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Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett Spending time with its activists, I’ve seen signs of a refreshing challenge to stale mainstream politics, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The only answer to this is ha ha ha ha etc

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Other D-Day: the Forgotten Landings in Southern France In August 1944, Operation Dragoon saw Allied forces storm southern France, liberating key ports and accelerating Nazi Germany’s collapse.

Not a podcast but I always thought this was tragically unknown, even in France francetoday.com/learn/histor...

One can only conclude that the great minds and strategists in Number 10 are fucking imbeciles #Newsnight #Brexit

The only question is, why is the Government only "considering" this?

Kent water outage continues as issue labelled 'potential public health crisis' 24,000 customers have been hit by major water issues in Tunbridge Wells

Hi @emmahardymp.bsky.social Six days without water for my friends. That's worthy of heads rolling www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...

Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.

In my judgement #ChrisMason is pisspoor political editor

BBC News - Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi every single #Labour MP

To Avoid Tariffs, U.K. Agrees to Trump’s Demand to Pay More for Drugs

This deserves a lot more scrutiny than it’s getting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

Dear @mrjamesob.bsky.social Justice delayed is justice denied. David Lammy is right www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-v...

Ha! It's a sign of my German language skills progress....

Genau richtig

#DavidLammy is right. Justice delayed is justice denied. Waiting for 6 months and more for a court date does not serve anybody criminal-justice-delivery-data-dashboards.justice.gov.uk/improving-ti...

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Poison Water review – a damning tale of greed, incompetence and Britain’s biggest mass poisoning When north Cornwall residents’ water turned black and gelatinous in 1988, they were urged to mix it with orange squash when drinking. This powerful film lays out the effects of the toxic H2O – and the...

Another privatisation scandal that is was made far, far worse by the then Tory government. May a plague of toads land on Michael Howard's head. "Will no one think of the fucking profits"? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

But, on budget day, a major moment in the unravelling of Farage's myth was overshadowed by the Office of Budget Responsibility's ludicrous early leaking of their budgetary analysis. You have one job! Nonetheless, Labour strategists finally decided that telling the truth about Farage's Brexit - namely that it has blown a £90bn-a-year hole in the country's public finances - might get more votes than just ignoring it, like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.

Deborah Ross; and Farage's pointed refusal to investigate the influence of Putin, the politician he maintains he most admires, over Reform - "I'm not a police force, I haven't got the resources" - has passed largely without comment. (Farage has earned over {1m from second jobs, including his tacitly legal GB News infotainment show, since the last election, £200,000 of it from his bespoke Cameo video messages. There's loads of investigators at the Nerve happy to investigate Reform's Russia links for a fraction of the money Farage gets paid to wish happy birthday to morons, so let's make a deal.) Is this the best you people can do? It shouldn't be just a drunk comedian and a load of clever women who got laid off at the Observer asking these questions.

Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.

Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”

If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Hi again @lewisgoodall.com

Morning @lewisgoodall.com @lbc.co.uk Your lack of interest in what the Budget was actually about, rather than cheap, irrelevant and inaccurate right wing talking points, demeans you.

It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

Good morning wulferhampton have a terrific Thursday you talented tambourine twatters

This was sent to me this morning. #WatfordFC #LiverpoolFC

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Laffer’s curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax rates could increase government revenue. It became gosp...

Not surprised to hear that @tomswarbrick.bsky.social is rather credulous about the myth of the Laffer curve www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Anyway, it's good to be at Vicarage Road on a chilly evening #WatfordFC

So, the Government is likely to introduce a #touristtax Here is a very useful briefing on what they are and what the benefits (and disbenefits) are www.etoa.org/wp-content/u...

Devastating article from @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality.

@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
@peterthurlow.bsky.social
@annadamski.bsky.social

eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

YouTube video by Parody Project BATTLE HYMN OF THE TRUMPUBLIC - God Made a Dictator | Don Caron

Summing #Trump up youtu.be/nnFtSVg2yt4?...

Tourist tax. How do tourist taxes work and are they a good thing. Tourist tax. What are they, do they work? Find out more about the true cost of tourism in our tourism taxes blog post

France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Germany the States and several other countries have a tourist tax @tomswarbrick.bsky.social. It is not at all exceptional. It is a very sensible choice by major tourist destinations. www.responsibletravel.com/copy/tourist...