"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)

Andrew met model on China trip as aide sent photos to Jeffrey Epstein Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s confidant David Stern was in email contact with the paedophile financier

Andrew’s time as trade envoy looks murkier and murkier bit.ly/4kCKHv3 after new Epstein revelations

Oh for absolute sputs sake

“Because They Got Married and Changed Their Names, They Have to Go Down to a Clerk and Prove They’re Citizens?” Rep. Katherine Clark Raises Concerns That GOP Voter ID Measure Could Disadvantage Women ... Rep. Katherine Clark (House Session / C-SPAN) House Minority Whip Katherine Clark criticized Republican-backed voter identification legislation during a Ho

STOP WOMEN FROM VOTING!!!

“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here

Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person

A minefield of red tape put in front of women"

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, our most-read story was on how the fighter group has become active with a new task — recruiting economically vulnerable agents to sow chaos on Nato soil. ft.trib.al/8pEra6u

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Rep. Robert Garcia: "Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continued to be trafficked from. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations were heard by the FBI years ago?"

Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.

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This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons.

Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017.

Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.

Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

These platforms are not our friends.

#RadioFreeAmerica

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A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

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This is what a rigged economy looks like.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

This piece with Natalie Fleet is - quietly, gently - one of the most moving political interviews you will have heard in recent years.

Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison

I would expect nothing else

All crooks together

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sexual misconduct is rife in elite sport – women are paying the price | Good Law Project When 88% of women in sport say they’ve been the target of sexual misconduct, it’s time to stop that tidal wave of trauma at source

“An astonishing 88% of the respondents – women and girls working in roles including administration, communication, coaching and athletics – said they had been targeted by sexual misconduct in the last five years”
https://goodlaw.social/lm0z

Good piece. The idea that Rubio is the 'reasonable one' and Vance is the thug is rather like thinking that the interrogator who offers sympathy and a cigarette is your ally against the knuckle-cracking sadist.

“He knows those computers better than anybody, all those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide, so it was pretty good, so thank you to Elon!”
- Donald Trump

Boom!

Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier

A Trump ally who helped spread lies about the 2020 election in hopes of overturning the verdict of the voters is now Trump's "director of election security and integrity." @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @alexandraberzon.bsky.social @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Because it’s a Nazi hellhole.

“Seven schools and a nursery have reported more than 60 suspected cases of measles in an area of north London, and labs have confirmed 34 cases since January 12. Some children have been treated in hospital.”
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