Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.

In their wildest dreams, Keir Starmer's Government couldn't have hoped for a less sympathetic campaign than that currently being waged against imposing VAT on private school fees

I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait. The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen. He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin. And for 40 minutes, he held it in.

History will be kind to Zelensky for standing up to a bunch of Putin-sympathising, hectoring bullies rather than trying to appease them. What a refreshing contrast to the sycophantic fawning, pandering and grovelling we’ve seen from so many other world leaders so far.

Trump & Vance tried to humiliate Ukraine. And ended up humiliating America.

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

Dear Donald, On second thoughts….

There are worms with more backbone than Graham.

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Your regular reminder that this is the same party that imposed dramatic new restrictions on the right to protest, right to strike, and which banned anyone who publicly criticised their government from speaking at official events

A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration. Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.

Claudia deserves a BAFTA for this moment alone #TheTraitors

This man is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs. #thetraitors

A thing I've changed my mind on is I really used to believe that televising court cases would have really bad incentives, but we televised the sentencing and the leader of the opposition still isn't across the facts of the case, nor are the people on here going 'it was about cuts to mental health'.

The nazi salute was clearly an accident, like how he slipped, tripped and supported the AFD and Tommy Robinson over the course of several months

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

Thought I’d cheer myself up by listening to a podcast about the rise of the Nazis. “Hitler believed himself to be chosen by God to make Germany great again”. So glad we all learned to stop giving people like that power.

Andrew Neil's decline from "opinionated but otherwise effective interviewer" to "person you try to avoid eye contact with at the pub because he'll launch into an unsolicited moan about his ex" has always had a grim inevitability to it ever since he got quietly let go from the BBC.

Remembering his description of Carole Cadwalladr as a "mad cat woman". Misogynistic, much?

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

I would trust the word of the ever-excellent @nazirafzal.bsky.social ahead of that charlatan Musk any day Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Telling that Starmer's response focused on the tweets about Jess Phillips rather than himself. Systems and policies matter, but never underestimate the importance of having a genuinely decent human being in charge.

I've been critical of Starmer, but he's been excellent today. I hope he maintains his newly-discovered backbone, and realises he's the FUCKING PRIME MINISTER, and can afford to take on the right wing media. In fact, he can't afford not to.

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

Kemi Badenoch: people with different viewpoints are not divisive Also Kemi Badenoch: people with different viewpoints are divisive #SemiGoodEnough

The good news for Farage – though it's all relative, he's been made to look *extremely* stupid today – is that polling shows young people absolutely hate Elon Musk, even more than older adults do. His approval among 15-24-year-olds is negative 64.

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

Oh sweet, sweet Gods of schadenfreude. What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.

This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.

What do they do when this doesn't happen? Just keep writing the same story and hope their readers don't notice or don't care?

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…