We are Christopher Isherwood, listening on the wireless to warnings that Berliners will die unless they stop the rhetoric about the secret police.

I just looked at my statements. When I graduated from medical school in 2022, my loan balance was £88,797.

Today it is £105,589. This is despite paying hundreds of pounds a month every month.

“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.”
Lewis Goodall

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Thanks for taking this on Lewis. My son owes £97,000 - crazy! The temptation in the arts is to keep earnings below the threshold of paying it back. Not good for the economy or motivation.

A tax on struggling youth. An awful policy. The UK needs an educated work force.

'This is not a progressive system, it's a regressive one.'

@lewisgoodall.com explains how the student loan system has 'quietly shifted the burden' from higher earners onto those 'least able to bear it'.

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

The BBC under Chris Mason is septic

Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.

What he said was fine.

Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.

I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

Tell me again how this BBC editorialising is just my cognitive bias... This isn't a quote from anywhere. It's just the BBC's description of this disgraced, divisive politician.

It’s official: the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man will no longer sit in Tynwald (Manx Parliament) with automatic voting rights. Next: removing the automatic voting rights of the 26 Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords. humanists.uk/2026/01/28/v...

David Lammy on Tory to Reform UK defections:

"Speaking of garbage, I note Reform's spring cleaning of the party opposite is continuing this week."

Makes you wonder just how dangerously invested the UK is into ai stock and companies if they’re pulling a move this desperate lmao

Slavery was ‘foundational’ to the British monarchy, VCU author Brooke Newman reveals In her new book, ‘The Crown’s Silence,’ the history professor uses thousands of archival records to detail the royal ties to the transatlantic slave trade.

news.vcu.edu/article/slav... “English monarchs chartered & backed major slave-trading companies…which trafficked tens of thousands of enslaved Africans to the Americas…Enslaved people were literally branded w/ royal insignia – initials & crowns – marking the monarchy’s direct involvement.”

Keep in mind that after the killing of Renee Good, Trump went out and egged on ICE to be a force for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" in Minnesota. It was no accident that Alex Pretti was executed, it was almost inevitable because of Trump's actions. He is to blame, no one else.

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC

"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."

www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

Illegal working raids reach highest level in UK history Enforcement raids skyrocket by 77% since the government came to power leading to an 83% increase in arrests.

A 77% increase in immigration raids, 83% increase in arrests, coupled with undermining modern slavery protections and a call to remove basic ECHR rights from migrants.
If you think what is happening with ICE in the US can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you. 1/

www.gov.uk/government/n...

The pattern of the negotiations is invariably

1) US proposes one sided deal where Ukraine makes concessions for worthless security guarantees.

2) Ukraine says it will consider.

3) Russia rejects deal outright.

Putin knows he cannot survive if the war ends on any terms.

Important thread. The claim of a huge increase in church attendance looked startling but that’s what the data on which Bible Soc relied appeared to show. Turns out, it was misleading. If there is a “revival” it’s too small to show in any credible data, including from the major churches.

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

Chris Mason, the BBC's Farage fanboy The corporation's political editor has penned another piece cheering on Reform after Suella Braverman defected to the party

The corporation's political editor has penned another piece cheering on Reform after Suella Braverman defected to the party

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

WE MUST STILL FOCUS ON THE EPSTEIN FILES.

HE IS MAKING SURE WE DON'T

WE ARE BEING PUNKED

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Our candidate for the Gorton & Denton by-election is @GoodwinMJ. Matt is coming home to Manchester and will fight for every vote. Let's give him our support

Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Farage needs a geography lesson.

Frank McKenna: “Trying to force net migration towards zero ignores demographic trends, undermines productivity, and risks signalling that Britain is closed to the world when we should be competing to attract global talent.”

https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/net-zero-migration-is-an-economic

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser

"Noem has complained to others that she feels she's being hung out to dry over the episode and has made sure to emphasize she took direction from Miller and the president"

www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser

Breaking Axios:

Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" federal agents was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller.

That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

We finally got gun-control.

In 1988, the BBC paid tribute to the heroic work of the humanist Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who saved more than 650 Jewish children ahead of WWII on the Kindertransport. Winton, sitting in the audience, was not aware he was sitting among the very same people he saved. Beautiful.