Love this from Russell Tovey. "I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.” www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...

Brexit continues to be the greatest act of masochistic self-sabotage the country has ever inflicted on itself. Unforgivable. Unimaginably stupid. Grotesque in its wilful ignorance. And people are still planning to put one of its ringleaders into No 10.

So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’

“By capitalism we mean something very odd and very specific: an economic system that boils down to a dictatorship run by the tiny minority who control capital – the big banks, the major corporations and the 1% who own the majority of investible assets.“ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Because it's an unregulated hellhole full of nazis, far-right, transphobes, racists and bots with a child porn tool, a toxic recommender algorithm and fake verification process designed for abuse? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite" "He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

Ellie’s on fire at the moment. Great to see her getting so much airtime.

Hope is a light in the darkness.

I don’t disagree with this, but… Johnson had no morality, nor pretended to. Farage revels in his lack of morality or decency. Pigs in muck. Starmer stood on his high moral character and values. Then he showed he lacked them. That’s a much longer way to fall, and causes a deeper betrayal.

When was the last time you felt genuinely proud of a political leader because they led by example and role-modelled the change they wanted to see? I’ll wait…

I’m just leaving this here for no particular reason.

The kids are alright! The next election may hinge on their vote. But how do we engage a (quite understandably) politically apathetic group? Young people are now the victims of a grossly unequal world, stuck in cyberspace because we stole their communities, and stuck in debt to pay to survive.

Zack Polanski unveiled as the Attitude 101 ‘Trailblazer of the Year 2026’ www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Football referee assaulted at home one week after proposing to boyfriend at match https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/football-referee-assaulted-at-home-one-week-after-proposing-to-boyfriend-at-match/?utm_content=1770880800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)

For anyone who voted for Brexit, this is what you voted for.

These two videos tell you everything you need to know.

You are welcome to disagree but I personally want people with this level of empathy, compassion and kindness in charge our lives, welfare and country. Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer. youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...

Starmer and Blair are to the right of Macmillan's Tories. Corbyn and Polanski might seem radical, in the current political climate, but they're just on the moderate centre-left overall.

It’s surprising how many kiddie fiddlers there are in positions of power, eh 🤔

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The “Pride in Place” scheme, that Starmer was so keen to use as a smoke screen earlier this week, will actually amount to a £18.7m reduction in cash terms for Glasgow. Is this the party of the people?

“Britain has been gradually slipping down the rankings since 2015, falling from the seventh-placed country to 20th in 2025.”

This guy is: A) A monstrous human B) The tip of the iceberg when it comes to the corruption and rot in our political system

'They want £40bn to rebuild Parliament? Just let the damn place rot' The Mandelson scandal has revealed a democracy so broken and a politics so toxic it isn’t worth saving. The entire system of British government needs dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

The rot goes far, far deeper than McSweeney. It’s baked into the heart of Labour Together and, in turn, of New Blue Labour.

Feels like this message is 70 years too late.

"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism" Don’t threaten me with a good time.

You had me at “fuck Ricky Gervais”

“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.” Aristophanes

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at.... Morgan McSweeney – the great.... Steve Hilton... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

“Instead, McSweeney has secured a world in which Cabinet ministers such as Streeting run along to cultivate Marshall at meretricious events such as the Spectator dinner. It’s all so sad. We so badly need the Starmer Government to succeed. This moral and political delinquency makes me want to cry.”

One of my fave stories of the buccaneering days in the Caribbean is Matelotage - whole ships full of gay love 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️☠️

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

One of the reasons the Sensibles deride Zach Polanski is he’s been able to rise on a platform of hope, empathy, compassion, humanity and even joy. These traits are anathema to their world view, and likely skills they’d struggle to cultivate. I think that scares them.

Let me posit - when this psychopath is able to become the most powerful person on the planet, then there is something deeply, fundamentally flawed with the systems that underpin that civilisation.

Don’t believe the stories. The kids are ok 👍

As the Greens firm up their economic policy, it would be interesting to see this addressed in detail. I would imagine the numbers are significant and would play well with the 1% vs 99% position.

For Greens to win in Gorton and Denton, they must rage against the political machine. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/for-the-gr...

Fondly remembering the time that @lewisgoodall.com triggered the whole of right wing Twitter with this little thought experiment 💚 youtu.be/Z9VITp0x5lM?...

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

What happens in the US is irrelevant. It is a broken country. Europe (and the UK) must be better. It’s like comparing a (flawed) human to a psychopathic.

A fascinating take, and one that’s doing the rounds (again!). Starmer as some sort of naive but well-meaning public servant being bamboozled by the Prince of Darkness. It’s a lie. He’s angry because we found out. Labour Together’s morality has decimated the party.

A reframing of social media legislation around sheer addictiveness of the algorithm would be a healthy move. Regulated like any other drug. Perhaps then we can stop focusing exclusively on banning kids and acknowledge we’re all susceptible.

“It’s also the case that he might just be the most exciting politician of his generation.” Perhaps after an endless conveyor belt of corruption, cronyism, corporate capture, career politicians and social destruction we should try something a little different? Join.greenparty.org.uk

“It has alienated anyone who might previously have given him the benefit of the doubt: liberals, progressives, the hard-left, the soft-left, the centre-left, among voters, among the public, on the government benches, in the Commons tea rooms, within the comment pages of the newspapers.”

Even if Starmer and McSweeney go, Labour Together will remain The think tank spent over £445,000 backing Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Shabana Mahmood, Yvette Cooper, John Healey and Darren Jones ahead of the 2024 general election democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

“I think a government that was motivated by the politics of the soul rather than the politics of process could get their heads around this”

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