This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.

If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.

I'm from Yorkshire!

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Keir Starmer under pressure over future of Morgan McSweeney amid briefing row Ministers and Labour MPs point finger at PM’s chief of staff over No 10 operation that targeted Wes Streeting

Why is McSweeney still there. What greater proof would you need that he is incapable of doing the job.

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

Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.

Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Tim Davie quits as BBC director-general The corporation has faced accusations of bias after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump

That ambivalent feeling when someone you don't like resigns (yay) but for the wrong reason (gah)
www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...

Skylark banking in flight showing its streaky back and wings

Skylark in flight. 😍
Not an easy bird to take a good photo of, so quite happy with this one. 😀
Taken yesterday at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🐦

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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it

So true! Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is the specialist centre for many conditions, including my Radiation Induced Angiosarcoma. Now all I need is a link from Stroud to Nailsworth to make the journey door to door.

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it.

Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner

🚨🚨 Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to #NigelFarage's Brexit group. Great report by @elisabraun.bsky.social on a decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top #Brexit campaigner. www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

Headline: Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country.

Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned.

We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Male House Sparrow rising into the air

House Sparrow on the up! 😀😍
Taken recently at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶

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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."

"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

‘The train of hope’ from the final pages of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, set against the glowing skies of a socialist utopia

It’s *so good* to see to hopeful news from America, having become used to waking up to new horrors every morning.

Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism.

The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏

Nigel Farage: Huge tax cuts not currently realistic The Reform UK leader rows back on his party's previous promise to deliver £90bn of tax cuts.

Any other party, this would be described as a ‘humiliating u-turn.’

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

Julian Vaccari said: "I'm thrilled to be joining Question Time at such a fascinating moment in British politics. The show's appeal over the decades is a testament to the power and simplicity of the format. At its best, Question Time is a celebration of community and shared experience. I want people from every part of the UK and every walk of life to feel like they can take part and hear their views expressed."

I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”

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This week, the government announced that menopause will now be included in free NHS Health Checks — helping millions more women get the care, advice, and support they deserve.

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI