Jane Reeves 🇺🇦

Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸

The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…

Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".

Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.

“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”

@pimlicat.bsky.social: "Multiple studies show that ramping up ever-harsher rhetoric on immigration and asylum never wins over Reform-curious voters. The government would be wiser to make the case for the international institutions and protections we all depend on.”

https://bit.ly/49YBJVD

Hey Labour

Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?

We're still over here 👋

#DefendTheBBC

Which one is more English?

YouTube video by Goldmine Video 90s UK TV Advert BBC Complaints department Julie Walters French and Saunders Eastenders Attenborough

A good day to resurrect this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEA...

Maybe they have all missed BBCQT, Politics Live, Daily Politics, and This Week for the last two decades, for which Farage has his own dressing room.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Here’s something that should never disappear….

Nigel Farage (in the company of Nathan Gill), being quizzed by Channel 4’s Matt Frei.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

This is sickening, and if I hear another male 'security expert‘ argue that 'at least Afghanistan is now more stable than it was before‘, I cannot guarantee for the consequences.
Who cares about 50% of the population, eh?

What utter dickheads we are…

Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal

Farage and his MPs voted it down

Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty

Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on

The mega wealthy win again.

Baby boy starves to death in Gaza as hunger spreads, medics say Six-week-old Yousef's lifeless body lay limp on a hospital table in Gaza City, his skin stretched over protruding ribs and a bandage where a drip had been inserted into his tiny arm. Doctors said the cause of death was starvation.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The best description of Farage I ever read was by someone on Twitter who observed that he looks like the shifty toff in a Prime Suspect whom Jane Tennison wants to arrest but can't because he's friends with the chief constable.

First past the post is bad enough, ‘safe seats’ like Tatton are an insult to democracy but this practice of jumping ship after you’ve been voted in, is pure pisstaking. If you defect, your seat should be up for grabs. Voters deserve better than this. Even in rock solid Tory Tatton.

Devo Bill to reintroduce supplementary vote in blow to Reform | LocalGov The supplementary vote system will be reintroduced to elect mayors in a move that is expected to reduce the chances of success for Reform UK.

Naomi Smith, CEO of B4B: "This is a very welcome move that seeks to undo the gerrymander of mayoral elections by the last Conservative government who changed the rules to make it easier for right wing candidates to win with a minority of votes."

www.localgov.co.uk/Devo-Bill-to...

Hmmm. What does 'all necessary' mean in this context?

Temperatures could hit 27C on Saturday as UK’s sunniest spring on record draws to end Morning rain could affect Northern Ireland and Scotland but southern and eastern parts likely to remain dry

Even the Guardian in my view fails to underline how worrying this is …. The BBC treats such news as if we should be rejoicing and heading for the beach. No wonder climate change isn't being taken seriously.

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

It's the 8th anniversary of this dim-witted classic.

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

#Gaza

Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff.

We are *already* short of over 150k carers.

Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.

It's madness.

In the spirit of @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s image of public opinion on immigration as “I want a pony in my flat with no costs attached” public opinion on social care seems to be “I want a magical care machine that costs nothing”

What could possibly go wrong?

Don't want to dignify much in this insane rant but as to the question of "Why didn't Ukraine fight for Crimea when Russia took it?"

Russia seized Ukraine on the 27th of February 2014, just 5 days after Yanukovych was removed from office.

Ukraine had no government and its army was a hollow shell.

Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out

I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless

www.theguardian.com/business/202...