Spotted in Nashville, today…

For good or for ill, some potential Reform voters will be more repulsed by graceless bad losers than they are by racist liars.

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Gorton and Denton. Just a simple question for Reform: Does this mean Matt Goodwin is now a ‘Shadow’ MP? 😜

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

It seems likely journalism will die on the hill that claims there is a vast, untapped conservative audience that will bring a news organization endless riches. The fact that that audience has been fully tapped out by Fox News and a veritable army of online grifters goes simply unnoticed. Sigh.

Trump had no choice but to act. The Iranians were just weeks away from obtaining the missing Epstein files.

There is always a tweet.

My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5

“The contest represents the first by-election in Great Britain since the 1945 Combined Scottish Universities election in which neither of the two best-performing candidates came from the Conservative Party, Labour, or Liberal Democrats…” www.politics.co.uk/news-feature...

“One of the most important things that Buddhists—and interfaith and secular folks—can do in response to this moment is truth-telling: witness and testimony about what is really happening, countering misinformation.” –Felicia Washington Sy

Hard to recall a war that even those starting it couldn't really come up a pretence for. They've already blown up nuclear weapons capacity and bombing won't force the regime out.

Zack: "Nigel Farage is a sore loser and he just lost an election badly" Anyone also notice how hostile this interview was from the Sky presenters.

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency. His Dad is a banker Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

Tomorrow we lift the 9.30am restriction on bus passes, letting older and disabled people travel whenever they want. It was good to thank the GM Older and Disabled People’s Panels for pushing for it. A positive change powered by the people - exactly how politics should work! 🙌🏻

So far I've come up with one rational explanation for Labour's response, which is that maybe Reeves has placed a significant amount of Treasury funds on a very specific accumulator about this May's elections, including Labour losing all their London councils and finishing fifth on projected vote.

This is crazy. Surely by now the government must realise it will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite?

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The attack on Iran will not liberate its brutally-oppressed people, but make matters worse. It could be a trigger for major conflagration.

“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values” I just despair www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“The UK Green Party Just Won an Historic Victory. Here's How” Grace Blakeley for Zeteo:

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Welp

Trope doing rounds in Reform circles that Hannah Spencer is a "fake plumber" because those people can't imagine that a Green politician might be anything other than the sum of their horrid prejudices. If it were a lie she'd have been playing the longest of long games... because here she is in 2013.

Knowledge is power, we see what is happening in our politics and around the world. The billionaire elite supporting a far right agenda platforming Reform , Trump, still the blaming migrants, so they still get away with not paying taxes, more power. We reject them and we change it.

Of course, it is unlawful. Even the "pre-emptive" justification is half-hearted guff. Of course, it is stupid. Wise US politicians once realised a rules-based international order was in their interests. That is being thrown away. And most of all, and regardless of the above, it is wrong.

I wrote this just over a year ago. Well worth revisiting now as it gives full details of all the background to, and significance of, this vote, which Iceland is now speeding up. 👇👇

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

CNN will soon be controlled by David Ellison. If democracy is to survive, a vibrant independent media ecosystem is critical. My ask: cancel your Paramount/Warner subscriptions and sign up for as many pro-democracy outlets as you are able. You can start with Democracy Docket: bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The acquisition that will change media as we know it...

fell for it again award

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

Those who live in glass concentration camps shouldn’t throw stones.

When the press go full character assassination you know a politician who doesnt favour the elite has become popular Corbyn became russian or terrorist @zackpolanski.bsky.social is oddly getting pelters anyone would think wealth owned are impartial media

And to think he was overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime. If we go to war, GOD help us. abcnews.com/US/dept-defe...

In response to his horrible polling…..

BREAKING: Adolescent teenage boys have taken over the Pentagon.

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com