I'm astonished at the warmongering going on among the political & chattering classes.
Is this #KemiBadenoch's Red Bus moment?
Beware those who brought us #Brexit dragging us into Trump's illegal war of choice.
#EpsteinFilesDistractionWar
#IranWar
#MinabSchoolStrike
#WarCrimes
Dodgy Dubai Dickie getting truth-bombed on BBC Question Time was my political moment of the week.
Great news, but also worth noting a couple of points
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.
You can't and won't stop reform by pandering to their voters.
They say deport a million, and you do, they they'll say you did it wrong, or it wasn't enough.
you MUST improve the lives of the poorest and those who feel poor. Then you must make sure they know that you did.
Election results: None of this really matters. Everything we know this morning we already knew last night
iandunt.substack.com/p/election-r...
Ok well sure the election results tell us that change isn't happening fast enough. But they also tell us that you cannot focus on being "tough on immigration" when there is a party who will always be "tougher". You push voters right into their hands.
Don't tell anyone, because the media certainly won't, but the Lib Dems just overtook the Conservatives.
Another way of looking at that deadly pincer movement facing the Conservatives - look at how they get squashed between Reform and the Lib Dems in Devon on this chart.
Two barn owls perched on a weathered wooden post during golden hour. One owl stands upright, looking forward with calm focus, while the other owl beside it has one eye closed in a playful wink. Their feathers glow with soft shades of cream, brown, and grey.
Barn Owls—known for their heart-shaped faces and ghostly silence. 📸 cr: jake_brass
LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL
This should be on every UK News channel
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Here is a radical suggestion.Perhaps party strategists all over the UK should step back from their focus groups for two minutes and think less about how to campaign, and more why they want to win. What is your plan for the country? Make up your mind, then try to sell it.
Old-fashioned, I know.
Now Deform are in charge of Kent
Frogface Fromage can get that wet dream he’s always wanted and stop the boats
I expect this to be successfully done by Tuesday
#FuckReform
#FuckFarageButNotLiterallyObviously
#PlasticPatriots
#PoundshopTrump
#ShoveYourFlagUpYourChuffAndSmokeIt
Chutzpah is lying to dodge the draft and then asking the Army to celebrate your damn birthday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has an audience with His Majesty King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in London.
Later this month, Canada will have the privilege of welcoming Their Majesties The King and Queen to Canada — where His Majesty King Charles III will deliver Canada’s speech from the throne.
This historic honour matches the weight of our times.
Humble shoutout for @dariaqt.bsky.social : thoroughly good person still missing her Twitter family. (Pls ignore if following already or I'm boring you)
@lizcrosbie.bsky.social
@lizwebster.bsky.social
@localnotail.bsky.social
@louishenwood.bsky.social
@lunaperla.bsky.social
@lydiam.bsky.social
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It defeats my understanding how people my age, (in my 70s), whose parents fought fascism in the second WW can be so stupid as to vote for Reform
Top tip for politicians: try standing up for the principles and vision of the future you actually believe in, forming policies based on that, and then convincing the public to vote for those principles, vision and policies.
(I know, this’ll never catch on)
My eyes!
Thank you for the zero tariffs...Putin and Emperor Penguin
From @lunaperla.bsky.social
FYI
Chlorine in water: 0.2-1.0mg/litre
Chlorine in swimming pools (incl. in the water) 1-3mg/litre
Chlorine in pathogen-reducing #ChlorineWash: 50mg/litre
Issue = SCALE + the wash disguises rather than kills salmonella, campylobacter & E.coli + low animal welfare
Foodborne illness in US = 10x UK!
OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.
You must be enjoying the penguin-fest #TrumpTariffs have unleashed!
#IStandWithThePenguins🐧🐧🐧
#TrumpTariffs🐧🐧🐧
#TrumpTariffs
EXCLUSIVE: #JDVance confesses his inspiration in life is Norman Bates!
#AmericanFacts
Trust #BorisJohnson to betray & lie about #TheUK in defence of the country of his birth in the #DailyHeil.
We don't need Trumpist traitors like him.
It's time to choose: #TheUK🇬🇧, defending a country🇺🇦 fighting for its survival, or #TheUS🇺🇸, whose rogue president backs a murderous, tyrannical regime.
INCONVENIENT FACT: millionaires + billionaires have been steadily quitting the UK since 2019.
Yes, under the last FIVE YEARS of a Tory Govt!
It's more likely due to #Brexit's theft of #FreedomOfMovement for British passport holders than discussions of a wealth tax.
#bbcqt
Boycotter les confs US pour moi c'est la continuité du boycott de Tesla, c'est une question de principe et tant pis si j'en paye les conséquences.
