“IF YOU DON’T ALLOW ELON MUSK’S PLATFORM TO KEEP CREATING NON-CONSENSUAL SEXUAL MATERIAL OF WOMEN AND GIRLS WE WILL SANCTION YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY” is a helluva hill to die one, but sadly not unexpected by the United States I suppose.

At some point there was obviously a meeting about this and this is the solution they came up with. It suggests there is zero moral thought in that organisation at all. Indicative of an utterly toxic culture.

All of these accusations are disgusting. Here are more. That's 34 accusations now. And yet there's Farage - out there - smirking his way about the place like some British Trump. Seemingly untouched by it all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Striking how many people currently explaining the state’s right to murder *other people* were quite hysterical about the state’s right to limit *their own* freedoms during lockdowns.

Staggering. Annual Brexit losses are equivalent to what would be the government reducing income tax by 9 pence

Asked why Keir Starmer has not followed through on his commitment to ban all apps producing deep fakes, after X's Grok engine generated multiple AI-generated sexual images of children, his spokesman would not commit to either banning the app, or stopping posting there bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/k...

Back in November I told Westminster's women and qualities that the UK government needed to get off X. The committee's chair @sarahowen.org.uk is completely right - X is not an appropriate channel for comms. Quite the opposite

“Now is the time for the Prime Minister to argue forcefully not just for alignment with bits and pieces of the world’s biggest market, but for joining the whole thing again.” Click on the link below to read more 📖

Reform UK now have multiple viable paths to power in Britain. They could reach No.10 without ever facing proper scrutiny – another critical failure of the mainstream press. Help us hold Reform to account in 2026 with a massive new wave of investigations👇 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/reformscruti...

X is owned by a Nazi. It promotes the far right and calls for civil war and the overthrow of our govt. Its algorithm suppresses liberal voices. Its bots spew out disinformation and its AI tool posts abusive images and CSAM. The “counter narrative” to that has to be to regulate it or shut it down.

Failing to anticipate people would use your image generation bot to make consentless-pornography should be criminal incompetence. Failing to include safeguards against it should be criminal negligence. Failing to shut it down once (a) and (b) became obvious should be criminal distribution.

Joint statement by Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain & Uruguay rejecting “military actions carried out unilaterally on Venezuelan territory, which contravene fundamental principles of int’l law…an extremely dangerous precedent for peace/regional security & puts the civilian population at risk.”

Tax breaks for foreign millionaires but mass deportations for the rest. Huge austerity and NHS cuts, replacing NHS with insurance model, scrapping NetZero, workers’ rights and online safety act. And a trade war with the EU. Reform: Corrupt. Ruinous. Racist. Moronic. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Brexiters claim that pro-Europeans blame everything on Brexit…we don’t but Brexit makes just about all of them worse. Brexiters also like to use made up stats…our latest letter in this morning’s Yorkshire Post…

‘Hopeful’ 🤞 letter in @bradfordtanda.bsky.social 📰 today that #UKLabour #Starmer might face up to 2026 #BrexitReality and drop #Brexit ‘red lines’ holding #UKeconomy 📉back. Readers are urged to support a new #RejoinEU petition 👉 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... Please ✍️ sign & share

Dot-to-dot for the UK: Prejudice and lies brought us Brexit. Brexit rocket-boosted racism. Racism empowers Farage. Failing to join these dots and hold the traitorous shit to account is ruining us. In every sense of the word. Let’s do better in 2026. (Independent newsletter)

Turns out they held all the cards. Thanks, Brexit.

“Farage had an uneasy end to the year” Where “uneasy” = exposed as racist with corrupt/traitorous links to Russia and useless at running councils. But no worries. They’ll just join forces with the failed Tories to “end the left wing tyranny.” They can all go to hell. (Sunday Times)

Every word of this from Sarah.

Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;

🔥 THIS IS HUGE! Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger. Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.

Brexit has damaged the economy, and the government now admits it. Our Head of Online Media, Jack Dart, explains why Labour figures are acknowledging the harm and why rebuilding our relationship with the EU, through the single market or a customs union, offers growth and higher living standards.

“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

It’s about time the Brexit blowhards shut up and listened to people who know… “The agreement we have done with the EU was negotiated by the Gibraltar Government alongside Tory and Labour Ministers in the UK.” “It is an excellent deal for Gibraltar residents of all nationalities.”

Just how bad are things at #ReformUK 'flagship' council? Bad enough to be big news 300 miles away in @bradfordtanda.bsky.social.

📢 A new Parliament #RejoinEU petition has passed 10k signatures, meaning the Government will respond. 🙏 100,000 signatures by June - just before #Brexit vote 10th anniversary. 🖋️ Please sign & share: bit.ly/RejoinPetition3 ☝️🇪🇺 ☝️🇪🇺☝️🇪🇺 #RejoinEU cut #Brexit barriers & grow #UKeconomy

Young European Movement's President, Alfred Quantrill, on the recent announcement regarding the UK's return to Erasmus.

🔥 The “Friends of Bylines Network” scheme… … citizen journalism can break the grip of mainstream media on the news mix we consume. HOW? Because community roots go deeper than superficial mainstream broadcasters. Check it out, share & get involved—> bylinesnetwork.co.uk/friends-of-b...

Six years after it was scrapped, Erasmus+ is coming back. As our Campaigns Manager, Richard Kilpatrick, explains, this goes far beyond university exchanges, supporting schools, youth programmes, vocational training and deprived communities across the UK.

Good to see focus like this on Putin's power. The new head of MI6 has used her first major public speech in the job to warn of the growing threat Russia poses. Blaise Metreweli said the UK is operating in a “space between peace and war”, with Russia “testing us in the grey zone”.

Erasmus+ worked because it reached communities across the UK, not just a select few. Returning would mean rebuilding opportunity where it mattered most.

Four hours after the hero's name was released BBC News still calling him 'member of the public' His name is Ahmed el Ahmed He's a Muslim How many Jewish lives did his heroism save?

Left: Former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe not wanting to miss out on a chance to be a bit racist Right: Australian TV reporting that the hero who saved so many lives was 43 year old Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed

Incredibly brave man. Next time a maniac commits some atrocity, remember that for every Islamic terrorist there are millions of peaceful Muslims just living a peaceful life. Or, like this wonderful guy, risking everything to save strangers of a different religion.

“If this is the level of shamelessness [Farage’s] media supporters are willing to stoop to when he is a mere fourth party opposition politician, just imagine the levels they will descend to should he ever get a real whiff of power” It just *must* not happen. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Erasmus+ offers young people the chance to develop skills, build confidence and engage with other cultures. The UK can regain these benefits by rejoining the programme as a full member, as six non-EU countries already do.

A crowdfunding campaign's been launched to help a #Yorkshire restaurant owner who's lived in the UK since he was 10 return home after falling foul of #Brexit settlement bureaucracy. From @bradfordtanda.bsky.social gofund.me/bd056e14c

Trump wants to subjugate Europe and we need to stop being weak, band together, & take up our role as the bloc that is now the leader of the free world. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

Are Brexiters obsessed with us? Or trying to distract us from the harm #Brexit is doing? Regardless, Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social focuses in this @yorkshirepost.co.uk ✉️on the damage & what we must do to turn things around: " #RejoinEU ...& look forward to a more prosperous future." #BrexitReality

Staggering - the effort and resource *still* being invested in keeping the Brexit shitshow on the road. No one’s held to account. No one’s fallen on their sword. No one’s got the guts to really speak out. So, on we go, protecting this huge and ruinous lie, because telling the truth is too difficult.

The Farage racism apologists are really talking about themselves, if they don’t defend him they will have to look carefully at themselves. Yes we all have said things we shouldn’t but most of us admit it and are horrified by our own young ignorance. Farage has not taken responsibility or changed.

What traitorous dolts the British rightwing were to oblige Russia and the network of oligarchs who hate the power of EU collaboration and prosperity. Now we find ourselves isolated, the EU weakened and Ukraine being betrayed. Shame on all who paved the way… Farage, you’re front of the queue.

“We want growth. We know this is the single best way of getting it… We could then challenge Farage… to either continue with our economic recovery, or to halt it in its tracks and take us backwards.” Finally. Weaken Farage by doing something that actually works. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“If your priority is increased investment in Britain, more UK jobs & a better off country, then you must be an opponent of #Brexit.” - letter in @yorkshirepost.co.uk

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests. People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.

Well said Peter, nailed it. None of his excuses stand up to scrutiny. Hypocrite as well as a racist.

I do think the racism probe is important, but equally I do wish journalists would become equally concerned about potential links between Putin and Reform and given the conviction of his sidekick as well as massive donations from mysterious billionaires nobody has heard of who live overseas.