michaelspicer.bsky.social. It is as near to perfect as a thing can get. I actually did an honest-to-Betsie spit-take at the Poundland joke. And the meta coda is out of this world. youtu.be/gDH0Tz8Yb9I?...

Policies that make no real difference to migration, apart from 24h of headlines, have devastating consequences for the people affected

Last time a Reform politician said the minimum wage should be cut we looked into his businesses & found three of his former employees had won employment tribunal claims against him. But despite what the tribunal ordered, he didn't pay a single judgment www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Palantir's most recent scandal, covertly working with Topham Guerin to discredit the work of Good Law Project, is just the latest in a career littered with this kind of activity, beginning with the "Team Themis" scandal in 2011. They've been doing this for decades. goodlawproject.org/how-palantir...

So, so many people fell for the bullshit these guys were peddling. No one has recanted, apologized, vowed to change the way they do things, anything.

✊🏽 Today is World Social Justice Day, reminding us that equality, dignity & fairness must be for everyone. At African Rainbow Family, we stand with LGBTIQ+ refugees & people of African heritage. 🌍 Support & connect ➜ zurl.co/aWxBt #SocialJustice #EqualityForAll

Simons was also involved in telling security officials that another journalist was “living with” the daughter of a former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn. Officials were told by Simons’ team that the former adviser was “suspected of links to Russian intelligence”.

Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/ @dansabbagh.bsky.social

Read @trusselluk.bsky.social evidence review showing how environmental issues affect people facing hunger & hardship esp heavily. Volatile prices, floods, heatwaves, inadequate housing, unaffordable insurance. Policy change could bring opportunity, if done fairly. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

Thanks for @bigissue.com publishing this article by me & Mike Childs of @friends-earth.bsky.social, calling for climate action that tackles poverty. Draws on @trusselluk.bsky.social 's new report exploring the links between environmental issues and food bank need. www.bigissue.com/opinion/tack...

Do not use milk, antacids, honey, lemon juice, onions, vinegar, urine, baking soda or anything other than clean water to deal with tear gas or pepper spray. Most of the time it’s best to just do nothing.

Evil doesn't quite cover it .

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

We've written to the four airlines carrying out deportations under the cruel and inhumane UK-France agreement. They are: Air France, Titan Airways, AlbaStar Airlines & Corenden Airlines. We call on them to end their complicity, now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

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19 February 1901 | A Czech Jew, Pavel Bloch, was born. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive. --- ▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs