that’s great, man. that’s wonderful. thanks (Russell T Davies on his new series in the Guardian)

Nine of the more repellent things that Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon has posted on social media in recent years.

Here's the former EHRC commissioner gleefully pondering whether trans people should have any form of legal protection. BTW, "biological sex" is as real as "biological race." It means whatever TERF/MAGA ideology says it does, at any given time, for any given case.

It's boiling, but we all have enough energy and care to sign this petition started by Chris Packham: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Let's get it to 100k before politicians conveniently forget about how bad this first heatwave of the year has been.

“If you think the temperature uncomfortable today, let me take you to the last day of July 2052…” Bill McGuire - Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Labour Government has responded to the petition calling for a Media Sovereignty Act. All five measures in the petition have been rejected, including a ban on foreign media ownership, and ending the concentration of UK national media ownership by one person/corporation. Full response in alt txt:

As temperatures soar outside of summer and extreme weather events become more common, it's clear we need a plan to keep vulnerable people safe and keep our country running.

New petition: "Protect sports bodies from coercive legal actions over inclusive trans policies" Deadline 26 November 2026, created by John Harding #NewPetition

Using a song with the main lyrics of "Love will tear us apart" for the ending of Vengeance: Murder on the Heath when it's about a woman who claims she was raped by a man (and that man is then killed) doesn't seem right at all, whether she's telling the truth or not.

It’s quite clear The Pervy Plumber Rob Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate for #Makerfield is a misogynist. A grade A sleazeball. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Reform UK have lost 101 councillors in the space of a year.

Going to start saying “a BBC employee who identifies as a journalist” from now on

To save people the abhorrent click...

Starmer batters Streeting in a head to head says @labourlist.bsky.social / @survation.bsky.social polling of Labour party members

Labour Leadership Voting Intentions: Starmer Vs Burnham: Burnham: 61% Starmer: 28% Starmer Vs Miliband: Miliband: 46% Starmer: 39% Starmer Vs Rayner: Rayner: 45% Starmer: 41% Starmer Vs Streeting: Starmer: 53% Streeting: 23% Via @labourlist.bsky.social - 1,124 Members, 13-14 May.

Reform UK claimed to have the “best vetting in the country”. Their candidates told a different story. Here are some with records of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories and links to far-right groups. They are now in office and must be held to account. 🧵

Not only to hear the vitriol but to see the direction of travel. We have these bodies partially because we cannot rely on our elected representatives to uphold our rights.

Reform councillor claimed he ‘couldn’t remember’ if he TWICE stood for ‘racist’ BNP www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

“UKIP's here.” New Reform councillor has to be corrected on which party he now represents

Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive post-Soviet wealth

ITV News has just introduced a segment where AI has been used to disguise voices. Not only have they previously had technology that isn't AI which could have done the same, they have just potentially fed people's voices into AI to train on and whitewashed the voices of people living in Tehran.

"The proceedings are believed to be the first brought against a barrister in respect of a jury speech in living memory, possibly ever" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

NEW: Reform UK are running a WHITE SUPREMACIST in Essex. ❗ A joint investigation by HOPE not hate and @mirror.co.uk reveals all. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/02/r...

Based on Ofcom's own figures, the odds of them upholding a complaint nowadays are less than 1 in 3,000... And since 2009/10 there's been a *tenfold* drop in the number of breaches it has found each year. We all deserve better from Ofcom: stopfundinghate.info/get-involved...

Stonewall, whose new Chair is the Rowling-praising former leader of Scottish Labour, have just released a guide to the Scottish and Welsh elections which completely fails to flag up that Scottish Labour manifesto is intensely transphobic.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

I know we've long given up having the rule of law here but this is utterly fucked, I can't believe we're just letting this shit happen during an election campaign