Left Of London

It's not even surprising anymore...

In January, the BBC wrote an article fear mongering about pylons "springing up" across the country

It contained some wildly misleading figures which spread to other newspapers.

I'm glad to say they've FINALLY been corrected. Here's what happened...🧵

bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s absolutely insane that hundreds of lawyers and judges (829 to be exact) need to write to Starmer to tell him, a humanitarian lawyer by trade, of his basic duties under humanitarian law.

—> lawyersletter.uk

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...

"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use"

My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇

I have no words.

Brexit food control post at Portsmouth ‘may have to be demolished’, says port director Exclusive: £25m hi-tech facility at terminal had been called ‘white elephant’ even before latest EU deal scrapping some health and veterinary checks

A symbol of the colossal waste of time and money that Brexit has been.

Words from the article

Brilliant!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Lib Dems have 14 times as many MPs at Westminster (72) as Reform but nowhere near as much broadcast media coverage. Meanwhile the Greens have 4 compared to 5 Reform MPs in the HofC and don’t get a fraction of the coverage Reform get. Sign the petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

Labour is ignoring the threat from its left As disaffection with mainstream parties grows, Labour is copying Reform’s agenda. But trying to outflank the hard-right populists is not only pointles...

Starmer is making a huge mistake - ignoring voters who want real action on the climate, a fair tax system, investment in our economy, support for disabled people, action to lift children out of poverty, global leadership to end the bloodshed in Gaza...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

INCREDIBLE MOMENT.

Sir Simon Fraser pleads with media to elicit "a deeper conversation" about trade-offs, the role of Brexit in the UK's position, and challenge Reform arguments "rather than accept them simplistically".

Sky News cuts in to read out the latest tweet from Farage. 🤣~AA

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker expected to leave the BBC It comes after he faced criticism for sharing a social media post about Zionism.

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK near bottom of child happiness and wellbeing league table The UK ranks 21 out of 36 when compared to other high-income countries for child wellbeing, with countries such as France, Spain and Portugal near the top. On child mental health, the UK was 27th out ...

The UK is near the bottom of a league table for the well-being of children and the happiness of teenagers

news.sky.com/story/uk-nea...

The Guardian Article: Tory energy spokesman claims UN climate experts are ‘biased’ Exclusive: Andrew Bowie says Kemi Badenoch could pull UK out of Paris climate agreement

The Tories' contempt for scientific evidence is profoundly dangerous.

The climate crisis is the single greatest threat to future generations, we need action now.

Whether “island of strangers”
was deliberately quoting Powell or not, taking the loneliness & atomisation of 2025 modernity - digitalised, distantly housed, car dependent, overworked, underserved by community facilities & public transport, & laying the blame on foreign care staff is fash-adjacent.

If Labour weren't such total cowards about Brexit, they could have diffused the row over immigration by pointing, again and again and again, at the graph that shows immigration skyrocketed immediately after the transition period ended.

Make "Brexit = v high levels of immigration" in peoples' minds.

UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights Last month’s Supreme Court ruling has seen the UK fall six places to 22nd. It’s time to fight back

“Only ten years ago we were the best in the world in the annual LGBTI Rights Ranking. We’re now 22nd... This is not just an embarrassment abroad – it’s also a tragedy at home for tens of thousands of people struggling to live lives of quiet dignity.” goodlaw.social/5mgp

BBC News observe migration shot up after Brexit in 2020 but doesn't explain that ending Free Movement with the EU means we replaced temp workers from the EU with permanent workers from India, Nigeria and elsewhere around the world

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

When will Starmer learn that no matter how good his Nigel Farage impression gets, it won't save him from wipeout at the hands of Reform? Here's another idea - how about doing the work that's needed to actually make people's lives better? 🧵

Wow. I didn't realise that. I knew Labour have been piling indignities on immigrants like sprinkling confetti at a wedding, but I managed to miss this particular horror.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.

It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

“The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.”

🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

Relying on people to vote for you because "look at the alternative" has, repeatedly, been shown to put people off voting, meaning the "alternative" wins. Pandering to the "alternative", merely strengthens their argument, emboldens their supporters, and still puts more people off of voting for you.

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds Quality of care dropped as staff were replaced with less experienced nurses, researchers at the University of Surrey say

Brexit's disastrous impact on the NHS led to 1,485 extra deaths per year, according to a new academic study.

Researchers say after the 2016 leave vote, EU nurses left & were replaced by less experienced or skilled staff, which had knock-on effect for patients
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform is party of the 'have yachts' as 'borders don't matter' for offshore cash Reform UK Party Treasurer brags of fundraising on offshore yachts after a Mirror investigation revealed that three-quarters of the party's cash is linked to tax havens

Reform UK Party Treasurer brags of fundraising on offshore yachts after a Mirror investigation revealed that three-quarters of the party's cash is linked to tax havens www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

a man in a suit is standing in a field of grass ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a field of grass

Those free breakfast clubs are fully funded, right?